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  • G Offline
    Gaieus
    last edited by 7 Nov 2011, 08:42

    @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 7 Nov 2011, 15:22

      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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      • J Offline
        jeff hammond
        last edited by 7 Nov 2011, 16:22

        @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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          derei
          last edited by 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 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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            pilou
            last edited by 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! 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 7 Nov 2011, 18:49

              @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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              • G Offline
                gilles
                last edited by 8 Nov 2011, 10:11

                Did you know this one?


                SU.jpg

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

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                • D Offline
                  derei
                  last edited by 8 Nov 2011, 10:14

                  @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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                  • G Offline
                    gilles
                    last edited by 8 Nov 2011, 10:31

                    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 8 Nov 2011, 10:55

                      @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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                      • J Offline
                        jeff hammond
                        last edited by 8 Nov 2011, 15:41

                        @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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                        • D Offline
                          dale
                          last edited by 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.

                          Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by 8 Nov 2011, 16:42

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

                            TIG

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                            • R Offline
                              Rich O Brien Moderator
                              last edited by 8 Nov 2011, 16:48

                              Now double click the middle mouse button ๐Ÿ˜‰

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

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                              • G Offline
                                Gaieus
                                last edited by 8 Nov 2011, 17:02

                                But double click on something.

                                Gai...

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                                • C Offline
                                  cotty
                                  last edited by 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).

                                  my SketchUp gallery

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                                    Gaieus
                                    last edited by 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)

                                    Gai...

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                                      Wo3Dan
                                      last edited by 9 Nov 2011, 21:56

                                      @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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                                        pilou
                                        last edited by 16 Nov 2011, 12:58

                                        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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                                          pingo
                                          last edited by 17 Nov 2011, 21:14

                                          Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

                                          It's taken me a few days to read through this thread and practise all the many things I didn't know before. So many helpful tips will surely make my future modelling so much easier!

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