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  • F Offline
    falk
    last edited by 4 Jul 2014, 15:40

    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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    • M Offline
      massimo Moderator
      last edited by 4 Jul 2014, 15:42

      @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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      • X Offline
        xiombarg
        last edited by 5 Jul 2014, 02:34

        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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          falk
          last edited by 5 Jul 2014, 06:55

          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 Brien Moderator
            last edited by 5 Jul 2014, 09:10

            You should try Shortcutter plugin.

            It is bundled with SketchUcation Tools

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

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            • T Offline
              TK0001
              last edited by 28 Jul 2014, 15:51

              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 5 Nov 2014, 09:21

                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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                • O Offline
                  oceanembers
                  last edited by 7 Nov 2014, 16:21

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

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                  • P Offline
                    pilou
                    last edited by 4 Dec 2014, 20:44

                    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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                      Box
                      last edited by 4 Dec 2014, 22:10

                      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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                        pilou
                        last edited by 5 Dec 2014, 00:08

                        @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_h
                          last edited by 5 Feb 2015, 21:53

                          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 6 Feb 2015, 17:04

                            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 6 Feb 2015, 21:16

                              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 6 Feb 2015, 23:38

                                @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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                                  pilou
                                  last edited by 6 Feb 2015, 23:48

                                  @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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                                    Box
                                    last edited by 7 Feb 2015, 00:08

                                    @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 Offline
                                      jeff hammond
                                      last edited by 7 Feb 2015, 00:16

                                      @box said:

                                      It's Ctrl on windows.

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

                                      dotdotdot

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                                        Box
                                        last edited by 7 Feb 2015, 00:18

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

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                                          pilou
                                          last edited by 7 Feb 2015, 00:23

                                          I am reassured! πŸ˜„

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

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