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- [Instructor] SketchUp Free is a web-based application, but you can load files either from your Trimble Connect account, which is a cloud-based storage solution, or from your local hard drive. So let's take a look at how to load files and also how to move files into Trimble Connect. So I'm going to go to my main menu here, left click, and just go over to open. Now we have two places to retrieve files. One is Trimble Connect, and that's Trimble's cloud service. Or you can go to My Device, so let's start on My Device. Now I have my exercise files on my desktop. If I double click on that, you'll see I have a whole bunch of files. I'm going to select 01_03.skp and click open. And that brings me into that file. Now it says here that you are viewing a temporary file. Now, if I want to use this interactively, then I will need to save it to my Trimble account. We can do that in one of two places. We can go into file, do a save as, or you can just press this save button here. And this should…

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