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    The "Duh!" thread (aka the Doh! thread)

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    • fredo6F Offline
      fredo6
      last edited by

      @cotty said:

      I didn't know that you can get non-perpendicular axes 😲

      Easy way to get it is to apply FredoScale::PlanarShearto a component.

      Shear transformation is conform actually, but the inconvenience is that it deforms the axes. Issues can happen in some scripts because Vector transformation is not natural when axes are not orthogonal.

      Fredo

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      • R Offline
        rv1974
        last edited by

        If you export a lot of pictures out of skp get the 'Smustard Scene Exporter'- it will save years of sitting in front of monitor.

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        • R Offline
          rv1974
          last edited by

          you can easily reassign keyboard keys (on Windows level) with:
          http://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/.

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          • falkF Offline
            falk
            last edited by

            @pmiller said:

            Probably the best SU duh!:

            301 Moved Permanently

            favicon

            (www.sketchucation.com)

            (Link to the "Homer" button, which plays the "d'oh!" sound and does an undo. Sadly, it's no longer there. I don't suppose anybody kept a copy?)

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            • falkF Offline
              falk
              last edited by

              My biggest D'oh! was learning to write plugins. I had no idea it would be that easy; why didn't I do it years ago?

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              • massimoM Offline
                massimo Moderator
                last edited by

                @falk said:

                @pmiller said:

                Probably the best SU duh!:

                301 Moved Permanently

                favicon

                (www.sketchucation.com)

                (Link to the "Homer" button, which plays the "d'oh!" sound and does an undo. Sadly, it's no longer there. I don't suppose anybody kept a copy?)

                You can find it at Jim's blog. Scroll down the page.

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                • xiombargX Offline
                  xiombarg
                  last edited by

                  Discovering the Outliner. All combined I probably wasted a week of my life clicking my way through nested components to get to an object when all I had to do was click on a component's name in the Outliner.

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                  • falkF Offline
                    falk
                    last edited by

                    Thanks. And now that I've made it to the end of this thread (Best. Thread. Ever.), here's a tiny little plugin that I use all the time. It adds a "Show shortcuts" item to the Help menu. I find it very useful when I can't remember what I've assigned keys to. Especially when you're trying to assign a shortcut, and preferences tells you that key is already in use, and you can't remember what for.

                    show_shortcuts.rb

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

                      You should try Shortcutter plugin.

                      It is bundled with SketchUcation Tools

                      Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                      • TK0001T Offline
                        TK0001
                        last edited by

                        About this time last year, I discovered clicking on the arrow buttons locks you into that axis when moving or copying objects. Now I use the arrows religiously.

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                          rv1974
                          last edited by

                          To migrate 2013 Shortcuts to 2015 one should open Preferences.dat in Notepad and use 'find and replace' feature to replace all 'Plugins' words with 'Extensions'.
                          Important: there must be only one backspace between the shortcut descriotion and the 'Extensions' word.

                          2015 Plugins folder location:
                          C:\Users\Your_Username\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\SketchUp\Plugins

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                          • oceanembersO Offline
                            oceanembers
                            last edited by

                            shift to lock inferences/directions/etc. was one that I found way too late x_x

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                            • pilouP Offline
                              pilou
                              last edited by

                              Never seen that! 😳
                              Draw a circle, Select the circumference : right Click / Divide ! 😲
                              Works only one time! πŸ€“

                              http://sketchucation.com/forums/download/file.php?id=126133

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

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                              • BoxB Offline
                                Box
                                last edited by

                                It only works one time Pilou because once you divide it it becomes separate segments. Those individual segments can then be divided, and the divisions can be divided etc
                                It works with polygons and arcs also. There is even at least one plugin that I know of that will put the segments back together so you can divide the circle again. So you can go round and round again.

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                                • pilouP Offline
                                  pilou
                                  last edited by

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  So you can go round and round again.

                                  ...and speedy fill your computer memories! πŸ˜„

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

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                                  • david_hD Offline
                                    david_h
                                    last edited by

                                    Quick question. . .It seems to me that in SU's long past. . .version 4 or so there was a push pull trick where you could just click on a shape to be PP'd and then either hold a shift key to lock the axis or and endpoint of something and it would just auto push to that point. Kinda like Follow me, but it was innate to the PushPull tool. Does anyone remember this?

                                    Thx,

                                    D

                                    If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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                                    • cottyC Offline
                                      cotty
                                      last edited by

                                      There are different options in Fredo6s JointPushPull (like vetor push pull), something like that?

                                      my SketchUp gallery

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                                      • david_hD Offline
                                        david_h
                                        last edited by

                                        Yeah. . I've got those and they're great. It just seemed to me there was a native SU trick to do that, but I guess I am mistaken. Hence the D'oh!

                                        If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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                                        • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                          jeff hammond
                                          last edited by

                                          @david_h said:

                                          Quick question. . .It seems to me that in SU's long past. . .version 4 or so there was a push pull trick where you could just click on a shape to be PP'd and then either hold a shift key to lock the axis or and endpoint of something and it would just auto push to that point. Kinda like Follow me, but it was innate to the PushPull tool. Does anyone remember this?

                                          Thx,

                                          D

                                          the only push/pull modifier key is:

                                          Option(alt) = create new starting face.

                                          (as seen in the lower left hand corner of the drawing window πŸ˜‰ )

                                          dotdotdot

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                                          • pilouP Offline
                                            pilou
                                            last edited by

                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            as seen in the lower left hand corner of the drawing window

                                            Can you put an image of that ?

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

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