The thing that trips people up is that once you’ve moved onto a different tool, you lose the opportunity to change the dimensions of the action you just performed. Once you move on, you lose your opportunity You can check out my complete flowchart of optional user input in my Rotated Rectangle tutorial. The most complicated one is the Rotated Rectangle tool. The Push/Pull tool, Move tool, Offset tool, Scale tool also allow such an input to determine the length of the modification. Circles and polygons also let you feed a radius ( 10’r ENTER) and the number of segments (12s ENTER). Each tool is slightly different in what it will accept for input. In fact, all drawing and modification tools have the ability to accept input from the user. (Notice the comma before the dimension.) This is handy when you are snapping to another inference point in your model for one dimension, but need to declare the other dimension. If you wanted to change only the width, you’d type ,5′ ENTER. You can type in both the length and width, separated by a comma, or you can choose to only declare one of those, leaving the other as is. If you wanted to change the length, you’d type 4′ ENTER.
If you were to draw a rectangle, there are two dimensions you can input: the length, and the width.
The rectangle tool is a little different. If you don’t specify a unit (by just typing a number), it will assume you’re want to use the model default units, which you can change in Window -> Model Info -> Units. Feet and inches can be input as fractional or decimal, you can also input feet AND inches at the same time. All of these random dimensions below are acceptable input for declaring measurements when requested, and all equal 1 meter (If my math is correct) :Īs you can see, SketchUp is pretty easy going when it comes to unit of measurement. You’ll notice, when you type in the dimension, it will appear in the VCB. You can type in a dimension in any unit of measurement you wish. For instance, if you draw a line, you can declare the length of that line, simply by typing in a dimension on your keyboard, and pressing enter.
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