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    • panixiaP Offline
      panixia
      last edited by

      i know how to use selection and modifier, the only DOH part is about the change of behaviour from left/right direction

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      • R Offline
        rv1974
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        Say you worked in Untitled.skp and suddenly your PC crashed. To discover the unknown location of autosave file start the blank file and make 'Save': it will show the folder with autosave folder.

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        • ToboboT Offline
          Tobobo
          last edited by

          I have just found by accident that you can drag nested groups and components in the outliner from one to another and it keeps its location. 😮

          Toby

          Philippians 4:13

          I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            Ooh! That's nice! I've never used the Outliner much, but that's a nice observation.
            +1 from me!

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

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            • TIGT Online
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              Yes, highlighting and moving containers within the Outliner works very much like Cut+PasteInPlace when you move groups/instances between 'parents' - just MUCH easier...
              It's also a useful way to open a nested container for editing, just find it 'by name' in the Outliner [benefit of naming sensibly!] and then select it and double-click it; and it's also best if View > Component Edit > Hide Rest of Model is toggled ON so you can see what you are doing [a shortcut-key to toggle this is de riguer]...

              TIG

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              • brodieB Offline
                brodie
                last edited by

                Just found a new one. You can copy a line over and type 10', then, after hitting enter you can type /10 to get 10 equally spaced lines.

                I have been doing that as two separate functions forever (copying the line 10' to get the spacing right then copying it back and snapping it to the other line 10' away and THEN hitting /10).

                -Brodie

                steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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                • pilouP Offline
                  pilou
                  last edited by

                  ... and if you are not satisfy you can continue "*" "/" with any unity even different than settings untill taking another tool! 😄

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

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                  • arail1A Offline
                    arail1
                    last edited by

                    @panixia said:

                    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.. 😲

                    This is important to know also because it's one of the few things that tends to be consistent across most 3D software applications.

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                    • M Offline
                      MikeFJaguar
                      last edited by

                      Ctrl (in Windows) while orbiting lets me turn my model every which way! Fairly useless as an architectural user but a boon for modellers who make widgets. Doh!

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                      • GaieusG Offline
                        Gaieus
                        last edited by

                        That's a "designed feature": Suspending the gravity setting

                        Gai...

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                        • mitcorbM Offline
                          mitcorb
                          last edited by

                          Sort of bootleg Camera Roll. I have used it to get a particular position for precise selection in a busy model. Of course, you could just do a bunch of layering and hiding to avoid this need altogether.

                          I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                          • olisheaO Offline
                            olishea
                            last edited by

                            @gaieus said:

                            That's a "designed feature": Suspending the gravity setting

                            I use it for portrait-orientated renders...very useful.

                            oli

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                            • Wo3DanW Offline
                              Wo3Dan
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                              @mikefjaguar said:

                              Ctrl (in Windows) while orbiting lets me turn my model every which way! Fairly useless as an architectural user but ......... Doh!

                              Rolling the camera (by holding down [Ctrl] when orbiting), to position your model in such a way on screen sometimes helps in order to have the selection window enclose what you want it to select. With gravity ON you might not be able to make that special selection.

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                              • pilouP Offline
                                pilou
                                last edited by

                                ...and when you Press the SpaceBar that stop it vigorously! 💚

                                http://www.freebiker.net/FichesPratiques/Freinage_problemes/problemes_freinage.jpg

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

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                                • porch_unpluggedP Offline
                                  porch_unplugged
                                  last edited by

                                  @gaieus said:

                                  That's a "designed feature": Suspending the gravity setting

                                  ugh, i think i just made myself travel sick trying that out.

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                                  • porch_unpluggedP Offline
                                    porch_unplugged
                                    last edited by

                                    if you are trying to draw something small and the clipping plane is getting in the way, change to parallel projection view.

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      I often find I get clipping issues more quickly with parallel view...

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

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                                      • brodieB Offline
                                        brodie
                                        last edited by

                                        I'm on board with the parallel projection. I find that when you initially change to PP you'll get some bad clipping, but if you select your geometry and then zoom extents the clipping goes away and you can zoom in as much as you want.

                                        -Brodie

                                        steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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                                        • V Offline
                                          valerostudio
                                          last edited by

                                          Left, Right, Up arrows lock the Red Green Blue Axis when using move! How did it take me 7 years to figure this one out!

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                                          • gillesG Offline
                                            gilles
                                            last edited by

                                            Seven years!

                                            You should read the manual, just in case. 😄

                                            http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94862&topic=2458142&ctx=topic

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

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