How to infer / select the corner of the group?

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I have tried many different things but I have not found a way to infer / select the point selected by red circle.

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I hover on one line move and outwards towards the corner (red dashes), and while holding SHIFT, I’ll move my mouse to the other line (for the green dash).
Not quite like what you find center of a circle, but works for finding the meeting point.

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Move Along, part of Fredo tools can do this.

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Shep

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Nice work, @quantj, you edged me out.

Even though it’s similar, I’ll show my picture as well, since it shows the From Point tooltip. @rzajac, one type of inferencing is called From Point. It allows you to project a point along an axis to locate the start point of a shape like a line or arc. It shows a dotted projection extending from the axis, which is the color of the axis.

You can extend these axial guidelines from two points at once to locate their intersection. That’s what @quantj and I show in our pictures.

Edit: By the way, I’m not using the Shift axis lock, which is optional.

Notice, the group’s bounding box has nothing to do with it.

You can always place a construction point there, inside the group, if you plan to use that corner location a lot.

-Gully

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@Shep, at first I thought you were using the expression Move Along as a figure of speech, like, “Get outa here–you can do that with Fredo Tools!”

-Gully

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Maybe Thomthoms DrawBoundingbox can be of interest here?

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Sorry, I guess I have a bit of a rocky relationship with the English language. A result of public school education no doubt.

Shep

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There’s nothing wrong with your language. I was just making a dumb joke for want of anything intelligent to say.

-Gully

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Oh man, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

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This thread discussing inferencing the corner of a group or component is 9 years old, new solutions exist . Since then SketchUp has introduced optional grab handles on the move tool that can be cycled through by pressing the command key on Mac (Alt on Windows). One of the grab handle option is at the corners of the bounding box, along with center of bounding box edges, center of bounding box faces, and center-center. Keep tapping the modifier key to cycle through the options.

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Oh man…I can’t believe I didn’t know that.

Thank you so much for that. I’ve watched all of the Square One videos and a lot of other tutorial content but I totally missed that feature.

The DrawBoundingBox extension is still useful, but changing the grab handles accomplishes what I was trying to do much easier.

Thank you again!

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