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    • GaieusG Offline
      Gaieus
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      That's a "designed feature": Suspending the gravity setting

      Gai...

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      • mitcorbM Offline
        mitcorb
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        Sort of bootleg Camera Roll. I have used it to get a particular position for precise selection in a busy model. Of course, you could just do a bunch of layering and hiding to avoid this need altogether.

        I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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        • olisheaO Offline
          olishea
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          @gaieus said:

          That's a "designed feature": Suspending the gravity setting

          I use it for portrait-orientated renders...very useful.

          oli

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          • Wo3DanW Offline
            Wo3Dan
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            @mikefjaguar said:

            Ctrl (in Windows) while orbiting lets me turn my model every which way! Fairly useless as an architectural user but ......... Doh!

            Rolling the camera (by holding down [Ctrl] when orbiting), to position your model in such a way on screen sometimes helps in order to have the selection window enclose what you want it to select. With gravity ON you might not be able to make that special selection.

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            • pilouP Offline
              pilou
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              ...and when you Press the SpaceBar that stop it vigorously! 💚

              http://www.freebiker.net/FichesPratiques/Freinage_problemes/problemes_freinage.jpg

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

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              • porch_unpluggedP Offline
                porch_unplugged
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                @gaieus said:

                That's a "designed feature": Suspending the gravity setting

                ugh, i think i just made myself travel sick trying that out.

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                • porch_unpluggedP Offline
                  porch_unplugged
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                  if you are trying to draw something small and the clipping plane is getting in the way, change to parallel projection view.

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
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                    I often find I get clipping issues more quickly with parallel view...

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

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                    • brodieB Offline
                      brodie
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                      I'm on board with the parallel projection. I find that when you initially change to PP you'll get some bad clipping, but if you select your geometry and then zoom extents the clipping goes away and you can zoom in as much as you want.

                      -Brodie

                      steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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                      • V Offline
                        valerostudio
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                        Left, Right, Up arrows lock the Red Green Blue Axis when using move! How did it take me 7 years to figure this one out!

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                        • gillesG Offline
                          gilles
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                          Seven years!

                          You should read the manual, just in case. 😄

                          http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94862&topic=2458142&ctx=topic

                          " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                            valerostudio
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                            There's a manual? 😉

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                            • Wo3DanW Offline
                              Wo3Dan
                              last edited by

                              @gilles said:

                              Seven years!

                              You should read the manual, just in case. 😄

                              http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94862&topic=2458142&ctx=topic

                              Useful reading but here it lacks the information about how to use to rotate a group or component accurately according to the current drawing axes system with angle input.
                              Also I couldn't find anything about moving vertices. And even more, while doing so, how to lock moving a vertex to its own edge's direction. (=hover over the edge first, press [Shift], only then move the vertex)

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                                cotty
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                                @wo3dan said:

                                ...lock moving a vertex to its own edge's direction. (=hover over the edge first, press [Shift], only then move the vertex)

                                New one for me, thank you!

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                                • gillesG Offline
                                  gilles
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                                  Yes nobody is perfect.

                                  " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                                  • gillesG Offline
                                    gilles
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                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    Also I couldn't find anything about moving vertices. And even more, while doing so, how to lock moving a vertex to its own edge's direction. (=hover over the edge first, press [Shift], only then move the vertex)

                                    This one is new for me!
                                    Well seven years to learn this too. 😳

                                    " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                                    • Wo3DanW Offline
                                      Wo3Dan
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                                      @gilles said:

                                      Yes nobody is perfect.

                                      How true.
                                      Fact is, I learned it (lock vertex to edge) from someone else, .....from Anssi.
                                      And this was also after having used SU for several years. (Doh for me at that time)

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                                      • GaieusG Offline
                                        Gaieus
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                                        @valerostudio said:

                                        Left, Right, Up arrows lock the Red Green Blue Axis when using move! How did it take me 7 years to figure this one out!

                                        And not only the Move tool but the line tool, too (just in case you needed it) 😉

                                        And yes, I only discovered it about a year ago or so? 😆

                                        Gai...

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                                          broomstick
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                                          @wo3dan said:

                                          And even more, while doing so, how to lock moving a vertex to its own edge's direction. (=hover over the edge first, press [Shift], only then move the vertex)

                                          There's always something new to learn..

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                                            pilou
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                                            A funny thing with soap skin Bubble! 💚

                                            you can copy / move, rotate even resize the result "C" before call the button Generate SoapBubble!! 😲

                                            for a collective Pressure on some objects from copy moved rotated even resized!
                                            But not from different objects Soap Skinned!
                                            It's not so bad! ☀

                                            Ps And you can of course stop the process make other things then retake them at any moments!
                                            Pressure is not additive just absolute! (can be negative or positive)

                                            dragon.jpg

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

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