Well, my numberpad doesn't accept any entries while I hold down the shift key (maybe it works on your Mac, but not on my MS).

However, I noticed that once the desired axis lights up (x in red, y in green) I can release the shift key and the line will stay on the desired axis, then I can enter the length.

Problem solved, thank you all!

Cheers
Mikar

Hi Dave,

thanks for your explenations!

Let me just skip back to my initial question. The problem I have is that I cannot type the desired lenght while holding down the shift key to keeop the axis locked. With 'straight line' I ment locked to x or y axis.

Any idea how to do that?

Cheers
Mikar

Hi all,

what I can do is:

• hold down the 'shift'-key to draw a straight line locked to x or y axis

or

• type a number while pointing the line's end somewhere in oder to draw a specific length.

But I simply cannot get both features working together at the same time.

Is there a way?

Cheers
Mikar

Great tips (an so much effort put into explaining)! Thank you all very much!

Cheers
Mikar

Hi all,

whenever I try to rotate a texture with the texture-->position-->green-handle-thingy the texture starts scaling at the same time. Is there a way to rotate only (e.g. by pressing a key or keyboard entry) so that it doesn't rotate and scale at the same time?

Cheers
Mikar

Ah, I see! Thank you for explaining!

Cheers
Mikar

Hi folks,

in a component I want to use the attribute "FACEAREA" for using in a report. But for a face with the dimension e.g. 1x1m instead of yielding the expected result 1m² it produces a result off by factor 1.550003. Is this a bug? Please see image attached to see my problem. (I know I could amend that through deviding the result by 1.550003, but I would like to now why this happens). Thank you!

Cheers
Mikar

Great help, thankyou! I guess the second one was the one I was looking for

Cheers
Mikar

Hi folks,

I recently came across an extension which deals with imported cad/dwg floor plans. The extension automatically creates faces between all imported cad-lines, so that walls can be extruded right away without needing to trace anything manually.

Now I can't seem to find this extension in the mists of the www. Does anyone know what extension I'm talking about and can direct me to where I can find it?

Thank you in advance!

Cheers
Mikar

Thank you very much!

Hi there,

whenever SU pops up a window saying there is an update available I would like to see what has changed before installing new version. Where can I find this typical version-update-bugfix-information-list?

Many thanks!

Mikar

Hi TIG,

thank you very much! I missed deleting the rb file and deleted only the plugin's folder and subfolder files. After deleting the rb everything is gone just like I wanted. The plugin was gkware stairmaker btw., sorry for not mentioning that, thought it wouldn't make a difference.

Cheers
Mikar

Hi all,

after disabling a plugin in the Preferences-->Extensions flyout plus deleting the files from C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\Plugins and restarting SU the name of the plugin still appears in the Preferences-->Extensions flyout together with the (unchecked) enable-checkbox. How can I get rid of that entry? Is the plugin really gone? I'd like to have SU clean without showing stuff that is meant not to exist.

Any ideas?

Cheers
Mikar

Yes, it must have been the Mac color wheel. Pity it is not that big on the PC. As I like to eyeball the colors I find the RGB sliders not very intuitive for choosing colors. Maybe I'll pick colors in PS and type the RGB values into SU.

Hi folks,

is there a way to make the color wheel in the materials editor bigger? I noticed in some online video tutorials the wheel is pretty large filling almost the entire width of the menu. In my Sketchup it is more like an icon making exact colorpicking a bit difficult.

Any ideas?

Cheers
Mikar

Thank you! The fog tool was what I needed.

cheers
Mikar

@agrazdi said:

Whenever an object is selected in the layer tray a dot is activated in the layer it is located.

Oh, thanks! I didn't notice that.

But what with locked layers? I can't select an object when it is located on a locked layer, so I can't find out which layer it is on other than try & error turning layers on and off, right?

cheers
Mikar

Hi,

I'd like to have some indication of what layer an obkect is on. Seems to me the only way to find out is to turn on and off one layer after another and see what disappears and what doesn't. Maybe a properties tag or the object's layer highlights somehow. Maybe a problem with objects on locked layers, as they cannot be selected at all?

Thanks
Mikar

Hi,

seems the text jumps a bit to the bottom and right when going into editing and back when going out. I find it quite annoying when layouting title blocks and such.

Regards
Mikar

Hi,

I'd like to have a graphical indicator for where the fog starts and ends within the model, e.g. two lines or planes which one can move around between which the fog is min and max.

Thanks
Mikar