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Using the Rectangle tool

Using the Rectangle tool - SketchUp Tutorial

From the course: Learning SketchUp Free

Using the Rectangle tool

- [Narrator] There are many other ways to draw in SketchUp. And let's go ahead and take a look at the rectangle tool. Now you can find the rectangle tool here. The hotkey for that is the letter R. Now when you do that, notice how my cursor has changed to a line tool with the little rectangle attached. And that lets us know that that is the tool that we've selected. So all you have to do is left click and drag and you can drag out a rectangle. Now notice how we can also infer this. So I'm inferring in this case to a golden section, which is the eight to five ratio. We can also infer to a square, and then once you let go, it creates that rectangle. Now this tool by default draws corner to corner. Notice how my little rectangle attached to the line tool on my cursor is attached at the corner. And that means I'm drawing corner to corner. If I tap the Control key, notice how that changes. And so if that line tool is looking at the center, then I'm drawing my rectangles from the center out,…

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