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      PeterF
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      I'm developing a router jig to carve guitar necks on and it bases it's shape on two profiles, one at the first fret and one at the 9th fret. I have drawn these out on sketchup and have lofted them to get the neck profile, but I need to extend it further out at each end without distorting the original shape. Is there a way of extending a line without changing it's axis? I have tried drawing an adjoining line and using the snap 'parallel to edge' function, but I can't get it to work properly.
      Any ideas? Am I missing something totally obvious to everyone else but me? πŸ˜’

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        cotty
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        Do you use the shift key to lock the inference?

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          PeterF
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          Thank you!! That was just what I needed to know. How do people know these tricks? Do you just discover them by accident or are they written down somewhere?

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            cotty
            last edited by

            Nearly all those infos are in the official help:
            http://help.sketchup.com/de/article/70142

            (but it is much faster and simpler to find the needed infos with a lot of practice πŸ˜‰ )

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              Bob James
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              I wonder what happens if I press this and this?? πŸ˜†

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