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    • E Offline
      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.
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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
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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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                          • E Offline
                            Ecuadorian
                            last edited by

                            Today I discovered that I can drag-and-drop images straight from Firefox into the SketchUp viewport. ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

                            -Miguel Lescano
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                            • pilouP Offline
                              pilou
                              last edited by

                              @unknownuser said:

                              I discovered that I can drag-and-drop images straight from Firefox into the SketchUp viewport.

                              ๐Ÿ‘ Tricky and speedy ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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

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                              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                Chris Fullmer
                                last edited by

                                I just discovered that you can use more than one modifier key when setting up shortcut keys. example

                                ctrl + shift + alt + Q

                                or snything along those lines. I never reazlied that... ๐Ÿ˜ณ

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

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                                • plot-parisP Offline
                                  plot-paris
                                  last edited by

                                  just out of interest: what function did you assign to
                                  Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Q???

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                                  • GaieusG Offline
                                    Gaieus
                                    last edited by

                                    When I press that, it triggers an automatic poking of you on Facebook.
                                    ๐Ÿคฃ

                                    (I dare not try if there is anything assigned to it by default because I am rendering an animation) ๐Ÿ˜•

                                    Gai...

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                                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                      Chris Fullmer
                                      last edited by

                                      It is my auto-assinate button in SU ๐Ÿ˜„

                                      I don't really have it assigned to anything. It was just an example of how complex a "shortcut" could be. I thought I was stuck to simple single modifiers. Double modifiers could greatly expand my shortcut range though!

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

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                                      • mitcorbM Offline
                                        mitcorb
                                        last edited by

                                        @chris fullmer said:

                                        It is my auto-assinate button in SU ๐Ÿ˜„

                                        Now, what would an "auto-assinate" button do, exactly?
                                        Hee Hee!

                                        I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                                        • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                          Chris Fullmer
                                          last edited by

                                          I struggle...

                                          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

                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            just out of interest: what function did you assign to
                                            Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Q???

                                            A list of shortcuts ๐Ÿ’š

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

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