This afternoon, we released SketchUp 2020.2 with a few notable updates. On this thread, we’re hoping to gather your feedback on an improvement to SketchUp’s inferencing engine that has been requested often in these forums – the ability to turn inferences OFF. In SketchUp 2020.2, we’ve introduced an…

Being a good friend of Mark’s, I’ve used 2020.2 for a few weeks now, and in my train modeling that I did the toggling of inferencing when line drawing helped a lot. Normally when tracing an irregular shaped image, that happens to have a lot of edges that are almost on axis, you zoom in a lot until i…

I would like to add the possibility to ’stay in plane’. When tracing an image, this could be helpfull. The toggle cycle could have an ‘On Face’ [image] colin: Being a good friend of Mark’s, (Ever since I tried to steal Mark’s laptop to get the latest version, he won’t speak to me again) …

[image] MikeWayzovski: I would like to add the possibility to ’stay in plane’. Hold down Shift when the “On Face” tooltip appears.

The new inferencing cycling only happens after you start drawing. The plane is known by then. As Anssi says, the usual inferencing locking keys still work, and one of the inference options to cycle through is one that does parallel and perpendicular only.

This looks to be a useful improvement. Anything that reduces the need to continually zoom in and out is helpful. Maybe a future development of this is the ability to select/deselect certain types of inference. When you have two inference points close together, SU often struggles to know which you…

I think people have been requesting this for a long time. Good job!

[image] Anssi: Hold down Shift when the “On Face” tooltip appears. my hand gets weary when i need to hold down shift… repeatedly hoovering over a plane does not help, either. [image] colin: The plane is known by then. only for the start point [image] colin: and one of the infere…

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Toggle linear inference - great! But why only for Line tool? Why not for Move tool? I think this is a must. And next step would be full snapping settings, as simoncbevans mentioned - to: vertex, edge, face, group, bounding box, parallel, perpendicular etc. Glad that this feature was introduced. No…

[image] michal.p: But why only for Line tool? Speculation on my part from the wording of the announcement - if it’s well received when added to the Line tool, the intention is to extend it to the other tools, I think.

Line tool inferencing control in SketchUp 2020.2. What do you think?

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Anssi August 10, 2020, 9:15pm 4

Hold down Shift when the “On Face” tooltip appears.

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Line tool inferencing control in SketchUp 2020.2. What do you think?

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