Can I select a group of vertices and align them?

[Gully_Foyle]

@Spaceboy64

I feel so awkward most of the time because it seems so antithetical to the way I’m used to doing things in almost all other software.

Don,

I used CorelDraw for about fifteen years before I ever heard of SU, and I could pretty much do what I needed to do without even thinking about it. Now when I run Corel I have to fumble around trying to remember how it works, and I become annoyed with it for not behaving sensibly like SU.

To use coordinates for the target (to) location of a Move, first start to move the object as normal with the mouse. Be sure to grab the object with the mouse on the point that is to be sent to elevation 0. Once you’ve begun the move, notice that the prompt “Length” appears next to the measurement box and the actual distance moved so far with the mouse starts rolling in the box itself. The rolling numbers mean that SU is ready to receive numeric input, should you wish to enter exact values. As soon as you see these rolling numbers, take your hand off the mouse without clicking and start typing: whatever you type will replace the rolling value in the box. Don’t click in the box. Type a value and hit Enter.

At this point you can enter a length or a coordinate. <x,y,z> (angle brackets) denotes a relative coordinate, and [x,y,z] (square brackets) denotes an absolute coodinate. To send the object to the ground, leaving its x,y coordinates unchanged, use absolute coordinates and omit values for x and y, using only comma delimiters to mark their places, thus: [,0].

-Gully

[Spaceboy64]

@Gully_Foyle

To send the object to the ground, leaving its x,y coordinates unchanged, use absolute coordinates and omit values for x and y, using only comma delimiters to mark their places, thus: [,0].

Thanks, I will give that a try.

@Gully_Foyle

I used CorelDraw for about fifteen years before I ever heard of SU, and I could pretty much do what I needed to do without even thinking about it. Now when I run Corel I have to fumble around

Yes, this is the problem. My employer uses Adobe Illustrator, but I occasionally work a T-shirt printer who uses Corel Draw, and at home, I use Inkscape, because it’s free. Keeping them all straight in my head is near impossible. Seems I’m always looking for a command that only exists in another program.

I am currently working on a stage set. I built the set in SketchUp, which is gives me nice dimension lines and I look at it from different angles. I figured it was very useful to do it this way. However there have been numerous problems. First, there are some elements, gears shapes, drawn in Illustrator which I would like to use. That turned out to be too difficult to do. Then my employer asked me to provide him with an Illustrator file of the curved piece that he could take to the CNC router. I managed to find a way to get a vector line PDF to him, but he said, “That’s no good, it has those curve divisions, I want a nice smooth curve. I’ll do it in Illustrator.”
I’m trying to convince him that SketchUp is a very useful tool, and If I knew how to use it properly, I probably could, so I’m trying to learn.

Thanks!