Of course, you can group it and label it, and assign it a tag that you name “wall”.īut my point is, you’re not confined to working within certain tools for certain types of objects that the SketchUp team has decided you should be creating.
There is no “Wall tool”, or “Floor tool”, but you’re free to draw a rectangle and extrude it and hereby declare that this extruded rectangle shall now be known as a “WALL”. That’s sort of the beauty behind SketchUp.
SketchUp is, at its core, a surface polygon modeler, meaning, everything is either a face or an edge. What you’ll find in all of the SketchUp 3D modeling platforms is an easy-to-use, fun 3D modeling program. You can start using it right now, at The SketchUp foundation To recap, the current free version of SketchUp is called SketchUp Free, which is a web-based version of SketchUp that runs right in your browser. □ You’ll learn more about the differences between all the various SketchUp products below. Most notably, you can only use extensions on the desktop versions of SketchUp. There are several differences between the desktop and browser versions of SketchUp. I will say that a tool like this is very promising, especially for models where all the vertices are slightly off axis – this might be able to fix them very quickly.To replace SketchUp Make, Trimble launched an entirely web-based SketchUp platform on which you’ll find SketchUp Free. I think this is probably user error on my part, and it may be doing exactly what it’s supposed to do.
My understanding of the way they’re supposed to work is that they’re supposed to take a series of edges and set them so that the vertices are aligned on certain axes, but I keep getting weird results. The last set of tools are a bit confusing to me. Again – very useful for CAD files Make Vertices Colinear This can be very useful for shrinking the size of your model, but be careful as it will also make your curves less smooth.
Simplify curves reduces the number of edges contained in your curves in your model. If any of you have a more comprehensive description of how exactly this works, please leave a comment below □ Simplify Curves Erase Stray CurvesĮrase stray curves seems to erase curves that don’t seem to be part of complete edge loops. For example, a tolerance of 3/8” will fill in all gaps 3/8” and smaller.
Setting the tolerance will allow you to adjust how far the extension is willing to go to fill in gaps. This is MASSIVELY useful when working with CAD files that you’ve imported. From there, you can use the next tool, close all edge gaps, to fill in these gaps. It will then highlight these gaps within your SketchUp model. Inspect and close edge gaps is a very useful tool that analyzes your model and looks for gaps between edges. One cool function of this feature is that it will split a face on either side of an opening as long as the face is uninterrupted. This can be especially useful if you’re trying to split a face with a line parallel to one of the edges. Split faces allows you to split up faces within your model based on the face’s edges.
As with most of Thom Thom’s tools, these seem to be tools that he designed for use himself, then made available as an extension to everyone else. This extension contains a suite of tools designed for doing different things with Edges within SketchUp.
Where can you get it? You can download it from the SketchUp extension warehouse Edge Tools Functions If so, please consider supporting me on Patreon (click here to support) or by visiting my Support the Show Page! In this video, I talk about edge tools – an edge management and editing extension for SketchUp from the developer Thom Thom!ĭo you like these SketchUp tutorials and videos? EDGE TOOLS FOR SKETCHUP by Thom Thom – SketchUp Extension of the Week