Just had an interesting discussion on a Facebook Sketchup Group… One person indicated that they had a lot of problems with the rectangle tool not producing 90 degree rectangles, " I get myself in trouble using the rectangle tool all.the.time. Before using the color by axis or without using guide l…

It should be, but I suspect there is enough flex for it to be forced out by .0000123, which is why the snapping can be a problem

Can any of the Sketchup team confirm the Rectangle Tool always produces Rectangles with 90 degree corners?

Here’s an example. I started with a square and deleted one edge, then used the move tool to move the endpoint of the bottom edge .0001m to the left. So as you see when I draw a square using the rectangle tool and the inference I get a tilde in the angle. This is why once you get an error it conti…

!WTF! Hmmm that explains why I don’t usually encounter a problem with my workflow, I create a raw rectangle, group it and then copy, rotate and scale it to create my object geometry… but hell, the tool should be renamed the “Sometimes Rectangle Tool” PS thanks for the video explanation Box!

[image] gsharp: should be renamed the “Sometimes Rectangle Tool” Not really, you have to force it to make a mistake. I personally have never had an issue with it but have seen and repaired many models that are suffering from this sort of thing. Basically a good workflow with length snapping o…

This could be related: [image] Bug in Rectangle tool ( in both desktop and web versions ) Technical Problems There is a bug in Rectangle tool. I wonder since when we have this case ?.. innocent The Rectangle tool in some cases does not create a face, because one corner is…

Well, agree to disagree there Box :slight_smile: … If Trimble had clearly advised users that the rectangle tool sometimes does not create rectangles then ok! But the fact that the rectangle tool in some circumstances may not be a rectangle is clearly negligent of the software and causes us all los…

There is also an issue if the open group/component has been sheared/skewed. Many SU tools assume the drawing axes are perpendicular, but in rare cases they are not.

[image] Bug in Rectangle tool ( in both desktop and web versions ) [image] Bug in Rectangle tool ( in both desktop and web versions ) This diagonal indicates that one of the two new endpoints is not coplanar No. The diagonal line is indicates if it is Golden ratio or Square https://help.sk…

[image] Wo3Dan: @jean_lemire_1 was 100% right. The dashed line has nothing to do with “square” or “golden section” ! I would say he was 90% right :wink:, since normally the dashed line indicating the “square” or “golden section” and there is nothing else mentioned in the manual. You pointed …

Rectangle tool not producing Rectangles?

SketchUp Pro

dezmo October 28, 2021, 4:24am 9

This could be related:

Topic		Replies	Views
Bug in Rectangle tool ( in both desktop and web versions ) Technical Problems desktop , web	12	2096	June 12, 2021
Rectangle Tool Orientation - Tool wants to make a rectangle based on the "blue" orientation ONLY! SketchUp	21	12386	December 3, 2015
Tool Selections esp rectangles Pro	4	487	August 30, 2020
How to find a line that is slightly off plane? SketchUp	29	12582	March 12, 2022
Rectangle not resizing then disappearing SketchUp Go	46	560	August 12, 2025

Rectangle tool not producing Rectangles?

Related topics