I was unable to attend the Basecamp, but I was curious about what might have been learned by anyone who was there. Question: What was the most interesting (or useful) thing that you learned about SketchUp that you didn’t know before attending Basecamp?

[image] eneroth3: Ctrl+Shift doesn’t let you deselect on a Mac Just tried, it looks like just Shift lets you deselect. I’ll have to keep that in mind if I go back to a PC that I might need to add Ctrl.

[image] jesse_s: I’ll have to keep that in mind if I go back to a PC that I might need to add Ctrl. On the PC, Shift with Select deselects selected entities. Ctrl+Shift+Select is deselect only. On the Mac it’s Shift+Option to get Deselect only.

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!

[image] eneroth3: I would assume Ctrl is merely swapped to Command or something on Mac Usually for SketchUp modifier keys, if it’s Ctrl on the PC, it’s Option on the Mac.

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 …

As a non Mac user I alays mix up options and command.

I learned from @eneroth3 that I should probably be building my own castle in SketchUp. :slight_smile:

I didn’t go to many sessions, maybe only five but I learnt the most just having ad-hoc conversations in the corridor (or the bar). @Box gif’s alone and his simple tricks will save me countless hours when it comes to making cables.

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😃

If you’re missing 3D Basecamp already, or if you’re feeling FOMO from missing it in the first place, check out @josephkim626 ’s video recapping the first few days: 2018 3D Basecamp - Part 1, Bootcamp - YouTube

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…and here is @josephkim626 doing his thing interviewing @TheOnlyAaron for that film.

(BTW, shot with an iPad6 and processed in Lightroom. I’m surprised how much exposure I rescued from JPG images)

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