@box said:

They changed the default of the tape tool in 2017, tap ctrl to toggle the guide on or off to get the action you want.

MANY thanks, Box It's hard to figure the logic behind that change

Pixero: I'll take a look at the Rubysketch Scale Tool, but it will be hard to break a very old habit.

For many years when I've imported an image and needed to change its scale to make the length of a line on the image to a specific length, I added a line on the image to a desired length, grouped the line with the image, edited the group by tracing the added line with the Tape Measure Tool, entered the length I wanted it to be, hit return and a dialog box would pop up asking if I wanted to change the scale of the whole image. If I selected "Yes", then the whole image would be scaled to make the length the specified amount and, therefore, all the rest of the dimensions would also be correct.

I had an occasion to do that yesterday and that process doesn't work anymore.

Can anyone tell me how I can do it with SU2017?

I'll do that the next time I use VT (But maybe VT2 will come out first )

1.2.10
The program doesn't go into an error state. It's still active, but won't let me select any more vertices.

Thomas,
Before you release VT 2 I need to tell you about a problem I’ve had with VT for a long time (I’ve been using VT for over 5 years so I don’t remember when this first started - I've just lived with it).

It happens on all my Win machines, most recently with SU Pro/Win10 Pro.

When I’m working with repairing large terrains and need to stitch them together, I open VT, hide the gizmo and use the VT move tool rather than the Select tool, to select, one at a time, each point that needs correcting. When I do that, a circle appears around the vertex to be moved. As I continue selecting and moving points one at a time, after a random number of moves VT stops working and I am unable to select the next point with the move tool. To re-activate it I must close VT, then re-open VT, select the VT move tool and continue until VT again stops working.

This happens most often when, because of the number of points to be moved, I need to rotate/move the whole model with my SpaceMouse Pro with VT still active.

@bstng said:

Hi !
I have got a problem with vertex tool, when i use it my sketchup pro 2015 shut down. It's written : Sketchup had a bug splat.

Does anyone know why ?

Thanks for your help.

Bastien

Bastian, can you provide some more detail?
Even though this is your first post, I notice that you've listed your skill level as "intermediate" so I assume you’ve been using SU for some time. This leads me to ask some obvious questions to help us help you.

1. Is this the first time you've used VT?
2. If not, do you have any newly installed plugins/extensions that might be known candidates for incompatibility with VT?
3. What were you doing specifically when the splat happened?
4. How complex is the object you’re trying to modify?
5. Does it happen on other models?
6. What version of VT are you using?
7. What version of OS are you using?
8. Does it happen on other models?
9. Did you submit a “Bug Splat”?
10. Can you include the .skp you’re working on?

Etc.

Cleanest atttic I've ever seen.
Well done, but add some haze, "God rays" and more "stuff" and it will be really good.

Instant buy for yet another "must have" tool. Many thanks.

@dave r said:

Are you connecting directly via Ethernet or USB?

Hardwire Ethernet network.

Slightly off topic

How about storing all folders on a NAS drive: would that be fast enough for my laptop and desktop?

Is this 3 Apr version different from:

Looks the same

@sdmitch said:

My RoundedCornerRectangle still works.

Other than the nit-pick of only available for x-y plane - Perfect. Thank you

EDIT
Dumb old me: I already had it installed

@tig said:

I though of adding a 'Lozenge' to 2D Tools at the start... BUT found that a combination of 2D Rectangle and 2D Fillet does it for you with more flexibility...

Back in 2004 and again in 2009 there were plugins that created a rounded rectangle but neither of them work anymore.

I could create a set of rounded rectangles and add them to Profile Builder, but even that would require several steps to add a rounded rectangle to a drawing.

Or I know that I could draw a rectangle and the use the Arc tool to add the round corners, but that too requires several steps to add a rounded rectangle to a drawing. Or use 2D Tools to do the same thing.

But all I need is a simple 2D rounded rectangle.

Since I rarely have the need for a rectangle with a different fillet for one or more of the corners, would you reconsider adding the "Lozenge" that brings up a dialog asking for radius or enter the radius in Measurement?

Redone with sufficiently large dimensions.

TIG,
Thank you. I don't remember ever hearing about that.
Although moving away from the edge, intersecting and moving the result back to the edge leaves segments that, if deleted, deletes the whole brown filling of the plane!

After deleting them and redrawing the right edge in two parts ending with the circle segment restores the fill with the hole breaking the edge, BUT, the hole in the center is filled in and not clickable for deletion. Mission sort of accomplished.

Simple plan with two rectangles: one with all four corners rounded and one with only two corners rounded.

All straight lines are draped correctly, but the rounded corners do not.

This can't be a bug, otherwise, everyone would have been posting about this, but I cannot create a hole in an ungrouped plane with a simple intersection.

I'm using SU 2017 version 17.2.2555 64bit on two different computers both running Win10 Pro so it is not a machine-peculiar problem.

I have attached a very simple SU Version 8 example of an ungrouped plane and a grouped cylinder intersecting the plane. When I click on Intersect Faces with Model a hole is not cut out. There's only a ring left on the plane. This is NOT a case of having to click on the inside of the circle and deleting to reveal the hole: the ring cannot be selected independently.

If I select everything and click on Intersect Faces with Selection a hole is not cut out.
Again there's only a ring left on the plane.

Hole1.skp[/attachment]

Hole1.skp

It's now called "Sharp Edit" and can be found in the Extension Store or at:
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pauthor=wikii

I think I'll wait until the requirements to "Turn off autosave" and "Save your model before using this tool" are resolved before purchasing an extension even if it's developed by Dale.

EDIT
Couldn't resist: bought it

@rich o brien said:

Wish they used node type material creation.

Why? The "blizzard" of nodes and connections required are bewildering