From the course: Learning SketchUp Free (2023)
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Solution: Manipulating objects - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: Learning SketchUp Free (2023)
Solution: Manipulating objects
(intro music plays) - [Instructor] I am back. And this one was a little bit tricky, I must admit but hopefully you were successful in drawing this. But regardless, let me show you how I did this. Now, the first trick I'm going to show you is that I didn't draw it vertically. Drawing vertically in SketchUp can be kind of a pain. So I drew it on the ground and then I rotated it up. So let's start with that. So the first thing we need to understand is how many pedals are on this flower? Well, if I count the radial petals you'll see that there's 12. And so that means I need to have 12 pedals over 360 degrees. Well divide 360 by 12 and the angle of each pedal is 30 degrees. So I'm going to start off with a pie shape. So I'm going to go into my arc tools and select pie. Left click and drag out a base somewhere around six feet or so. And then draw that angle until it snaps to 30 or you can type it in. So this gives us a 30…
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