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How to Fix the Entrance of a House on a Slope Using the Sandbox

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How to Fix the Entrance of a House on a Slope Using the Sandbox
Learn how to create a terrain slope in SketchUp

In this post you'll see how simple it is to use the From Contours tool from the Sandbox to create a sloped terrain. The following example deals with the entrance of a house with a garage on a sloped street—a classic case!

implantação de casa em rua com desnível
layout of a house on a sloped street

Assuming the situation above, you need to draw the terrain's outline with the Line tool. If needed, you can also use other basic drawing tools such as Arc. See the drawn outline below.

Notice the terrain outline drawn with lines

After drawing the outline, select the lines and click the From Contours tool, and notice that the terrain has been created.

the sloped terrain was created with the From Contours tool

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