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    • olisheaO Offline
      olishea
      last edited by

      I've only just realized you can click alt/ctrl when push/pulling.......duh! 😳

      oli

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      • A Offline
        Align
        last edited by

        @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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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          Select the edges and and activate offset...

          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          • EscapeArtistE Offline
            EscapeArtist
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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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            • E Offline
              Ecuadorian
              last edited by

              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!

              -Miguel Lescano
              Subscribe to my house plans YouTube channel! (30K+ subs)

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              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                Chris Fullmer
                last edited by

                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

                Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                All my Plugins I've written

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                • pilouP Offline
                  pilou
                  last edited by

                  Select an element (lines, surface)
                  Open Entity Info yes πŸ˜‰
                  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! πŸ˜„ πŸ˜’

                  Frenchy Pilou
                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                  My Little site :)

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
                    last edited by

                    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. πŸ˜•

                    Gai...

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                    • plot-parisP Offline
                      plot-paris
                      last edited by

                      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 😳

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                      • plot-parisP Offline
                        plot-paris
                        last edited by

                        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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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          @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 use CleanUp Entire Model you have a field "Smooth Edges by Angle".

                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                          • plot-parisP Offline
                            plot-paris
                            last edited by

                            @thomthom said:

                            In regards to CleanUp - it does have a function to smooth the geometry it cleans up. If you use CleanUp Entire Model you have a field "Smooth Edges by Angle".

                            yet another 'Doh'
                            I can put my Homer button to quite some use today πŸ˜„

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                            • GaieusG Offline
                              Gaieus
                              last edited by

                              @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. 😒

                              Gai...

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                              • plot-parisP Offline
                                plot-paris
                                last edited by

                                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...

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                                • broomstickB Offline
                                  broomstick
                                  last edited by

                                  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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                                  • E Offline
                                    Ecuadorian
                                    last edited by

                                    Today I discovered that I can drag-and-drop images straight from Firefox into the SketchUp viewport. 😲

                                    -Miguel Lescano
                                    Subscribe to my house plans YouTube channel! (30K+ subs)

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                                    • pilouP Offline
                                      pilou
                                      last edited by

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      I discovered that I can drag-and-drop images straight from Firefox into the SketchUp viewport.

                                      πŸ‘ Tricky and speedy 😎

                                      Frenchy Pilou
                                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                      My Little site :)

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                                      • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                        Chris Fullmer
                                        last edited by

                                        I just discovered that you can use more than one modifier key when setting up shortcut keys. example

                                        ctrl + shift + alt + Q

                                        or snything along those lines. I never reazlied that... 😳

                                        Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                        All my Plugins I've written

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                                        • plot-parisP Offline
                                          plot-paris
                                          last edited by

                                          just out of interest: what function did you assign to
                                          Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Q???

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                                          • GaieusG Offline
                                            Gaieus
                                            last edited by

                                            When I press that, it triggers an automatic poking of you on Facebook.
                                            🀣

                                            (I dare not try if there is anything assigned to it by default because I am rendering an animation) πŸ˜•

                                            Gai...

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