I guess I didn't understand how to get the scale thing to work... because trying it, I'm only to change a 10" surface in terms of scale, not absolute distance. I downloaded and tried driving dimensions and this is doing exactly what I was after... now it looks like I can use FredoScale for lengthening my objects along a specific axis. So far so good, at least I know there's a good way to re-size objects to exact dimensions... just seems crazy that this wasn't something that was included in the program - how did google expect people to make "plans" without such basic functionality. Ok, rant over... hopefully problem solved!

There really isn't a way to just draw a 2d box that's say 10" x 10" and then re-size it to 8" x 8" without having to use a plugin or guides? That seems ridiculous

Hi all,

Ok, so I downloaded sketch up and am amazed at how easy it is to create a pretty detailed object. I plan to use the program to duplicate the floorplan of my house as well as make some fairly detailed drawings of some furniture I want to build.

I've watched a few tutorials, but I'm hung up on trying to get an object to a specific size. I know that when I first make, say a square, I can simply type in 10", 10" and it will make my square 10"... but then after that, it seems if I am trying to change the size, it's going by a relative change and not an absolute change. So if I use push/pull and make it 10" high, then the next time I grab it and stretch it out, then do it again and type in 10", it will make it 10" LONGER rather than an absolute 10"

I hope that makes sense? I'm just curious as to whether or not there's a simple way to re-size a 3-d chunk to make it a specific size once I've already drawn it up? Short of setting up a ton of guides, of course, that would take forever for what I'm wanting to do.

Thanks for any advice!