How to Make and Use Guides for Your SketchUp Models Sometimes you need to draw temporary lines while you model in SketchUp These temporary lines, or guides, are useful for lining up things, making things the right size, and generally adding precision and accuracy to what you’re building
Measuring Angles and Distances to Model Precisely - SketchUp Keeping too many guide lines in your model can decrease SketchUp’s performance To help maintain both performance and inference accuracy, you may want to hide guide lines as you work or delete all guide lines after you finish your 3D model
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Using Guides in Sketchup In this post, I’ll show you how to create your own guide geometry If you don’t know about the Tape Measure tool, you should It’s a great way to create a special type of line called a guide line that you can snap to in your model I use them all the time when modeling
How do I add guides? - SketchUp - SketchUp Community Or get a construction line plugin - search Extension Warehouse or Sketchucation Plugin Store for construction line or construction points or guidelines There are several but I can’t remember them by name, and am not at my computer at the moment (on my phone)