Face Down

Tom · 16 Nov 2007, 16:46

if I am in top view and I create a rectangle, cirle, polygon etc, they always faces the ground. why do they hate facing me? am I that ugly? Or do I have something set wrong?

ps. I start sketchup in 2d top view so it's Bryceless and has no sky or ground.

boofredlay · 16 Nov 2007, 16:53

Are you talking about the front face is facing down? I get that too. As soon as you push/pull however it "rights itself" if you will.

Tom · 16 Nov 2007, 16:58

yes, that's what it's doing. didn't know if there is a setting for that. if I pull it it does "right" itself, but if I enter a push/pull dimension I have to remember to make it a negative number. just one of those pain things

billet323 · 16 Nov 2007, 19:27

@tom said:

yes, that's what it's doing. didn't know if there is a setting for that. if I pull it it does "right" itself, but if I enter a push/pull dimension I have to remember to make it a negative number. just one of those pain things

Im not a 100% sure about this... But i think it has something to do with what axis your drawing along?

TIG · 16 Nov 2007, 19:31

If you create a faced shape like a circle or rectangle at 'zero' [on the ground] if faces down - it's the default - I expect this is because the programmers expect you will want to PushPull it up, so then it would correctly be the bottom of a 3D object facing downwards. If you make similar faced shapes 'higher' up they face upwards. If you have some faces the wrong way pick a connected face that's the right way and right-click context menu and 'Orient faces' they'll all match the selected one. Alternatively select all of the 'wrong-way-round' faces [hold down Shift or Ctrl to add to the selection you are picking] and then use the right-click context-menu option 'Reverse', and they'll all flip over. You can make of shortcut key for this, select a face and then Window > Preferences > Shortcuts, filter for Reverse and assign it a shortcut - I use Q as other 'R' based shortcuts are already used like Rotate, Alt+Rectangle etc... Another tip: to select faces 'on the fly' use the PushPull tool (or other tools that also do this) and when you hover over a face it's momentarily highlighted, if you then press Q it flips...

Tom · 16 Nov 2007, 22:04

thanks all, thought it was just me. and thanks for the tips TIG, they will save me a lot of time.