Stopping to look around
Look Around is the third tool in SketchUp that's dedicated to exploring your model from the inside. If using Position Camera is like swooping in to stand in a particular spot, and Walk is like moving around while maintaining a constant eye-height, Look Around is like turning your head while standing in one spot. It's pretty well named, I think; it does exactly what it says.
Using Look Around is so simple it hardly merits these steps:
1. Choose CameraOLook Around.
2. Click and drag around in the modeling window to turn your virtual head.
Don't move too fast or you'll strain your virtual neck, though. Just kidding.
While in any of the navigation tools, right-click to access any other navigation tool; this makes switching between them a little easier.
When you use Look Around with the field of view tool I discuss in the next section, you get a pretty darned realistic simulation of what it would be like to be standing in your model.
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