Posts made by mingjae

hello it's me again,

is it another way to create a more complex pillow than using follow me tool,
I have use move tool+alt key but it didn't shape well.

should I use some plugins maybe?free plugins?

thx

thank you very much!
that's more than enough to learn sketchup for me.

hello, this is my 2nd question in Newbie forum,
May senior will help me and another newbie viewers to improve their skills to the next level.

after explore the basic shape, rectangle,cirle,and triangle,
I'm confused with the complex shape, like a pillow model, a Chair, and an apple maybe
How can they do that with line tool perhaps?
I dunno but I try to design an interior of a bedroom and i have no idea how to shape it.

thx

@gaieus said:

It's not just looking more tidy but once a set of segments are welded into a single polyline/curve, it can be selected with a single click while you need to select the segments individually until it is welded.

yes, I almost forget that,
but if I weld the blueprint line with double click and weld it, it always appear a bug splat message, so what I do is select 3-5 lines and weld it, and so on

and thanks for remind me for the style in SU,
I have tried use default style and that give more tidy in line meet line,
but after I use follow me tool, the un-welded line still appear, so the weld plugin is
very usefull. thanks

hmm...how about try something what just i got from Gaieus,
triple click on the window with bricks attach to it, and right click>intersect with model,
and hide the window frame, and try to erase the line in the face of the wall after intersect it.

I don't know, but it is still complicated way, maybe another senior could help?

hello there, i'm a beginner in SketchUp to..
may this will help you to save the time

step 1: triple click on object , it will select all whole lines/object linking each other, if you don't want some lines to be selected, just press Ctrl+shift and select the object and press "M" to Move.

step 2: after select an object (you can group it using right click>make group)and press
"M" then press ctrl to make duplicate, move in red axis, and simply type the length eq.2mtrs to set distance between the windows

step 3: if you want to duplicate many2 windows, then type xn (where n=amount of the object want to be copy) x9 means copy it 9times..

ok.may this usefull (sorry bad english)

Its WooW...

thanks to Gaieus for the Welding Tools link
my model looks more tidy and clean now

thanks everyone

Hope this info will help another beginner to improve SketchUp skill.

firstly, thanks for your fast reply.

" 'B' are still Arcs - you only see the end-markers as you have end-points set to be 'on' in your Style. "

is it something on my style that mark every end points? Can I turn it off?

" 'A' has been exploded [somehow] so that is is no longer an Arc but now a series of Edges that used to be the 'segments' of the original Arc.
You could simply erase 'A' and re-draw a new Arc ? [use some guides to mark parts to snap to before erasing it, if needed]"

hmm..that's hard to draw a new arc line, coz it is created from arc+arc+arc, and will not get this "nearly perfect" line, by the way of trying to draw new arc line, how to draw a mark?
I usually use "T" key to mark but it's a line

@Gaieus : thanks for the snap trick, It Works!

hello, I'm a beginner in sketch up and hope somebody can give me/us
an explanation to improve the skill of using this software (sorry bad english)

1.this is a basic model of Glass using Rec and Arc Tool

why arc line B is smooth-er than arc line A?
Is it a trick to make it smooth? Coz the blueprint need very complex line( arc+arc+arc, etc)
It will affect my model after I use "follow Me" Tool.

2.How to snap my cursor to center of a circle? (moved/Copied cirle)

thanks very much