Hey, what is up, nation?
In this session I'm gonna be teaching you how you can
scale to a specific size in Sketchup.
All right. So I have Sketchup open here, and what I'm gonna do is...make a box. So
we have a little box here. Now, what I've seen a lot is that people...
let's just measure this really quick... people measure something and it's not
the right size. Then they're like "Okay, well. How do I scale? What's the math to
figure out the scale? To get that number, to be the right scale that I want?". And
you can set up a proportion for that. But you don't need to do that in Sketchup. So
like if you wanted to, you could figure it out by setting up a proportion. And
I'll actually link in the description below an article that I wrote a long
time ago on the one principle I use for math all the time, which is proportions.
So you can check that out and learn a little bit about proportions. If that's
something that interests you. But in this video I'm going to show you how to...how
to not have to do math. So, let's say, what did we measure here...we measured 10 foot 9
So let's say, we wanted to change this to 5 feet. We wanted that dimension there
to be 9 feet. So, if you have this box here, and you triple click. So a single...a
single click will just select the face, double-click will select the face and
the bounding edges of that face. And a triple click will select all connected
entities. So we're just gonna triple click on that, and then I'm gonna choose
the tape measure tool. I'm gonna measure that and click. Now it sort of looks like
nothing has happened. But I'm gonna type in five feet. So you can see in the
bottom right I've done 5 feet. When I hit enter, it says "Do you want to resize the
model?". Now this is an important thing to note, because if there's multiple things
in the model that are outside of a group, it'll resize everything. I'll show you
how to get around that in a second. But this is just something to be aware of
that when you scale in Sketchup, depending on how you modeled, it might
model everything in your model and you may
may not want that. So, this is just letting you know. This is gonna scale
everything. Is that okay? Then I'm gonna say yes. So now if I hit the tape measure
tool, and measure here. This is five feet. So very cool. I'm gonna right click on
this, and make it a group. So now we have a group. And then just for reference, I'm
going to make a another one.
DJ Collet :) Okay, so now I have three boxes. Now just for reference. I want to make
this a five-foot box as well. But as you can see, three the 3Ds are groups
and that's an important thing to notice. If I select this, and I'm gonna show you
if you, if you wanted to scale everything. So I'm not inside the group, I'm outside
this group. I'm gonna select that. I'm gonna type in five feet. It's gonna ask
if I want to resize, I'm gonna say "yes". So everything scaled. Now this is no longer
five feet, because it got scaled down. But this is five feet. So we have that. But if
you just want to scale this item, since it's a group, I can click into it. So I
just double click to get into this group edit mode, hit the tape measure tool,
measure this, type in five feet. It's gonna say "Do you want to resize the
active group or component?". So this is a little bit different than that message
that we got before. It's letting you know that you're only going to scale that
group or component. So I'm gonna say "yes". And scales only that down. So that's a
little helpful tip if you're looking to scale. You don't have to do all the math
to figure out what scale you need to put in to get the exact measurement that you need.
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