Never mind. I was using the right-click toolbar area > customize > options tab > keyboard button instead of edit menu > preferences > shortcuts.
Posts made by pipingguy
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RE: Keyboard shortcuts
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Keyboard shortcuts
I assigned the K key as a shortcut for the label tool in LayOut. Just a simple press of the K key - not in combination with shift or ctrl. But now I can't figure out how I did it. The interface is not as good as sketchup's.
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RE: Text Label Tool Behavior
OK. But I wonder why the text tool correctly reports the revised edge length if i stretch the cylinder using fredo scale box stretching. After all, it has been re-scaled since the context menu un-grays the option to reset same.
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Text Label Tool Behavior
When you attach a text label to an edge, it should display its length. But it is way off on one of the objects here. What am I not understanding?
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RE: Curviloft default settings
That's OK. I will just continue doing it in 4 pieces, then 'welding' them together.
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RE: Curviloft default settings
OK.....I updated my Fredo files. However, I am still unable to preserve the parameter 'junction by orthogonal elliptical curves' as a user-defined default. I am not really seeing anything in the parameters dialogue box that would be applicable. See attached images.
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'stress' lines appear in AutoCAD
Take a look at the attachment. Autodesk forum suggests I build models in their environment since "Trimble and Autodesk are not playing well together". Note - if i export out of sketchup as 2D graphic, the stress lines do not occur - but I need to work in 3D 90% of the time.
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RE: LO 2018 - exporting to .dwg becomes image file
OK - Thanks.
DISCOVERED: If I leave LO's VP's as raster, the export process generates a .dwg file PLUS a folder containing the png image files. When the .dwg file is opened with AutoCAD, it xrefs the images - but you can freeze the images layer to have a wireframe visual style, if desired.
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LO 2018 - exporting to .dwg becomes image file
When I export a LayOut file to a .dwg file extension choice, it ends up as a .png file. Actually, a separate .png file for each LO viewport is generated.
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RE: Curviloft default settings
I wish it would retain settings as you describe. But it always reverts back to 'smooth junction by a single cubic bezier curve' every time I activate the tool within the same session. Could outdated script be the issue? see attached pdf.
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RE: Curviloft default settings
In the "Default Parameters: Curviloft" thing being suggested, I just tried unchecking all boxes associated with quads > saved changes > re-launched skp - but still getting same old softened edge results.
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Curviloft default settings
When using "loft junctions between surfaces based on spline curves", can the various choices in each of the tool palette's panels be set as user-defined defaults? For example, 95% of the time I use 'junction by orthogonal elliptical curves' in the Spline Method panel. Also - is there a way to force the generated geometry's edges to follow a user's pre-defined degree of softness? Just trying to save some click time.
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LayOut VP refresh tip
If you change a camera position in a model's scene, and then update model reference in the associated LO file, you would expect the viewport linked to that scene to automatically update. However, it rarely seems to work for me.
But then I tried re-check-marking the scene in the viewport's context menu and got success.
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Nudge stuff in LayOut el-rapido
I never knew you could ''hyper-nudge'' selected objects by holding down the the shift key while using the arrow keys. Is this an improvement in 2018, or has it been around for a while?
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RE: Hidden lines not visible in Layout
OK Dave....now I understand what's going on. At first, I thought the foreground object had a style that shows both solid and dashed lines, and the other one had a style with dashed lines only - although I am not aware of any such style. But your opaque screen is what gives the effect to the latter - not a separate style. This post piqued my interest because it just so happens I had to generate a CD for a steel angle iron frame a few days ago. But I became frustrated at not being able to find a style/render combo to clearly display dashed line back edges. Raster/back edges works, but gives a fuzzy result. And as was mentioned in the post, dashed lines need to be manually traced onto the canvas with LO's line tool. Not something I care to do since several modifications to the object's design often take place which requires time-consuming manual re-tracing updates in LO.
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RE: Hidden lines not visible in Layout
I agree. So how are two different styles being displayed? What am I not comprehending?
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RE: Hidden lines not visible in Layout
I'm a little confused. How can two different styles exist on one skp screen? Or is it a LO screencap with two overlapping VP's with each having different styles? The axis lines makes me think the former.