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Generate reports

Generate reports

- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri and today we're going to generate reports using SketchUp Pro. Now, this is a feature that is exclusive to SketchUp Pro. And I'm using SketchUp Pro 2018. Now, there are many times when you'll need to generate a report about your model. In this case, we have a framing plan. And it would be a really good idea to know how many two by fours are in this particular frame? Now I've created this using separate components for each piece of wood. So if we go into our components window here and I click on, InModel, you'll see we have just a couple of different types of components. We have a two by four by eight. We have a two by six by 10. And then we have a Roof Truss. Now in order to actually build this, I will need to generate a report so I know how many of these I need to buy. So we can do that using Generate Report. So if we go into file, you'll see we have an option here called Generate Report. Now if I click on this, you'll see that this big window comes…

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