The "Duh!" thread (aka the Doh! thread)

Bob James · 6 Nov 2011, 23:45

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

pilou · 7 Nov 2011, 00:31

Cool idea!

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

I am now at the page 7 on French Section !

derei · 7 Nov 2011, 07:40

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

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 ... maybe is not in vain

Gaieus · 7 Nov 2011, 08:42

@unknownuser said:

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.

HFM · 7 Nov 2011, 15:22

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

jeff hammond · 7 Nov 2011, 16:22

@unknownuser said:

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

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

derei · 7 Nov 2011, 16:28

@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 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.

pilou · 7 Nov 2011, 16:33

@unknownuser said:

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

you have a crazzy plug about that!
ChrisP_Color_edge By C Plassais

d12dozr · 7 Nov 2011, 18:49

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

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

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

gilles · 8 Nov 2011, 10:11

Did you know this one?

derei · 8 Nov 2011, 10:14

@gilles said:

Did you know this one?

AWESOME !!! This is something I never would guess. Thank you!

gilles · 8 Nov 2011, 10:31

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

brandy20 · 8 Nov 2011, 10:55

@gilles said:

Did you know this one?

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.

jeff hammond · 8 Nov 2011, 15:41

@gilles said:

Did you know this one?

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

dale · 8 Nov 2011, 16:26

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.

TIG · 8 Nov 2011, 16:42

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

Rich O Brien · 8 Nov 2011, 16:48

Now double click the middle mouse button

Gaieus · 8 Nov 2011, 17:02

But double click on something.

cotty · 9 Nov 2011, 20:44

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).

Gaieus · 9 Nov 2011, 20:57

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)