Silly/Dumb Question about Guidelines

ntxdave

I have a situation where I need to create multiple guidelines at the same distance. In this case, I want to draw 10 (or more) guidelines that are the same distance apart.

I tried clicking on the ruler tool and then clicked the Ctrl key. I then selected the starting point and gave the distance that I wanted for the guideline (in this case 1/2") and then I tried to tell SketchUp that I wanted 10 of the guidelines.

I typed 1/2" x 10 and then I get an error message that says the length is not correct.

This was the process I had found online but cannot get it to work.

I know this is silly, but I need some help it in figuring out how to do this correctly.

TIG

You can't do that in one step. Do this.
Use the Tape-measure tool to make the first at 1/2" as before click to confirm, Select the guide line, and chose the Move tool, press Ctrl to invoke Copying, make the copy off 1/2" and immediately type 9x press Enter to confirm.
Now you have 10 guides at 1/2" spacing.
You can make multiple offset copies of selected things, including guides, but you can use the Tape-measure tool to make more that one guide at a time.
You can also make radial copies at set angles using Rotate + Ctrl for Copy and entering the number needed, press enter.
It's probably best that when inputting lengths or angles to the use 9x rather than x9 as the leading letter might sometimes get confused with ab x shortcut.
To make guide copies at a set spacing, e.g. use 9x but if you want to divide between a start and end guide manually pick the start and the final one and use 9/ to divide - that way you don't need the exact dimension, but can be sure the spacings are all equal.

Rich O Brien

Still relevant today:
https://sketchucation.com/resources/tutorials/beginner/1943-complete-guide-for-sketchup-tape-measure-tool

Gus R

Make your guideline.

Select the guideline.

Copy guideline.

Enter 1/2.

Then enter X10.

ntxdave

@TIG said in Silly/Dumb Question about Guidelines:

You can't do that in one step.

I tried to find where I had read that but could not find it again

Do this.
Use the Tape-measure tool to make the first at 1/2" as before click to confirm, Select the guide line, and chose the Move tool, press Ctrl to invoke Copying, make the copy off 1/2" and immediately type 9x press Enter to confirm.
Now you have 10 guides at 1/2" spacing.

As several of you have mentioned, using the Move tool is the correct way to achieve what I was trying to do.

I want all of you who responded to know I really appreciate your feedback. I now have things working and hope to post something in the next couple of days using this process.

I have not been doing much with SketchUp lately (not wanting to go into a bunch details (health related) but things are getting back and participating again.

Again, thanks to all of the feedback.

Rich O Brien

@ntxdave get well soon

ntxdave

@Rich-O-Brien Thanks Rich……making good progress.

ntxdave

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Can someone give me a good way to scale the model so that it is now accurate (or as close as possible) in inches instead of feet? I tried using the Scale toll and reduced it to .0833333.