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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
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        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
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            @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


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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˜‰

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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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                                    • Rich O BrienR Online
                                      Rich O Brien Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      Now double click the middle mouse button ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                      Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp ๐Ÿ“–

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                                      • GaieusG Offline
                                        Gaieus
                                        last edited by

                                        But double click on something.

                                        Gai...

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                                        • cottyC Offline
                                          cotty
                                          last edited by

                                          I've learned a lot from this thread and here is my little "Duh!"...

                                          Textures of different (coplanar) faces can be combined (context menu - combine textures (?, don't know the english translation of the menu)) if they are preselected.
                                          Because the inner lines can be deleted, this reduces the file size (e.g. for google earth models).

                                          "Make unique texture" reduces file size too (textures are trimmed).

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                                          • GaieusG Offline
                                            Gaieus
                                            last edited by

                                            Yes, especially this second one is extremely important for GE modelling. I think it was introduced in version 7 and was very welcome (although the AA algorithm could be better as the resulting textures are rather bad quality)

                                            Gai...

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