okay there's another way of scaling apart from using the scale tool we can also use the tape measure but this scaling function is a little bit different so you see that I've imported a floor plan here just as an example but this is where this tape measure scaling function comes in quite handy so you have imported this floor plan but of course it's not in the right scale so those are not really 16 M let's see what it actually is here so it's well it's 42 M it's way too big so we have to scale this into the right dimensions and this can be done with the tape measure so if you want to work on a floor plan this is really helpful so you take the tape measure once you've imported your floor plan and then you go to the biggest Dimension that you can find so here it would be those 16 M then we go to this line that shows us the length and we click once we click twice try to be as exact if as you can and now before you do anything else you see in the corner in the right corner it is displayed length 42,44 3 mm and this should be 16,000 mm now because it's 16 M so let's enter 16,000 and enter and then SketchUp asks you do you want to resize the model and there's a big difference between the scale tool and using the tape measure for scaling because if we click okay now we have scaled our whole model so not only the floor plan but everything else so you see here this block I've just put this here as an example this block has been scaled as well I'm undoing now the last step so I'm putting it back to the original size and you see here this side here would be something like 5 m and if I if I go into the right scale for the floor plan again now this side is 1,900 mm so everything in this model gets scaled not only the floor plan but everything else as well because you're changing the whole scale of your drawing but let's check what measurements we have here now it should be 16,000 and and yes we have 16,000 mm here so now I could start for example drawing the walls I could go here with the rectangle tool and I could create or recreate this floor plan here in the exact scale and I could build a model starting from the floor plan
