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    • G Offline
      Gruff
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      @plot-paris said:

      wow, cool. didn't know about that eihter. but what I would even more like to see is a push/pull like this:
      [attachment=0:2sngi41l]<!-- ia0 -->strange_pushpull.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2sngi41l]

      Similar to that I'd like to see some way of locking the move tool do the same thing to an edge of a face. Allow the face to only stretch normal to the side of the line. Say you had a square face 6"x8"
      Grab on one of the 8" lines and pull out making it 12" x 8".

      Basically I need the face to larger than the original facet.

      Resistance is .... Character Forming. Grin

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      • plot-parisP Offline
        plot-paris
        last edited by

        another one, only outside SketchUp...

        did you ever try to explode a folder somewhere to copy it's content to the next higher folder?
        I have a shortcut applied to exploding in SkechUp. and I hit it repeatedly, wondering, why the folder was still there.

        actually, that would be a great thing to implement in an operating system: selecting a folder and exploding it, being left with the files within all selected. or the other way around, grouping things (select several files and hit the 'group shortcut' to put them into a new folder...

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          kwistenbiebel
          last edited by

          @plot-paris said:

          another one, only outside SketchUp...

          did you ever try to explode a folder somewhere to copy it's content to the next higher folder?
          I have a shortcut applied to exploding in SkechUp. and I hit it repeatedly, wondering, why the folder was still there.

          actually, that would be a great thing to implement in an operating system: selecting a folder and exploding it, being left with the files within all selected. or the other way around, grouping things (select several files and hit the 'group shortcut' to put them into a new folder...

          Yeah 😄
          SketchupOS 1.0 !

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            MartinRinehart
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            @arail1 said:

            My Spacebar doesn't deselect - disappointed.

            There are glitches, here. On a PC for example, Move tool selected, press spacebar. You are still looking at a Move cursor, but the least mouse movement corrects the cursor.

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            • G Offline
              Gruff
              last edited by

              One more Duh!

              When viewing a model in XRay mode.

              If you hold down shift whilst using the 2D drawing tools the new 2D geometry is forced onto the nearest face (closest to your eye.). Even snap points to (Behind) geometry is projected to the nearest face.

              The sort of meets my needs for construction planes that I am comfortable using in other solid modelers.

              The only painful part of it is that you have to continuously hold down the shift key. It would be nice if Caps lock toggled the feature.

              Resistance is .... Character Forming. Grin

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              • plot-parisP Offline
                plot-paris
                last edited by

                @gruff said:

                The only painful part of it is that you have to continuously hold down the shift key. It would be nice if Caps lock toggled the feature.

                true, some sort of permanently locking a movement direction would be awesome at times (appart from locking it to the three main axes via the arrow keys)...

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                  GoldenFrog
                  last edited by

                  My DUH moment was when i realised there was an arc tool. Needles to say, that was my first day using SU. Hehe...My other one was when i learned about the follow me tool. Great DUH there! But, I've greatly improved since then ☀

                  Remember, great minds think alike, and fools never differ.

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                    xrok1
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                    @plot-paris said:

                    @gruff said:

                    The only painful part of it is that you have to continuously hold down the shift key. It would be nice if Caps lock toggled the feature.

                    true, some sort of permanently locking a movement direction would be awesome at times (appart from locking it to the three main axes via the arrow keys)...

                    Wish granted! 🤣
                    Capture.JPG
                    my duh moment just happened, i forgot to attached the jpg to this post the first time. 🤣

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                      Gruff
                      last edited by

                      @unknownuser said:

                      <!-- ia0 -->Capture.JPG<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1ouv5aid]

                      I do not see that dialog anywhere in my 7.1 std SketchUp.
                      Is that a Pro feature?

                      Resistance is .... Character Forming. Grin

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                        Ecuadorian
                        last edited by

                        @gruff said:

                        I do not see that dialog anywhere in my 7.1 std SketchUp.
                        Is that a Pro feature?

                        You set up that in Windows, not in SketchUp, in "Accesibility" options in the Control Panel of XP. But I'm not sure about its usefulness in SU.

                        -Miguel Lescano
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                          pilou
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                            xrok1
                            last edited by

                            @ecuadorian said:

                            @gruff said:

                            I do not see that dialog anywhere in my 7.1 std SketchUp.
                            Is that a Pro feature?

                            You set up that in Windows, not in SketchUp, in "Accesibility" options in the Control Panel of XP. But I'm not sure about its usefulness in SU.

                            you can lock the shift key for inferencing, which is what Gruff wished for 😛

                            “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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                              jeff hammond
                              last edited by

                              @gruff said:

                              When viewing a model in XRay mode.

                              If you hold down shift whilst using the 2D drawing tools the new 2D geometry is forced onto the nearest face (closest to your eye.). Even snap points to (Behind) geometry is projected to the nearest face.

                              good one!
                              i didn't know that

                              dotdotdot

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                                Gruff
                                last edited by

                                New Duh. (Sort of)

                                Select a face then right mouse and select Align Axis. (Let's call it AA2F) We've all seen it but did you know that what it creates depends on how your face happens to be oriented to the screen?

                                In a nut shell AA2F aligns the Axis to the lower left most edge.

                                Draw a hexagonal face. Choose the top view and use AA2F. Rotate the view of the hexagon
                                reselect AA2F. Your Axis will shift position around the hexagon vertices.

                                This can actually be used to your advantage when dealing with a face that has different features dependent on different edges. As a case in point see the attached Guitar head where I needed to align and create features parallel to either outside edge as well as the center line of the whole thing.


                                Guitar Neck Test

                                Resistance is .... Character Forming. Grin

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                                • olisheaO Offline
                                  olishea
                                  last edited by

                                  I've only just realized you can click alt/ctrl when push/pulling.......duh! 😳

                                  oli

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                                    Align
                                    last edited by

                                    @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.

                                    how do you do this?

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      Select the edges and and activate offset...

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                                      • EscapeArtistE Offline
                                        EscapeArtist
                                        last edited by

                                        @plot-paris said:

                                        wow, cool. didn't know about that eihter. but what I would even more like to see is a push/pull like this:
                                        [attachment=0:37plearv]<!-- ia0 -->strange_pushpull.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:37plearv]

                                        It exists! Here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=23341

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                                          Ecuadorian
                                          last edited by

                                          I was working in a "mysterious" file that did not allow me to pushpull anything, and I was about to post the mysterious file here. After checking, "Snap to length" was set to a very high value. Duh!

                                          -Miguel Lescano
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                                          • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                            Chris Fullmer
                                            last edited by

                                            I just found one for me tonight. I change the model axis pretty often when I work. But I never noticed that you can activate the axis tool (or change axis inside of a component tool) and click twice somewhere and it will move the axis to that point without changing its orientation. Normally I would have clicked once, then lined up the the axes and click and line up and click. So a double click (not too fast though!) is much faster for moving the axis.

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