SketchUp Tips and Tricks: Locking Inferences and References

The Google SketchUp inference engine allows you to intuitively draw in a 3D environment. With just the line tool, you can easily create a 3D shape. You can lock a red, green, or blue inference with your arrow keys. Left is Red, Right is Green, and the up and down arrow keys are Blue. Tapping the key again will turn off the inference lock. You can also hold down the shift key to lock an inference, including encouraged inference lines like this magenta colored parallel inference.

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[concept3Dmodeling]

Hi Gingi989,

There are two things you could do. On the large toolset, about 10 icons down on the right side there is an icon with "ABC" on it. That is for creating leaders with text. You can edit the font and arrow style from Window -> Model Info -> Text

Right above that icon is the dimension tool. That is used for visually showing lengths. To edit that font and style from Window -> Model Info -> Dimensions

[Ginji989]

how do i put 2d labeling arrows?