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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.

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

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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

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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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                                • 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).

                                      my SketchUp gallery

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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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                                        • Wo3DanW Offline
                                          Wo3Dan
                                          last edited by

                                          @gilles said:

                                          Did you know this one?

                                          Yes, I knew it worked on arc surfaces.
                                          But I didn't realize that it also works on cilinders (on a cardinal midpoint to resize it) until now.
                                          It even works on a truncated cone's cardinal midpoints "Doh!"

                                          b.t.w. The "arc surface midpoint moving" feature also works with two different arcs, top arc unequals bottom arc. I guess this is similar to being able to resize the truncated cone in "one go".

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                                          • pilouP Offline
                                            pilou
                                            last edited by

                                            A vicious one! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ By the complicity of John H. Aughey & Wiiki โ˜€
                                            Solution ! ๐Ÿ’š
                                            Used first Erase Inner faces ! ๐Ÿ˜’


                                            failed.jpg

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

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