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This AI is kinda fun

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And with Su2Components by Suforyou you can make a little planete! 😉

http://sketchucation.com/forums/download/file.php?id=124146

Flattery should work fine for what you want to do but as with any tool, you have to use it correctly to get the desired results. Another option, which you might find simpler to use, is Jim's Unfold Tool. I used it here. The process is trivial.
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If you just want to create guides, don't touch ctrl.

When you select the tape tool it has a small dotted line and a + sign as part of the cursor,--+, this means it will create a guide line. If you hit CTRL this goes away and it can be used to resize. CTRL toggles between the two states.

Here is one of the simplest alignment tools. Two clicks and the faces or edges you choose join together. You still need to use groups or components to to make whole piece align as it will just move faces or edges individually.

In the very short vid you will see me group your woofer, then align the base of the magnet to the box face, then change that to align the frame of the speaker.

You'll find this plugin called s4u_AlignTool by clicking this link http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=53715, or downloadable directly within sketchup via the sketchucation store plugin.

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To follow on from Dave and your orientation to the red question, it sort of does do that but there is slightly more to it.
SU has a global orientation set at the origin, meaning it sees things with the origin point at the bottom left of the screen. Therefore text generally follows that overall concept, it will attempt to orientate to the bottom left corner of the face you place it on.
As you can see below, the text follows that orientation even on a sphere, as it is following the actual facets of the sphere.

So as an example, if you try to place text on a chair leg, if it is standing up the text will natural orient across it, but if it is lying down it will follow the length.

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thank you. i'm sorry that was such an easy one. i googled to no avail.
i'm guilty, after a few years of playing with sketchup, of not sitting myself down to a top to bottom investigation of all the menu items and their purposes. i've learned as i go and sometimes the easy stuff just eludes me.

I'm glad that helped. You'll find it is helpful for other reasons than just orbiting. Drawing with the the default axis orientation and solid blue up will make shadows correct and make your standard views more useful. If your model has a front, place it so it runs along the red axis direction and those standard views will all click into place.

Draw the path, select it then

Frascati,

I can't do much in the way of helping with your modeling issue, but offer this humble advice. Do not delete this thread or any of your posts. They will serve you well in the future. They will be reminders of what the true source of your frustrations were and the solution(s) to them.

Years ago in the midst of preparing final presentation boards for an architectural class, I realized that I had made a basic layout error causing the previous 40 hours or so of work to be completely useless. I sat at the drafting table looking for something or someone to blame, and could find none. I ripped the board off the table and stomped on it with a mighty fury. An exact replica of my gym shoe was left smack dab in the middle of it. I grabbed a beer out of my dorm fridge and made my way to the top of the "world famous" architectural building on the campus. While sitting atop one of the two massive girders supporting the building, sipping a cold one and looking at the Chicago skyline, I reflected on why I wanted to become an architect along with pondering what foibles and obstacles the architect who designed the building beneath my rear had overcome. I realized that perseverance rather than perfection was going to be my way thru. I literally went back to the drawing board and worked there continuously for about 3 days and nights and finished the work. It turned out quite well.

I keep that screwed up "Strathmore" board with shoe print in a flat file in the house, it is a reminder of how close I came to letting my anger destroy what has been a really good life in architecture, and a good life in general.

I agree the leaders are weak. If they are going to be offered, they could at least use the profile style. I like my leaders delicate but this SU one has never been acceptable to me graphically. It's just for inside SU work (notes for the modeler or forum posts) for my money. I just stopped looking to SU for those sort of things. The text tool DOES do a lot of things my 2d CAD tool can't, like hang on to an object when moved and in all sorts of views, give component names or area or take on plugin info.

As for the SCF One-Click Plugins, I think that will be getting huge fanfare and hard to miss.

you need to change the windows registry (google search for "sketchup openGL wine")

@unknownuser said:

If you get the error "SketchUp was unable to initialize OpenGL!], run regedit, open [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp6\GLConfig\Display], and change "HW_OK" to 1.

plus a few more troubleshooting tips here:

@thomthom said:

Have you tried walking on water..?

Anyone can walk on water...it just have to be below 0 degrees Celsius. 😒

@trogluddite said:

The classic example of course, is coming across an item in a menu with a name you've never seen before. "Oooh, it's in the same menu as the tools I use loads, could be a useful time-saver." - clicks help file...
"Discombobulationator - use this tool for discombobulationating."
Thanks a bunch! (Corel in particular seem good at this trick).

🤣 Years ago, before I discovered SU, I picked up a little freebee drafting app from TUCOWS.
It seemed simple enough and was aimed at drawing flow charts, which I needed at the time.

One of the first things I did was click on HELP, then "Documentation".

Here is a short extract as I remember it........

Drawing Tools.
LINE Use this tool to draw lines
CIRCLE Use this tool to draw circles
BOX Use this tool to draw boxes

You get the gist.... 🤓

Then at the bottom of HELP was the "On-line website Help file"
So I clicked on it.........

It opened a page that was IDENTICAL to the Help documentation. 🤣

I guess my first clue should have been the web address..... ending in .RU

It was pretty good at drawing flow charts, but a bitch to edit anything, especially text.
Scrappo after 3 hours of frustration.

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(Caveat: Today I find the move tool in some instances fails to snap and TT's VertexTools does just fine moving the points. I think it's a bug.)

One reason for this could be a prevented autofold. Try to use the alt key while moving the vertex.

edit: didn't see the second page, so Rich was faster 😉

That's it. No reason why that shouldn't work.

The lack of metric (just can't if everything keeps coming in feet and inches) is the reason for this.

Since my plans are eventually in feet and inches I used to always refer to that. However in measuring buildings the notation becomes busy and sometimes gets confused. Typing feet and inches as input on a whole measure plan is also more tedious. Decimal inches is what I now use on my Disto and for marking, and laying out a plan, but if you can't check your work quickly, it adds another little task. I can always set the CAD to ft and in for dimensioning later.

When I work with someone else who insists on measuring Ft. and inches, like I will today, I have to reset the disto and do it all long hand. 😒

Hi Frascati, hi folks.

As pointed out, this curved surface is easy to fill using hand stitching. I did one side in less than a minute.

If the object is symmetrical I suggest you do one half and then mirror a copy and assmeble the two halves together.

As for the white face, you have three (3) faces on top of each other. Click on the face and delete. Repeat untill you delete the last one and you see inside the model. Then Undo the last delete and paint the surface. You have probably some small unnecessary geometry that is causing a problem there.

Just ideas.

@frascati said:

Ok, did I finally wear out my welcome with this post? Am I so bone stupid that I'm just getting ignored?

Would anyone simply try this with a single line segment in a new model and get back to me with the, no doubt, four neuron maximum instructions on what I'm doing wrong?

Don't think because I didn't reply that I was ignoring you. Shortly after my last post I got in the car to make the drive to my father's house. Since the OM won't be needing a house anymore, we gotta get busy cleaning it out so we can sell it.

As I already wrote, if you don't stop on the second endpoint and you don't make the second click, it won't offer to scale. When you enter the distance it'll put the guide point out there.

I can see both sides here. Likewise I find no problem myself in moving objects around to fit, or align with others using the various ref points that show up; however I have many customers who want to use sketchup, but are used to using AutoCAD or similar. In my experience snap references are biggest omission in SU world, and I struggle to change users over. They want to take my library, and insert products in precise locations easily, and perhaps with an orientation reference. Our product is very like meccano, or furniture, and could really benefit from this.

I remember when I started SketchUp I had to purge my mind of most other CAD preconceptions; in here we all know that was the best move we ever made, but we have to convince the rest !