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    PeterF
    last edited by 29 Oct 2015, 20:01

    I'm developing a router jig to carve guitar necks on and it bases it's shape on two profiles, one at the first fret and one at the 9th fret. I have drawn these out on sketchup and have lofted them to get the neck profile, but I need to extend it further out at each end without distorting the original shape. Is there a way of extending a line without changing it's axis? I have tried drawing an adjoining line and using the snap 'parallel to edge' function, but I can't get it to work properly.
    Any ideas? Am I missing something totally obvious to everyone else but me? πŸ˜’

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      cotty
      last edited by 29 Oct 2015, 20:13

      Do you use the shift key to lock the inference?

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        PeterF
        last edited by 29 Oct 2015, 20:20

        Thank you!! That was just what I needed to know. How do people know these tricks? Do you just discover them by accident or are they written down somewhere?

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          cotty
          last edited by 29 Oct 2015, 20:24

          Nearly all those infos are in the official help:
          http://help.sketchup.com/de/article/70142

          (but it is much faster and simpler to find the needed infos with a lot of practice πŸ˜‰ )

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            Bob James
            last edited by 30 Oct 2015, 05:19

            I wonder what happens if I press this and this?? πŸ˜†

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