Thanks to the "somebody" who pointed this out to you, and of course yourself for sharing your aha moment with the rest of us. What I love about this tip is that it is very "Sketchupy". It has an elegant simplicity to it that Sketchup is so known for. The new Live Components, with their requirement to enter parameters numerically, aren't nearly as elegant as a well designed Dynamic Component built to "smart-scale" itself. Point being that it's lovely to be reminded of the simple elegance of Sketchup as other newer features seem more about adopting conventional ways of doing things like parametric modelling via dialog boxes. As Sketchup moves forward, I hope it doesn't lose the design principals and elegance that has made it what it is. Anyway, great tip! Learned something new and useful today when I didn't expect to. You're right - what a lovely surprise.
Did not know about this. I work with angled surfaces all the time. What I actually do is use my protractor to get the angle I want. I then use the move command to move (stretch) my surface along the path of my guideline.
A clarification? If I draw a 4' x 4' square, then use the Offset tool with a 1' offset amount on the square's boundary, which creates a second concentric and coplanar 2' x 2' square, and then try this new Push/Pull stretch technique to pull up that center 2' x 2' square up by 4' with a Push/Pull and CMD key modifier, Push/Pull does nothing. However, if I add diagonal corner lines from the corners of the 2' x 2' square to the corners of the 4' x 4' square first, then do the CMD Push/Pull trick, I can get the predicted truncated pyramid "stretched" shape to occur. Not sure how to say this, but this Push/Pull stretch technique looks like it will only work on a surface that already has some kind of geometry already defined so it has connected surfaces to "stretch". Also, I can get the same truncated pyramid shape using the Move tool with the CMD key "auto fold" option to pull the initial centered 2' x 2' square up, without explicitly adding the diagonals first. Regardless, the Push/Pull "stretch" CMD key qualifier is yet another tool in the tool box.
Probably the coolest thing I've seen all day. I've never used stretch - it's a game-changer! And turning on hidden faces and these use it - Boom! blown away!!!
Yeah, I remember stumbling across it by accident in .. like 2012 .. but totally forgot about it ( rarely had the use case ) so this is sort of like rediscovering with the same 'ahhhh' moment
Again... another new thing i learned today... Thanks so much Aaron.... this may be a simple thing but you still did the effort of teaching us.... thank you again
It would be great if the Command modifier could be added to the tool tip for Push/Pull! At the moment, only the Option modifier is "explained" in the status bar (2:30)
Wow Aaron, Mind officially blown. This is such a cool option for push pull. Why isn't it shown as a tool tip on push pull it could have saved me hours of frustration. Thanks for the info once again.
Oh wow, I knew of this a few weeks earlier when I was drawing some exhaust pipes for a motorbike. All bends and resize of the pipes where much easier than scaling and measuring time after time. Is there a list of all these extra "hidden" functions out there? There might be more of those tricks I wish I knew earlier!
OMG! I'm so happy right now! 🤓 I was actually trying to figure out how to pull out a non-straight-axis face *_just yesterday!!!_* I was doing some crown molding around the room and a corner and up a stairwell at an angle. 😣 I hope this saves me!
Never noticed before! What I found confusing is the name. This is called "move along normal" in lots of other applications, not stretch. And lots of other applications call "stretch" something different (for example scaling on one axys only or moving only a few elements of an item etc). I know that every company choose names as they want but this makes things confusing. Great video as usual! Thanks.
Thanks to the "somebody" who pointed this out to you, and of course yourself for sharing your aha moment with the rest of us.
What I love about this tip is that it is very "Sketchupy". It has an elegant simplicity to it that Sketchup is so known for.
The new Live Components, with their requirement to enter parameters numerically, aren't nearly as elegant as a well designed Dynamic Component built to "smart-scale" itself.
Point being that it's lovely to be reminded of the simple elegance of Sketchup as other newer features seem more about adopting conventional ways of doing things like parametric modelling via dialog boxes.
As Sketchup moves forward, I hope it doesn't lose the design principals and elegance that has made it what it is.
Anyway, great tip! Learned something new and useful today when I didn't expect to. You're right - what a lovely surprise.
18 yrs of SketchUp and I did not know this, thank you for sharing!!
Same!
I’ve been using SU since 2003. Was not aware of this modifier! Thanks Aaron!
Wow! So with hidden geometry on you push pulled a curved face. That is significant!
Use Sketchup for more than 12 Years. Never heard about it. Thanks a lot.
... just tried this ALT+PushPull-thing immediately with my old SkUp2017 Make at home - great!!! Another SketchUp easter egg hidden for ages 😲😲👍🏻👍🏻
This is an amazing find!! Didn't know it before. Can think of a million instances for use!
Did not know about this. I work with angled surfaces all the time. What I actually do is use my protractor to get the angle I want. I then use the move command to move (stretch) my surface along the path of my guideline.
A clarification? If I draw a 4' x 4' square, then use the Offset tool with a 1' offset amount on the square's boundary, which creates a second concentric and coplanar 2' x 2' square, and then try this new Push/Pull stretch technique to pull up that center 2' x 2' square up by 4' with a Push/Pull and CMD key modifier, Push/Pull does nothing. However, if I add diagonal corner lines from the corners of the 2' x 2' square to the corners of the 4' x 4' square first, then do the CMD Push/Pull trick, I can get the predicted truncated pyramid "stretched" shape to occur. Not sure how to say this, but this Push/Pull stretch technique looks like it will only work on a surface that already has some kind of geometry already defined so it has connected surfaces to "stretch". Also, I can get the same truncated pyramid shape using the Move tool with the CMD key "auto fold" option to pull the initial centered 2' x 2' square up, without explicitly adding the diagonals first. Regardless, the Push/Pull "stretch" CMD key qualifier is yet another tool in the tool box.
So thankful for all these video's, blowing my mind daily.
Probably the coolest thing I've seen all day. I've never used stretch - it's a game-changer! And turning on hidden faces and these use it - Boom! blown away!!!
Wow. I've wished that this existed so many times, and now my wish has come true!
Yeah, I remember stumbling across it by accident in .. like 2012 .. but totally forgot about it ( rarely had the use case ) so this is sort of like rediscovering with the same 'ahhhh' moment
Again... another new thing i learned today... Thanks so much Aaron.... this may be a simple thing but you still did the effort of teaching us.... thank you again
It would be great if the Command modifier could be added to the tool tip for Push/Pull! At the moment, only the Option modifier is "explained" in the status bar (2:30)
Absolutely add this Push Pull modifier key tool tip!
I agree, seems inconsistent that this tool tip is not included. No wonder its not known about...
Hmmmm, maybe this could be the start of a new series of videos called “SketchUp Guess What”.
Wow Aaron, Mind officially blown. This is such a cool option for push pull. Why isn't it shown as a tool tip on push pull it could have saved me hours of frustration. Thanks for the info once again.
I agree, why is sketchup keeping secrets from us..!! :)
Wow! Very cool and neat feature! Didn't know about it but will use most def from now on. Great job, as always, Aaron! Thanks!
Oooo! I cannot say that I knew about this modified command. Will give it a try. Thanks, Aaron.
Did not know about this feature and was just recently trying to do this exact feature haha. Thanks as always for the videos!
Oh wow, I knew of this a few weeks earlier when I was drawing some exhaust pipes for a motorbike. All bends and resize of the pipes where much easier than scaling and measuring time after time. Is there a list of all these extra "hidden" functions out there? There might be more of those tricks I wish I knew earlier!
how many more hidden functions are there?
Excuse me but does it work with sketchup pro 2018 ? I can't do this maybe i misunderstood...
Learnt something NEW, thanks Aaron.
stretch tool is cool but the hidden geometry push pull was a game changer 😯
Great tip Aaron. Thank you!!!!!!!!
Another win! Thanks Aaron!
Ooooo! ... I like it. Been using since At Last, and never seen/used that. Very cool.
This is a beautiful command.
OMG! I'm so happy right now!
🤓
I was actually trying to figure out how to pull out a non-straight-axis face *_just yesterday!!!_*
I was doing some crown molding around the room and a corner and up a stairwell at an angle.
😣
I hope this saves me!
It didn't.
But Curviloft by Fredo did.
Thanks, Aaron!
Thank you so much for teaching us 🇵🇭
Never noticed before!
What I found confusing is the name. This is called "move along normal" in lots of other applications, not stretch. And lots of other applications call "stretch" something different (for example scaling on one axys only or moving only a few elements of an item etc).
I know that every company choose names as they want but this makes things confusing.
Great video as usual! Thanks.
it’s similar to in some cad programs the “Loft” tool.
How to enter a stretch value with this feature?
That was completely new to me. Thank you.
I haven't this command option in my SKETCHUP 2018.
Yep, it doesn't seem to work in older versions of Sketchup
Thanks Aaron, it is new to me.
Nice, this will help me with my processes!
Brilliant function - I had no idea
Hello boys
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
GOD bless you
works fine on 2017!
another "ahhhh" moment, great tip
very helpful indeed!
THIS was a great tip !!! NICE !
ALT key with Move tool does the same thing. I know it is Auto fold to.
Toppen! Nice! Thanks! This trick i did not know.
That's fresh! Thanks.
Wow this is new for me. Thanks 😊
It's an easy way to make a quick tapered chair leg
Now that is very usefull! Thank you!
VERY USEFUL!
Didn't know about it
Thank you very much
But I think it's a new feature
Cool, option 👍🏻
Way Cool!!!
Pure gold
Очень классный урок.
Ridiculous! And good.
It’s official - I hate you😜! Hours and hours wasted to be shown just how simple this can be, many thanks.
🤯