The "Duh!" thread (aka the Doh! thread)

[Align]

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?

[thomthom]

Select the edges and and activate offset...

[EscapeArtist]

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

[pilou]

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!

[Ecuadorian]

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!

[Chris Fullmer]

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.

Chris

[Gaieus]

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.

[plot-paris]

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

[plot-paris]

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)

[thomthom]

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".

[plot-paris]

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

[Gaieus]

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.

[plot-paris]

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...

[broomstick]

I just discovered that the erase function hides and smoothes edges if you use it in combination with atl ctrl an shift...

DUH!!

[Ecuadorian]

Today I discovered that I can drag-and-drop images straight from Firefox into the SketchUp viewport.

[pilou]

I discovered that I can drag-and-drop images straight from Firefox into the SketchUp viewport.

Tricky and speedy

[Chris Fullmer]

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...

[plot-paris]

just out of interest: what function did you assign to
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Q???

[Gaieus]

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)

[Chris Fullmer]

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!

[pilou]

just out of interest: what function did you assign to
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Q???

A list of shortcuts

[mitcorb]

It is my auto-assinate button in SU

Now, what would an "auto-assinate" button do, exactly?
Hee Hee!

[Chris Fullmer]

I struggle...

[pilou]

Triangulate a simple rectangle surface with the Sand box?
Just draw a diagonal first!
Then apply the Sand box "Add détails"

[pilou]

A cool one!
The Duhduh of the day! Never used!
Thx Jeff

[KXI System]

Thing was, the people who I looked up to as pro's...

Are the ones that had the most "duh!"s

[Gaieus]

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...

[ely862me]

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...

[KXI System]

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...

[Jim]

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.