The "Duh!" thread (aka the Doh! thread)
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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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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...
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just out of interest: what function did you assign to
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Q??? -
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)
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It is my auto-assinate button in SU
I don't really have it assigned to anything. It was just an example of how complex a "shortcut" could be. I thought I was stuck to simple single modifiers. Double modifiers could greatly expand my shortcut range though!
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@chris fullmer said:
It is my auto-assinate button in SU
Now, what would an "auto-assinate" button do, exactly?
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I struggle...
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@unknownuser said:
just out of interest: what function did you assign to
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Q???A list of shortcuts
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Triangulate a simple rectangle surface with the Sand box?
Just draw a diagonal first!
Then apply the Sand box "Add détails"
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