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  • J Offline
    jeff hammond
    last edited by 24 Mar 2009, 20:28

    i'm not sure this qualifies as a 'duh' moment because it's actually an application duh.. when i finally figured out this workaround though, it was a big relief..

    it has to do with dividing arc/circles into a certain amount of segments.. say you need 16 segments in an arc.. sketchup may let you change the amount so you think you're good to go.. later in the model, you might need another arc with the same amount of segments but this time, sketchup won't let you change it to the same amount..

    the workaround is this: change the amount to 1 higher than you need (17 instead of 16 for instance) THen change that arc to 16..

    i have no idea why SU won't just let me divide into the proper amounts in the first place and i previously had some headache workarounds to deal with this..

    dotdotdot

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      pilou
      last edited by 24 Mar 2009, 21:11

      cool to know that! ovoid some circular headaches ☀

      Frenchy Pilou
      Is beautiful that please without concept!
      My Little site :)

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        free agent
        last edited by 27 Mar 2009, 20:18

        @paulside said:

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

        jeez ive tried to orbit word documents 🤓

        http:i167.photobucket.comalbumsu143FreeAgent84bug.gif

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        • D Offline
          david_h
          last edited by 27 Mar 2009, 20:42

          @gaieus said:

          How about creating only "dummy" or "proxy" components?

          So what is the best method for Proxy-ing? To create a 2 layers of different components and toggle each one in a scene or is it to reload and displace the proxy via "RELOAD" when it comes time to render?

          Just Curious since I am dealing with that issue as we speak.

          David_H

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

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            Gaieus
            last edited by 28 Mar 2009, 13:19

            @unknownuser said:

            ...So what is the best method for Proxy-ing? To create a 2 layers of different components and toggle each one in a scene or is it to reload and displace the proxy via "RELOAD" when it comes time to render?

            Well, I don't think there's a general and always "true" answer to that. It would definitely depend on the particular model, the purpose, the workflow, even additional software (like renderers that can use SU proxies and instancing) etc.

            Gai...

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              david_h
              last edited by 28 Mar 2009, 18:07

              That's what I was a-feared of.

              You know . .. of all the answers to life's questions. . .

              "well, that depends"

              has to be the least satisfying of them all. Thanx for the response anyway.

              💚

              so what is the most satisfying?

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

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                Gaieus
                last edited by 28 Mar 2009, 18:13

                Okay, I'll make a couple of short examples (but then I'll also split these posts off here and combine them with that). Is that okay? 😉
                The best would be of course, if others could also add some examples from their field of profession and workflow.

                Gai...

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                  Tekkybot
                  last edited by 31 Mar 2009, 12:53

                  ah, heres some of my best duh moments. learning how to use groups/componenets, understanding the outliner, learning to use xray when after using follow me to clean up a curved model, and my fav duh so far, (this one stumpped me for months!) drawing on top of shapes with the pencil tool when things are made into groups/components to make model building easier and more precise.

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                    thomthom
                    last edited by 11 Apr 2009, 10:23

                    Because you have internal faces which uses those edges?

                    Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                      pilou
                      last edited by 11 Apr 2009, 10:33

                      @unknownuser said:

                      Because you have internal faces which uses those edges?

                      This arrives when you make PushPull + CTRL 😉
                      But you must clean after so...Duhduh above! 😄
                      push.jpg

                      Frenchy Pilou
                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                      My Little site :)

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                        pilou
                        last edited by 15 Apr 2009, 01:26

                        Another one: after a Catmull Clark Subdivision 💚impossible.jpg
                        An headache for orient faces all in the same color 😮

                        Solution one click!: Same than above! 😉
                        Plugin Remove Inner faces then Right Click / Plugin "Orient Face" on a White face 😎

                        Frenchy Pilou
                        Is beautiful that please without concept!
                        My Little site :)

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                          pilou
                          last edited by 13 May 2009, 15:36

                          Not a recent but a famous! 💚
                          The "after effect" 😒

                          Quasi all function in SU can be modify just after used it! 😮
                          Draw any line (circle... etc) in the good direction then type on the numeric keyboard measure wanted...
                          ...and... miracle! 💚
                          This is valuable for quasi all functions Move, Scale etc... 🤓

                          Frenchy Pilou
                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                          My Little site :)

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                          • ToboboT Offline
                            Tobobo
                            last edited by 26 Jun 2009, 15:25

                            I've been using SU since V1 and the biggest du'h was when Coen said ‘if you want to delete loads around a set of geometry that you want to keep the use the +/- option on the select tool and this deselects the geometry you want and selects the stuff you want to delete.’ Which was on the @last forums so V5 😳

                            Toby

                            Philippians 4:13

                            I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

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                              Gaieus
                              last edited by 26 Jun 2009, 16:02

                              Indeed different (and endless numbers of) selection tricks is a kind of "art" which can sped up one's modelling workflow big time.

                              Gai...

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                                thomthom
                                last edited by 5 Oct 2009, 09:13

                                http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=22487

                                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                  arklandesign
                                  last edited by 6 Oct 2009, 17:05

                                  hehe .....This is a funny and informative thread at the same time...

                                  I have one... discovered by mistake yesterday.
                                  If one is in a complicated model and want to focus attention to a particular part of the model, one can double click on the scroll wheel at the point one is interested in and that will centre that point in the middle of the screen....making orbiting even easier.

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                                    Gaieus
                                    last edited by 6 Oct 2009, 18:04

                                    Doh... 😕

                                    I didn't know that.

                                    But at least now I understand why my models "jump" from time to time - I obviously (accidentally) double click with my mouse. 😳

                                    Gai...

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                                      pilou
                                      last edited by 6 Oct 2009, 21:57

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      one can double click on the scroll wheel

                                      Tricky! ☀
                                      Maybe there is another thing wiht the triple click on the Wheel! 😮

                                      Frenchy Pilou
                                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                      My Little site :)

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                                      • plot-parisP Offline
                                        plot-paris
                                        last edited by 7 Oct 2009, 17:03

                                        @gaieus said:

                                        But at least now I understand why my models "jump" from time to time - I obviously (accidentally) double click with my mouse. 😳

                                        now it makes sense at last... its me, not a buggy SketchUp 😳

                                        another one: I am currently working on a fairly complex model. lots of nested groups...
                                        I was somewhere deep down on the hierarchy, modeling on some walls, when suddenly all newly created geometry turned transparent. when I painted another colour to the faces, they ceased being transparent.
                                        I checked the default material in the styles editor... you can't even set a transparency value there.
                                        I closed SketchUp and reopened it. still the same.
                                        I copied the whole model into a new SketchUp file. yet again: all newly created geometry turned transparent...

                                        ... and then it hit me... at some point while modelling and texturing, I must have accidentally painted over the parent-group with a glass material. most of the geometry within this group was supposed to be a stone wall, therefore a texture applied directly to the geometry. when I now created some new faces, these were coloured with the default material of course... but the transparent glass material on the group overwrote it...

                                        how can someone be soooo slow, it took me almost 15 minutes to find out. I had to hit the Homer button twice!!! 😳

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                                        • broomstickB Offline
                                          broomstick
                                          last edited by 11 Oct 2009, 17:39

                                          my duh moment:

                                          when you rotate something, and you touch the rotation tool that appears on screen, the rotation will snap on the simbols of the rotation tool.

                                          If you change the rotation snaps, the rotation tool changes consequently.

                                          very, very duh

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