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Snap inside models - SketchUp Tutorial

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Snap inside models

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- Hi, I'm George Maestri and today is an inside day. We're going to show you how to draw inside buildings without actually going inside the building. So we're going to start off with a building. And this is a simple little building. And one of the reasons I chose this is because it does have some transparency, so we can see inside. And let's say we wanted to draw something in the kitchen or something like that. Well, if I took my line tool and started to draw, you'll see that I'm pretty much prevented from doing that, because the surface of the window is actually blocking me. Now, if I were to go into, say, a different view mode, say, Face Style, Monochrome, you'll see that that triangle that I drew was actually drawn on the surface of the window. And the reason for that is because, well, that's the surface that was between me and what I wanted to draw. Now, we can get around this using a couple of different methods. Now, all of these involve just changing your view. So, here, I have…

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