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

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    • falkF
      falk
      last edited by

      @pmiller said:

      Probably the best SU duh!:

      404 Not Found

      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
        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
          massimo Moderator
          last edited by

          @falk said:

          @pmiller said:

          Probably the best SU duh!:

          404 Not Found

          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
            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
              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
                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
                  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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                  • R
                    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
                      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
                        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
                          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
                            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
                              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
                                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
                                  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
                                    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
                                      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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                                      • BoxB
                                        Box
                                        last edited by

                                        @jeff hammond said:

                                        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˜‰ )

                                        It's Ctrl on windows.


                                        Ctrl.JPG

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                                        • jeff hammondJ
                                          jeff hammond
                                          last edited by

                                          @box said:

                                          It's Ctrl on windows.

                                          oops.. thought it was ctrl for cmmd & alt for option
                                          thanks

                                          dotdotdot

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                                          • BoxB
                                            Box
                                            last edited by

                                            Don't you mean D'oh instead of oops!!?

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