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How do I use the stamp tool in SketchUp?
1. Move the building you want to stamp into position above your terrain surface.
2. Choose Tools→Sandbox→Stamp from the menu bar to activate the Stamp tool.
3. Click the floating object to tell SketchUp what you want to use as the stamp.
4. Type an offset distance and press Enter.
What does Stamp Tool do in SketchUp?
In SketchUp, two Sandbox tools help you place objects on terrain: Stamp tool: This tool stamps a flat surface onto your terrain and creates a transition from that flat surface to the surrounding terrain.
How do I use sandbox tools in SketchUp?
1. Select Window > Preferences > Extensions from the menu bar. The System Preferences dialog box opens, and the Extensions option is selected in the sidebar on the left.
2. In the pane on the right, select the Sandbox Tools checkbox.
3. Click OK. You now have access to the Sandbox tools.
How do I undo a stamp in SketchUp?
To Undo, select Edit > Undo Whatever You Just Did from the menu bar, as shown in the figure. The official keyboard shortcut for Undo is Alt+Backspace. However, Ctrl+Z (Microsoft Windows) or Command+Z (macOS), which is the Undo keyboard shortcut in many programs, also works.
How do you use a drape tool?
How do you place an object in SketchUp?
1. Open the model into which you want to import a SketchUp file.
2. Select File > Import.
3. In the Open dialog box that appears, navigate to the SketchUp file.
4. Select the SketchUp file, and click Open.
5. Click in the drawing area to place the component in your model.
How do you use a sandbox tool?
What are the tools in SketchUp?
1. Eraser tool.
2. Line tool.
3. Orbit tool.
4. Paint Bucket tool.
5. Push/Pull tool.
6. Select tool.
7. Styles browser.
8. Zoom Extents tool.
How do you smooth contours in SketchUp?
What happens when you triple click a face in SketchUp?
When you triple-click an edge or a face, you select the whole conglomeration that it’s a part of.
What action does the push pull tool perform?
The Push/Pull tool is a simple creature; use it to extrude flat faces into 3D shapes. It works (like everything else in SketchUp) by clicking. You click a face once to start pushing/pulling it, move your cursor until you like what you see, and then click again to stop pushing/pulling. That’s it.
How do I remove unwanted lines in SketchUp?
How do you remove lines in SketchUp? If you select the Eraser tool from any of the toolbars, you can click an edge to erase it and any faces it bounds. Click and drag over multiple lines with the Eraser tool. The lines that you will erase when you release the mouse button are highlighted in blue.
How do I get topography from Google Earth to SketchUp?
Simply go back to to File>Geo-location>Add Imagery to expand your site with additional imagery. Lastly, to toggle the 3d site terrain on and off go to File>Geo-location>Show Terrain. If you found this sketchup tutorial on how to import a google map with terrain helpful please like and share it. Until next time.16 mar. 2014
How do you make contours in SketchUp?
1. Select all the contour lines you want to use to create a surface.
2. Choose Draw→Sandbox→From Contours from the menu bar (or click the From Contours tool button, if the Sandbox toolbar is visible).
Why is SketchUp so hard to use?
Because SketchUp was designed around being simple to manage 3D elements, it is much more difficult to manage complex tasks. You can certainly do it, and there are some absolute masters of SketchUp, but that does not mean that they used the most apt tool to make their designs.