yes, I use feet. I walk every day on my feet!
but anyways... I just use feet because so many of my online friends are in America.

okay look here.

I tried to rise the left side to 40 feet, I typed in 40' and it barely did anything. How do I turn on grids or rulers to see how big my shapes are? I even tried typing in 400' and nothing happened again.

@unknownuser said:

Are you actually typing in 12 feet or 12' ?
If in fact you are typing the word feet after the number 12 then you are hitting shortcuts for more tools most likely.
Does this help?

AHHH!! soo.. I just use the ' symbol. hmm.. simple enough. it's too bad I can't draw worth crap and thing still seem to look weird, one twelve feet seems to raise out of my structure, one seems to go back inside my building

@unknownuser said:

Can you attach a screen shot of what your cursor is doing?

Are you using the Push Pull tool to raise the structure?

yes sir, push pull tool.

alright... number 1.

I am dumber than a doornail. I want to raise some structures, how do I type in a dimension for the height of the raise I want? When I start dragging and type in 12 feet, some weird things happened to the cursor, but the raise did not go to the height I wanted

I wanted to stop by the newbie forum and say Hello to everyone.
I am trying to learn Sketchup because of my various interests in architecture, design, mechanics, machines, and all things military.
I will be asking alot of questions. I hope you all have a book of answers ready!