The COMPLETE Guide to 4-Sided Pyramids | SketchUp Tutorial

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Leave a 👍for your favorite method!

[@keggyification]

Thanks Matt, you make some good points in this video, 10 of them to be exact. 😜

[@LeeL-l7p]

I like seeing multiple ways to solve a problem. Thanks!

[@ahmad-murery]

another way can be done by drawing a square then we draw a rectangle on one side of the square and rotate it toward the center of the base, array copy the remaining sides and finally intersect and cleanup. Thanks Matt!

[@SketchUp]

Thanks Ahmad! Yet ANOTHER way to make a 4-sided pyramid in SketchUp

[@jeanlemire2681]

For the last pyramid, you don't need to draw an X to get the center point of the square. Only one diagonal can do it. Use its midpoint. Another method is to use the polygon with 4 sides. You can easily infer its center. Another method is to draw a cube and join the center of the top face with the centers of the four sides to draw a half octahedron which happens to be a square pyramid. You have to delete the cube after that.

[@richardhaas1989]

My favorite method is which ever works best considering the project I am drawing. Like when you clicked the top of a previous pyramid for the height instead of typing it in again. It also depends on what is necessary to know when someone has to shape materials in the REAL World to make what I have modeled...

[@victoriahortus]

Superb

[@Oddpaatuben]

hm. I need a semicolon to separate two values, in order to input the size of the rectangle after drawing it, if I use comma SU will read that as a decimal value. Have not found a setting for this.

[@SketchUp]

That is a regional computer setting controlled by your operating system. In the US on Mac or Windows, a comma separates width and height values... in other regions the semicolon is used.

[@Note-h9y]

hi! can i have some question, move tool rotation grips don't show on my MAC

[@SketchUp]

How to show Move tool rotation grips on Mac

[@NguyenCuong3D-Sketchup]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@gusbert]

What about if you know the base size and the angle of a triangle edge?

[@SketchUp]

Great question! Here's my video response

[@gusbert]

@@SketchUp What I meant is if you know the angle of the pyramid edge from corner to peak, that's a "3D" angle, not the flat triangle angle ...

[@SketchUp]

Thanks for the clarification-here's one way to do it! kzbin.info5RyD_4-eQMw

[@SakeCherry]

Tools raledu sir