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    • jeff hammondJ Offline
      jeff hammond
      last edited by

      @andybot said:

      I found that by holding down the "primary mouse button" while using the rotate (protractor) tool, it will inference to the perpendicular of a line.

      [fwiw- it will also let you orient the protractor to a major axis without orbiting the view etc.. fwiw2.. sort of an ongoing request by people to give this functionality to the circle tool]

      dotdotdot

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        jgb
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        @andybot said:

        I found that by holding down the "primary mouse button" while using the rotate (protractor) tool, it will inference to the perpendicular of a line. Simply Brilliant!! I've always wondered how to rotate about an axis without constructing a bunch of lines and faces ๐Ÿ˜•

        Well shiver me boots. I often need to construct a face/shape/line perpendicular to a non-axis aligned line, and went through all sorts of temp construction to do it. even resorted to "Pipe-along-path" for some.

        So now, for those who may not see the power in this "duh" moment, is how in just a few mouse clicks, make a face perpendicular to any line orientation. ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

        Put the PROTRACTOR tool somewhere on, or even at the endpoint of the line and hold down the primary mouse button. When the protractor aligns with the perp to that line, release the button, select any angle, click and select any angle away, say 90 deg and click again. Now you have 1 guide line perpendicular to the line at some random angle.

        Do this again, but put the protractor ON the intersection of the guide and your line, and set another guide line at some angle away from the first guide line, say 90 deg away.

        You now have 2 guide lines perp to your line. ๐Ÿ˜„

        Pencil tool 4 lines from any point on each guide, and a face will form that is perpendicular to the line. ๐Ÿค“

        Use that face as your construction canvas. Bonus, the face is NOT intersected to the line so the whole line is still intact, until you intersect them. ๐Ÿค“


        jgb

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        • R Offline
          rv1974
          last edited by

          One can assign shortcuts to the 'Numpad' keys! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
          A huge gain, especially for lefties.
          Doh!

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          • A Offline
            ArCAD-UK
            last edited by

            Just discovered in Layout 3 that if you select a block of text and right click (PC) there is a "Size to Fit" option which retains the text block width but extends the box height to show all the text. The amount of time I've spent manually adjusting my text boxes when the contents have been edited... ๐Ÿ˜ณ

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            • R Offline
              rv1974
              last edited by

              The 'Lock\unlock aspect ratio' at material edit drove me crazy for years.
              Clicking it wont change visually its state (stupid bug!). To see it changed one should move
              the cursor off the button.

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              • I Offline
                iecovert
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                %(#400080)[ALL toolbars can be mounted on the top OR the side! Not just the SU tools.

                I've got an increasing number of toolbars mounted up top since that's the way they first show up when a plugin is installed. The decreasing workspace was becoming an issue. The original SU toolbars mount vertically, so I set out to figure out how I could make the new Ruby and plugin toolbars mount vertically too. That seems to make more sense with a widescreen monitor. Spent several hours searching through the forums, help topics, and eventually digging into various Ruby scripts trying to figure it out over the past two weeks. Then last night I was moving a floating toolbar window and grabbed it a little to close to the edge and... it "stretched" out vertically. ๐Ÿคฃ Finally...]

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                  Aerilius
                  last edited by

                  (This belongs probably also into the developers forums:)

                  window.onerror = function(errorMsg, url, lineNumber){ return true }
                  

                  This catches WebDialog script error popups (should they still sometimes occur after thorough testing)!
                  Why didn't I find that before?
                  Note: It needs to be assigned directly to %(#000000)[window] and not attached like %(#000000)[$(window).bind("error", function(){})].

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
                    last edited by

                    Interesting. I do not have that "duh moment" reading this. ๐Ÿ˜†

                    Gai...

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                    • jeff hammondJ Offline
                      jeff hammond
                      last edited by

                      @gaieus said:

                      Interesting. I do not have that "duh moment" reading this. ๐Ÿ˜†

                      same hereโ€ฆ more like an "uhhhhh ๐Ÿ˜• moment"
                      ๐Ÿ˜†

                      dotdotdot

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                      • kenK Offline
                        ken
                        last edited by

                        I guess I could call this "The Well I'll be Darn Thread". I have used Sketchup since V 4. And I know that the text tool will give me info on geometry. Like length, area, but today, surprise, I used the text tool on the apex of an angle and I got the following, the degrees of the angle in the text box. Never saw that before, and I would have an illustration to show you if I could get the text tool to do it again.

                        Ken

                        Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                        • GaieusG Offline
                          Gaieus
                          last edited by

                          I was reading a topic and realized that I did not understand a word.
                          Then looked up and also realized I was in the Developers Forum. ๐Ÿ˜’

                          Gai...

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            @gaieus said:

                            I was reading a topic and realized that I did not understand a word.
                            Then looked up and also realized I was in the Developers Forum. ๐Ÿ˜’

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

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                            • TIGT Offline
                              TIG Moderator
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                              Didn't you mean

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                              ๐Ÿ˜• ๐Ÿ˜‰

                              TIG

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                                Rich O Brien Moderator
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                                Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp ๐Ÿ“–

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                                • TIGT Offline
                                  TIG Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  It wasn't... but

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                                    mrossk
                                    last edited by

                                    I think I got geek all over me ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                    https://www.mkaplanfinefurniture.com/

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                                    • pilouP Offline
                                      pilou
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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        Found a cool one today.

                                        Copy a line over and type 6" to set the distance. Then type *10 to array it 10 times.

                                        What I already knew was that you can type *8 or *4 or whatever to adjust the number of arrayed items.

                                        However I just found out that if you type 3" or 10" it will keep your array but adjust the spacing. Pretty sweet!

                                        -Brodie

                                        Duh!

                                        That is sweet!

                                        The manual doesn't even mention this!
                                        http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94863

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

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                                        • H Offline
                                          Heaps
                                          last edited by

                                          It even works with circular arrays - just type in the angle in degrees

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                                          • brodieB Offline
                                            brodie
                                            last edited by

                                            Found a cool one today.

                                            Copy a line over and type 6" to set the distance. Then type *10 to array it 10 times.

                                            What I already knew was that you can type *8 or *4 or whatever to adjust the number of arrayed items.

                                            However I just found out that if you then type 3" or 10" it will keep your array but adjust the spacing. Pretty sweet!

                                            -Brodie

                                            steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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