The "Duh!" thread (aka the Doh! thread)

broomstick · 10 Mar 2009, 21:18

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!!

Daniel · 10 Mar 2009, 21:20

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).

pmiller · 10 Mar 2009, 21:20

Probably the best SU duh!:

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sintra · 10 Mar 2009, 21:26

@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

xrok1 · 10 Mar 2009, 21:41

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

paulside · 10 Mar 2009, 21:54

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

xrok1 · 10 Mar 2009, 21:56

specially if its a jpg of a 3D model

sintra · 10 Mar 2009, 22:02

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

xrok1 · 10 Mar 2009, 22:09

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?

david_h · 10 Mar 2009, 22:34

@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.

thomthom · 10 Mar 2009, 22:38

@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..?

david_h · 10 Mar 2009, 22:45

@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?

jeff hammond · 10 Mar 2009, 22:47

@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..

NewOne · 10 Mar 2009, 22:53

@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)

Ecuadorian · 10 Mar 2009, 22:55

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ely862me · 10 Mar 2009, 23:15

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!

Gaieus · 10 Mar 2009, 23:24

@thomthom said:

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

Or with a girlfriend?

Chris Fullmer · 10 Mar 2009, 23:25

@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 version 7?).

Version 6 also let you cast shadows below the ground plane. At least the copy I'm running does?

Chris

Chris Fullmer · 10 Mar 2009, 23:28

@unknownuser said:

Also. . .. we need a little smilie that says "D'UH! and D'OH!"

Well, its not a smily on the forum, but Jim did make a plugin:

Plugin: The Homer Button

This plugin does... well it doesn't really do anything useful! It puts a little Homer on your Toolbar and plays a sound file. Just a fun lit...

(sketchuptips.blogspot.com)

EDIT: Oops, Paul already beat me to this last page....

Ecuadorian · 10 Mar 2009, 23:32

Still happens to me a lot... I press Ctrl+Z in the middle of an operation and end up losing some work done.

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.

EDIT: Now I understand what thomthom was talking about... a REAL pen. A big Duh! for me.