I have a long sill plate on top of a foundation. 477 inches long. I’m drawing mywood supports under my house to help with an earthquake retrofit. I’ve done fairly well, but I can’t seem to find how to split this sill plate into several sections. I should have drawn them all seperately. I’ve spent a few hours tying to find the solution. Thank you.
Assuming you are using groups or components - push pull one end to where you want the new length to be. Move + Copy the sill from one end to the other, make unique (if component) and then push pull to where you want the second one to be broken. Repeat as needed.
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Ok… Makes more sense to do it that way. I didn’t really measure the sillplate sections, I just measured between the sill wall studs, I can edit the long sill plate and just add new ones. Don’t know why I was thinking I needed to split it multiple times. I’m getting tired, not much room to crawl under there! It’s taken about 3 days to take all the measurements and build this drawing while learning… Thank you
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Can I also ask you about the foundation profile? I just kinda guessed the depth and what the footer might look like, but I’m realizing it’s not actually like I drew. I made a shape and carried it around the perimeter. Can the shape be edited too? Its a component and I clicked on it to edit, but I don’t really see how to get in there and edit the upsidedown T shape. I see i can push pull features, but would have to go all around the foundation for each section…
Yes, you can move, push pull, etc… or you can redraw the profile and use follow me.
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So confusing, I can’t really remember where I started and how to retain the outline of the house if I delete the foundation. Is there a way to undo the foundation follow me thing except for the original profile and house outline? the foundation is a component.
No, but you can just delete everything in the foundation component except the outline, and then do it again.
Or Move + Copy the FND over to the side (be sure to constrain to the red or green axis) and then trace the shape, delete the foundation components, draw your new profile and then move it back.
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When I do things like this I usually make an outline of the footprint / shell, make it a group, then lock it. You will then always have a base guide to come back to.
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Ok… I’ll try to delete everything but the outline. Hopefully i can figure it out. I can probably get it done again if I delete it all. Thank you very much.
Didn’t consider groups and componets until in to the drawing a bit. Can’t remember how I got the foundation as a component after the fact. My first component is several items together. I started getting really confused trying to make componets after the fact! haha. Anyway thanks a million!
You might want to go over the basics at learn.sketchup.com
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The fundementals lesson seems to be for desktop. It’s annoying one can’t get a basic free desktop version these days… I remember using it a bit 10 or so years ago.
https://learn.sketchup.com/courses/sketchup-web-fundamentals-part1
The principles of good modeling hold regardless of which version you are using.
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Not sure if you work for trimble, but the tutorials are not easy to get started, the download didn’t seem to get set up (not sure if it only works with desktop version), the person speaking is talking at a speed like teaching a toddler, and they should have a tutorial for the ONLINE VERSION. Thank you for all your help though!
The last link that @bmike gave you IS a tutorial for the online version!!
Apart from a few SketchUp employees we are all just SketchUp users here, volunteering our free time to help others…
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