If you don't immediately spot an icon or aren't sure what to look for, just use Help > Search to look it up! Move as fast as your imagination can We know change can be a little tricky, so here are some quick reference guides for SketchUp for Desktop and LayOut that will help you familiarize yourself with the new icons and learn shortcuts you may not have known. It's a modern look that maintains the functionality you already know. The updated icons won't change the size or layout of your toolbar, so you still have ample modeling space and the option to reorder tools based on your favorites. We know you rely on this familiarity, so we don't make changes to our user interface lightly.įor the first time in 11 years, icons in SketchUp for Desktop and LayOut got a total makeover. Recognizing the Push-Pull, Paint Bucket, or Follow Me tools at a glance and their keyboard shortcuts are one of the keys to unlocking SketchUp’s powerful, efficient modeling. Outside of scale figures and the axes, SketchUp's icons are likely your closest companions throughout the creative process. New icons for Desktop and LayOut refresh the user interface. Icon refresh to SketchUp's user interface What's new?Ĭheck out our new iconography, learn about Snaps, tune your model’s mood with Horizon Color, and discover enhancements to existing tools. Plus, we've added a style feature that will expand your (color) horizons and developed a few all-around tool upgrades. Anyone who wants to speed up their documentation process will appreciate the performance enhancements to LayOut, including custom rendering controls. New to SketchUp for Desktop are redesigned icons and custom grips called Snaps that help you easily connect groups or components in predetermined ways. New modeling elements in SketchUp for Desktop and custom rendering controls in LayOut offer a performance-focused release for 2023. In any case, it’s definitely “operator error” in not remembering that I had made that change “temporarily”.Updated icons refresh the SketchUp for Desktop and LayOut interface. Then when the release version of v18 came out and I installed it, those “temporary” shortcuts from the release version of v17 were automatically migrated to v18 and showed up when I started using the non-Beta version.Īt least, I think that’s how it happened. Then I spent some months where I was doing all my SU on the v18 beta, so of course that was a parallel, vanilla installation and didn’t have those shortcut changes. I finished my experiment, but I forgot to put things back. I had been working on something where I had been trying to do a kind of free-form follow-me, moving a surface with push/pull without a path, and I had “temporarily” changed the two tools I was using alternately, Rotate and Push/pull, to be under F2 and F1. Then, in a classic case of “Where’s my … HERE it is!”, after I stopped wrestling with it, and maybe after asking for help, the answer came to me while lying in bed: Greetings for now, hope it is useful…Jakob. One good idea, is, to “Swap” the “Z” to: “Zoom Extents”…īrings you “out”, If you get: “Lost” In Model"… I even made a “keyboard” in Excel…to “See” where stuff is.(3D memory). My example: “W” is “Wipe” for hide(wipe) rest of model… (toggle)Īnd “Alt + W” is Hide(wipe) similar… (toggle)ġ sorted by Name: (what did I choose for “Top View”)Īnd 1 is sorted by Shortcuts: (what does “F8” do?)īoth have the full path, as extra column: “Camera/Standard Views /Top” Remember shortcuts in “pictures or memes”… Put as many shortcuts, as possible, near the left side of keyboard My example: Thumb on “Ctrl” + index on “A” for “Select All”. Let 2 fingers of the left hand do the 2 key-button clicks: My example: “X” for: “X.Ray On / Off”…(a toggle function) Have most used shortcuts, as “One key”-single clicks…like Sketchup do Let the right “mouse”-hand do the creative stuff. Nice to have the same shortcuts, when they demonstrate and you pause and try. I collect shortcuts… from people I follow on You Tube…“Sketchup School” for example. Meme: G for: Group as component… Alt+G is for: Group as group. From Sketchup: “G” is “Make component” ( in right click menu)
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