The "Duh!" thread (aka the Doh! thread)
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@ecuadorian said:
@gruff said:
I do not see that dialog anywhere in my 7.1 std SketchUp.
Is that a Pro feature?You set up that in Windows, not in SketchUp, in "Accesibility" options in the Control Panel of XP. But I'm not sure about its usefulness in SU.
you can lock the shift key for inferencing, which is what Gruff wished for
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@gruff said:
When viewing a model in XRay mode.
If you hold down shift whilst using the 2D drawing tools the new 2D geometry is forced onto the nearest face (closest to your eye.). Even snap points to (Behind) geometry is projected to the nearest face.
good one!
i didn't know that -
New Duh. (Sort of)
Select a face then right mouse and select Align Axis. (Let's call it AA2F) We've all seen it but did you know that what it creates depends on how your face happens to be oriented to the screen?
In a nut shell AA2F aligns the Axis to the lower left most edge.
Draw a hexagonal face. Choose the top view and use AA2F. Rotate the view of the hexagon
reselect AA2F. Your Axis will shift position around the hexagon vertices.This can actually be used to your advantage when dealing with a face that has different features dependent on different edges. As a case in point see the attached Guitar head where I needed to align and create features parallel to either outside edge as well as the center line of the whole thing.
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I've only just realized you can click alt/ctrl when push/pulling.......duh!
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@thomthom said:
A more recent Duh I had:
Being able to select only a few edges from a face and offset them instead of the whole face.
how do you do this?
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Select the edges and and activate offset...
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@plot-paris said:
wow, cool. didn't know about that eihter. but what I would even more like to see is a push/pull like this:
[attachment=0:37plearv]<!-- ia0 -->strange_pushpull.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:37plearv]It exists! Here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=23341
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I was working in a "mysterious" file that did not allow me to pushpull anything, and I was about to post the mysterious file here. After checking, "Snap to length" was set to a very high value. Duh!
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I just found one for me tonight. I change the model axis pretty often when I work. But I never noticed that you can activate the axis tool (or change axis inside of a component tool) and click twice somewhere and it will move the axis to that point without changing its orientation. Normally I would have clicked once, then lined up the the axes and click and line up and click. So a double click (not too fast though!) is much faster for moving the axis.
Chris
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Select an element (lines, surface)
Open Entity Info yes
Then when you select with Shift , Shift + Ctrl or Ctrl
all surfaces or length lines are added , subbstracted, modified, visible and updated in the Entity info!
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OK, this is a very painful duh:
My system seemed to crash and I could not even start windows in safe mode (Mac users, don't sneer, please) so I decided to at least try to repair my system. It didn't allow me as whatever imaginable I entered, it didn't accept it as the password of the system admin.
So I reinstalled (I have a recent backup of my documents at least). Then I realised that I didn1t even have a password and should have just hit Enter without entering any password.
So basically this is what I wasted my Sunday for. I have a deadline tomorrow.
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oh, that is a really bad one, Gaieus! I am not sure if I should burst with laughter
, feel terribly sorry for you 
or just blush with embarassment, because that could just as well have happened to me -
another one. after importing a messy 3Ds model and cleaning it up with Thomthoms cleanup-script (thanks again, thom), I started entering every single one of the over 1500 groups/components, to smooth their surfaces.
then I just discovered, that you can apply the smoothing to groups/components, without entering them. so you can select all the groups at once and only have to do the proces once! (doesn't work with nested groups though)
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@plot-paris said:
then I just discovered, that you can apply the smoothing to groups/components, without entering them. so you can select all the groups at once and only have to do the proces once! (doesn't work with nested groups though)
I recently discovered that as well!
In regards to CleanUp - it does have a function to smooth the geometry it cleans up. If you useCleanUp Entire Modelyou have a field "Smooth Edges by Angle". -
@thomthom said:
In regards to CleanUp - it does have a function to smooth the geometry it cleans up. If you use
CleanUp Entire Modelyou have a field "Smooth Edges by Angle".yet another 'Doh'
I can put my Homer button to quite some use today -
@plot-paris said:
oh, that is a really bad one, Gaieus! I am not sure if I should burst with laughter
, feel terribly sorry for you or just blush with embarassment, because that could just as well have happened to me Well, eventually it turned out that the total HD was broken so no matter what I would've done, the repair/install wouldn't have been successful. Had to buy a new HD and reinstall everything again.
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uh, thats bad!
actually, I still try to deny that hard discs just die after several years of intenseive use. its not pleasant, when the truth catches up with you... -
I just discovered that the erase function hides and smoothes edges if you use it in combination with atl ctrl an shift...
DUH!!
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Today I discovered that I can drag-and-drop images straight from Firefox into the SketchUp viewport.
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@unknownuser said:
I discovered that I can drag-and-drop images straight from Firefox into the SketchUp viewport.
Tricky and speedy 
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