Architectural_Design_with_SketchUp

Architectural Design with SketchUp
Setting Units and Fonts
Figure 2.6 shows the Units settings. Depending on your profession or where you are in the
world, you may want to select architectural units (e.g., 6f 5 ½g), decimal units (inches or feet
or a metric unit—e.g., 2.5f or 3.2 m), engineering units (e.g., 100.623f), or, simply, fractional
inches (e.g., 250 5 ⁄8g).
Depending on the resolution of your work (are you using SketchUp for woodworking or
to design houses?), make sure you preset both the length snapping and the angle snapping
to values that make sense for you. Finally, set the precision to display a number of digits or a
fraction that is appropriate for your work. Whatever you set here, rest assured that the software
internally stores all numbers at a much higher degree of precision.
Figure 2.6: Units settings in the Model Info dialog
A great way to personalize your SketchUp output is by using a custom font for in-model text
as well as leaders and dimensions. You can do that in the respective settings (see Figure 2.7
for text setting options and Figure 2.8 for dimension settings).
Figure 2.7: Text settings in the Model Info dialog
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