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  • G Offline
    Gaieus
    last edited by 20 Aug 2012, 15:17

    One note however. If you use the divide function around a full 360 degrees and first you rotate the component by 360 degrees, you will end up with two, overlapping components in position 0 (or 360). This is not a serious issue as after the rotation and radial array, this firstly copied component will remain highlighted so just make sure that after the radial array, also press the Delete button.

    Gai...

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      thomthom
      last edited by 20 Aug 2012, 15:19

      @gaieus said:

      One note however. If you use the divide function around a full 360 degrees and first you rotate the component by 360 degrees, you will end up with two, overlapping components in position 0 (or 360). This is not a serious issue as after the rotation and radial array, this firstly copied component will remain highlighted so just make sure that after the radial array, also press the Delete button.

      True, I used loose geometry in my test.

      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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        Gaieus
        last edited by 20 Aug 2012, 15:19

        Well, true, thatmerges with no trace left.

        Gai...

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        • J Offline
          jgb
          last edited by 20 Aug 2012, 20:24

          @unknownuser said:

          Start your array and type 360 for the degrees and hit enter rather than clicking to enter the degrees. Then do your multiplier.

          😍 That worked... Many thanks. πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘

          TT & Gaieus, thanks as well. That duplicate copy over the original used to be a problem, till I started using a circle with the right # of segments to get around it.


          jgb

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            pilou
            last edited by 7 Sept 2012, 17:46

            Super cool never thought to bend a 2D image with the Fredo Scale! πŸ‘ 😎

            cool.jpg

            Frenchy Pilou
            Is beautiful that please without concept!
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              Roger
              last edited by 8 Sept 2012, 23:23

              @unknownuser said:

              Super cool never thought to bend a 2D image with the Fredo Scale! πŸ‘ 😎

              [attachment=0:39d35j95]<!-- ia0 -->cool.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:39d35j95]

              You bent over backward to discover that function. 🀣 (Does not translate easily to French)

              http://www.azcreative.com

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                pilou
                last edited by 9 Sept 2012, 01:09

                @unknownuser said:

                (Does not translate easily to French)

                I believe that I understand that you want to say πŸ˜„

                Contortionist Zlata up the steps of the Cannes Film Festival! 😲

                http://www.pourlefan.eu/photos/1568823771.jpeg

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

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                  Roger
                  last edited by 9 Sept 2012, 01:46

                  Boggles the imagination!

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                  • A Offline
                    ArCAD-UK
                    last edited by 16 Sept 2012, 20:36

                    @pbacot said:

                    I can make a new layer via the Entities window simply by assigning the selected entity by typing a new layer name.

                    Not on the PC you can't. πŸ˜•

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                      pbacot
                      last edited by 17 Sept 2012, 07:27

                      I can make a new layer via the Entities window simply by assigning the selected entity and typing a new layer name. Did it by mistake. πŸ˜„ Never knew.

                      I thought this thread was a sticky, until I went looking for it...

                      MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                      • Epix3DE Offline
                        Epix3D
                        last edited by 27 Sept 2012, 08:41

                        Just discovered the System settings> Open GL > Use hardware acceleration. Suddenly Sketchup looks sharp and smooth to work with. How can I have missed this before? 😳

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                          flyashy
                          last edited by 29 Oct 2012, 06:27

                          I have found this thread to be the MOST instructional of them all! So thanks to http://sketchucation.com/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=15244 for starting it!
                          I've done a lot of these and found some great tips in here.
                          I thought I'd add one of mine that may help someone.
                          Although with the save toolbars position, a lot of toolbar mayham has been solved, but I still get it sometimes when even restore toolbars won't work.
                          I'd accidentally discovered this trick a while back when somehow all my toolbars had decided to go vertical or something!:
                          So, if you get toolbar chaos, don't do anything to sketchup to restore position etc...just call up taskmanager-windows (or force quit-mac) and kill the sketchup process, immediately if you can. if the process is killed sketchup will revert back to the earlier 'saved toolbars' position and no more chaos.
                          Cheers!

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                            Gaieus
                            last edited by 29 Oct 2012, 08:11

                            Flyashy, you linked a profile, not a post.

                            Gai...

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                            • cottyC Offline
                              cotty
                              last edited by 27 Nov 2012, 20:12

                              A simple one, but helpful...
                              (Model info -> components -> Show component axes)


                              comp_axes.jpg

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                                rv1974
                                last edited by 4 Dec 2012, 07:18

                                The Tips&Tricks thread would be a better place for this, but anyway,
                                In case you produce a lot of vistas:

                                1. Export your scenes with 'anti-aliasing off' and X2 demanded size 6000 pix wide instead of 3000 (well I'm sure you knew it already)
                                2. Create Photoshop droplet (File-Automate-Create Droplet; google some tutorials in your internets) from your typical actions.
                                  For example: resize to 3000> add soft light layer> tweak it's transparency> shadows & highlights> smart sharpen> close file.
                                  Dudes, this is HUGE time saver. Actually there's no need to manually open Photoshop anymore
                                  Just drag & drop the folder with your pictures upon the droplet's exe icon and enjoy πŸ˜‰
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                                  pbacot
                                  last edited by 4 Dec 2012, 12:11

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  Just discovered the System settings> Open GL > Use hardware acceleration. Suddenly Sketchup looks sharp and smooth to work with. How can I have missed this before? 😳

                                  It "creeped -up" on me that my visual quality sucked (sketchy and disappearing lines) and I was told to look at this. It really cleared things up. At some point I had turned it off because of other graphic anomalies. So I think I will be going back and forth... πŸ˜•

                                  MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                    MikeFJaguar
                                    last edited by 4 Dec 2012, 13:10

                                    @rv1974 said:

                                    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.

                                    This one got me very frustrated, until I discovered it's just a slooow button!
                                    In Windows 7 at least, click the Lock/Unlock button and WAIT for a couple of seconds. Lo and behold the button icon changes!

                                    EDIT
                                    Hmm. I'm wrong, you're right! The cursor does need to be moved off the button. As you say, stupid bug. Perhaps I'm a stupid bug..r 😳

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                                    • cottyC Offline
                                      cotty
                                      last edited by 7 Dec 2012, 06:47

                                      You can toggle the "active cut" setting of a section plane with a double click...

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                                        d12dozr
                                        last edited by 7 Dec 2012, 07:03

                                        @cotty said:

                                        You can toggle the "active cut" setting of a section plane with a double click...

                                        !!! πŸ‘ πŸŽ‰ πŸ˜„

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                                        • panixiaP Offline
                                          panixia
                                          last edited by 23 Dec 2012, 10:38

                                          just discovered a DOH feature of the selection tool..
                                          if you drag a selection rectangle from left to right it selects only the items completely wrapped in the rectangle, but if you drag the rectangle from right toward left,then also the items wich are only touched (but not fully wrapped) by the rectangle are selected.. never noticed it before.. 😲

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