7 BEST SKETCHUP AXIS TIPS

[@bropitt]

I've been using SU since around 2006, this young man always teaches me something new, it's like having a young person show me how to use my phone

[@GB-kr1jp]

Yes, he is really good. I have learnt a lot from him.

[@_SYDNA_]

Oh My Goodness! This is the tape I needed. I kept thinking I had broken my model when it appeared the axes were moving around. With complex assemblies with a lot of editing groups, I didn't realize I was just seeing a localized set of axes associated with the group. Thanks Justin! Well explained.

[@evgenkudriashov5779]

As always - author is a legend. So clear and well-done video tutorials. I could of say that I've learned most of SketchUp thanks to your great video-recources, my friend. Thank you!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thank you very much - I really appreciate it! :)

[@epiccroisant5994]

facts, i would pay for this stuff

[@kingasz100]

Hi Geis, thanks for clarifying the axe issue. I like that your videos are quick, detailed, but not slow....Very informative. I was trying to find an answer to my problem here. I think the answer lies in PERMANENTLY SET up axes or TEMPORARILY set up axes....which I hope got it right now. So for TEMPORARY axes use"align axes" by double clicking on face and PERMANENTLY set up axes by using the toolbox symbol of the axe (part of construction toolbox, on the left).....I will still have to double check if it works the same way in everywhere or just in a group.....Sometimes it takes a bit of effort to figure out the right way of using tools, but it is still more rewarding to use sketchup than use other architectural softwares I used before.....Cheers,

[@wayneseymour1]

Once again Justin you have solved some of my frustrations in modeling, trust me you under estimate your abilities, Out of all those tutorials out there trying to relay the fundamentals of using SU they are not even in your shadow. Thank you so much for the time and effort you place into bring us these lessons tips and knowledge, I for one am extremely grateful and appreciative of your work.

[@timfoster5043]

As a newbie, you have NO Idea how much this video helped me! Subscribed!

[@duanezweber6348]

Hi Justin. Just joined the Patreon thing to support your efforts. Really appreciate your tutorials. I've been in the custom woodworking industry for 40+ years and use SketchUp now for everything under the sun. Tried to learn many other CAD programs but never quite got proficient enough to dedicate the time to really learn them. Not so with Sketchup because I find it very intuitive and because of people like you with fantastic tutorials. Took me quite a while to weed through the ones that think they know Sketchup only to find (after too much time) that they just knew enough to bluff their way through. As I get more into learning the finer details of Sketchup, I'll try to bump up my Patron level. Highest regards, Duane

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thank you very much! :)

[@AndyDaviesByTheSea]

Thanks. I've found out that you can revert back to the original (default) axes by hovering over either the red, blue or green lines of the maverick axes then right click and select 'Reset'.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - I found that literally the day after I posted this video :) - Oh well...

[@mamym3823]

YOU ARE AMMAZING ! 😊 Keep it up, fell in love with Sketchup because of your videos! You are teaching us so much, thanks from he bottom of our hearts!

[@D3V1L_3]

As always - author is a legend. So clear and well-done video tutorials.

[@lanettegarvin2065]

Thanks Justin! Wow, is there anything you DON'T know about Sketchup? Your tutorials are always full of good information presented in a way that makes sense immediately. It's much appreciated!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - well if I knew that, it wouldn't be something I didn't know ;p - Glad you're finding the tutorials helpful! :)

[@_SYDNA_]

Yeah he is good. The SketchUp folks themselves have pretty good tutorials but Justin is pretty good. I went ahead and subscribed to his paid SketchUp Essentials course, and that was well worth it. Some of it is repeated from the KZbin content, but all of it is well organized with a good sense of what a person needs to learn and in what order. Definitely worth the investment and fairly easy to search through when I need to double back and hear something again.

[@_SYDNA_]

Yeah he is good. The SketchUp folks themselves have pretty good tutorials but Justin is pretty good. I went ahead and subscribed to his paid SketchUp Essentials course, and that was well worth it. Some of it is repeated from the KZbin content, but all of it is well organized with a good sense of what a person needs to learn and in what order. Definitely worth the investment and fairly easy to search through when I need to double back and hear something again.

[@patrickflynn5297]

Again Justin provides what I've found to be the best and easiest way to understand Sketchup - in this case about axes

[@lapx1]

Vray got me here. You're videos keep me here. You are one of the best I've ever seen, a natural. You are my First KZbin subscription ever and I've been around for awhile. Keep up the excellent work!

[@lukrombauts]

So helpful this. Should be 1st lesson for everyone interested in Sketchup!

[@19560618]

LITTLE ADVANCED FOR ME (KINDA BEGINNER) BUT NOTHING LESS THAN EXCELLENT TUTORIAL - 6 STARS THANKS MAN !!

[@queilapaes2139]

This is the best free software Ive seen. Respect.

[@CCC-bk8lo]

Hi Justin, I enjoy all your tutorials. They are clear and to the point. Thanks so much!

[@mechanoid5739]

Thanks for the tips! The aligning axis to use the scaling tool tip was just what I needed to solve a problem I was having!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome - glad you liked it!

[@beaurobb4684]

I am moving into rendering and these simple & practical work flow and use examples are really helpful. Much appreciated!

[@trentgeorge9134]

You learn something new every day.

[@JasonDunn01]

Omg, I'm so glad u made this video, and that I found it. If only I had over a year ago, I'd have a few less grey hairs lol. Especially useful was the temporary change when using the context menu vs permanent change when using thru the toolbar icon. That was a zinger, thanks!

[@self_dev_]

Amazing tutorial. This is my favorite SketchUp+Layout channel so far and I am making sure to share with my friends! Thanks again.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much! I'm really glad you're finding the channel helpful!

[@doctoryasir3600]

You are the best SketchUp teacher in the world

[@GoodQuestionsLeadToGoodAnswers]

Among all Sketchup explainers, you're the best!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thank you :)

[@melaniepotter3951]

Hello Justin, you are so generous with your expert knowledge. Thank you so much.

[@afakhrik3002]

gonna love changing axes after watch this tutorial, thanks a lot legend

[@juliehruba2446]

Thank you for making your videos simple and practical! And thank you for solving (again) my skp questions

[@patrickflynn5297]

Terrific as usual! Suggestion: if you don't already have this subject in another of your tutorials add best practices for setting model elevation scenes (front, back, sides) by using the axes. I found another tutorial that showed described how to set the green axes upright then save the scene. This is for when the model is not aligned to the original axes and the standard elevation view buttons don't work.

[@mattmoore9069]

Thanks so much for your videos. I joined for $3. How do you set your axis to initial conditions. I geolocated my work then reassigned the axis and want to go back to the original axis that came in with a gelocated image. Thanks so Much, Matt

[@tedgage8180]

Great job. I have one more question. I used your tutorial and dinged around till I fixed it (maybe). Here it is: I have a design and import a model to it that not aligned with the design. Is there a simple way to snap it to the existing design?

[@AtticFoil]

Is there some type of "shortcut" key to choose the red, blue or green axis? I'm starting to learn and it seems you have to move the item around until the color you want appears and then hit shift key. Is there a way to select the item and go straight to the color axis you want?

[@waynestinyworld]

Thank you Justin. I'm going to try this on the next roof framing model. I think this may make flipping rafters more predictable. Thanks to Jim as well.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Hope it helps Wayne!

[@palewriter1856]

Aha! You, too, have encountered the devious effect this has on rafter manipulation? I've always put up with it, but I'm about to go play with resetting the axis after lopping off the ends at their proper angles. I suspect I'm about to have a Homer moment (Doh!!!) complete with forehead slap.

[@godmode3359]

I love sketchup, it's super useful. I simply can't believe in all the years it's been around that no one has figured out how to code some sort of stress/strength test, which would be super useful to use framers and woodworkers. Build a chair or set of stairs...click a button and have it apply weight to the structure and highlight the weakest points. Knowing where something is the weakest will allow us to know where it's most likely to break. Meaning we can build-in solutions BEFORE they happen. Could save lives. Just sayin...I know I know, not possible, they aren't solid state objects yada yada... but still after seeing what can be done over the last decade with skin wrapped objects and draped cloth objects there has to be some sort of solid state processing going on. Who ever codes this thing first is going to make a pretty penny over the next few years. I can see every construction engineers eyes lighting up with the decreased law suits, lower insurance costs, and new money from new builds instead of fixing old builds for free.

[@johnfeit5314]

Good as always, Justin. Q: many of us (I imagine) are proficient with ACAD or similar software and miss some basic handy commands such as mirror, extend, trim, and fillet. I know that folks such as S4U have commands such as mirror taken care of, but could you do a video where you review the various available extensions that mimic the most used CAD commands that are not in SU and/or which SU commands may be good workarounds?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I'm not sure I'm the best person for that since I don't have a lot of CAD experience, so I don't know what a lot of those commands are...

[@artworksenvisioneering2167]

Great tutorial and a boon to users of many experience levels as so often its just not known. One approach I use on homes with a diagonal wing is set one scene of the floor plan or model with axis on that diagonal so I can swap back and forth readily and reliably between normal axis and diagonal. The align axis right click trick in this video is a go to for me. I ised UT twi months back instead of a diagonal axis scene to quickly toggle axes on a huge home with many angles. Super handy, mayhaps worth a shortcut key.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Hmmm...probably depends on how often you're changing the axis. If it's only once or twice, maybe not worth a shortcut. If it's constantly, maybe worth looking into...

[@moobrien3514]

Really helpful. Just ran into a situation with a circle I rotated and was offset internally so now I know how to fix it!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome - glad it helped!

[@neilgale2309]

Great Thanks! I always need to change the blue axis from pointing down to up but it keeps flipping to down.. do have a tutorial that mentions this?

[@valeriepierre7297]

I am new to sketchup and just want to say thank you for posting these videos, I have learned so much from them. 🙂

[@noelsun3179]

Hi nice video! Question, how do I align the standard views with the new location/orientation of the axes? Thanks!

[@gordonstewart5774]

Excellent! Which axis points NORTH during shadow casting?

[@russ1669]

That's great information. I never realised this before. Will save me lot's of trouble. Thankyou

[@irwankurniawan1737]

This 'global' and 'local' axis are very useful! Thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped!

[@waltermayne3833]

The changes you make with the axis tool relates to the standard views tool. I have a model that somehow started off off excess so I can't use the standard back, front, right and left views to produce elevations.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

If you re-place your axes, do your views work?

[@sarahalimm]

It's a great video. I really wanted to know how to reset the axes to original?

[@connimariebinstock]

Thank you so much for all your tutorials. You are by far the best

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you're finding them helpful!

[@sabotage7008]

What did you do at 6:01 6:02 6:03 to change plane of rotation ... how to switch anglemeter from blue to red or green ... ???

[@tbro4140]

scale tool aligning with model axis, super helpful!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you think so!

[@hilaireoloughlin]

Precious. Thank you so much to all involved.

[@frankdeblock-burij2899]

Thomthom's "Axes Tools" is a very interesting plugin for "Bulk reset of group and component's axes"

[@nelsonmichael9838]

Hi Pal your videos has helped me alot, thanks for all you do. Could you please explain how I can use the pen tool or square tool to draw so it will be on a floor plan orientation. I do it sometimes but I noticed its a kind of random action. Like how to switch drawing on the horizontal or vertical axis with control

[@chrisb3927]

Your tutorials are very helpful, clear and easy to understand. Thanks a lot!!!!!

[@PapaBear1044]

Thank you for this. Learned something new, again. But I do have a question. I've created two scenes on my drawing so that I can see the lid on the box open in one and closed in the other. And I don't want the axes lines to show. But they come back each time I switch scenes. There has to be a setting for that, right?

[@joe2_515]

When you "File / Import / 3D Model" it comes in aligned with your current axes system !

[@jameskellinger8314]

Is there a way to align a group axis to the main axis--hopefully in one click?

[@733DMPILOT]

how can you reset the axis to default Thanks so much for all your videos

[@AndrewFroude]

Thanks Justin, this is really helpful. One questions: How do you realign an off-axis object to the model axis?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I'd just use the rotate tool

[@AndrewFroude]

@@Thesketchupessentials thanks. Sorry maybe my question was badly worded. What I was asking is how do you change the axis of an off-axis object to match the model axis without rotating it, i.e. so they are the same, as the model axis disappears when you edit the object/group.

[@keyable]

Could you make a tutorials about plugin SKELION? thnx

[@philmarch171]

Really great videos, Justin. This one in particular is particularly powerful. BTW I'd love to see a video dealing with unwanted triangulation of surfaces. It's when a previously flat surface breaks up into a bunch of triangles. And even deleting the face and recreating with a polygon tool will, again break into triangles. I think it's a bug but it happens out there a fair amount (I've seen it in the Sketchup forums). I could get a video to you if you want.

[@daddiovideo]

Really useful tips, clear explanation. Efficient. Thank you!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@natashawelch5937]

Thanks so much. Do you do anything about the pink axes? That run parallel to other objects. Working on a plan for a building where it’s all angles so not sure how best to manage it and wondering when you would use the pink?

[@Md_Sam8784]

IAM WATCHING YOUR VIDEO FROM QATAR. AND VERY IMPRESSED AND GOING TO WATCH EACH AND EVERY VIDEO OF YOURS....

[@danielwhittaker5184]

Thanks Justin. This quick to the point video Helped me find the way of aligning an defined axis to a group. I'm still surprised even to this day that Sketchup allows you to right clicking a component then "Change Axis" to change the axis of a component however there is no option to "Change Axis" or similar by right clicking options of a group. I highly recommend Sketchup should fix this workaround (under tools as per your video :) by making options off a right click to something like "Change component Axis" (For components) and "Change group Axis) (For groups, not currently a feature) or any other way. Maybe this was an oversight or they intentionally missed that out thinking that a components (2+ copies in model) changing the axis could be more useful than a one off group, any thought on that?

[@zakimanafiq7754]

great videos, can you make video vray settings?about how to control the light and so on..

[@simoneast7]

Thanks for another excellent tutorial. I noticed that if I'm drawing a rectangle and hit the up arrow to constrain it to the blue plane, it does not respect the axis properly. Is that a bug in SketchUp Make 2017? Or something I'm missing?

[@talbomax]

Once again - Brilliant. Exactly the info I was looking for. Deep Bow to you SketchUp Master J!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped!

[@SteS]

Is there any way to change the axis of multiple components to the same axis. With a plugin perhaps?

[@tracywalker494]

Hi. I am struggling to change the axis on a cabinet door and I seem to be missing a step from your tutorial. What is clear is to activate my bounding box, click on the axis icon, drag it to a starting corner of my component door and click on it. I'm confused as to what is after that. You seem to just go to the middle of the edge of the object and then you say to click in here. I have tried several iterations of this and I am not moving the axis. Can you clarify what exactly are the next steps? Thank you.

[@kodokraksasa6564]

1. You can set a new axis. - Tools > Axes > Set new location 2. Align to axis: Rightclick on face > Set Axis 3. Always align axis with the model you have 4. Align axis can be used in a group 5. Use set component axes when creating a component 6. Axes tool changes a group's axes permanently, Align axes changes temporarily

[@bluechampagne99]

Can we automatically draw a path base on coordinate ?

[@dal2888859]

What if you're scores of hours into a drawing with many components and groups and start to notice very slight misalignment between certain groups, is there a way to sort of snap those groups into alignment with each other? The current model was created in order to incorporate the organization tips you presented, and it is highly ordered in outline and layer. Your instruction about the function of layers was a key. And the outline was a revelation. When I saw your videos I was already 60 hours into this model. So I opened a new model and began to copy and paste my components and groups into the new model, and to organize them into an outline and set my layers in order; I also built as needed in that process. It took roughly 16 hrs to complete this manual transfer. Maybe in the copy and paste there was some misalignment? Or it could be a relic of earlier, less experienced executions of building goals. Thanks, I enjoy your videos very much.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

There's no easy way of doing this where SketchUp just fixes it for you if that's what you're asking for - sorry about that

[@ezza88ster]

Another excellent and comprehensive tutorial. Thanks Man! You're a Legend.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks - glad you liked it!

[@ck008uk]

Is there a toggle switch to lock to a certain plane when drawing a shape? for example when I try to draw a circle on vertical planes (XY or ZY) it only gets drawn on the horizontal plane (XZ).

[@JoJo-xb7do]

thanks for these videos I find them very helpful. is there anyway of drawing on one axis say a triangle while using a map underneath that has some toppgraphy?

[@thomascorley8232]

Hey, many thanks for taking the time to upload this video. resetting the orientation is a very useful tool, but how do you reset some thing so that it can be returned to original default orientation? I have figured out you can draw a line off the model that has been rotated and measure the angle to work out how many degrees o f movement is required to bring it back the same as the rest of the model. This works great with square models ,but now I have a with a curved surface so finding it very difficult to align with rest of model.

[@Skans-Gustav]

So how do you change axis on multiple groups within a model?

[@douglasmichel6361]

Justin, I work a lot with Chief Architect Premier, make components in SUpro for importing into CA. A couple examples would be hand rail profiles parallel to stringers on stairs, using push pull tool on profile of hand rail itself. At time’s aligning axis don’t work. Another example I’d make valley boards for over- framing in CA (which you can’t do in CA) so I have to export the available framing members from CA to a deg file then import to SU, draw my valley plate then bring back to CA. Any suggestions on aligning axis in cases like this that may speed up my process. One more example. A leader pipe with A & B elbows . Thanks for any tips or tricks. Also, can you recommend a good Extend/ Trim extension. Thanks, Doug

[@sunnywithpuddles]

As usual you're videos are concise and informative. Big thanks! This is a big help, but still think i'm going to run into problems on my project. I was handed a CAD file for a project including 3 buildings built wall to wall about 100 years ago. Openings in the walls allow us to develop the project in several floors over the 3 buildings. Zooming in I can see the CAD lines don't even all meet and none of the walls are square with each other as the whole street follows the river behind it. Any further advice would be appreciated.

[@age_of_reason]

This is the single most important topic in SketchUp

[@amolshinde5016]

Thank you so much this helped a lot!!!! You saved my life

[@legacyfound]

Thanks Justin I woudll also like ot know how to purge all the group specific axes in order to return to one global axis

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I don't know how to do that

[@flipside2592]

is there any way to set non orthogonal axes

[@andrewkimber3898]

When you realign the axis on a house to suit the site, are the axes aligned north and south,is the north point off the axis? In other words is the sun in the right place in your model?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I'm not sure if that's what drives the sun location - I know geographical location does, but I don't know how it sets "north" in the model. I think there's an extension for setting solar north that does this fairly effectively.

[@joehayes1636]

Great video. Can you do a video on the different modeling templates at the open screen.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Hmmm...I think this is the closest I have for now... kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3Kak6SbZq-WmKc

[@Randor10]

Great video. I've obviously not been using axes to their maximum functionality.

[@michelevitarelli]

how does sketchup determine north for shadow tracking? If I change the axis, does it change the direction of north?

[@arnaudsalembier6333]

Thanks for the video. It didn't answer the problem i was facing but learned new things about axis thanks to your tutorial. Concerning my own issue, i luckily found after a while how to solve it myself. may be a missing tip for those users who have just like me moved the origin Axis instead of creating a separate one in a component or block. HEre the problem i was having, i saved my SKP file with the origin moved, and when i tried to import this SKP file in another model, it was not the right position, basically because of the Axis being moved in my first SKP file. i couldn't find anywhere a menu button where to set the axis back to the origin until i right clicked on the axis itself and found the option called "reset". The Axis came back to origin. Hope this may help others if they get the same issue.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Good tip - thanks!

[@orlandorosjr]

Sup sir, tutorial please on how to use the shape bender plug in if one of the objects/models in the building is not on the red axis and needs to use that plug in. Cause I can't use shape bender if the line and curve that I drew are on the green axis

[@AlfredJosephLacson016]

the Views doesn't follow the axis is there a solution to that? Thank you for the btw, its really helpful

[@tomtom-f2i]

Hi Justin, A quick hello from Nice, France. Thanks a lot for all these lean and mean videos. I'm a huge fan. Sketchup is a lot of fun, but there's something i find a bit annoying : layers going up and down in the layer list when you switch them on an off (I'm used to the Autocad layer list). Any way I can fix that ? Thanks again. All the best. T

[@JonDraper]

How do i make my camera shortcuts work once i've done a geolocation like you show? I have the axis changed, but the camera hotkeys for top down and such don't work properly.

[@refusoagaino6824]

You set the bar high, but keep clearing it. This video is excellent.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much!

[@linalindbladh8529]

how do i change from working in the Y axes instead of the x ax? If I'm trying to do a roof it will only draw a flat surface

[@scottstabb1432]

good stuff!!! I drew my 30 acres and it took about 30 hours and now when i click the front view button it basically shows me the top and i see the land plat. If I click on the Top view, i see a line. . I drew the entire thing as the front when it should have been the top. How do i change that?

[@rickman1013]

How do you keep your design in the middle of the page. While designing the o,0,o, can go way off center. I like to keep it in the middle of the design page. It's easier to work with. I like to be able to rotate the part around the center of the page. In Catia V5 we double click on a point of the part or the axis and it shoots to the center of the page.

[@theamazingtwo2059]

How do you align the standard views with a new axis? Thanks a million

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Can you right click on a face in the new view and select "Align View"

[@eagleheart3620]

Is there a way to reset the axis of modified copied components or objects at the same time? I was planning to use the Raytracer so everything drops on the surface of an organic surface.

[@HB-ct8hh]

Why can't I draw on the green axis? Initially, I was able to select 'r' for the rectangle and draw a box off of the blue and green axis. Now, all it allows me to do is to draw on the blue and red axis. What has changed? Thanks

[@aurisnow]

Hey buddy! Yes I second most of your viewers, you are the best at SketchUp tutorials bar none. I've being trying to learn it for longer than I care to admit, but never seemed to find the time to grind at it. I was wondering how to set up Axis according to Cardinals East, West, North, and South, to get realistic shadows in my model. I also would love to have a nice list of best free extensions for Make 2017, since I don't have the $$$ to purchase the pro version. I am also working on a prototype bike part and eventually will need to 3D print from a free version... Thank you!!!

[@irinairisha915]

Woow, huge THX!! Couldn’t find anywhere!!!

[@win-pe7ud]

Good tutorial,thanks teacher.