This should be one of the first videos that you watch. Oh how I wish I knew what I know now! I've been basically winging it but then kind of figured it out not too long ago. With the 3 axis movement. Excellent video.
Okay I'm about 5 minutes into this video an you've literally saved my life, I want to design something an I had models flying everywhere and I was ready to throw things. Now I can move objects accurately, I know I should have watched tutorials before started but damnit that's just not how I roll. Thanks for the quick tips bro, you just gained a subscriber and another like. I'll be back soon when the next thing won't work I'm sure. Have a great day.
I've had objects floating all over my drawing, it's been driving me insane! Thank you so much for your videos - so easy to follow, simple instruction and it WORKS!!!
This video with the inferencing (holding the Shift key down) was the difference! THANK YOU!!! I was going crazy trying to place a laptop on a desk, lol. I got it now. :)
Thank you for this! Your videos are very helpful because they reveal a number of ways to get the job done and I appreciate having options in my toolbelt.
Hi, how do you move an object along an axis that sketchup does not show. EG, my text tool only allows red and blue axis, but not green. How to I force it to move along green? Thanks!~
Thanks mate! I´ve been ripping out my hair since yesterday when I found this program, trying to make 3D-designs for my house remodel. It sure differes a lot from illustrator. Your videos have really helped a lot, especially this one and the rotation video :) (so far)
Excellent video! Very helpful info (for my needs anyway) and very well-presented - clear & concise, yet still enough detail! Thanks for an excellent tutorial! Best, John
Dude, you rock! So many of your videos are incredibly simple, thorough, clearly explained, and super beneficial. Thanks for making my Free SketchUp learning curve so much easier. And thanks for sharing the knowledge!
@@Thesketchupessentials So re: point 6 (9-10min mark), you advise to find centre on top of a cylinder before moving it. When I do this, the cylinder moves but the centrepoints stay behind. ???
👍 When it comes to placing furnishings and cabinets in a floor-plan, I will actually view the entire thing from below ground level so I can see the outlines of the objects thru the floor. When I have the move tool on and I get near the object I want to move, it still lights up even tho I can't see the top of the object thru the floor. Then I just click and move it into the corner or against a wall or what have you. If there is a toe-kick or some other kind of inset base, I will use the tape-measure tool to give me the distance out from the wall and move it to that line instead. This works pretty well and it's fast. The hardest ones are things like chairs with curved backs or cars or something that has no straight line to measure from. In those cases, I try to grab the part that is sticking out the farthest and get it somewhere up against my wall - regardless of where it is vertically - then I click out and use an entirely new click to change the blue axis. That one where you have to move an object thru open 3-D space to even get it anywhere near the desired position is definitely an issue. I find that measuring distances and just making 3 separate moves along axes takes less time and generates less frustration than trying and failing to do it in one move. I make non-real surfaces in my models and lines to measure against just for this purpose. For instance, my apartment is on the 2nd floor. I don't model the apartment below me. There is just air. But I make a "ground" surface to measure against and I have it on a different layer so that I can only turn it on when I need to make one of these measurements. The floor-plan is already pre-measured on it so I don't have to guess. This problem comes up when I'm importing stuff from the Warehouse and when I make my furnishings outside the house so I can see and move around it more easily. Pain in the butt!!!! 😝 ☕🥐
I agree with the curved chair comment a bunch - that's why I turn hidden geometry on to inference to sometimes - it can be difficult to pick out that "furthest out" point and I find hidden geometry helps me find it better. Looking up from below ground level is interesting to me - I haven't tried anything like that, but if it works for you, great! Thanks for the comment! :)
Very helpful, I have been having problems putting things together because I was not using the the axes. Could you do a video about placing items, like putting coaster wheels on a box, drawing rectangles on a model without merging it into the model ......
Really, I’ve been looking around for an easy, precise method, and this was dead on. Subbed and will be hitting that website you mentioned. That’s the problem with TH-cam...so many videos but it’s hard to find that one quick click that works. Thank you again. 👌
Can you move objects to be exact distances from something else? For example, your cabinet… how would you move it so it’s right side/edge is exactly 6” from the wall? Can you type it in or do you have to setup dimensions so you can see the measurements change as you drag it?
oh my gosh, i didn't know about holding shift, and the base point. So much easier, If anyone knows how to straighten an object (like against a wall, if it's on an angle) that's the next thing to learn :-)
Excellent tutorial, as always. I have two topics that re confusing to me. Maybe you could explain them? 1) Trying to draw rectangles on specific planes. Maybe I want to draw a rectangle perpendicular to a certain object, then extrude it. The rectangle often goes on the surface of the object, rather that perpendicular to the object. 2) Entering dimensions in feet /inches. I can't find anything that seems reliable/coherent. Using ' and " marks doesn't seem to work. I just compute all ft/in measurements into inches only. that is the only thing I've found to work. Many thanks.
Hello, I see this was posted 5 months ago but I have the answers you requested. 1) Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to specify which axis you wish to draw the rectangle on after you have the rectangle (or any other tool) selected and it will snap to that axis. 2) when you are drawing a line or moving something or doing just about anything you can imagine you can click or click and hold (depending on your settings in preferences) then begin typing 2"enter or 2'7"enter and it will automatically put that line at the specified height or length etc. works for almost anything. Also an addition to the first is using the axis tool to change the spot of reference. experiment with that and you'll find things are much easier to work around. If you need something explained more thoroughly just reply.
How do I select the axis to move along. I have a floor which I want to move 1 mm down along the blue axis - how do I select the blue axis to move immediately down. I try moving my mouse down but inferencing does not always find the blue axis immediately...
Hi Justin, man you have so many amazing videos I dont even know where to begin. My builder gave me a Sketchup design I want to edit and I cant even figure out how to move the posts. How do you grab an entire post? Do I have to move each plane of the 6x6 post on the different axis's that you are talking about? Not asking for an answer directly but if you could point me to the proper video that would be helpful. Thank you in advance.
Well it sounds like the geometry making up the post hasn't been made into a group. You'd either have to select all the faces and edges that make up the post, or you'd have to group the geometry
Just one question, do there is the possibility to offset a line (and not only a face) without tracing it then measuring and move it again to the correct offset position?
Thanks Justin, one can never learn too much about SketchUp. I have been using SketchUp for around 13 years, but I always check your videos whenever I come across a problem, or because I just simply want to improve my SketchUp skills. One task I have been struggling with, is when I draw a tall wooden gate with three cross rails - one at top, middle and bottom of gate. My problem is trying to create a diagonal brace with a fourth rail using the ROTATE tool and getting the brace to SNAP on the the corner of bottom/middle cross rail (to form a Z shape) then copy and move this brace to middle/top cross rail, I cannot get the the ROTATE tool to snap these connecting points. Any help would be very much appreciated. Best regards, Mike.
how do i stop the objects from passing through the wall???? when I am trying to move an object into a corner, it either snaps partially through the wall or it snaps 1/8" away from the wall. This is so frustrating as a newbie to 3D who's been designing for printing for 18 years... I'm used to adobe where the snap feature is super precise.
How do you move something along a single axis? I guess you need to figure that out before this video does you any good. With the example where the box has the lines where you want it to follow. How do you make an object move along just one axis?
Hello, thank you for the tutorial, but it didn't help me for what I was looking for. How would move the middle of a component without a middle point and irregular shape(making it hard to put guides lines in the middle). For example, if you had the 3D letter "S" or "C" in a font like "ink free" and would like to align the middle of the letter on the intersection of 2 guide lines?
Love it as usual. But the title said how to move things precisely. I have trouble where objects will "jump over" where I want them to be. I know you can define the snap precision, but when I am trying to get an object to move so that it will actually snap to another object, sometimes, no matter what I do, I can't get it to snap to the other object. Why is this?
Not really sure. It sounds like you might have some conflicting geometry in that location. You might want to hide some things so only the object you want to inference to is visible
So 3 different movements for something done thousands of times for a cabinet builder with doors and drawers, how come others have figured out how to click a point and the item goes there?
@@Thesketchupessentials Thanx for reply! I didn't know how to select the difference axes, maybe I missed it in the video. I knew about the shift lock from another video of yours, but I didn't know how you select for example the z-axes.
thats why i think sketchup is the too basic software for 3d modelling. Even to move the object seems very difficult. Not with 3Dsmax you can use align tools to move and the with the help of 3 viewports it is really helpful. Been using 3dsmax for 7 years and my new boss ask me to use sketchup and I think it kinda suck.
It is the worst 3d software I've encountered ever. ANY (absolutely any) 3d editor, from cads, 3ds max to Unity has totally useful convenient standard way for moving objects. Why the hell developers decided to think up such awful nonintuitive method. And this applies to the majority of aspects of Sketchup. Why use it anyway? Thankfully I have only to touch this just because some of clients send me skp files. One good side of the program is that skp is the best option for exporting from one software to another sometimes.
I was having a difficult time placing a pressure-treated 2x6 along the edge of a concrete slab that I'd created in SketchUp. This video was a big help. Decades ago, I used Adobe Illustrator to create floorplans, and my favorite tool for moving objects was the transform palette. I know that it's possible to see how far an object has moved in SketchUp by looking at the distance field. But I was wondering. Would it make sense to have a transform palette in SU to move objects along the x, y, z axes to a precise location?
This should be one of the first videos that you watch. Oh how I wish I knew what I know now! I've been basically winging it but then kind of figured it out not too long ago. With the 3 axis movement. Excellent video.
This was a VERY helpful tutorial!! Thank you for all the knowledge you share with us!!
Thank you - glad you liked it!
Okay I'm about 5 minutes into this video an you've literally saved my life, I want to design something an I had models flying everywhere and I was ready to throw things. Now I can move objects accurately, I know I should have watched tutorials before started but damnit that's just not how I roll. Thanks for the quick tips bro, you just gained a subscriber and another like. I'll be back soon when the next thing won't work I'm sure. Have a great day.
I've had objects floating all over my drawing, it's been driving me insane! Thank you so much for your videos - so easy to follow, simple instruction and it WORKS!!!
Great video pal. These small knowledge packets makes a big difference in precision work. Great going. Thanks
👍😎
I was having a tough time placing cabinets in a kitchen model. This tutorial really helped me straighten things up!
Great stuff you're doing here!!
This video with the inferencing (holding the Shift key down) was the difference! THANK YOU!!! I was going crazy trying to place a laptop on a desk, lol. I got it now. :)
Thank you for this! Your videos are very helpful because they reveal a number of ways to get the job done and I appreciate having options in my toolbelt.
Glad they're helping! :)
Hi, how do you move an object along an axis that sketchup does not show. EG, my text tool only allows red and blue axis, but not green. How to I force it to move along green? Thanks!~
Thanks mate! I´ve been ripping out my hair since yesterday when I found this program, trying to make 3D-designs for my house remodel. It sure differes a lot from illustrator. Your videos have really helped a lot, especially this one and the rotation video :) (so far)
Glad I could help!
YOURE THE BOSS, THANKS
Excellent video! Very helpful info (for my needs anyway) and very well-presented - clear & concise, yet still enough detail! Thanks for an excellent tutorial! Best, John
Thanks very much - glad you liked it!
You are a good teacher!
Thanks very much :)
Justin, you are a great help, thanks!
Very well explained. Thank you very much. Robert from France 😉👍
Phenomenal video, thank you so much!
Thanks for watching!
that last tip about basepoints on lines is really great
Glad you liked it!
You saved me! I was nearly ready to throw in the towel. thank you!
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Just what I was looking for, Thanks!
Dude, you rock! So many of your videos are incredibly simple, thorough, clearly explained, and super beneficial. Thanks for making my Free SketchUp learning curve so much easier. And thanks for sharing the knowledge!
"Find Center" was a new one. :)
Me too! Love that!
Lol - I still remember the first time I found out about that - someone commented about it in a video - mind blown!
@@Thesketchupessentials So re: point 6 (9-10min mark), you advise to find centre on top of a cylinder before moving it. When I do this, the cylinder moves but the centrepoints stay behind. ???
Very helpful, thank you very much.
As with most of your videos, I knew some of these methods but there are always new ideas to make things easier and more precise. Thank you!
Thanks very much for the comment!
So helpful... Thank you very much for explaining that train of thought. I am a mad clicker in 3D spaces.
great loved the last basepoint advice
Another helpful tutorial. Thanks so much.
You Rock Man!!
:)
So simple concepts that we miss to learn .....tnx a lot
Thanks - glad you liked it!
👍
When it comes to placing furnishings and cabinets in a floor-plan, I will actually view the entire thing from below ground level so I can see the outlines of the objects thru the floor. When I have the move tool on and I get near the object I want to move, it still lights up even tho I can't see the top of the object thru the floor. Then I just click and move it into the corner or against a wall or what have you. If there is a toe-kick or some other kind of inset base, I will use the tape-measure tool to give me the distance out from the wall and move it to that line instead. This works pretty well and it's fast.
The hardest ones are things like chairs with curved backs or cars or something that has no straight line to measure from. In those cases, I try to grab the part that is sticking out the farthest and get it somewhere up against my wall - regardless of where it is vertically - then I click out and use an entirely new click to change the blue axis.
That one where you have to move an object thru open 3-D space to even get it anywhere near the desired position is definitely an issue. I find that measuring distances and just making 3 separate moves along axes takes less time and generates less frustration than trying and failing to do it in one move. I make non-real surfaces in my models and lines to measure against just for this purpose. For instance, my apartment is on the 2nd floor. I don't model the apartment below me. There is just air. But I make a "ground" surface to measure against and I have it on a different layer so that I can only turn it on when I need to make one of these measurements. The floor-plan is already pre-measured on it so I don't have to guess. This problem comes up when I'm importing stuff from the Warehouse and when I make my furnishings outside the house so I can see and move around it more easily.
Pain in the butt!!!! 😝
☕🥐
I agree with the curved chair comment a bunch - that's why I turn hidden geometry on to inference to sometimes - it can be difficult to pick out that "furthest out" point and I find hidden geometry helps me find it better. Looking up from below ground level is interesting to me - I haven't tried anything like that, but if it works for you, great! Thanks for the comment! :)
@@Thesketchupessentials
I love combining intelligence!
☕🥐
Another home run ... productivity counts. In my “just in time” learning with TH-cam, these types of videos are critically important.
Glad it helped!
God of SketchUp has spoken! Thank you, maybe now I will be able to adjust my shelves properly:)
Thank you. This helped me a lot
thanks for the tips, really useful and well explained😀
Very helpful, I have been having problems putting things together because I was not using the the axes. Could you do a video about placing items, like putting coaster wheels on a box, drawing rectangles on a model without merging it into the model ......
Thanks a mill...very useful info !
fantastic, thank you,
I have been having problems with items snapping to guides, hopefully this will help me
Hope it helped!
Very good explanation. VERY good. Thank you.
Thank you! :)
Really, I’ve been looking around for an easy, precise method, and this was dead on. Subbed and will be hitting that website you mentioned.
That’s the problem with TH-cam...so many videos but it’s hard to find that one quick click that works. Thank you again. 👌
a great tutorial! haven't been using many of these methods!
So helpful! Thank you.
Can you move objects to be exact distances from something else? For example, your cabinet… how would you move it so it’s right side/edge is exactly 6” from the wall? Can you type it in or do you have to setup dimensions so you can see the measurements change as you drag it?
oh my gosh, i didn't know about holding shift, and the base point. So much easier, If anyone knows how to straighten an object (like against a wall, if it's on an angle) that's the next thing to learn :-)
Thank you sir. Nice video.
Glad you liked it!
Excellent tutorial, as always.
I have two topics that re confusing to me. Maybe you could explain them?
1) Trying to draw rectangles on specific planes. Maybe I want to draw a rectangle perpendicular to a certain object, then extrude it. The rectangle often goes on the surface of the object, rather that perpendicular to the object.
2) Entering dimensions in feet /inches. I can't find anything that seems reliable/coherent. Using ' and " marks doesn't seem to work. I just compute all ft/in measurements into inches only. that is the only thing I've found to work.
Many thanks.
Hello, I see this was posted 5 months ago but I have the answers you requested. 1) Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to specify which axis you wish to draw the rectangle on after you have the rectangle (or any other tool) selected and it will snap to that axis. 2) when you are drawing a line or moving something or doing just about anything you can imagine you can click or click and hold (depending on your settings in preferences) then begin typing 2"enter or 2'7"enter and it will automatically put that line at the specified height or length etc. works for almost anything. Also an addition to the first is using the axis tool to change the spot of reference. experiment with that and you'll find things are much easier to work around. If you need something explained more thoroughly just reply.
How do I select the axis to move along. I have a floor which I want to move 1 mm down along the blue axis - how do I select the blue axis to move immediately down. I try moving my mouse down but inferencing does not always find the blue axis immediately...
Thank you, very helpful.
Thanks for watching!
thanks its very helpful
luvin the energy
Thank you for the video. It was very helpful
👍
Hi Justin, man you have so many amazing videos I dont even know where to begin.
My builder gave me a Sketchup design I want to edit and I cant even figure out how to move the posts. How do you grab an entire post? Do I have to move each plane of the 6x6 post on the different axis's that you are talking about? Not asking for an answer directly but if you could point me to the proper video that would be helpful. Thank you in advance.
Well it sounds like the geometry making up the post hasn't been made into a group. You'd either have to select all the faces and edges that make up the post, or you'd have to group the geometry
what bind is it to move Along the Blue axis
Great video as always....Thanks!
Thanks very much!
Just one question, do there is the possibility to offset a line (and not only a face) without tracing it then measuring and move it again to the correct offset position?
Why do they something as critical as moving shit. So hard! Trouble?? Is an understatement!
Thank you very much sir you are LEGEND👏😁👍✌️🤘
Glad you liked it!
is it possible to do "drawing order" like on the Autocad in the sketchup?? please answer me🙏
How do I get those text hints on the axis? Mine just shows the color, not a text/label hint telling me the axis.
wish you can press a button to specifically move to red green y axis etc
3:50 How to move along those axes? When I try to move it, it goes in all directions.
Thanks Justin, one can never learn too much about SketchUp. I have been using SketchUp for around 13 years, but I always check your videos whenever I come across a problem, or because I just simply want to improve my SketchUp skills. One task I have been struggling with, is when I draw a tall wooden gate with three cross rails - one at top, middle and bottom of gate. My problem is trying to create a diagonal brace with a fourth rail using the ROTATE tool and getting the brace to SNAP on the the corner of bottom/middle cross rail (to form a Z shape) then copy and move this brace to middle/top cross rail, I cannot get the the ROTATE tool to snap these connecting points.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Best regards, Mike.
Where do you click to pick the different axis?
Спасибо!
Hi Justin, I'm still having trouble with Sketchup 2021. Is there a way to select the axis to lock to? I seem to have trouble locking to the blue axis.
Just tap the up arrow key
Great content! 😊👍 Your videos are very helpful particularly when I'm about to pull my hair out! 😂🤣😂
Lol - well glad I could help save your hair! :) :p
What about just moving it over just a little with keyboard or something? Did I miss that?
thanks
What about snapping to the base plane on the blue (z) axis?
I don't understand the question - what about it?
Glue object to a plane?
how do i stop the objects from passing through the wall???? when I am trying to move an object into a corner, it either snaps partially through the wall or it snaps 1/8" away from the wall. This is so frustrating as a newbie to 3D who's been designing for printing for 18 years... I'm used to adobe where the snap feature is super precise.
Sir while importing object into sketchup its hanging what to do sir is there any possibility to reduce file size
Great :) Justin, may ask you make tutorial for WrapR or other UV plugin for SU, it will be freat, aspecially with mapping in UE4! :)
Try this - th-cam.com/video/RoVHjmUBUNE/w-d-xo.html , or this - th-cam.com/video/OW4zqCi8R6I/w-d-xo.html
How do you move something along a single axis? I guess you need to figure that out before this video does you any good. With the example where the box has the lines where you want it to follow. How do you make an object move along just one axis?
it be so easy if you could just press x y or z for the different orientations
Why would that be different than tapping the arrow keys?
Third ......................... Thank you so much sir .
Thanks for watching!
Hello, thank you for the tutorial, but it didn't help me for what I was looking for. How would move the middle of a component without a middle point and irregular shape(making it hard to put guides lines in the middle). For example, if you had the 3D letter "S" or "C" in a font like "ink free" and would like to align the middle of the letter on the intersection of 2 guide lines?
Love it as usual. But the title said how to move things precisely. I have trouble where objects will "jump over" where I want them to be. I know you can define the snap precision, but when I am trying to get an object to move so that it will actually snap to another object, sometimes, no matter what I do, I can't get it to snap to the other object. Why is this?
Not really sure. It sounds like you might have some conflicting geometry in that location. You might want to hide some things so only the object you want to inference to is visible
you are amazing
Glad you found it helpful!
@@Thesketchupessentials you are my teacher of Sketch up
🙇♂️
So 3 different movements for something done thousands of times for a cabinet builder with doors and drawers, how come others have figured out how to click a point and the item goes there?
Is there a team who is IN charge of adding functionality to sketch up? I wonder how can you be part of that team to make things a little more sensible
Why can't I can snap an object surface to a surface of another object's surface? Or how? Why is it not obvious?????
But how do you select the axis you want?
What do you mean? You can do this in several ways - holding shift to lock inferences, tap arrows to lock to different axes, etc
@@Thesketchupessentials Thanx for reply! I didn't know how to select the difference axes, maybe I missed it in the video. I knew about the shift lock from another video of yours, but I didn't know how you select for example the z-axes.
thats why i think sketchup is the too basic software for 3d modelling. Even to move the object seems very difficult. Not with 3Dsmax you can use align tools to move and the with the help of 3 viewports it is really helpful. Been using 3dsmax for 7 years and my new boss ask me to use sketchup and I think it kinda suck.
video starts at 0:55
Construction lines on a different layer
If that's how you prefer them, sure!
this didnt help me but still veri goed video
does not explain how to move an object, i moved my mouse a thousand time and it does not move any objects
i can't move objects in more than 1 axis
Need more information - are you single clicking on a point, then moving your mouse?
1.75X
Whatever helps I guess - kind of weird comment
Skip to 2:12 coz un needed information 😒
It is the worst 3d software I've encountered ever. ANY (absolutely any) 3d editor, from cads, 3ds max to Unity has totally useful convenient standard way for moving objects. Why the hell developers decided to think up such awful nonintuitive method. And this applies to the majority of aspects of Sketchup. Why use it anyway? Thankfully I have only to touch this just because some of clients send me skp files. One good side of the program is that skp is the best option for exporting from one software to another sometimes.
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Face-Cam = just WHY? Sorry, couldn’t stand it, had to downvote and leave ...
Bye
get to the point, man...
I did - when you're making tutorials, some people also need some background to understand WHY things work the way they do
Too much trash talk
No - context, which many people need.
another very helpful tutorial in your series.... thanks
Glad you liked it!
How do you move things around a cylinder? For example if I have a cylinder with pipes come out of the cylinder at different angles off the cylinder
very usefull I was incredible stuck with moving stuff around and also trying to make things snap together proper
The last one was a bit hard to understand. What are they keys you pressing again?
It was helpful but there should be a command to move an object to the origin.
Yet another poorly explained tip. Why would you not explain how to access each axis....or if one axis appears to be locked.
Isn't that what the second tip is about? Also...you seem sort of angry about this...
I was having a difficult time placing a pressure-treated 2x6 along the edge of a concrete slab that I'd created in SketchUp. This video was a big help.
Decades ago, I used Adobe Illustrator to create floorplans, and my favorite tool for moving objects was the transform palette. I know that it's possible to see how far an object has moved in SketchUp by looking at the distance field. But I was wondering.
Would it make sense to have a transform palette in SU to move objects along the x, y, z axes to a precise location?