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

massimo

@pmiller said:

Probably the best SU duh!:

404 Not Found

(www.sketchucation.com)

(Link to the "Homer" button, which plays the "d'oh!" sound and does an undo. Sadly, it's no longer there. I don't suppose anybody kept a copy?)

You can find it at Jim's blog. Scroll down the page.

xiombarg

Discovering the Outliner. All combined I probably wasted a week of my life clicking my way through nested components to get to an object when all I had to do was click on a component's name in the Outliner.

falk

Thanks. And now that I've made it to the end of this thread (Best. Thread. Ever.), here's a tiny little plugin that I use all the time. It adds a "Show shortcuts" item to the Help menu. I find it very useful when I can't remember what I've assigned keys to. Especially when you're trying to assign a shortcut, and preferences tells you that key is already in use, and you can't remember what for.

show_shortcuts.rb

Rich O Brien

You should try Shortcutter plugin.

It is bundled with SketchUcation Tools

TK0001

About this time last year, I discovered clicking on the arrow buttons locks you into that axis when moving or copying objects. Now I use the arrows religiously.

rv1974

To migrate 2013 Shortcuts to 2015 one should open Preferences.dat in Notepad and use 'find and replace' feature to replace all 'Plugins' words with 'Extensions'.
Important: there must be only one backspace between the shortcut descriotion and the 'Extensions' word.

2015 Plugins folder location:
C:\Users\Your_Username\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\SketchUp\Plugins

oceanembers

shift to lock inferences/directions/etc. was one that I found way too late x_x

pilou

Never seen that!
Draw a circle, Select the circumference : right Click / Divide !
Works only one time!

Box

It only works one time Pilou because once you divide it it becomes separate segments. Those individual segments can then be divided, and the divisions can be divided etc
It works with polygons and arcs also. There is even at least one plugin that I know of that will put the segments back together so you can divide the circle again. So you can go round and round again.

pilou

@unknownuser said:

So you can go round and round again.

...and speedy fill your computer memories!

david_h

Quick question. . .It seems to me that in SU's long past. . .version 4 or so there was a push pull trick where you could just click on a shape to be PP'd and then either hold a shift key to lock the axis or and endpoint of something and it would just auto push to that point. Kinda like Follow me, but it was innate to the PushPull tool. Does anyone remember this?

Thx,

D

cotty

There are different options in Fredo6s JointPushPull (like vetor push pull), something like that?

david_h

Yeah. . I've got those and they're great. It just seemed to me there was a native SU trick to do that, but I guess I am mistaken. Hence the D'oh!

jeff hammond

@david_h said:

Quick question. . .It seems to me that in SU's long past. . .version 4 or so there was a push pull trick where you could just click on a shape to be PP'd and then either hold a shift key to lock the axis or and endpoint of something and it would just auto push to that point. Kinda like Follow me, but it was innate to the PushPull tool. Does anyone remember this?

Thx,

D

the only push/pull modifier key is:

Option(alt) = create new starting face.

(as seen in the lower left hand corner of the drawing window )

pilou

@unknownuser said:

as seen in the lower left hand corner of the drawing window

Can you put an image of that ?

Box

@jeff hammond said:

the only push/pull modifier key is:

Option(alt) = create new starting face.

(as seen in the lower left hand corner of the drawing window )

It's Ctrl on windows.

jeff hammond

@box said:

It's Ctrl on windows.

oops.. thought it was ctrl for cmmd & alt for option
thanks

Box

Don't you mean D'oh instead of oops!!?

pilou

I am reassured!

jeff hammond

@box said:

Don't you mean D'oh instead of oops!!?

d'oh!

you're right.