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by Align » Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:18 pm
thomthom wrote:A more recent Duh I had:
Being able to select only a few edges from a face and offset them instead of the whole face.
how do you do this?
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by thomthom » Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:21 pm
Select the edges and and activate offset...
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by EscapeArtist » Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:09 pm
plot-paris wrote:wow, cool. didn't know about that eihter. but what I would even more like to see is a push/pull  like this: strange_pushpull.jpg
It exists! Here: viewtopic.php?f=180&t=23341
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by pilou » Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:26 pm
Select an element (lines, surface) Open Entity Info yes Then when you select with Shift , Shift + Ctrl or Ctrl all surfaces or length lines are added , subbstracted, modified, visible and updated in the Entity info! 
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by Ecuadorian » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:51 am
I was working in a "mysterious" file that did not allow me to pushpull anything, and I was about to post the mysterious file here. After checking, "Snap to length" was set to a very high value. Duh!
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by Chris Fullmer » Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:50 am
I just found one for me tonight. I change the model axis pretty often when I work. But I never noticed that you can activate the axis tool (or change axis inside of a component tool) and click twice somewhere and it will move the axis to that point without changing its orientation. Normally I would have clicked once, then lined up the the axes and click and line up and click. So a double click (not too fast though!) is much faster for moving the axis.
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by Gaieus » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:04 pm
OK, this is a very painful duh: My system seemed to crash and I could not even start windows in safe mode (Mac users, don't sneer, please) so I decided to at least try to repair my system. It didn't allow me as whatever imaginable I entered, it didn't accept it as the password of the system admin. So I reinstalled (I have a recent backup of my documents at least). Then I realised that I didn1t even have a password and should have just hit Enter without entering any password. So basically this is what I wasted my Sunday for. I have a deadline tomorrow. 
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by plot-paris » Mon Nov 16, 2009 10:22 am
oh, that is a really bad one, Gaieus! I am not sure if I should burst with laughter  , feel terribly sorry for you  or just blush with embarassment, because that could just as well have happened to me 
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by plot-paris » Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:04 am
another one. after importing a messy 3Ds model and cleaning it up with Thomthoms cleanup-script (thanks again, thom), I started entering every single one of the over 1500 groups/components, to smooth their surfaces. then I just discovered, that you can apply the smoothing to groups/components, without entering them. so you can select all the groups at once and only have to do the proces once! (doesn't work with nested groups though)
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by thomthom » Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:08 am
plot-paris wrote:then I just discovered, that you can apply the smoothing to groups/components, without entering them. so you can select all the groups at once and only have to do the proces once! (doesn't work with nested groups though)
I recently discovered that as well! In regards to CleanUp - it does have a function to smooth the geometry it cleans up. If you use CleanUp Entire Model you have a field "Smooth Edges by Angle".
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by plot-paris » Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:00 pm
thomthom wrote:In regards to CleanUp - it does have a function to smooth the geometry it cleans up. If you use CleanUp Entire Model you have a field "Smooth Edges by Angle".
yet another ' Doh' I can put my Homer button to quite some use today 
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by Gaieus » Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:15 pm
plot-paris wrote:oh, that is a really bad one, Gaieus! I am not sure if I should burst with laughter  , feel terribly sorry for you  or just blush with embarassment, because that could just as well have happened to me
Well, eventually it turned out that the total HD was broken so no matter what I would've done, the repair/install wouldn't have been successful. Had to buy a new HD and reinstall everything again. 
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by plot-paris » Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:01 pm
uh, thats bad! actually, I still try to deny that hard discs just die after several years of intenseive use. its not pleasant, when the truth catches up with you...
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by broomstick » Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:07 pm
I just discovered that the erase function hides and smoothes edges if you use it in combination with atl ctrl an shift...
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by Ecuadorian » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:10 pm
Today I discovered that I can drag-and-drop images straight from Firefox into the SketchUp viewport. 
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by pilou » Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:05 am
I discovered that I can drag-and-drop images straight from Firefox into the SketchUp viewport.
 Tricky and speedy 
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by Chris Fullmer » Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:02 am
I just discovered that you can use more than one modifier key when setting up shortcut keys. example ctrl + shift + alt + Q or snything along those lines. I never reazlied that... 
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by plot-paris » Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:08 pm
just out of interest: what function did you assign to Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Q???
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by Gaieus » Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:32 pm
When I press that, it triggers an automatic poking of you on Facebook. (I dare not try if there is anything assigned to it by default because I am rendering an animation) 
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by Chris Fullmer » Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:44 pm
It is my auto-assinate button in SU  I don't really have it assigned to anything. It was just an example of how complex a "shortcut" could be. I thought I was stuck to simple single modifiers. Double modifiers could greatly expand my shortcut range though!
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by pilou » Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:56 pm
just out of interest: what function did you assign to Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Q???
A list of shortcuts 
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by mitcorb » Thu Jan 07, 2010 11:07 pm
Chris Fullmer wrote:It is my auto-assinate button in SU 
Now, what would an "auto- assinate" button do, exactly? Hee Hee!
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by Chris Fullmer » Thu Jan 07, 2010 11:19 pm
I struggle...
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by pilou » Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:10 pm
Triangulate a simple rectangle surface with the Sand box?  Just draw a diagonal first! Then apply the Sand box "Add détails" 
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by pilou » Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:16 pm
A cool one! The Duhduh of the day! Never used! Thx Jeff 
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by KXI System » Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:17 am
Thing was, the people who I looked up to as pro's... Are the ones that had the most "duh!"s 
Getting the perfect sig is hard...
Google it!
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by Gaieus » Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:19 am
KXI System wrote:Thing was, the people who I looked up to as pro's...
Are the ones that had the most "duh!"s
That's because only those who think have genuine doh moments... 
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by ely862me » Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:48 am
Gaieus wrote:KXI System wrote:Thing was, the people who I looked up to as pro's...
Are the ones that had the most "duh!"s
That's because only those who think have genuine doh moments... 

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by KXI System » Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:12 pm
OK, I'll share a duh moment. THE COMPONENT DIALOG BOX IS JUST A MINI 3-D WAREHOUSE WINDOW! I found out by trying to search for a component and ended up with the same search results as the first page in the 3-D warehouse. WARNING, THE FOLLOWING DUH MOMENT IS PROVEN TO DECREASE PRODUCTION BY 1000%! OK, first I found one of the antics figures off the warehouse (not through the component dialog window). Now all antic models have a link to the same youtube video, so I clicked on it and next thing you know I have youtube fully working inside sketchup!  I got nothing done that day...
Getting the perfect sig is hard...
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by Jim » Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:14 am
Just learned the physical size of the SU window matters when trying to print to scale.
No matter what I did I could not get my unscaled print on a single page, even though it would have easily fit on a single page. After making the SU window narrower than the height, SketchUp decided it would fit a a single sheet after all.
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