I guess this feature has been updated for a bit, but it's a MASSIVE timesaver, especially with dynamic cabinets. Let me know if you've been using it in the comments below! :)
I knew this before this vid but yes it took me way too long to learn that you can scale by measurement (Feet/inches) compared to the normal scale by percentage. This is a great tip vid for beginners. Most likely don't know it. Also selecting edges and moving should also be basic common practice (I do this all the time) and in other vids you've also covered fredos (or tig?) box scaling are all tools to do the same/similar thing and people should be knowledgeable about all of these abilities. There is a reason I'm very proficient in SKP and still watch these and Aarons/Tysons and other SKP vids is because there are always little things that most don't know or forget etc... Separately, dynamic components are a godsend when done right and very underappreciated. I wish they were more high quality as most are very basic and not worthy of rendering but I keep a library of dynamic components (and everything else) and Im always keeping an eye our for new DC. The SKP warehouse has a good library of windows as example that are dynamic components. I use marvin ones a lot because they have a large library of near every type of window and the models are well detailed and very customizable. FYI, a new version of both d5 and enscape came out today.
Hey Justin, one thing I often bump to throughout many Sketchup versions is when I scale even just a simple object like a square box to a long rectangle box, it looks fine without material. But once I apply material onto it... nuh uh. All messed up
Fair Comment - outside of using the FredoScale extension, you could just explode and regroup the object after scaling it, though this would remove any component functionality. Also probably could use something like ThruPaint
That one works only for simple (straight) objects, and not nested too much, if the object is too complex (not straight, but curved with a lot of edges and faces)... it just has limitations for the amount of geometry that it can process. Instead, Fredo Scale can process more complex and more nested, but still has limitations. But, Curic Stretch is the best - I don't know if it has limitations, cause I didn't reached them yet. :)
@@florinapostoiuHow can you stretch curved object without distorting, it's not about effectiveness of the plugin, you just can't stretch organic models without distorting but you can scale them yes, while stretch by area wich is free and other similar payed are for symetrical things only like cabinets
@@triumfdula8830 🤣🤣I speak only from experience...! 🤣 I was in a situation, where a cabinet assembly had a curved door on the left end, and another curved door on the right end, but between those two doors, I had 4-5 straight doors which at some point I needed to make them wider but equal, everything was very big ant pretty nested... Well, Stretch by Area did nothing, I mean nothing at all, Fredo did something but not everything (just creating a bit of a mess...), and Curic had no problem at all.! How is that for a... "curved".!? 🤣
He is a tip, say you have a window opening 3 ft from the ground, but you want it 4ft, You can select the surface on the bottom of window opening and select an edge on the floor that allows you to scale up to 4 ft. Save loads of time. I have some plugin I would like you to review, Would you be interest, Not charge just a review.
I'm not understanding the problem using the shift key. I'm using Sketchup 2017 and I'm able to use the shift key to enter inches. I make small woodworking projects and I use this feature frequently.
I guess this feature has been updated for a bit, but it's a MASSIVE timesaver, especially with dynamic cabinets. Let me know if you've been using it in the comments below! :)
It's already there from a long time ago, may be before SketchUp was aquired by Google (I don't remember exactly).
I knew this before this vid but yes it took me way too long to learn that you can scale by measurement (Feet/inches) compared to the normal scale by percentage. This is a great tip vid for beginners. Most likely don't know it. Also selecting edges and moving should also be basic common practice (I do this all the time) and in other vids you've also covered fredos (or tig?) box scaling are all tools to do the same/similar thing and people should be knowledgeable about all of these abilities. There is a reason I'm very proficient in SKP and still watch these and Aarons/Tysons and other SKP vids is because there are always little things that most don't know or forget etc...
Separately, dynamic components are a godsend when done right and very underappreciated. I wish they were more high quality as most are very basic and not worthy of rendering but I keep a library of dynamic components (and everything else) and Im always keeping an eye our for new DC. The SKP warehouse has a good library of windows as example that are dynamic components. I use marvin ones a lot because they have a large library of near every type of window and the models are well detailed and very customizable.
FYI, a new version of both d5 and enscape came out today.
The distance works in 2017 if you use metric distances just put mm, cm or m after the numeric input.
I wanted them to support this years ago and didn't know support was added. Thanks for letting us know, and that the shift-key problem is also fixed.
Lol - only took me a year and a half to figure it out
can you please make a tutorial of modelling an organic cave in sketchup? Thank you
Hey Justin, one thing I often bump to throughout many Sketchup versions is when I scale even just a simple object like a square box to a long rectangle box, it looks fine without material. But once I apply material onto it... nuh uh. All messed up
Fair Comment - outside of using the FredoScale extension, you could just explode and regroup the object after scaling it, though this would remove any component functionality. Also probably could use something like ThruPaint
"Stretch by area" plugin solves all distortion problems
That one works only for simple (straight) objects, and not nested too much, if the object is too complex (not straight, but curved with a lot of edges and faces)... it just has limitations for the amount of geometry that it can process.
Instead, Fredo Scale can process more complex and more nested, but still has limitations.
But, Curic Stretch is the best - I don't know if it has limitations, cause I didn't reached them yet. :)
@florinapostoiu BS - no limitations with nesting/polycount for a *decades*
@@studio2513 You really are s....d, for sure.!
@@florinapostoiuHow can you stretch curved object without distorting, it's not about effectiveness of the plugin, you just can't stretch organic models without distorting but you can scale them yes, while stretch by area wich is free and other similar payed are for symetrical things only like cabinets
@@triumfdula8830 🤣🤣I speak only from experience...! 🤣
I was in a situation, where a cabinet assembly had a curved door on the left end, and another curved door on the right end, but between those two doors, I had 4-5 straight doors which at some point I needed to make them wider but equal, everything was very big ant pretty nested...
Well, Stretch by Area did nothing, I mean nothing at all, Fredo did something but not everything (just creating a bit of a mess...), and Curic had no problem at all.!
How is that for a... "curved".!? 🤣
He is a tip, say you have a window opening 3 ft from the ground, but you want it 4ft, You can select the surface on the bottom of window opening and select an edge on the floor that allows you to scale up to 4 ft. Save loads of time. I have some plugin I would like you to review, Would you be interest, Not charge just a review.
Depends on what it is - shoot me an email - www.thesketchupessentials.com/contact/
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I'm not understanding the problem using the shift key. I'm using Sketchup 2017 and I'm able to use the shift key to enter inches. I make small woodworking projects and I use this feature frequently.
Holding the shift key at least on my PC to type the " symbol on versions prior to 2023 locks the tool into uniform scaling mode, which was not ideal
@ well, it does work on Sketchup 2017
sir is it possible to scale in centimeter? not in feet or inches..
@@DILEEPKUMAR-sg6fx no, only inches or parsecs
Yes, just enter "30cm" (for example). Just add the unit follow the number: Ex: 1m, 100cm or 1000mm, they're all accepted
I guess you could use CAPS LOCK
I don't think Caps lock works in this case - on my PC all this does is locks to capital letters
Sketchup is very poor in stretching, scaling,, etc
What do you mean? Having used Rhino, Blender, SU, etc, it doesn't seem THAT different