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Using the Protractor tool

Using the Protractor tool - SketchUp Tutorial

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Using the Protractor tool

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- [Instructor] If you want to measure angles or create guidelines to create angles you can use the protractor tool. Now it's a very simple tool. It's found here with all the other measurement tools and it's one that looks like a protractor. Now this may look familiar because it's very similar to the ARC tools that we've used before. Now all you have to do is snap to a face left-click and drag, and we can measure out an angle. So let's measure the angle of this roof. So I'm going to go ahead and snap to this corner here left-click, drag, left-click again, and now I can measure out the angle. Notice the angle is showing up in the bottom right hand corner and when it aligns with that edge, it's going to snap, and you can see that that particular angle is 22 degrees, and so I can do this for the other side as well. Left-click drag, left-click again, and there's the angle, and again, it's 22 degrees. So now that I have these…

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