The "Duh!" thread (aka the Doh! thread)
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i'm not sure this qualifies as a 'duh' moment because it's actually an application duh.. when i finally figured out this workaround though, it was a big relief..
it has to do with dividing arc/circles into a certain amount of segments.. say you need 16 segments in an arc.. sketchup may let you change the amount so you think you're good to go.. later in the model, you might need another arc with the same amount of segments but this time, sketchup won't let you change it to the same amount..
the workaround is this: change the amount to 1 higher than you need (17 instead of 16 for instance) THen change that arc to 16..
i have no idea why SU won't just let me divide into the proper amounts in the first place and i previously had some headache workarounds to deal with this..
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cool to know that! ovoid some circular headaches
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@paulside said:
Come on, Own up, how many of us have tried to orbit a jpg !
jeez ive tried to orbit word documents
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@gaieus said:
How about creating only "dummy" or "proxy" components?
So what is the best method for Proxy-ing? To create a 2 layers of different components and toggle each one in a scene or is it to reload and displace the proxy via "RELOAD" when it comes time to render?
Just Curious since I am dealing with that issue as we speak.
David_H
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@unknownuser said:
...So what is the best method for Proxy-ing? To create a 2 layers of different components and toggle each one in a scene or is it to reload and displace the proxy via "RELOAD" when it comes time to render?
Well, I don't think there's a general and always "true" answer to that. It would definitely depend on the particular model, the purpose, the workflow, even additional software (like renderers that can use SU proxies and instancing) etc.
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That's what I was a-feared of.
You know . .. of all the answers to life's questions. . .
"well, that depends"
has to be the least satisfying of them all. Thanx for the response anyway.
so what is the most satisfying?
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Okay, I'll make a couple of short examples (but then I'll also split these posts off here and combine them with that). Is that okay?
The best would be of course, if others could also add some examples from their field of profession and workflow. -
ah, heres some of my best duh moments. learning how to use groups/componenets, understanding the outliner, learning to use xray when after using follow me to clean up a curved model, and my fav duh so far, (this one stumpped me for months!) drawing on top of shapes with the pencil tool when things are made into groups/components to make model building easier and more precise.
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Because you have internal faces which uses those edges?
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@unknownuser said:
Because you have internal faces which uses those edges?
This arrives when you make PushPull + CTRL
But you must clean after so...Duhduh above!
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Another one: after a Catmull Clark Subdivision
An headache for orient faces all in the same color
Solution one click!: Same than above!
Plugin Remove Inner faces then Right Click / Plugin "Orient Face" on a White face
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Not a recent but a famous!
The "after effect"
Quasi all function in SU can be modify just after used it!
Draw any line (circle... etc) in the good direction then type on the numeric keyboard measure wanted...
...and... miracle!
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I've been using SU since V1 and the biggest du'h was when Coen said ‘if you want to delete loads around a set of geometry that you want to keep the use the +/- option on the select tool and this deselects the geometry you want and selects the stuff you want to delete.’ Which was on the @last forums so V5
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Indeed different (and endless numbers of) selection tricks is a kind of "art" which can sped up one's modelling workflow big time.
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hehe .....This is a funny and informative thread at the same time...
I have one... discovered by mistake yesterday.
If one is in a complicated model and want to focus attention to a particular part of the model, one can double click on the scroll wheel at the point one is interested in and that will centre that point in the middle of the screen....making orbiting even easier. -
Doh...
I didn't know that.
But at least now I understand why my models "jump" from time to time - I obviously (accidentally) double click with my mouse.
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@unknownuser said:
one can double click on the scroll wheel
Tricky!
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@gaieus said:
But at least now I understand why my models "jump" from time to time - I obviously (accidentally) double click with my mouse.
now it makes sense at last... its me, not a buggy SketchUp
another one: I am currently working on a fairly complex model. lots of nested groups...
I was somewhere deep down on the hierarchy, modeling on some walls, when suddenly all newly created geometry turned transparent. when I painted another colour to the faces, they ceased being transparent.
I checked the default material in the styles editor... you can't even set a transparency value there.
I closed SketchUp and reopened it. still the same.
I copied the whole model into a new SketchUp file. yet again: all newly created geometry turned transparent...... and then it hit me... at some point while modelling and texturing, I must have accidentally painted over the parent-group with a glass material. most of the geometry within this group was supposed to be a stone wall, therefore a texture applied directly to the geometry. when I now created some new faces, these were coloured with the default material of course... but the transparent glass material on the group overwrote it...
how can someone be soooo slow, it took me almost 15 minutes to find out. I had to hit the Homer button twice!!!
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my duh moment:
when you rotate something, and you touch the rotation tool that appears on screen, the rotation will snap on the simbols of the rotation tool.
If you change the rotation snaps, the rotation tool changes consequently.
very, very duh
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