Another important feature in SketchUp is the value control box. The value control box is located on the lower right corner on your interface, and right now it says dimensions. It's a lamp because they have my rectangle selected. But just to show you how the inference system on SketchUp works, let's try to draw a square and then a rectangle here and then I'll show you how the value control box works. So let's select the rectangle. Let's drag our mouse, and you can see every time my shapes naps to a perfect shape, let's say, let me try to find here. The golden section for example, is a perfect rectangle, a square. So I have a warning telling me that I have the shape I'm trying to find. So it just makes it a lot easier for us to identify and to create this perfect shapes. So let's create this square here and now let's try to create a square with specific proportions. So if I begin dragging my mouse, I release the button and then I type in three meters, comma space three meters and if I hit enter, automatically I have a square root of three by three meters. Okay, and this works for pretty much any geometric shape in SketchUp. So let's take a look at the circle for example. So I can for example select the number of sides by typing 50 and then select the size of my circle and hit enter and now my circle has 50 sides and I can also choose the radius. If I begin drawing my circle, I can type in the radius. For example, two meters and if I hit enter, the radius of my circle will be two meters. Okay. So it's very easy to use. It's very handy and very intuitive actually to use the value control box. Okay. So let's take a look at solids and how solids and modifiers tool work. So let's begin by getting rid of this model and let's begin by drawing rectangle here. Okay. So once again, I have a face, but it's just be dimensional. So I don't have any kind of depth. So let's do it by using the push-pull tool. So by hitting letter P on your keyboard, you bring up the push-pull tool. You just click on a face and you'll begin extruding it and it's simple as that. Okay. So whenever you have a face, you can just click on a face and you can see when you hover your mouse over a face, it will turn blue. So just click on it and move it on the axis you want. Okay. So you can change the dimensions of your cube. One cool feature you can use is moving up a little bit and double-clicking the face with the push-pull tool. So it repeats the last extrusion in or out. Okay. This is actually really handy when you have for example Windows and you want to extrude in all the Windows or create insights. So you just click on it and double-click on all the other ones and they will be moved by the same amount of distance. Okay. So now I just created a new plane on this rectangle with the line too and you can see now I can extrude two different areas because I now have more geometry. So again, pretty easy to move things around and create shapes and create different proportions on your objects. One thing which is interesting is if you have a rectangle for example here and you want to get rid of this chunk, so you just click on that and move all the way until the end and you'll see that when you reach the end, it will change colors. So when you reach the final plane here, it will turn darker and if you click it you just go. So when you hit the last plane, just click it and it's gone okay. So you extrude it until it is actually deleted. So let's do it again. Let's move this till the end. So I hover my mouse over the edge to where I want to move this face and again it's the SketchUp inference system working. So when I click again, the face is gone. So there's pretty handy also to create this Booleans and to create this intricate shapes and let say if you want to cut an opening here, I'll just have to do the same. So I hover my mouse over the edge and when I click, it's gone. Okay. So again, this is actually pretty intuitive. It's easy to understand and SketchUp is very light. Actually SketchUp runs on pretty much any computer. So let's take a look at another cool feature here. So let's undo our actions until we have the rectangle again and let's try to use the follow me tool. Okay. This actually is right beneath the push-pull tool. So what I need to do now is I need to draw a rectangle perpendicular to the side plane. So let's create an extension front fuel. So you create this rectangle here. Okay and now with the line tool, shortcut L to the line tool. Let's create an intricate shape here. So let's do it with lots on angles and inserts and let's close the shape here and with my eraser, I will just erase whatever I do not want. Okay. So now what I need to do is hit the space bar to bring up the selection tool and I will select the edges where I want my shape to follow. So by holding Shift, I click on all the edges I want and then I click on the follow me tool and click on the shape and, we have this molding on top of our beauty. Okay. So this is actually a nice way to create this intricate borders on buildings, on vases, on for arcades. So that's pretty easy to create. So I can insert this face on top to create a little bit more geometry on details. So all the faces are now able to be manipulated with the push-pull tool and all the other tools. Okay.
