After softening edges can it be undone?
Do you want to unsoften all in a selection or just a few?
You can unsoften all edges by selecting them, right clicking and choosing Unsoften. You can select the edges to unsoften and deselect Soften in Entity Info, or you can unsoften them by selecting them and sliding the Soften slider to the left until they show.
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Unsoften doesn’t show with a right click, sliding the slider won’t get me back to where I was. There were 2 edges that I softened by selecting the component then selecting soften on my default tray. This is really no big deal. Mostly curious.
Are you selecting just the softened edge(s) before right clicking or trying to use the Soften slider?
I’m using the slider.
This is the component before softening:
I selected it, then selected Soften Edges from my default tray:
Then selected it again, selected Soften Edges from my default tray, slid the slider until I got this (5,5°)
What is it you actually want? Do you just want to unsoften those two edges that run down the middle of the molding? If so, select only those two edges before unsoftening. You’ll have to turn on Hidden Geometry to be able to select them.
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So the trick is to just soften the edges you want softened, not the component, then if you need to unsoften them, follow your instructions, worked like a charm, thanks.
Well, you can soften all the edges if you want then unsoften specific ones or just select the ones you want softened and soften them. It’s totally up to you.
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The eraser tool softens and smooths edges if you hold down the ctrl key. I use it a lot. Unfortunately it doesn’t work in reverse.
Fantastic! I’ll use it a lot. Thank you so much.
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Hi there, I have been using Sketchup since 2003 and have always used this shift ctrl with eraser tool to un-sharpen edges.
I did just upgrade to SKP 2022 and now this is not working anymore. Is this a glitch or is this a thing in SKP 2022?
I installed Sketchup as an Administrator, since I know this is important to make sure the install isn’t corrupted.
If there is anyone that can confirm this is still working, I would appreciate it, if so I will just reinstall SKP yet again.
If you look at the bottom left of the screen when you select the Eraser tool you’ll note that Alt is the modifier key you need to use. For a few versions now the modifiers are toggles so you don’t hold them. Press them once and release to select soften/smooth, hide, or unsoften.
Thank you DaveR,
it kinda works.
When I hit alt, it switches to unsoften. However, hitting alt also unhides hidden objects in the model.
This is new to me as well, I haven’t used alt to unhide hidden objects ever.
View hidden objects has no shortcut assigned in the preferences.
Is this a bug?
The message at the bottom does tell you that it’s going to togle Unsmooth AND Unhide. Don’t click on hidden edges if you only want to unsmooth edges.
No. It’s not a bug. You need to set a shortcut for that if you want one. It must be some time since you last updated. Note that View Hdden Geometry and View Hidden Objects have been separated and they do different things. Objects are groups and componets. And there’s the addition of Combined Hidden Entities. You can set keyboard shortcuts for all three of those if you wish.
What was the previous version that you used? Sounds like you should go through the release notes for the versions you’ve missed because there are a number of changes.
I used 2021
ctrl shift plus eraser worked in the last version I used.
I just checked hidden geometry and hidden lines both have no shortcuts assigned.
Hidden object also looks different than what I get when hitting alt when in eraser mode.
Hitting alt seems to show hidden lines and objects both.
I never had such a shortcut in my workflow.
Correct. You can assign shortcuts to them. Here are mine in SU 2021. I added them. I use the same ones in SU2022.
Also, nothing has changed between SU2021 and 2022 as far as the modifier keys with the Eraser tool. The text is the same in SU2021 as it is in 2022.
View>Hidden Objects is designed to show hidden objects in your model. It will show them as a sort of ghosted mesh as you show in your screenshot.
Thank you so much for bearing with me DaveR
I am familiar with the use of hidden objects and lines and usually activate these in the menu without shortcuts.
The strange/unexpected thing in my case here is that hitting alt when in eraser tool, shows all hidden geometry and lines.
This means in order to sharpen an edge I now need to be in eraser mode, hit alt (>hidden objects and lines become visible), then re-hide lines and objects so I can see and go ahead to sharpen edges.
This seems to be a bug, right?
It doesn’t seem like a bug to me. Seems like the behavior I would expect. If you have objects you don’t want to see, use tags to control the visibility of them. Unhiding stuff with the Eraser tool won’t affect tag visibility. Or make sure the hidden objects are not in the same context as the geometry you are working on.
ok, copy that
Thank you for illuminating this new functionality for me.
I guess I will get used to it 
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