Move tool frustration
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Every so often my Move tool insists on becoming a Rotate tool. I've never understood why the program is designed to combine those two tools - it doesn't seem to add any functionality that I can see.
Is there a key command or trick to tell SketchUp that you just want to Move, not to Rotate - someway to lock the command to one function and not the other?
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When in Move... if your cursor is over a 'Cardinal Point' of some shapes - like a circle - they can change display to show their own special little red inference markers, and if you click on one it goes into Rotate mode.
Useful if you want to do that... but annoying if you don't.
So watch for inference and cursor changes, and pick away from the object/markers to avoid the tool-flips...
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Personally I find this feature extremely handy because it sets the rotation at the center of the component's bounding box. Using the Rotate tool instead to rotate about the center would require locating the center first.
You can avoid the rotation by not clicking on one of the little red
+icons. When I use the Move tool I prefer to grab the component by a corner when I'm moving it since I'm normally moving the component relative to some other part in the model. I choose a logical point to grab the component and it's always away from those rotate handles.TIG beat me to it.
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Thanks for the quick replies.
I wasn't aware of the bounding box centers and now that I go back to the model I see that the center of the object that I'm using to position is also the center of the bounding box - thus the difficulty I was having.
Now, being aware of that feature, I can easily avoid it.
Thanks again.
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