Axes Widget?
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Thanks Gaieus,
I will give it a try for a while. It doesn't seem to be slowing down my old machine as yet so might be an option.
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@gaieus said:
and it can also tax your system/video card
Really? But it's just three extra lines to draw... ?
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@thomthom said:
Really? But it's just three extra lines to draw... ?
That's what I experienced with my older machine back 5 years ago. It had a video card that was just on the limit...
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You could also set a shortcut key for View/Rendering/Edge/By Axis then you can toggle it on and off as needed.
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@chrisjk said:
You could also set a shortcut key for View/Rendering/Edge/By Axis then you can toggle it on and off as needed.
I don't have that option on my version( 8 free). Which version are you using?
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I don't have it either - Pro version. I think he refers to a plugin.
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Strangely it's not in the Pro version menu.
This is a display-mode set under a Style only...
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This is from the Pro version for the Mac
and this fropm the Free version for the PC
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This is not a Plugin and it is available in the Free version of 8 for both Windows and Mac; I normally use a Mac but downloaded the Windows version to try it and it is basically identical.
Go to Window>Preferences>Shortcuts and then enter View for the filter criterion. Scroll down a bit to find the color by axis command. Set a shortcut and there you go.
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How strange.
It's not a menu item. Nor is it a toolbar item. There is no toolbar named "Rendering", nor is there any toolbar that offer that feature.
But I do see it in Preferences > Shortcuts
It's odd, because I thought one could only assign shortcuts to menus and toolbar commands. If you want to assign a shortcut to a context menu item one need to ensure that you have a valid selection before it will be visible in the shortcut list.
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I see it too !
There's no menu entries to match, but there are shortcut listings for various Rendering options - it IS plain weird...
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I'm stunned I knew something you guys didn't! Do I get a medal?
I am sure I learnt about it somewhere here though. I owe all I know about SU to this forum..
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Congratulations!
Want a job
You see there's always something hiding inside Sketchup... -
It came up almost 4 years ago http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=56068#p56068
and surprised Jim that time !
Dave_R http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=56131#p56131 had his finger on the pulse - they used to be in another similar [sub]menu items in v6... but looks like they were removed from the menus in v7/8, but Google left them in the shortcuts list !
No one told me
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So now the question arises; why do we need to ensure something relevant is selected in order to assign a command that only exists in the context menu? If the list isn't entirely dynamic based on UI element....
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I do not use this function often enough to assign a shortcut (either because I would not remember due to the infrequency of use or because there are not too many shortcuts one would like to "waste" - or maybe solely because my memory is short?).
Anyway, I do have it in the shortcut list and also in Jim's custom toolbar plugin (maybe that's when Jim got surprised). I put it there however because sometimes it is indeed useful and then I do not have to dig into the styles settings.
There are a couple of more buttons there that I like like display endpoints - also useful when you are hunting for them but otherwise do not have them on by default in your template. Also display profiles although I usually have profiles set to 1 px so that would not make much difference but I use it for trouble shooting models from the forums and displaying thicker profiles can be useful when searching for edges that do not merge. -
But the list is dynamic BUT Google wedge in these extra 'non-existent' items anyway - the oddity is that they list as if they are menu-items, but they are not - or if they are then those menu items are somehow 'hidden' from the users ? Which begs the question, why?
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Not to clutter your menu?
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OK, but what other 'hidden' gems do we have to find ?
The secret-menu item for ray_trace_rendering... etc...
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Only on a Mac though...
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