The "Duh!" thread (aka the Doh! thread)
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Duh!
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Did you know
When you have a group open and everything else is faded away and hard to see you can click on the
(use sun for shading button check box) and the rest of the model is then clear to see.I like this option for when I want to reference my open group to other parts of the model.
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In addition, you can influence this here furthermore...
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Just came across the follow me showdown. Maybe cause I'm coming off a cold ...I'm confused. Would be nice to know the best practice for other than circle paths. I have always thought it was a hassle needing to have the objects in the same context...but now I find you don't . Duh!!!
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Just discovered that ctrl+shift+V pastes in place. Didn't know that for 3 versions. I've made messes out of contour maps by being millimeters off.
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@icedkasz said:
Just discovered that ctrl+shift+V pastes in place. Didn't know that for 3 versions. I've made messes out of contour maps by being millimeters off.
In the preferences, you can switch those two and use Ctrl+V for paste in place and Ctrl+Shift+V for simple pasting (I'm using pasting in place much more often).
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@icedkasz said:
Just discovered that ctrl+shift+V pastes in place. Didn't know that for 3 versions.
You're not alone
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@bob james said:
@icedkasz said:
Just discovered that ctrl+shift+V pastes in place. Didn't know that for 3 versions.
You're not alone
I never found that myself because that was exactly the shortcut I used with V8. As I always imported shortcuts I thought that was exclusively my command... I guess that counts as a Duh!
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Oh - wait - that shortcut is now out of the box?
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It isn't? I always export/import it before I try it... so how would I know?
It seems this will get some more duhs!
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I'm glad it's now a default - as it's the first shortcut I ever set up. (Though I also import so I missed this.)
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I set mine to just shift-v long ago and didn't know the default setting. Oddly I made so it is opposite of CAD, instead of changing the regular paste short-cut-- if that makes sense, so really I keep switching from one program to the other. Why am I writing this? Sitting here on first cup of coffee just killing time that I will want for later on...
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@icedkasz said:
Just discovered that ctrl+shift+V pastes in place. Didn't know that for 3 versions. I've made messes out of contour maps by being millimeters off.
Are you sure?
Not on my PC. No shortcut is assigned to Paste in Place.
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@jiminy-billy-bob said:
Not on my PC. No shortcut is assigned to Paste in Place.
That was the sneaky suspicion I had.
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Maybe someones don't know this one!
Very uggly speedy test, it was just for see if that is working!
That's work fine!
Power of the "<>"!
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@pilou said:
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Power of the "<>"!And \n for line feed
So when you have a dimension value 2500mm, adding \nceiling height results in:
2500mm
ceiling height
(plain text, not associated anymore with changes in geometry)
But replacing 2500mm by <>\nceiling height becomes:
2500mm
ceiling height
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Thx for the Info!
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@bob james said:
@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?
Your suggestions create 45 deg rotated squares.
Why can't someone just make a simple extension to make an orthogonally positioned square starting from a center point? -
@bob james said:
Your suggestions create 45 deg rotated squares.
Why can't someone just make a simple extension to make an orthogonally positioned square starting from a center point?If you hit CTRL while designing your square or your four sided circle, you it will create the squared shape as you wish it to... (at least on 2015 I don't know if it's like this in every SU version)
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@jql said:
@bob james said:
Your suggestions create 45 deg rotated squares.
Why can't someone just make a simple extension to make an orthogonally positioned square starting from a center point?If you hit CTRL while designing your square or your four sided circle, you it will create the squared shape as you wish it to... (at least on 2015 I don't know if it's like this in every SU version)
That was a new feature in SU2015.
Bob, the extension already exists in the Tools on Surface set. I'm sure you must have that one in your library.
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