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    The "Duh!" thread (aka the Doh! thread)

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    • ToboboT Offline
      Tobobo
      last edited by

      One this week was more of a remembering than a Duh moment.

      Using the Entity Ifon box you can increase the length of a line and No. of sides of a circle.

      Toby

      Philippians 4:13

      I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

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      • GaieusG Offline
        Gaieus
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        @tobobo said:

        ...No. of sides of a circle.

        And a polygon and an arc...

        Gai...

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        • pilouP Offline
          pilou
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          @unknownuser said:

          Using the Entity Ifon box you can increase the length of a line

          In what side? Good or false? πŸ˜„

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

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          • spenceS Offline
            spence
            last edited by

            One of my many many "Duh" moments came when I found out that while using the Paint Bucket Tool you could hold down Shift to paint all that match or hold Ctrl to paint all connected. I use this often.

            Boy I have learned a lot of new stuff from this thread πŸ˜„

            Spence

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            • ToboboT Offline
              Tobobo
              last edited by

              @unknownuser said:

              @unknownuser said:

              Using the Entity Ifon box you can increase the length of a line

              In what side? Good or false? πŸ˜„

              The changes its length in the same direction it has been drawn. it has to be unattached at one end, and that is the end the lengthens or shortens.

              Toby

              Philippians 4:13

              I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

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              • J Offline
                Jim
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                Has any one here also thought of compiling/organizing this thread into a more readable format? Wiki? Print?

                Hi

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                • pyrolunaP Offline
                  pyroluna
                  last edited by

                  well... there's a sketchup-wiki in Dutch... so... yay! for Dutch people

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                  • J Offline
                    Jim
                    last edited by

                    Today I learned you can use the arrow keys to precisely move the selection in Paint.NET. (Holding Ctrl moves it by 10 pixels.)

                    Hi

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                    • GaieusG Offline
                      Gaieus
                      last edited by

                      I just realised it the other day myself, too. πŸ˜„

                      Gai...

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                      • david_hD Offline
                        david_h
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                        I've been taken to task just now on this one. . . I asked for a plugin to toggle the Construction lines on and off. . .turns out it's in the view menu. . .

                        WHICH I NEVER USE BY THE WAY!!!!

                        Hide Construction lines

                        This is so humiliating. . .. 😳 πŸ’š

                        I'm okay now. . .


                        Why I am an idiot.PNG

                        If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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                        • J Offline
                          Jim
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                          I just learned that Edit > Delete Guides is context-sensitive - it deletes guides all guides starting from the current editing context and deeper, but not from "higher" level contexts. I had always thought it always deleted all guides, everywhere.

                          Hi

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
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                            @jim said:

                            I just learned that Edit > Delete Guides is context-sensitive - it deletes guides all guides starting from the current editing context and deeper, but not from "higher" level contexts. I had always thought it always deleted all guides, everywhere.

                            I had that same realization a couple of weeks ago. πŸ˜„

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

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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
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                              @rv1974 said:

                              If Thom is already here..
                              Only last week I discovered know that double clicking on blue balloons (edge tools-inspect gaps) actually close the gaps.
                              Great tool!

                              Ah, yea it's not that obvious - I had further plans for the UI. (also for CleanUp), but they've been down-prioritized.
                              btw, no need to doubleclick - single click is enough.

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

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                              • R Offline
                                rv1974
                                last edited by

                                If Thom is already here..
                                Only last week I discovered that double clicking on blue balloons (edge tools-inspect gaps) actually close the gaps.
                                Great tool!

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                                • GaieusG Offline
                                  Gaieus
                                  last edited by

                                  @jim said:

                                  I just learned that Edit > Delete Guides is context-sensitive - it deletes guides all guides starting from the current editing context and deeper, but not from "higher" level contexts. I had always thought it always deleted all guides, everywhere.

                                  Doh. 😲

                                  @rv1974 said:

                                  Only last week I discovered that double clicking on blue balloons (edge tools-inspect gaps) actually close the gaps.

                                  What???!!! πŸŽ‰

                                  Gai...

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                                  • pilouP Offline
                                    pilou
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                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    Being able to select only a few edges from a face and offset them instead of the whole face.

                                    Yes but edges must be selected without discontinuity! 😳 😳 😳

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

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                                    • boofredlayB Offline
                                      boofredlay
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                                      Something I just learned a couple days ago while studying the Google Earth Modeling videos.
                                      D'oh, never knew that you could make a unique texture from a portion of another!

                                      [flash=853,505:84crs2i3]http://www.youtube.com/v/18r2sCMUSBU&fs=1[/flash:84crs2i3]

                                      http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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                                      • DanielD Offline
                                        Daniel
                                        last edited by

                                        I've always known about hiding geometry by holding the shift key with the eraser, but last week I just noticed the "hidden" check box on the entity info window. 😳

                                        My avatar is an anachronism.

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                                        • Bob JamesB Offline
                                          Bob James
                                          last edited by

                                          Never paid any attention to this thread until today 😳

                                          @tig said:

                                          .....select all faces with the same material as the one highlighted... then RickW pointed out that it is already a standard built-in tool under Select... 😳

                                          OMG 😲 I soooo needed this yesterday πŸ‘Š
                                          This thread is one of the greatest tutorials ever made!
                                          Now to Page 1 and read (and write down) all of the golden nuggets in this thread.

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                                          • J Offline
                                            Jim
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                                            @bob james said:

                                            This thread is one of the greatest tutorials ever made!

                                            Yeah, this thread would make a great mini-pub for SCF. I'd probably even buy a tree-ware version as I can't retain online info as well as I can with a good sit with a book.

                                            Hi

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