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    • DanielD Offline
      Daniel
      last edited by

      I had an embarrassing DOH! moment the other day...I just discovered the "make component" icon on the toolbar! When was that added? All those years going through the pull-down edit menu.

      My avatar is an anachronism.

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      • pilouP Offline
        pilou
        last edited by

        In what number of version ?
        And what is the image of this icon ?

        @unknownuser said:

        All those years going through the pull-down edit menu.

        Seems you have also the Shortcut G on a selection ! 💚

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        • DanielD Offline
          Daniel
          last edited by

          @unknownuser said:

          In what number of version ?
          And what is the image of this icon ?

          @unknownuser said:

          All those years going through the pull-down edit menu.

          Seems you have also the Shortcut G on a selection ! 💚

          I've checked and the icon is on 2013, 8, 7, and 6. It might have been on earlier version, but can't confirm.

          SU toolbars.jpg

          My avatar is an anachronism.

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            @daniel said:

            I've checked and the icon is on 2013, 8, 7, and 6. It might have been on earlier version, but can't confirm.

            MakeComponent.png

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            • F Offline
              flyashy
              last edited by

              Everyone knows that we can enter value in both Metric and British units regardless of the model units right.
              But I recently discovered that we can also combine the two unit systems !!!
              That means to move an object I can enter 6'3.5mm in the vcb and sketchup accurately places the object!!!
              How cool is that!! 😮
              P.S. Doesn't seem to work the other way around tho.. 6M3" seems to give an error of invalid length entered. go figure 😄

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              • Wo3DanW Offline
                Wo3Dan
                last edited by

                @flyashy said:

                ...That means to move an object I can enter 6'3.5mm in the vcb and sketchup accurately places the object!!!.....

                This seems to be an (one of the) exception(s). To move 6"3.5mm does not work. I can't figure out why one dimension would be in two different units anyway. More that X is in one unit, Y in another (and Z in yet another). And you are right, this is also possible in SketchUp.

                Example: you can scale a cube in 3 directions to accurate dimensions by applying 1m,10',12" [Enter]

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                • kenK Offline
                  ken
                  last edited by

                  So I was reading another post, and it was discussing how they use "hide rest of model" when they clicks to edit a component. I have tried that method, but found that most of the time I wanted to see the rest of the model. But did find the "hide rest of the model" helpful sometimes.

                  So I wondered could I put that attribute in a scene. Darn you can. So now I have a scene I use most of the time which doesn't hide the rest of the model, and a scene called "hide rest of the model" which I switch to when I wish to have this function.

                  So I am just passing this along.

                  Every day I discover something new.

                  Ken

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                  • Wo3DanW Offline
                    Wo3Dan
                    last edited by

                    @unknownuser said:

                    ....So now I have a scene I use most of the time which doesn't hide the rest of the model, and a scene called "hide rest of the model" which I switch to when I wish to have this function....

                    Hi Ken, thanks for sharing.

                    You may want to assign these two different options (On/Off) to just one shortcut key. To toggle the view 'Hide rest of model' On/Off. It's fast and available in all models.

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                    • halroachH Offline
                      halroach
                      last edited by

                      Did you know that when you click on the plugins menu and then tap on a letter on your keyboard it cycles through your plugins starting with that letter?
                      It's a native Windows feature for keyboard navigation... like when you press Alt in any program.
                      I just never thought of using it in Sketchup... Something to think about...

                      There is only one drawback, if you only have one plugin that starts with a certain letter it will be activated before you can say Robinson Crusoe!

                      Good Luck!

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                      • cottyC Offline
                        cotty
                        last edited by

                        Not really a new one for me but I use it regularly, so it might be a little Duh! for someone?

                        If you select several instances of the same component and use "make unique", these instances become all instances of the new component. An example to clarify what I try to explain ...


                        example_makeunique.jpg

                        my SketchUp gallery

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                        • pilouP Offline
                          pilou
                          last edited by

                          Very practical! ☀

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

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                          • J Offline
                            jpalm32
                            last edited by

                            Now you tell me.
                            This could saved me a hour at least.
                            Here is a problem. I have 40 lights all the same but separate groups (Not component).
                            Anyway to turn them all into one component instance.

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                            • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                              jiminy-billy-bob
                              last edited by

                              @jpalm32 said:

                              Now you tell me.
                              This could saved me a hour at least.
                              Here is a problem. I have 40 lights all the same but separate groups (Not component).
                              Anyway to turn them all into one component instance.

                              If they were not modified after being copied, yes !
                              http://sketchucation.com/resources/pluginstore?pln=tt_selection_toys

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                              • cottyC Offline
                                cotty
                                last edited by

                                @jiminy-billy-bob said:

                                If they were not modified after being copied, yes !
                                http://sketchucation.com/resources/pluginstore?pln=tt_selection_toys

                                Yes, here you can find that function in SU...


                                convert2comp.jpg

                                my SketchUp gallery

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                                • J Offline
                                  jpalm32
                                  last edited by

                                  Thanks, will check it out
                                  Cotty, that makes a component out of the whole group.
                                  I want them all to be a instance of one component.

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                                  • BoxB Offline
                                    Box
                                    last edited by

                                    It will take multiple individual groups that are copies and make them instances of one component.

                                    So if you have arrayed a group 100 times, it will select all those 100 and make them into 100 instances of one component, which then makes it possible to use the replace selected function of components.

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                                    • cottyC Offline
                                      cotty
                                      last edited by

                                      A little one...
                                      If a circle or an arc is divided by lines, it is possible to change the segments within the entity info window for all parts separately...


                                      segments.jpg

                                      my SketchUp gallery

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                                      • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                        Rich O Brien Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        Ouch. Face Palm here too!

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                                        • plot-parisP Offline
                                          plot-paris
                                          last edited by

                                          @cotty said:

                                          If you select several instances of the same component and use "make unique", these instances become all instances of the new component.

                                          I just discovered this and headed over here to post it 😄
                                          After years and years of SketchUp use! 👊

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                                          • U Offline
                                            unearthed
                                            last edited by

                                            Doh using selection tools

                                            I often need to select faces inside of some line, usually a very complex line (the built area of a terrain, a river plain in a valley etc.). So I was just running thru the process to make a post to this group...

                                            Make surface, make lines soft, smooth and turn off then group [I hadn't done this bit before]
                                            Drape boundary on surface.
                                            Enter group, click on inner area and presto it's selected:

                                            SelectFacesInsideLine_works with edges off anyway_just click surface inside line.JPG

                                            I went round and round in a lot of circles to get that!

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