Hello Sketchup people,
Thank you for all the work you put in this program. I love it!
Here is something I’d like to see in Sketchup: Lock to XYZ plans - as complementary feature to the already existing Lock to XYZ Axis.
Using arrow + a modifier key. Exemple :
I’d use that all the time for moving, drawing, measuring things…
Fredo6 has this “Move Along” tool that does just that. And I use it regularly on light models.
But as great as it is, it gets very slow on heavy models. To a point that I can’t use it when I need it most.
I think it wouldn’t clutter the Sketchup experience the least bit, if integrated that way.
That being said, it feels so obvious of a functionnality that it’s probably already there somewhere, and I missed the memo…
+1 on this, a simple modifier key and arrow to differentiate the plane lock from the linear axis lock should be pretty simple to implement and would speed up the workflow a bit.
The functionality should be identical to axis-locking while using the rectangle tool, so I don’t think it would add any complexity to the program.
I don’t see why that behaviour shouldn’t be possible in other tools.
How does one select the plane they are constraining to when using the move tool? I had mentioned I’d expect it to work like rectangle and circle, but I’ve never come across anything that explains how to make it happen in move or other commands.
That’s a good trick! Thanks for the tip.
I overlooked that function of the move tool, and it will certainly come in handy.
For me it doesn’t quite replace the original suggestion of this post though.
As it requires a face, and work only on the move tool.
The arrow key axis locking works with any tool, in any circumstance, in any context. That’s really what I would love to have also for plane locking.
I see my illustration was quite misleading though, since there is a face on the plane along witch the house move.
You could have done without the face since you would still be moving the house in the XY plane (=red/green), or along a direction parallel to the blue axis.
(Or ‘Constrained on line’ if you would pick another target first and then hold [Shift].
In your case if you need another XY plane, rotate the drawing axes as needed an your move, rectangle, circle etc. will respect that new red/green plane (or a plane parallel to that Y=0 plane)
