The "Duh!" thread (aka the Doh! thread)
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Not so much 'Doh' but 'Eureka'! for me. I've been trying to draw a circle directly to the vertical plane for a least two years!
I only knew it was possible from watching other video clips. At last I've found this thread! 
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@cotty said:
I didn't know that you can get non-perpendicular axes
This seems less like a "Duh!" than "WTF!" What could one (mortal) do with such a thing?
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@jql said:
Apologies accepted if you post it on the Duh thread!
So here goes my duh:
@bob james said:
This seems so simple that it must already exist, but I could not find it.
For example: I want to make a 4" square post at a specific spot. If I wanted a round post there I would just select the circle tool, place the cursor at the point and drag out (or put a value in the VCB).
I'd like to be able to do that for a square: select tool, place the cursor at the point and drag out (or put a value in the VCB)
I apologize if this already exists
@jql said:
LOL bob you can make your life difficult if you draw a 4 sided circle and explode it.
Or you can make your life painless if you draw a 4 sided polygon without exploding it.
Those two are native tools. Do you forget sketchup also has native tools?
@bob james said:
Duh
(But still think it would be a useful one-click native tool)
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I just today noticed with solid tools, if you subtract a transparent solid from another shape it leaves behind transparent faces. I suppose I mostly paint after these operations are complete.
Shep
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Didn't have a clue till today that while you push pull you can add a face by hitting "ctrl" on a pc or "option" on a Mac
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A little one...
I've had problems with drag&drop of images from the web browser to SU. No I've found the reason: I've changed the startup rights for SU to "always start as administrator". After changing this for the browser too (or both without these rights), drag&drop is back again... -
When taking one surface and copy pasting it into an unrelated group, if you click on the destination surface before you do the control-v paste you newly placed surface will auto align. Found this one by accident, it is probably page 2 of the instructions, But bahhh instructions.
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Thx to JQL
Move Copy a group@unknownuser said:
if you double-click it, you edit it, andeven if you do nothing on it, it is made into a different definition, therefor "unique".
Not sure that was on the manual ?
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I forgot what this tread is about but no doubt - it's a record breaking thread: probably the longest living thread here.
Like a submarine. Just when you think it's down it goes up to the surface. Over and over again. -
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Followme: path and shape in different context
I've always copied a path into a group to do a followme, but you can enter that group after you have selected the path with the followme tool...
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But be aware Cotty,that doing it with the path in a group will give you strange results.
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@box said:
But be aware Cotty,that doing it with the path in a group will give you strange results.
Box, those strange results are only due to geometry. Your two circles are not orthogonal to each other so the start and ending are not coherent with the rest of the path. That's what that message means and it's not related to the path's/profile context.
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I beg to differ. The circles are set to make a sphere.
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I think the reason is the different axis for the group (you can see both in BOXs gif). the follow me uses the path circle, but with the global axis.
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I thought the same Carsten but the torus created isn't centered on the origin, certainly influenced by but not centered on.
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@cotty said:
I think the reason is the different axis for the group (you can see both in BOXs gif). the follow me uses the path circle, but with the global axis.
That is true! And that is why the circle's profile is not orthogonal with the path and the result is an elliptical profile donut with strange endings...
Seems sketchup is picking the circle path and use it's context axis to place it relatively to the profile's context's axis.
If the path's component´s axis would be centered with the circle and if the profile was centered in it's context axis, then the sphere would be created.
If the profile had been drawn along the X axis a circular profile donut would have been created instead of an elliptical one.
What also happened here is that Box grouped the path while you grouped the profile.
I also bet things will work differently if using a group or component...
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Talk about missing the point.
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