Moving points accurately
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One of the things that really frustrates me is the way Sketchup seems almost determined to move things toward or away from my viewpoint instead of left and right or up and down from my viewpoint. Maybe I missed the technique to get this right?
For example, I wanted to create a surface and then pull the corners to specific places on my object so that the surface would fill a gap in a frame. Sounds easy. I create a surface in about the right place, then take a corner and pull it toward where I want the corner to be. Sometimes the corner jumps from onscreen to behind me (the viewer) for no apparent reason. The corner just does not seem to want to be pulled to the right place. If I reorientate the model I see that my surface is still horizontal rather than two of the corners being pulled down a bit and two up a bit (making an incline). I see that the point had been moved away from my viewpoint and way beyond my model. So I try and move the point from that side perspective, and again, instead of sketchup moving the point just right and left and up and down from my vantage point, it moves the point off into the far distance. It is almost as if sketchup is trying its level best to mis-interpret what I want.
I understand about using the cursor keys to specify direction but sketchup seems to completely ignore them (on my MacBook Pro).
What am I doing wrong?
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yes to me also the move tool sometimes gets very difficult to make it work properly ,
what I do then is to draw a line between the two points I want to get the move done and then use the move tool . Have not found a better way . Maybe there is ? -
Okay, tried that, but it is still not working. The surface I want to move is still refusing to be anything other than horizontal.
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Did you tried Autofold:
Move tool+cmd(on Mac)
http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94865&topic=2458142&ctx=topic
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Sounds like you need to autofold as gilles said for this particular operation, but it may not solve your general problems with move. Why you wouldn't draw the plane in place rather than draw it then move all it's corners is unclear to me, but the point that the surface is "still horizontal" indicates it is resisting out of plane movement and so autofold is needed.
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I find moving things SU wants to keep the object in the same plane but if if you copy it instead it seems more flexible on where you move it to...then just delete the extra copy.
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