Saying hello

[DaveR]

@JOEGAR39

I’m asked to say hello, but, where do I write my salutation?

There is a long-running thread where you could introduce yourself.

Welcome to our forums! Please introduce yourself

Hello. I’m Joe (short for José). I’m an architect of the old school who got enamored with Autocad (50+ years) ago. I’m also a Preservationist. Here in the States (America) preservationist is used instead of conservationist, like in Europe. The movement to save land, animals, birds was developed first so the only word available was preservationist. More soon.

@JOEGAR39

Is there a tutorial or instructions I could read in how to communicate in this Forum?

There’s a FAQ thing at the top but you seem to be doing pretty well so far.

@JOEGAR39

When working or practicing Sketchup I think that I’m working with Autocad and when I do an Autocad operation the operation does nothing I get puzzled and ask myself why is this happening - expecting it to work as Autocad.

SketchUp is not AutoCAD. Probably the best thing you can do for yourself is get past that. They work differently. You’ll just frustrate yourself trying to make SketchUp work like AutoCAD.

@JOEGAR39

so, why not incorporate basic cad operations like trim and extend.

There are ways to do those sorts of things both with native tools (as has been described) and there are some extensins out there that can add functionality along these lines. Frankly, the only time I ever need to trim or extend lines is when I have to work with bad CAD files from other people. I don’t have any problem avoiding them when I am creating my own models in SketchUp. Usually when I get CAD files like that I just start over and model the thing myself because there are usually so many issues, it takes more time to fix the garbage than to start from the beginning.