
most of the tool quick keys are under the left hand.īad form, and how to fix it Reversed Faces 'spacebar' takes you out of a tool and back to the select tool middle double click will move your view to where your mouse is. Middle click orbits, shift+middle click pans Shift select is a +/- select, you you can select multiple objects/faces/edges. Ctrl-clicking and Alt-clicking also do a lot of useful things, so always read the tooltips at the bottom of the screen until you know these by heart. Shift-clicking is what you'll be doing half of the time anyway, since it often modifies the tool or intent of your action. You can do a lot with just the mouse in sketchup, but it's always good to have one hand on the keyboard. Ĭlick once selects face or edge, double click selects all adjacent edges/faces, triple click selects all connected faces/edges (i.e. You'll need to create a account to download :-(.

get that here, along with a bunch of other plugins you might want.

stl out of the box, so we need a plugin, which you can get here.Īnother plugin that is essential is the Cleanup plugin. You will certainly need a way to export your file in a useful format, which for us is the. Solid Inspector extension will show you any faulty triangles and vertices that prevent an object from being a simple outer shell. Slicing programs can only interpret Sketchup models that have simple outer shells, and are marked "Solid Object" on groups.
