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    • R Do not disturb
      rv1974
      last edited by

      One can assign shortcuts to the 'Numpad' keys! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
      A huge gain, especially for lefties.
      Doh!

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        ArCAD-UK
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        Just discovered in Layout 3 that if you select a block of text and right click (PC) there is a "Size to Fit" option which retains the text block width but extends the box height to show all the text. The amount of time I've spent manually adjusting my text boxes when the contents have been edited... ๐Ÿ˜ณ

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        • R Do not disturb
          rv1974
          last edited by

          The 'Lock\unlock aspect ratio' at material edit drove me crazy for years.
          Clicking it wont change visually its state (stupid bug!). To see it changed one should move
          the cursor off the button.

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            iecovert
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            %(#400080)[ALL toolbars can be mounted on the top OR the side! Not just the SU tools.

            I've got an increasing number of toolbars mounted up top since that's the way they first show up when a plugin is installed. The decreasing workspace was becoming an issue. The original SU toolbars mount vertically, so I set out to figure out how I could make the new Ruby and plugin toolbars mount vertically too. That seems to make more sense with a widescreen monitor. Spent several hours searching through the forums, help topics, and eventually digging into various Ruby scripts trying to figure it out over the past two weeks. Then last night I was moving a floating toolbar window and grabbed it a little to close to the edge and... it "stretched" out vertically. ๐Ÿคฃ Finally...]

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              Aerilius
              last edited by

              (This belongs probably also into the developers forums:)

              window.onerror = function(errorMsg, url, lineNumber){ return true }
              

              This catches WebDialog script error popups (should they still sometimes occur after thorough testing)!
              Why didn't I find that before?
              Note: It needs to be assigned directly to %(#000000)[window] and not attached like %(#000000)[$(window).bind("error", function(){})].

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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
                last edited by

                Interesting. I do not have that "duh moment" reading this. ๐Ÿ˜†

                Gai...

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                • jeff hammondJ Offline
                  jeff hammond
                  last edited by

                  @gaieus said:

                  Interesting. I do not have that "duh moment" reading this. ๐Ÿ˜†

                  same hereโ€ฆ more like an "uhhhhh ๐Ÿ˜• moment"
                  ๐Ÿ˜†

                  dotdotdot

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                    ken
                    last edited by

                    I guess I could call this "The Well I'll be Darn Thread". I have used Sketchup since V 4. And I know that the text tool will give me info on geometry. Like length, area, but today, surprise, I used the text tool on the apex of an angle and I got the following, the degrees of the angle in the text box. Never saw that before, and I would have an illustration to show you if I could get the text tool to do it again.

                    Ken

                    Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                      Gaieus
                      last edited by

                      I was reading a topic and realized that I did not understand a word.
                      Then looked up and also realized I was in the Developers Forum. ๐Ÿ˜’

                      Gai...

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
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                        @gaieus said:

                        I was reading a topic and realized that I did not understand a word.
                        Then looked up and also realized I was in the Developers Forum. ๐Ÿ˜’

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                        Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          Didn't you mean

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                          ๐Ÿ˜• ๐Ÿ˜‰

                          TIG

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                            Rich O Brien Moderator
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                            Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp ๐Ÿ“–

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                              TIG Moderator
                              last edited by

                              It wasn't... but

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                                mrossk
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                                I think I got geek all over me ๐Ÿ˜‰

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                                  pilou
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                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    Found a cool one today.

                                    Copy a line over and type 6" to set the distance. Then type *10 to array it 10 times.

                                    What I already knew was that you can type *8 or *4 or whatever to adjust the number of arrayed items.

                                    However I just found out that if you type 3" or 10" it will keep your array but adjust the spacing. Pretty sweet!

                                    -Brodie

                                    Duh!

                                    That is sweet!

                                    The manual doesn't even mention this!
                                    http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94863

                                    Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                      Heaps
                                      last edited by

                                      It even works with circular arrays - just type in the angle in degrees

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                                      • brodieB Offline
                                        brodie
                                        last edited by

                                        Found a cool one today.

                                        Copy a line over and type 6" to set the distance. Then type *10 to array it 10 times.

                                        What I already knew was that you can type *8 or *4 or whatever to adjust the number of arrayed items.

                                        However I just found out that if you then type 3" or 10" it will keep your array but adjust the spacing. Pretty sweet!

                                        -Brodie

                                        steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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                                        • broomstickB Offline
                                          broomstick
                                          last edited by

                                          @unknownuser said:

                                          Found a cool one today.

                                          Copy a line over and type 6" to set the distance. Then type *10 to array it 10 times.

                                          What I already knew was that you can type *8 or *4 or whatever to adjust the number of arrayed items.

                                          However I just found out that if you then type 3" or 10" it will keep your array but adjust the spacing. Pretty sweet!

                                          -Brodie

                                          This, sir, just made my day!

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                                            Bob James
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