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      xrok1
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      @unknownuser said:

      Ive had so many Duh Moments I don't know where to start . . .or rather D'oh!
      I have still so many yet to experience I am sure. Maybe you can help me add to myD'uh Collection

      I have never gotten into the OUtliner but the one thing I wish I knew how to do with it. . .if it can be done is in working with Nexted blocks and components in "Hide rest of Model" mode that you could have the group in which a component is nested visible but still have the rest of the model invisible? comprenez-vous? Or maybe there is a Ruby for this??? ***please oh please oh please!***Also. . .. we need a little smilie that says "D'UH! and D'OH!"

      it would probably be better for your outer group to be a component instead of a group, with the other groups inside. that way it would work the way you want with all the internal groups visible when editing them through this outer component. 😉

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        Gaieus
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        @daniel said:

        ...My second moment was embarrassing. I gave a short seminar to the local community design center on using sketchup, and I was explaining how SU will not cast shadows below the point of origin (default ground plane), and open a model to illustrate it, only to discover that SU had apparently fixed that (with veersion 7?).

        Thanks Daniel, you saved me from another embarrassing "Duh"! 😄

        Gai...

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          Daniel
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          I can remember two "duh" moments for myself. I had always known to make multiple copies in a row, to just type in the number of copies wanted followed by an "x". But it wasn't until reading the SU for Dummies book last year that you could make multiple copies evenly spaced in a given length by typing in the number followed by a slash. I felt stupid for not figuring that out.

          My second moment was embarrassing. I gave a short seminar to the local community design center on using sketchup, and I was explaining how SU will not cast shadows below the point of origin (default ground plane), and open a model to illustrate it, only to discover that SU had apparently fixed that (with version 7?).

          My avatar is an anachronism.

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            broomstick
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            @thomthom said:

            A more recent Duh I had:

            Being able to select only a few edges from a face and offset them instead of the whole face.

            I had this one today!!

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              Daniel
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              Your welcome, Gaieus. I don't remember anybody mentioning it. Perhaps we've all become accustomed to modeling above the origin. Maybe I was distracted by Remus' bike porn thread (for the record, it is NOT what the title implies, and I was VERY disappointed).

              My avatar is an anachronism.

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                pmiller
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                Probably the best SU duh!:

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                  sintra
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                  @unknownuser said:

                  i still don't know how to type in more than one dimension when using the tape measure tool

                  So can anybody put me out of my missery please 😆

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                    xrok1
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                    how many dimensions do you expect from a tape measure? lets see there's length... ... and ... ... 😳

                    “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

                    http://www.Twilightrender.com try it!

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                      paulside
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                      Come on, Own up, how many of us have tried to orbit a jpg ! 🤣

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                        xrok1
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                        specially if its a jpg of a 3D model 🤣

                        “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

                        http://www.Twilightrender.com try it!

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                          sintra
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                          hmmm sorry thought you could type in several figures to set out many dimensions 😕

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                            xrok1
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                            the duh moment that turned out to just be a der! moment. 🤣

                            but seriously you can copy your construction lines with (ctrl) copy, and then say *10 or whatever so you get 10 equally spaced. if that helps?

                            “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

                            http://www.Twilightrender.com try it!

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                              david_h
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                              @paulside said:

                              Come on, Own up, how many of us have tried to orbit a jpg ! 🤣

                              Not being able to orbit in JPGS only illustrates their limitions. If we were an advanced society at all we would be able to this. 💚

                              If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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                                thomthom
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                                @paulside said:

                                Come on, Own up, how many of us have tried to orbit a jpg ! 🤣

                                Ever tried to undo a wrong stroke with the pen..? 😳

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                                  david_h
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                                  @xrok1 said:

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  Ive had so many Duh Moments I don't know where to start . . .or rather D'oh!
                                  I have still so many yet to experience I am sure. Maybe you can help me add to myD'uh Collection

                                  I have never gotten into the OUtliner but the one thing I wish I knew how to do with it. . .if it can be done is in working with Nexted blocks and components in "Hide rest of Model" mode that you could have the group in which a component is nested visible but still have the rest of the model invisible? comprenez-vous? Or maybe there is a Ruby for this??? ***please oh please oh please!***Also. . .. we need a little smilie that says "D'UH! and D'OH!"

                                  it would probably be better for your outer group to be a component instead of a group, with the other groups inside. that way it would work the way you want with all the internal groups visible when editing them through this outer component. 😉

                                  Thanks for the feedback, but I dont think that helps me, and I realize I probablyI didn't explain myself very well. I would want to able to keep the geometry of the component visible while I am working on an internal nested block/component but the main model is kept hidden? Better?

                                  If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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                                    jeff hammond
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                                    @paulside said:

                                    Come on, Own up, how many of us have tried to orbit a jpg ! 🤣

                                    i try to orbit everything on my computer after a long SU session.. web pages etc...

                                    it's like jumping on a trampoline for a while.. once you get back on solid ground, it takes a few minutes to readjust..

                                    dotdotdot

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                                      NewOne
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                                      @ecuadorian said:

                                      And I often find myself trying to "mirror" things with Ctrl+M, as in ArchiCAD, only to remember that I should have clicked on the mirror button of the SCF Powerbar instead.

                                      What mirror button are you talking about? ❓ 😄 I olny use for mirroring Mirror_31.rb plugin. Is there something else? (and this one sometime crashes sketchup, i could not figure when yet)

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                                          ely862me
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                                          i did find myself zoom ing out or orbit on a recorded desktop video taken while working in sketchup
                                          a big d*oh when i discovered the scale tool(at the beginning i made a house and i tried to insert some components and my house was too small ..i abandoned the project 😆)
                                          another one when i discovered the smooth operation
                                          another when i discovered the components(working just at one half of a car)
                                          and the biggest when i discovered the render engines...

                                          They are lot more wich i don t remember now!

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                                            Gaieus
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                                            @thomthom said:

                                            ...
                                            Ever tried to undo a wrong stroke with the pen..? 😳

                                            Or with a girlfriend? 😒

                                            Gai...

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