I’m just playing around with the free web version and trying to model my yard. I have a garage and house that are not aligned on the same axis, maybe 10 degrees off each other. If I make the drawing aligned to one of the structures it will be easy to model that one because it will be on the axis and things will just snap to axis but then the other one will be extremely difficult to work on. Any advice from the gurus as to how to set this drawing up? Ideally I’d like to be able to work on the models of both structures but is it better (or even possible) to rotate everything in the drawing to line up the axis for the structure I am working on and do one at a time?
After you’ve modeled the house you can temporarily place the axes for the alignment of the garage. Right click on an axis line.
Thanks, makes sense that you can move the axes and sounds easier than rotating everything. Appreciate the speedy help!
Another option is to make the garage it’s own component and rotate the component. When editing inside a component the axis are relative to the individual component axis. This allows you to dive into and out of the altered component axis context whenever needed.
I appreciate that tip. I am more familiar with components than scenes so this will be easier for me. I will experiment.
You can also create a Scene per axis. Be sure to check only the recording of the axes.
The OP is using SketchUp Free in a web browser where the options and interface are a bit different.