Push/pull deselects faces and edges

I was about to post a thread about the push/pull tool deselecting previously deselected faces and edges, but then realized that I should be using move, not push/pull, for the case I have.

Basically, I was using the lasso/drag/select faces and edges of a wall, where I wanted to drag the whole wall to a different dimension. Then when I clicked the push/pull to move them all it would deselect everything and the push/pull tool “becomes the selector” for the face or edge to push/pull.

I assume the behavior I was seeing is normal/expected, even if you have the setting for “Disable pre-pick for push/pull tool” turned off? Or maybe that setting is irrelevant to my case?

Just want to make sure I’m thinking about all of this correctly, and that push/pull is more for single egdes and faces, where the move tool can move as many as you select?

Yes. This is normal. Push/Pull works on only one face at a time. You can preselect the face you want to extrude and it will remain selected but if you’ve selected more than just one face all of the selection will be deselected.

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I’m using 24.0.483 on MacOS, with a pro subscription.

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@DaveR, since you’re a Sketchup Sage I suspect you might have some insight on another question of mine. Well, maybe several questions.

First, which forum is best for asking modeling best practice types of questions? When I look at the categories under the main Sketchup forum none of those seem to fit what I’m looking for.

Second, I’ll ask my modeling question here just so you know what I’m talking about. I’m modeling a remodel of my basement and I’ve created several copies of the basic foundation/layout of the space. Now I’m modeling different scenarios that we might want to evaluate/try out (various/different wall placements, different bathroom sizes, different fixture layouts, etc).

What do you see (or do yourself) for these kinds of situations?

And to be clear, I will ask this question more broadly once I know the best place to post it.

How important is it to be up to the most current release? I’m assuming that if I don’t have any problems with crashes or bad behavior that I’m ok where I’m at currently.

I guess it depends. Really for your initial question the SketchUp or SketchUp Pro categories really seem the most appropriate. This isn’t really what I would call a technical problem. More just a basic tool question.

I guess when I’m modeling something like you describe I wouldn’t create multiple copies of the basement walls; at least not the parts that aren’t going to change. I would only have a single basement as a component or group. Then I would model the interior walls that might be placed differently as well as fixtures and such as separate components or groups and use tag visibility to show or hide the different options as appropriate.

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This is for you to decide by reading the release notes. Some of the changes are security updates to the software libraries that SketchUp uses. Others fix platform specific crashes in certain scenarios.