It’s a really hard question. I was mostly there to meet all the people, and in the few sessions I attended I was learning more about how to present than about SketchUp as a software. If I have to say something I learned about SketchUp itself it would be that Ctrl+Shift doesn’t let you deselect on a Mac. I lost one round in the pictionary game due to this . I should never had challenged Eric on switching computers!
Gah, so much happened at 3D Basecamp! We’ll be posting photos and videos in the next few weeks, and I think the sessions we recorded will give you a good sense of what kinds of things happened at 3D Basecamp.
On PC Shift toggles selection, Ctrl adds and Ctrl+Shift deselects. I would assume Ctrl is merely swapped to Command or something on Mac, but once you are so used to the keys you don’t even know what keys you press, changing them gets very hard!
On the Mac, with the Select Tool active when you click or drag box:
with no modifiers, the selection set is changed to contain only the clicked or boxed entity(ies).
shift causes the tool to toggle the selected/unselected state of entities, that is, if the entity is in the current selection it is removed and if not it is added.
option causes the tool to add to the selection
shift+option causes the tool to remove from the selection
So far as I can tell, the command key has no effect.
The control key both selects and causes the right-click context menu to open when you click.
During lunch, I have learned that if you don’t want companies to spam or call you all the time, you might consider calling your company ‘Evil Empire’…
Most marketeers would hang up the phone immediately, according to one of the owlers😃
Oh, oh! I learned a really big lesson: Never loose the key fob to a rent-a-car!
Ok, meeting people was number one and the conversations that came from that.
#2, both seeing incredible work and watching the workflow that others have worked out for themselves. Seeing Nick Sonder and Michael Brightman do their thing is a lot better in person than trying to wade through a book. I’m not saying I will now copy exactly their methods, but now I understand them better.
I’ve struggled with Advanced Camera Tools, but Fat Pencil’s photogrammetry work is incredible, so I know it can be done.
I’ve learned there’s no magic bullet for point clouds; It still takes a brain to interpret it and turn it into a model.
It goes the other way too. I gave a tip to a relative beginner over breakfast one morning, and she found me at breakfast the next day to tell me she tried it out over night and thanked me for the tip. That was nice.