@chrisjk said:

You can constrain the movement in editing mode. On the Mac, click Alt (I think it's probably Ctrl in Windows) then the black box turns into an outline, hit the up arrow as you would with the Move tool and Hey Presto you are locked in the Z direction. Fredo links to a tutorial here http://www.aecbytes.com/tipsandtricks/2009/issue42-sketchup.html that explains that plus other stuff.

Aha! This is exactly what I was after... Pressing the arrow keys to constrain direction plane (i.e. up key=blue etc.) is actually a pretty easy way of doing it, I just wasn't aware of this function. This makes it a lot easier to use. Thanks for the tip!

Hi Fredo,

I love your Bezier plugin - it's a really great help. There's one thing though: is there any way to constrain the direction by which you can move the control points of the curve?

For example, if I want to move a point vertically, it's really tricky: I have to draw a vertical line, then try and move the control point to the top of that line, although even then it doesn't work properly because it doesn't snap.

If there was a way to constrain it (like you do normally, by pressing shift to constrain it to the blue axis), that would be a major, major help. Is there any way to incoroporate this into the plugin?

Thanks once again for all you hard work.

@pixero said:

Here is my reverse curve script.

Hi Pixero,

Just to say, your reversecurve.rb script didn't work properly for me (it didn't appear in Sketchup 7). So, with your permission, I dug around in the script and fixed it so it should work for Sketchup 7 users. I've posted it here. Enjoy, and thanks for this script - it's a life saver! (and the only one on the web..)

fixed reverse curve script by Pixero

I know its an old post guys, but one word: Zorro.

Still looking for a proper way to do complex booleans in sketchup without manually deleting though..