You could do it like the guy in this video does it (bout 1:30 in) draw your square/rectangle, pull it up into a cube then erase the parts you don't want. Its hard to describe but you'll get the gist...
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You could do it like the guy in this video does it (bout 1:30 in) draw your square/rectangle, pull it up into a cube then erase the parts you don't want. Its hard to describe but you'll get the gist...
If I were going to draw, say a flat tarp, I would pick a top down view so you're looking at it like it was lying in the floor, then on the upper drop down menu click camera and pick "parallel...
You can get free plug-ins that allow more complex curves rather than a simple arc. Its a Bezier curve plug-in and it works pretty well, but I'm not sure if sketchup can measure the length of that...
I use sketchup for my tarps and to mock up tent ideas etc. I use it mostly because it will do the math for you. When I was making my Whelen style tarp there were a bunch of funky angles etc so I...