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

Gaieus

Kind of when I learned that the word "people" is plural and not singular... just before graduating from College .

That's good (me as a foreign speaker of English fully understanding thet).

But all in all,I know what you mean. There's still a lot - if not other than little tricks of workflow at least - of this program!

(And I love this topic - maybe it should be made sticky in the Newbie forum!)

thomthom

I just had a vision of the planet where you hear "Duh!" shouted across the globe, with little speech bubbles to accompany, as people read this thread...

Gaieus

And they also keep banging their heads to the walls...

david_h

did you know that if you expand the component window with the little + sign and drag your custom component to the window below it saves it in the component directory for future use????? D'UH!

xrok1

@unknownuser said:

Ive had so many Duh Moments I don't know where to start . . .or rather D'oh!
I have still so many yet to experience I am sure. Maybe you can help me add to myD'uh Collection

I have never gotten into the OUtliner but the one thing I wish I knew how to do with it. . .if it can be done is in working with Nexted blocks and components in "Hide rest of Model" mode that you could have the group in which a component is nested visible but still have the rest of the model invisible? comprenez-vous? Or maybe there is a Ruby for this??? ***please oh please oh please!***Also. . .. we need a little smilie that says "D'UH! and D'OH!"

it would probably be better for your outer group to be a component instead of a group, with the other groups inside. that way it would work the way you want with all the internal groups visible when editing them through this outer component.

Gaieus

@daniel said:

...My second moment was embarrassing. I gave a short seminar to the local community design center on using sketchup, and I was explaining how SU will not cast shadows below the point of origin (default ground plane), and open a model to illustrate it, only to discover that SU had apparently fixed that (with veersion 7?).

Thanks Daniel, you saved me from another embarrassing "Duh"!

Daniel

I can remember two "duh" moments for myself. I had always known to make multiple copies in a row, to just type in the number of copies wanted followed by an "x". But it wasn't until reading the SU for Dummies book last year that you could make multiple copies evenly spaced in a given length by typing in the number followed by a slash. I felt stupid for not figuring that out.

My second moment was embarrassing. I gave a short seminar to the local community design center on using sketchup, and I was explaining how SU will not cast shadows below the point of origin (default ground plane), and open a model to illustrate it, only to discover that SU had apparently fixed that (with version 7?).

broomstick

@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.

I had this one today!!

Daniel

Your welcome, Gaieus. I don't remember anybody mentioning it. Perhaps we've all become accustomed to modeling above the origin. Maybe I was distracted by Remus' bike porn thread (for the record, it is NOT what the title implies, and I was VERY disappointed).

pmiller

Probably the best SU duh!:

404 Not Found

(www.sketchucation.com)

sintra

@unknownuser said:

i still don't know how to type in more than one dimension when using the tape measure tool

So can anybody put me out of my missery please

xrok1

how many dimensions do you expect from a tape measure? lets see there's length... ... and ... ...

paulside

Come on, Own up, how many of us have tried to orbit a jpg !

xrok1

specially if its a jpg of a 3D model

sintra

hmmm sorry thought you could type in several figures to set out many dimensions

xrok1

the duh moment that turned out to just be a der! moment.

but seriously you can copy your construction lines with (ctrl) copy, and then say *10 or whatever so you get 10 equally spaced. if that helps?

david_h

@paulside said:

Come on, Own up, how many of us have tried to orbit a jpg !

Not being able to orbit in JPGS only illustrates their limitions. If we were an advanced society at all we would be able to this.

thomthom

@paulside said:

Come on, Own up, how many of us have tried to orbit a jpg !

Ever tried to undo a wrong stroke with the pen..?

david_h

@xrok1 said:

@unknownuser said:

Ive had so many Duh Moments I don't know where to start . . .or rather D'oh!
I have still so many yet to experience I am sure. Maybe you can help me add to myD'uh Collection

I have never gotten into the OUtliner but the one thing I wish I knew how to do with it. . .if it can be done is in working with Nexted blocks and components in "Hide rest of Model" mode that you could have the group in which a component is nested visible but still have the rest of the model invisible? comprenez-vous? Or maybe there is a Ruby for this??? ***please oh please oh please!***Also. . .. we need a little smilie that says "D'UH! and D'OH!"

it would probably be better for your outer group to be a component instead of a group, with the other groups inside. that way it would work the way you want with all the internal groups visible when editing them through this outer component.

Thanks for the feedback, but I dont think that helps me, and I realize I probablyI didn't explain myself very well. I would want to able to keep the geometry of the component visible while I am working on an internal nested block/component but the main model is kept hidden? Better?

jeff hammond

@paulside said:

Come on, Own up, how many of us have tried to orbit a jpg !

i try to orbit everything on my computer after a long SU session.. web pages etc...

it's like jumping on a trampoline for a while.. once you get back on solid ground, it takes a few minutes to readjust..