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    • E Offline
      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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      • pilouP Offline
        pilou
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        Wanted to now all plugs by Tig โ˜€
        Just today thinking to use the search Advanced engine ๐Ÿ˜ณ
        [PLUGIN] + TIG + Title ONLY + Ruby Discussion ๐Ÿ‘
        = 3 pages of true gem ! Something like 75 brains storming ๐Ÿ˜ฎ ๐Ÿ˜‰
        Of course you can make that for any other Ruby Gurus: TBD, Fredo6, Chris Fullmer, Didier Bur, Jim Foltz, Thomthom, Matt666, Whaat, Wikii, Gohch, CPhillips, Kyrill2008, Morisdov, AdamB, Todd Burch, Rick Wilson... sorry for the forgotten ๐Ÿ˜ณ
        I must find an another tricky method for find all Gurus ๐Ÿ˜‰
        (and will be added at the list as soon as) โ—

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

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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 ๐Ÿ˜›

          โ€œThere are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.โ€

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

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          • jeff hammondJ Offline
            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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            • G Offline
              Gruff
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              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
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                I've only just realized you can click alt/ctrl when push/pulling.......duh! ๐Ÿ˜ณ

                oli

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                • A Offline
                  Align
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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.

                  how do you do this?

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    Select the edges and and activate offset...

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

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                    • EscapeArtistE Offline
                      EscapeArtist
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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=0:37plearv]<!-- 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.

                          Chris

                          Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                          All my Plugins I've written

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                          • pilouP Offline
                            pilou
                            last edited by

                            Select an element (lines, surface)
                            Open Entity Info yes ๐Ÿ˜‰
                            Then when you select with Shift , Shift + Ctrl or Ctrl
                            all surfaces or length lines are added , subbstracted, modified, visible and updated in the Entity info! ๐Ÿ˜„ ๐Ÿ˜’

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

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                            • GaieusG Offline
                              Gaieus
                              last edited by

                              OK, this is a very painful duh:

                              My system seemed to crash and I could not even start windows in safe mode (Mac users, don't sneer, please) so I decided to at least try to repair my system. It didn't allow me as whatever imaginable I entered, it didn't accept it as the password of the system admin.

                              So I reinstalled (I have a recent backup of my documents at least). Then I realised that I didn1t even have a password and should have just hit Enter without entering any password.
                              ๐Ÿ˜ณ

                              So basically this is what I wasted my Sunday for. I have a deadline tomorrow. ๐Ÿ˜•

                              Gai...

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                              • plot-parisP Offline
                                plot-paris
                                last edited by

                                oh, that is a really bad one, Gaieus! I am not sure if I should burst with laughter ๐Ÿคฃ , feel terribly sorry for you ๐Ÿ˜ž or just blush with embarassment, because that could just as well have happened to me ๐Ÿ˜ณ

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                                • plot-parisP Offline
                                  plot-paris
                                  last edited by

                                  another one. after importing a messy 3Ds model and cleaning it up with Thomthoms cleanup-script (thanks again, thom), I started entering every single one of the over 1500 groups/components, to smooth their surfaces.

                                  then I just discovered, that you can apply the smoothing to groups/components, without entering them. so you can select all the groups at once and only have to do the proces once! (doesn't work with nested groups though)

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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    @plot-paris said:

                                    then I just discovered, that you can apply the smoothing to groups/components, without entering them. so you can select all the groups at once and only have to do the proces once! (doesn't work with nested groups though)

                                    I recently discovered that as well!
                                    In regards to CleanUp - it does have a function to smooth the geometry it cleans up. If you use CleanUp Entire Model you have a field "Smooth Edges by Angle".

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

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                                    • plot-parisP Offline
                                      plot-paris
                                      last edited by

                                      @thomthom said:

                                      In regards to CleanUp - it does have a function to smooth the geometry it cleans up. If you use CleanUp Entire Model you have a field "Smooth Edges by Angle".

                                      yet another 'Doh'
                                      I can put my Homer button to quite some use today ๐Ÿ˜„

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                                      • GaieusG Offline
                                        Gaieus
                                        last edited by

                                        @plot-paris said:

                                        oh, that is a really bad one, Gaieus! I am not sure if I should burst with laughter ๐Ÿคฃ , feel terribly sorry for you ๐Ÿ˜ž or just blush with embarassment, because that could just as well have happened to me ๐Ÿ˜ณ

                                        Well, eventually it turned out that the total HD was broken so no matter what I would've done, the repair/install wouldn't have been successful. Had to buy a new HD and reinstall everything again. ๐Ÿ˜ข

                                        Gai...

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                                        • plot-parisP Offline
                                          plot-paris
                                          last edited by

                                          uh, thats bad!
                                          actually, I still try to deny that hard discs just die after several years of intenseive use. its not pleasant, when the truth catches up with you...

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                                          • broomstickB Offline
                                            broomstick
                                            last edited by

                                            I just discovered that the erase function hides and smoothes edges if you use it in combination with atl ctrl an shift...

                                            DUH!!

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