Hey, what's up, nation?
In this session I'm gonna be teaching you
how to make dimensions in Sketchup.
All right, so in a previous video
I made this little camera in Sketchup,
and we got to a point
where we didn't know the size of this guy
because it's not listed here.
So I thought for that video I wanted to redo this.
So that it is more closely linked
to what the actual thing is.
And add in that dimension.
And when I started doing it, I figured
"hey, I haven't made a video ever
on how to put dimensions in Sketchup!".
So maybe this is a good opportunity to do that.
So in your large toolbar,
so if you click over here if you don't have this guy.
You just want to right-click in a white space,
and you'll see something called "Large tool set".
And then on here there is this little dimension.
And then what you do here, is you just select two points.
And then go in the direction that you want.
So we want to go in the red direction here.
I don't actually want that dimension.
So stick with this,
so we're gonna make this ten centimeters.
And then put this here,
and it just automatically snaps there.
So one thing to know about the dimensions tool
is that you can set it...
there's a bunch of different parameters that you can set.
Currently this is set
so that the text will always face the camera.
So no matter where I go,
I will be able to see that text pretty clearly.
If you click this,
and you have your default tray open
and entity info drop-down,
you can see that there is a line to screen
which is the option we just had.
There's also a line to dimension.
So you may want that for whatever reason.
But just know if you have something like this
you won't be able to read that,
where you can still read these other dimensions.
So and then there's obviously
you can change the endpoints to dots or arrows,
or closed arrows.
So there's some different options in here.
I personally like the slashes
just what I'm used to.
And then there's also this
where you can change the font,
and the size, and the boldness.
But so if we change this
I've fun called flux architect,
which is kind of like an architect style font
that looks like some hand lettering,
which I really like.
But you'll notice if I come into the dimension
and I make a new dimension.
It does not have those properties of the text here.
So if you want to change the style of your text
for all of the dimensions that you make,
what you need to do is come to window,
go to model preferences, and then at the bottom here.
Or actually in the middle,
there's something called dimensions.
And you can change the endpoints here
if you want that to be something, there's also fonts.
So if you select fonts, I can go down to it.
You can hit F that I'll find flux architect.
I can change it to bold if I want.
But I'm just gonna stick with regular for now, hit OK.
And then close out of this.
Now you can see I'm going to delete that guy,
go back to my dimensions,
and you can see now I have flux architect selected.
So what I'm going to do here
is just go through and add the dimensions.
The standard dimensions
and then we'll go through that really quickly.
Just so you can see a visual process of what I'm doing.
And then we'll talk about radiuses
One thing that I really quickly want to say here
is that what I'm thinking about here
is that I want this to be legible from a particular view.
So what I would recommend
is finding the view that is most helpful,
that gives the most information on a clear view
of what you're doing.
And then you want to save a scene.
So right now in the default flyout
I'm just gonna hit this plus arrow,
and then it gives you this scene.
And then you can move around and then just check
if the scene works.
If you want to get off that,
if you want to turn off that animation,
what you can do is go to animation
and then disable scene transitions.
And that way when you go back
you won't have to sit through that little animation.
Just a little quick tip for you guys.
Another thing that I want to mention here is that
it's really hard to get a height of circles.
So what I've found is that if you turn hidden geometry on
you'll then get these edges.
And then when you choose your dimension you can
just select the line there.
Or in this particular case this is a group.
So what I'm going to do is explode it.
Or you can go into that group, if you prefer.
And then it'll let you select this line,
and you can get the height on that,
and then you can just turn hidden geometry off.
Okay, so we have all of our dimensions set.
And now we need to put in the diameters here
and the angle.
As I said in the previous video,
that I did on this diameters
are typically used for full circles.
And then radiuses are typically used for partial circles.
So something that is curved and not an entire circle.
So what we're going to do here is put in dimension.
And when I choose a circle
it'll automatically put in the says diam 20 centimeters.
The same thing on this one.
And then you just sort of select
where you want to put that text.
If I come into this and you right-click on that dimension
there's type you can change it to a radius or diameter.
I actually have a little keys bound in
it's like a little short key
that gives me the diameter symbol.
So if I type in Dia, it gives me this little symbol here.
A really cool program that I use to do that.
Because I use it for lots of things.
It just autofills text, is called phase Express.
I pay for it but I think there may be a
free version available.
So those are the those are those two things,
and now the last thing that we need to put in is the angle.
Okay, so I thought that it would be
really easy to put in an angular dimension here.
But actually that's not an option in Sketchup.
There is a plugin that I'm reading about,
called angular dimension, that you can use to get that.
But you also,
if you're doing this you don't necessarily need
to put in a an angle.
Because you can always use dimensions.
So I'm just going to dimension that to ten centimeters
because that gives the same impression
that that's 45.
It says this is ten, that's over another ten,
that's a 45-degree angle.
So there you go!
And then you we can just export this.
Let me just choose my scene.
Let's zoom out a teeny tiny bit.
Obviously, if you choose zoom here
I can change the degree.
So if we change it to 40, it's a little wider.
If we change to 10, it becomes more flat.
And you can obviously go,
if I type one degree it becomes very flat.
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