This so basic a question, I almost hate to ask. But here goes: If I draw a line that’s too short, what’s the best way to fix it? Delete the line and try again? Use the Scale tool to lengthen the line? Add on another line so the two lines combined have the desired length? And here’s a related que…

1 Select the line you wish to edit, and go to Entity Info. Editing length here will extend or shorten your edge from the start or from an intersection, unless both ends are intersecting. 2 Just one edge

All of those methods work, as does the Move tool. With the Move tool active and nothing selected in the model, hover the mouse over an unconstrained end-point of the edge. Click-and-release the mouse, and start moving the end-point in the desired direction. You can click-and-release a second time to…

[image] TDahl: to merge the two short edges into one long edge may be to draw a third edge at the intersection of the two short edges, which heads off to the side (arbitrary direction, arbitrary length). Then delete that off-to-the-side edge. The deletion may trigger SketchUp to merge the two re…

[image] TDahl: The deletion may trigger SketchUp to merge the two remaining co-linear edges. That does appear to function as Weld. Which is trippy, but makes a bit more sense than “only originally singular and later split edges re-weld when deleting the intersector.”

[image] TDahl: The deletion may trigger SketchUp to merge the two remaining co-linear edges. I think this highlights the uncertainty. Sometimes joining two colinear lines with Weld fails for no apparent reason too. I tend to use the Move tool, especially when on axis. It wouldn’t occur to …

I’ve worked with other CAD/modeling programs including many years with Vector Works, but am relatively new to Sketchup. I find it surprising that Sketchup doesn’t allow using the Move tool to simply ‘move’ the end point to make a line longer. Even Sketchup’s own instructions claim you can hover ov…

[image] Rodaman: I find it surprising that Sketchup doesn’t allow using the Move tool to simply ‘move’ the end point to make a line longer. The Move tool does allow this, though. [image] Rodaman: Even Sketchup’s own instructions claim you can hover over the end point and move it to exten…

Don’t preselect the line. As Dave shows and already written above. [image] TDahl: With the Move tool active and nothing selected in the model, hover the mouse over an unconstrained end-point of the edge. Click-and-release the mouse, and start moving the end-point in the desired direction. You …

I figured it out about 45 seconds after posting that question. Thanks for your response though. The previous comment just told me I was ‘not doing it correctly’, which was self-evident. On the topic though, is there a simple way to prompt two lines to ‘join’ when one or the other (or neither) rea…

How about these… [image] How to extend a line automatically? Pro My 2dTools set has trim/extend/adjust - and many more tools. Look at it here… https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=2Dtools In a separate post tig mentions: [image] Extend Line Plugin Search I…

Line length question

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PaulMcAlenan July 21, 2022, 7:31am 12

How about these…

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Line length question

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