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    • DanielD Offline
      Daniel
      last edited by

      I've always known about hiding geometry by holding the shift key with the eraser, but last week I just noticed the "hidden" check box on the entity info window. ๐Ÿ˜ณ

      My avatar is an anachronism.

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      • Bob JamesB Offline
        Bob James
        last edited by

        Never paid any attention to this thread until today ๐Ÿ˜ณ

        @tig said:

        .....select all faces with the same material as the one highlighted... then RickW pointed out that it is already a standard built-in tool under Select... ๐Ÿ˜ณ

        OMG ๐Ÿ˜ฒ I soooo needed this yesterday ๐Ÿ‘Š
        This thread is one of the greatest tutorials ever made!
        Now to Page 1 and read (and write down) all of the golden nuggets in this thread.

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        • J Offline
          Jim
          last edited by

          @bob james said:

          This thread is one of the greatest tutorials ever made!

          Yeah, this thread would make a great mini-pub for SCF. I'd probably even buy a tree-ware version as I can't retain online info as well as I can with a good sit with a book.

          Hi

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          • pilouP Offline
            pilou
            last edited by

            @unknownuser said:

            make a unique texture from a portion of another!

            Seems only from the V7 and + ๐Ÿ˜‰

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            • Bob JamesB Offline
              Bob James
              last edited by

              SU Duh.pdfCompilation of DUHs
              This is an unedited regurgitation of all of the DUH items. Some are repeated.

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              • pilouP Offline
                pilou
                last edited by

                Cool idea! ๐Ÿ˜Ž

                I will translate it when I arrive at this page! ๐Ÿ˜„ (in fact a sort of speedy copy / past because ...

                I am now at the page 7 on French Section ! ๐Ÿ’š

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                • dereiD Offline
                  derei
                  last edited by

                  What the... ๐Ÿ˜ฒ?
                  6.I could change the radius of a circle that's been extruded - maybe using Scale Tool ๐Ÿ˜•
                  19. finding that by holding the spacebar down you can control the zoom in so you don't zip past the
                  object your zooming to
                  - really ? It doesn't seem to happen anything different when I zoom and keep spacebar pressed.

                  ...and the list can continue.
                  Maybe those should be verified, or given more detailed explanations. After all, its purpose is to teach the noobs, not to confuse them more ๐Ÿ’š

                  EDIT:
                  22. Also, any selection that only contains a single entity (not only a line) cannot be made a
                  component (or group) this way. If you select a sphere (with a bounding box), there's a single
                  "surface" selected only and you right click to turn it into a group/component in vain.
                  - try pressing G or use the Make Component icon ... ๐Ÿ˜‰ maybe is not in vain

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
                    last edited by

                    @unknownuser said:

                    1. Also, any selection that only contains a single entity (not only a line) cannot be made a
                      component (or group) this way. If you select a sphere (with a bounding box), there's a single
                      "surface" selected only and you right click to turn it into a group/component in vain. - try pressing G or use the Make Component icon ... maybe is not in vain

                    That's true - thus the inconsistency. SU should work the same way no matter where we access the same tool.

                    Gai...

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                    • H Offline
                      HFM
                      last edited by

                      Found out last week that you can also color lines in your model ๐Ÿ˜ฒ
                      It even works with custom drawing styles ๐Ÿ˜„


                      Colored lines ^^

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                      • jeff hammondJ Offline
                        jeff hammond
                        last edited by

                        @unknownuser said:

                        What the... ๐Ÿ˜ฒ?
                        6.I could change the radius of a circle that's been extruded - maybe using Scale Tool ๐Ÿ˜•

                        you can change the radius via the entity info dialog.. the same way you would change the radius of a circle except that it also works if the circle has been extruded

                        dotdotdot

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                        • dereiD Offline
                          derei
                          last edited by

                          @unknownuser said:

                          you can change the radius via the entity info dialog.. the same way you would change the radius of a circle except that it also works if the circle has been extruded

                          Heh, that's cool ๐Ÿ˜„ Inattentional blindness is to blame... I've seen that number of segments is grayed-out, and I didn't seen that the radius is fully editable.

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                          • pilouP Offline
                            pilou
                            last edited by

                            @unknownuser said:

                            Found out last week that you can also color lines in your model

                            you have a crazzy plug about that! ๐Ÿ˜‰
                            ChrisP_Color_edge By C Plassais ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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

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                            • D Offline
                              d12dozr
                              last edited by

                              @unknownuser said:

                              @unknownuser said:

                              What the... ๐Ÿ˜ฒ?
                              6.I could change the radius of a circle that's been extruded - maybe using Scale Tool ๐Ÿ˜•

                              you can change the radius via the entity info dialog.. the same way you would change the radius of a circle except that it also works if the circle has been extruded

                              You can use the Move tool on the cardinal points to change the radius of an extruded circle as well


                              Nifty!

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                              • gillesG Offline
                                gilles
                                last edited by

                                Did you know this one?


                                SU.jpg

                                " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                                • dereiD Offline
                                  derei
                                  last edited by

                                  @gilles said:

                                  Did you know this one?

                                  AWESOME !!! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ This is something I never would guess. Thank you! ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                  DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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                                  • gillesG Offline
                                    gilles
                                    last edited by

                                    works also with polygones.
                                    Rereading the user manuel is fully instructive.

                                    " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                                    • B Offline
                                      brandy20
                                      last edited by

                                      @gilles said:

                                      Did you know this one?

                                      ๐Ÿ˜ฎ another one to add yo the list of my uncountables duh! in the last two years...

                                      Another big duh! for me, to realize just yesterday evening of this very instructing topic. Must surf more carefully through this forum. ๐Ÿ˜ณ

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                                      • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                        jeff hammond
                                        last edited by

                                        @gilles said:

                                        Did you know this one?

                                        ๐Ÿ˜ฒ
                                        no.. i didn't.
                                        that's pretty sweet.. now, i'm left wondering if i have a use for it ๐Ÿ˜„

                                        dotdotdot

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                                        • daleD Offline
                                          dale
                                          last edited by

                                          This one was new to me (Doh)
                                          I was doing a lot of similar push pulls on a model (without joint pushpull), and inadvertently double clicked on the second one, and SketchUp duplicated the depth of the first pushpull.
                                          So i just went along double clicking, and the action repeated itself exactly.
                                          Boy could I ever have used this alot.

                                          Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            Works the same for Offset too - double-click repeats the last used value...

                                            TIG

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