Field Notes INSIDE of Sketchup - How to Prep, Import, and Scale!
Referencing field notes right inside of SketchUp is so much more efficient than looking at the printed copy on your desk. In this tutorial, I show you how to prep a scan in Photoshop, import into SketchUp, then most importantly properly scale the image in the 3d SketchUp workspace. Be careful! You want to scale the active group... NOT the whole model. Watch the full "Stair Math Made Easy" livestream presentation to see what I mean... • Stair Math Made Easy :: SketchUp Ti...
Here's the final LayOut and SketchUp files so you can give it a try yourself... https://workdrive.zohoexternal.com/ex...
00:09 Prepare Scan in Photoshop
00:43 Import Image Into SketchUp
01:01 Scale the Field Notes
01:41 Rotate and Move to Origin
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