To do this press “/” instead of the “*” key. This tells Sketchup you want to make a copy. For multiple copies, equally spaced apart, tell Sketchup how many copies you want by typing “5*” (for example) to make five copies spaced apart the same distance as the original copy.Īn Alternative SketchUp keyword shortcut you can use the same method but to make multiple copies in between two points. Next, tap the CTRL button on your keyboard. Then, with the Move Tool, click your mouse once to start the move Google SketchUp Shortcuts Editing Keyboard Stickers are laminated and made with typographical method on high-quality Matt Vinyl using non-toxic materials. Click the Keyboard button at the bottom of the dialog box. – Type the desired shortcut key in the ‘Add Shortcut’ boxĬopy and paste is not always the best option in SketchUp when moving or copying an objectįirst, select the object you wish to copy. Adding and Editing Keyboard Shortcuts From the menu bar, select View > Toolbars > Customize. Varies depending on which tool is selected try it when in doubt Center-click Temporarily switches to the Orbit tool. – Select the function that you want to create a shortcut for. SketchUp Keystroke Shortcuts Octo2 of 2 Arch 610, Fall 2006 Mouse Shortcuts Right-click Context sensitive.
From here you will see all of the functions that you can set a keyboard shortcut for. The great thing about SketchUp is that you can also create your own custom keyboard shortcuts. We recommend looking up the shortcut key for the tools that you use the most. All of the commonly used tools have their own keyboard shortcut: Using keyboard shortcuts will save you a huge amount of time when modelling in SketchUp. Locking the axis also allows you to reference other points in your model to align your object to. You can also use the SHIFT key while aligned to an axis to lock it to that axis. Push and pull tool - push or pull a copy of the face, leaving original in place. This is particularly useful when moving an object in SketchUp simply tap one of the arrow keys on your keyboard to lock movement along the desired axis. Paint bucket tool - replace material on object, paint all matching faces on the same object. One of the most straightforward tips, but very handy! If you’re having a hard time getting the line you’re drawing to snap or lock to a particular axis, use the arrow keys. We hope you find them as helpful as we do! 1. What hasnt changed is that for efficient work in SketchUp, you should be using keyboard shortcuts instead of clicking on the icons in the toolbars, at least for the most often used commands.
If I run the script when Adobe Acrobat window is active, then it is only able to run once and the Windows ( ⊞) key stops working (and some other mayhem), and I have to logout of Windows and log in back in order to resole that.Pro Tips We’ve put together a collection of 3 of our favourite simple SketchUp shortcuts and tips that we find extremely useful here in the Elmtec office that should help a lot of beginners out. With the release of SketchUp 2013, many of the tool icon images changed. The "test.png" parts ends up being "tttest.png", "ftttest.png" and etc. If I run the script when SketchUp window is active, it does everything it is supposed to do, but for some reason there are some artifacts from the If WinActive("Acrobat") conditional statement part. Therefore I have resorted to using SendInput for Adobe Acrobat. The WinMenuSelectItem,, , File, Export To, Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation (and WinMenuSelectItem in general) does not work on Adobe products. The SketchUp export hotkey works fine, but I am running into issues with Adobe Acrobat. WinMenuSelectItem,, , File, Export, 2D Graphic. The AutoHotKey sript is as follows: SetTitleMatchMode, 2 I am trying to make Windows+Shift+E ( ⊞+ SHIFT+ E) hotkey in order to quicken exports in SketchUp and Adobe Acrobat.