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

[L i am]

You probably missed this, too. If you want to place the same radius on other corners, double click near them.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[david_h]

I know I should know this (being a top sketchukator and all--- Yeah, I am having a hard time containing my laughter too. . .)but as I said. .I know I should know this but I don't:

as I go between scenes with sections how can I toggle between them and keep the section plane window off so I dont have to manually turn them off each time? I have always found the scene menu in SU very confusing and conveluted and I can't seem to get this to work as I want. Help please? Thanks.

David_H

scene_1.jpg

[Dave R]

David, you can access them in the Outliner. Right click on the desired section cut in Outliner and activate it or deactivate as needed.

[david_h]

Dave. . thanks for the response and please excuse the follow up. . . I guess I'm not following, or i didn't make my question clear and I don't use outliiner that much. . .is there a way to save the scene updates so that the windows just stay off? I don't see how Outline does that for me.

Thx,

D

[david_h]

Never mind. .. I think I got it. I just update after the outliner thing. Correct?

Thx,

D

[Dave R]

Oh. Sorry. I didn't get that part. The display of section planes is a style setting thing so edit the style to turn them off, update the style and update the scenes.

Actually, if you edit the style and then update the scene, you should get a warning that tells you the style has been edited and asking if you want to update the style or create a new one.

[david_h]

Thank you! it's really quite amazing how much of the basic stuff you forget when you don't dealwith it that often.

D

[Dave R]

Yes it is amazing indeed.

And it shows how deep SketchUp can be.

[rv1974]

Curic Extend is amazing!
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[pilou]

A tool EXTRUDE EDGES BY VECTOR BY tig don't make the same ?

[rv1974]

no, Curic works with multiple independent objects (groups, components) and\or its faces instantly.
Does Tig's one extrude to a curved object?

[Dave R]

Does Tig's one extrude to a curved object?

Yes.

[rv1974]

Very good, but once again ability to process multiple objects regardless the context makes night and day difference.

[TIG]

no, Curic works with multiple independent objects (groups, components) and\or its faces instantly.
Does Tig's one extrude to a curved object?

My EE... tool extends selected edges and by connection their faces to any objects in the way of the vector-path, or a picked point on that path - whichever is appropriate. It doesn't process the contents of selected groups etc, so you must edit them and select the geometry to process.
The objects to which it extrudes must include some faces [even if nested inside groups etc] - so curved surfaces are accommodated...

[Khai]

My biggest Doh!

Struggling with microfaces on a component..

Brain : this is a component!
Me : I know
Brain : no, this is a component, get it?
Me : I know! Will you shuv up?
Brain : idiot. Copy it, enlarge it 500% over there, and then work on it, they won't be microfaces anymore and life will be easy. Pillock.

[Box]

Why on earth is Curic Extend in this thread!
If you want to post it put it in a thread of its own in the Plugins SubForum.

[Dave R]

My biggest Doh!

Struggling with microfaces on a component..

Brain : this is a component!
Me : I know
Brain : no, this is a component, get it?
Me : I know! Will you shuv up?
Brain : idiot. Copy it, enlarge it 500% over there, and then work on it, they won't be microfaces anymore and life will be easy. Pillock.

As demonstrated by Box:

https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewto ... 18&t=68150

[david_h]

Fellow Wizards:

so in previous versions of SU there was a blue icon with a query (?) symbol or something that would give you all the statistics of a model and the ability to fix and purge throughout. What happened to that too in V 18? Entity Info doesn't quite do it for me.

thx,

D

[Dave R]

so in previous versions of SU there was a blue icon with a query (?) symbol or something that would give you all the statistics...

I suspect you mean the Query tool which creates something that looks like this:

Screenshot - 3_25_2019 , 10_26_40 AM.png

That is part of the Utilities Tools available from the Extension Warehouse.

[david_h]

Thanks Dave. No. . it was a statistics tool of some kind. I didn't use it much but I need it today to find out where some problems are and that it can fix them.

It had a menu that would come up that would show all the entities and an option to fix problems etc.

again, Thanks.

D

EDIT: This just in:

I think I found it!

thx again.

[Dave R]

CleanUp3? TIG's Purge All?

Do you still have the older version of SketchUp installed so you could check to see what it is called?

[david_h]

info.png

It was in the Window Menu. I just did't know to look for it there cuz it had it's own toolbar icon but it doesn't now.

So. . . .

never mind.jpg

[pilou]

A cool one never too late!

- Draw a box
- Draw a Line Guide in whatever direction wished
- Release the mouse and type any integer fraction N/D in the VCB with your 2 hands!
7/3 for example...
(any time you want till the good position of the Guide line wished!

I don't know why that works not with N*D or N+D or N-D

doh_guide_line.jpg

[pilou]

With the same tool : how to draw an only one Guide Point in the Space without plugin!

Draw with the Tape tool any one Guide point on an Edge (not on an hot point)
(on a middle edge you can't draw a guide point)

Move this Guide Point in the space

Et voilà

GIF_move_one_guid_point.gif

[slbaumgartner]

I don't know why that works not with N*D or N+D or N-D

It works with N/D as a side effect of supporting fractional inches. Though it's a common request, the measurement box doesn't support arithmetic and doesn't really understand division other than integer ratios.

[Bep]

Don't make this mistake.

I unfolded a cilinder/ring, and measured its area (cm²) with the tekst tool, with hidden lines turned off in view. (bottom strip of fig 1)
The strip at the top drawn with the rectangle tool shows the correct area.
although the face, when selected looks undivided, the square cm² turn out to be only for a part of the ring.(fig 2)

I notest, that drawn with the rectangle tool, entity-info identify's the rectangle as a face, and the unfolded rectangle as a surface.

fig 1

hidden lines off.PNG

fig 2

hidden lines on.PNG

test.skp

[david_h]

So I have a question. . .and this is coming from a "Top Sketchucator"

(try and contain your laughter at least till I pose the question )

i am trying to import a collection of materials from a previous version of SU and I can't get those to stay put in my materials pallet. Each time I open us SU I have to reload them.

What am I doing wrong? Needless to say, I don't do this a lot.

[Dave R]

David, what operating system? What SketchUp version?

Is this a collection of materials in a folder?

[TIG]

From the 'palette' phrasing I guess you are on a MAC ?

No matter, when you import a collection into a model those collection-materials are available in that model.
When you open a new model [or an older one] those collection-materials are not there - why would they be ?

If you want the material-collection to be available in all new models, then open an empty new model from your template, add the collection-materials, then save the model as a template - overwriting your usual template, OR making a new template, and setting that as your default-template.

Now all new models will have those collection-materials associated with it ?
You should also be able to associate the collection with existing models ?

[david_h]

Thank you my Brethren.

I am on 2019, Win 10.

To TIG's point, I think i need to load these into the template.

thx,

D