Aaron: I love your videos. They are very understandable and helpful. Someday it would be nice to see one showing the steps to take to move a drawing into Layout and print it for a client. Thanks for all you do.
I find the Rotate tool the most difficult to use. It's just me I guess and not enough 'stick time' so to speak with the tool to get proficient with it. I wish it was possible to tap the R,B, or G key to lock to a specific axis after clicking on the origin or first point, then click on the second point, release and perform the rotation to complete the action.
On your last example (rotating on inferred axis and around a circle) can you do all of them at one time? Like, set the inferred rotation point on one and have it apply to all selected cubes?
I would say I 3d print 99% of my sketchup models...but I have a large model I'd like to make out of wood right now. I don't own a CNC or laser cutter. I have been trying to print the view from above so I can tape it to a sheet of plywood and just cut it out with a jigsaw...but I'm stuck. I can't figure out how to get it to print to scale correctly on to four sheets of standard paper. Essentially I'm trying to make a large poster size template to scale where sheet 1 would be the upper left, sheet 2 the upper right, 3 lower left, 4 lower right. Has anyone successfully done such a thing?
Yes you can do that To make 1:1 temple take your project to layout A3 size paper and save it as PDF and then when printing the PDF select "Poster" in that there is "Tile Scale" Box put "100%" in that and in "Overlap" box put "0" and then print it It will come as you want 1:1 ratio 👍
Cool stuff as usual...It will be great if you can use the sketchup web version to show the workings of the command and highlight the differences/limitations of the web and professional versions
Great videos in this playlist, I haven't come over any better so far, and I'm sure I'll return to them fore a freshup quite often. Maybe you have covered it in a video I haven't seen yet, but when you get lost in a model and want to return to the view from where you started, is there a shortcut to do that?
Hi @eblieider! Glad the videos have been helpful. You can either create a Scene with a specific camera location or click Zoom Extents (the icon looks like a magnifying glass with arrows coming out) to view your whole model.
Would be great to see a video of how to rotate one piece relative to another piece. Let’s say one plank with a 45 degree angle which needs to be rotate to another plank which is on the horizontal axis. If that makes sense.
First, there's a 25s gap of silence in this video starting at 9:18 that should have been edited out. It causes confusion, making you think your computer audio stopped working. Second, I came here to learn how to make any 2 edges line up with each other. Put most simply: given 2 lines connected end-to-end at some random angle in space, how do you rotate one to make it co-linear with the other? It took me days to figure out how to do it at all, and I wanted to find an easier way. (My way involves drawing a little triangle where they meet and using that surface to orient the rotate tool.)
Alas, this video was created weeks ago. I was able to replace the thumbnail, but not the intro animation. Moving forward all videos will contain the correct marks!
Are there any native tools or extensions that allow components to be pinned to another component. And if I move one of those components the other 1 moves in a relative motion. For instance if I had a square with 4 hinges On each corner And I moved one side of the square the whole shape would morph into a diamond.
HELP!! I can’t get help from the website on downloading the free trial. I get a message that several .dll’s are missing. Please help! I’m already 2 days into the free trial but the download didn’t work.
Aaron: I love your videos. They are very understandable and helpful. Someday it would be nice to see one showing the steps to take to move a drawing into Layout and print it for a client. Thanks for all you do.
Thank you! For some reason rotation always confuses me in these 3D apps, so this really helped
I find the Rotate tool the most difficult to use. It's just me I guess and not enough 'stick time' so to speak with the tool to get proficient with it.
I wish it was possible to tap the R,B, or G key to lock to a specific axis after clicking on the origin or first point, then click on the second point, release and perform the rotation to complete the action.
I suspect they use 'q' for rotate because 'r' is already used, but if you're really geeky you might think 'quaternion'...
thank you
On your last example (rotating on inferred axis and around a circle) can you do all of them at one time? Like, set the inferred rotation point on one and have it apply to all selected cubes?
I would say I 3d print 99% of my sketchup models...but I have a large model I'd like to make out of wood right now. I don't own a CNC or laser cutter.
I have been trying to print the view from above so I can tape it to a sheet of plywood and just cut it out with a jigsaw...but I'm stuck.
I can't figure out how to get it to print to scale correctly on to four sheets of standard paper. Essentially I'm trying to make a large poster size template to scale where sheet 1 would be the upper left, sheet 2 the upper right, 3 lower left, 4 lower right.
Has anyone successfully done such a thing?
Yes you can do that
To make 1:1 temple take your project to layout A3 size paper and save it as PDF and then when printing the PDF select "Poster" in that there is "Tile Scale" Box put "100%" in that and in "Overlap" box put "0" and then print it
It will come as you want 1:1 ratio 👍
@@PR-WoodWorkingCreations Thank you!
I will be giving that a try asap.
@@PowerScissor Np 👍👍
It will Print in 1:1 Ratio 👍
I have done in Adobe PDF so If you have other pdf then I don't know the settings for it 👍
all tools needs improvement...it can be much more easier to click the object and input the rotation x y z...
Cool stuff as usual...It will be great if you can use the sketchup web version to show the workings of the command and highlight the differences/limitations of the web and professional versions
That silence at 9:30 and forward some seconds was very effectual and woke my attention to the typed commands.
exhale of frustration. mute the mic. release the frustration. comes back 😂
I'm already using Q + Arrow key.
Great Aaron, thanks.
Great videos in this playlist, I haven't come over any better so far, and I'm sure I'll return to them fore a freshup quite often. Maybe you have covered it in a video I haven't seen yet, but when you get lost in a model and want to return to the view from where you started, is there a shortcut to do that?
Hi @eblieider! Glad the videos have been helpful. You can either create a Scene with a specific camera location or click Zoom Extents (the icon looks like a magnifying glass with arrows coming out) to view your whole model.
@@SketchUp Thank you 🙂
That last tip was awesome!
Would be great to see a video of how to rotate one piece relative to another piece. Let’s say one plank with a 45 degree angle which needs to be rotate to another plank which is on the horizontal axis. If that makes sense.
Make Component: will not work with rotated parts. Unless you double click and edit inside.
At 9:02 of this my sound goes dead and comes back at 9:43
How would you rotate a box on the center axis?
First, there's a 25s gap of silence in this video starting at 9:18 that should have been edited out. It causes confusion, making you think your computer audio stopped working. Second, I came here to learn how to make any 2 edges line up with each other. Put most simply: given 2 lines connected end-to-end at some random angle in space, how do you rotate one to make it co-linear with the other? It took me days to figure out how to do it at all, and I wanted to find an easier way. (My way involves drawing a little triangle where they meet and using that surface to orient the rotate tool.)
We got a new logo, so why not post a video with the old one the next day
Alas, this video was created weeks ago. I was able to replace the thumbnail, but not the intro animation. Moving forward all videos will contain the correct marks!
Thanks :)
how do you rotate muliple objects in place? without them rotating as a group but each one individually
Are there any native tools or extensions that allow components to be pinned to another component. And if I move one of those components the other 1 moves in a relative motion.
For instance if I had a square with 4 hinges On each corner And I moved one side of the square the whole shape would morph into a diamond.
I would recommend selecting those component and grouping them together.
Q is for Quaternions. Quaternions are a mathematical construct that are used to represent rotations in 3D space.
How do you make 5x copies on the iPad?
Oh yeah ! I didn't know about moving a point before - don't know how I missed that before.
Thank you so much!!! This will help me for my computer technology class along with the other tip videos you created! I subscribed :)
That's a great video. That can really speed up placing spokes in a wheel for instance.
How do you rotate an object on its center (Z) axis?
i wish some tutorial of spiral stairs thank u
HELP!! I can’t get help from the website on downloading the free trial. I get a message that several .dll’s are missing. Please help! I’m already 2 days into the free trial but the download didn’t work.
I would recommend asking for help in the forum (forums.SketchUp.com). RUclips comments is a rough place to try to do technical support.
how can i rotate by targetting the end of parallel line
Is there a double click feature on rotate like the way push/pull works?
you have an amazing mind.
Great. Would love to see how to rotate furniture placement in a room
Well done Aaron, quick question, is it radial array or polar array. Or are they interchangeable? If not what’s the dif?
I use the term radial array... but I think polar array works, too. Honestly, I don’t know the difference!
Fabulous thank you
6:50
what if my Ctrl isn’t giving me copies?
Newer version of SketchUp require you to press and release the CTRL key at the beginning of the process.
good improve
"q" for "rotate"?
thank you ☺☺
thanks Aaron. you rock
9:10 It created a _axis_ of rotation.
Hi Aaron, I think that the tool you keep calling "compass" is really called a protractor. Nice video though!
agreed
Thank you!