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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

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          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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              • D Offline
                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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                • C Offline
                  cotty
                  last edited by 6 Feb 2015, 17:04

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

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                    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 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 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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                                  jeff hammond
                                  last edited by 7 Feb 2015, 00:28

                                  @box said:

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

                                  πŸ˜† d'oh!

                                  you're right.

                                  dotdotdot

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                                  • emerald15E Offline
                                    emerald15
                                    last edited by 7 Feb 2015, 11:17

                                    Not so much 'Doh' but 'Eureka'! for me. I've been trying to draw a circle directly to the vertical plane for a least two years! 😳 I only knew it was possible from watching other video clips. At last I've found this thread! πŸ˜„

                                    http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=79%26amp;t=53592%26amp;p=486418%26amp;hilit=vertical+plane+circle#p486306

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                                    • pbacotP Offline
                                      pbacot
                                      last edited by 7 Feb 2015, 18:52

                                      @cotty said:

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

                                      This seems less like a "Duh!" than "WTF!" What could one (mortal) do with such a thing?

                                      MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                      • Bob JamesB Offline
                                        Bob James
                                        last edited by 8 Mar 2015, 15:52

                                        @jql said:

                                        Apologies accepted if you post it on the Duh thread!

                                        So here goes my duh:

                                        @bob james said:

                                        This seems so simple that it must already exist, but I could not find it.

                                        For example: I want to make a 4" square post at a specific spot. If I wanted a round post there I would just select the circle tool, place the cursor at the point and drag out (or put a value in the VCB).

                                        I'd like to be able to do that for a square: select tool, place the cursor at the point and drag out (or put a value in the VCB)

                                        I apologize if this already exists

                                        @jql said:

                                        LOL bob you can make your life difficult if you draw a 4 sided circle and explode it.

                                        Or you can make your life painless if you draw a 4 sided polygon without exploding it.

                                        Those two are native tools. Do you forget sketchup also has native tools?

                                        @bob james said:

                                        Duh 😳
                                        (But still think it would be a useful one-click native tool) πŸ˜†

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                                          JQL
                                          last edited by 8 Mar 2015, 16:06

                                          πŸ‘Ώ All that ::DUH:: belong to us! πŸ‘Ώ

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