Master the SketchUp Scale Tool for Exact Dimensions with this SECRET FEATURE!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I guess this feature has been updated for a bit, but it's a MASSIVE timesaver, especially with dynamic cabinets. Let me know if you've been using it in the comments below! :)

[@Cyentruk]

It's already there from a long time ago, may be before SketchUp was aquired by Google (I don't remember exactly).

[@MrTomStanton]

I've been a 3D VFX artist for over 20 years and for the life of me I cannot understand why you can't simply type in new dimensions in the object properties in SketchUp in the way you can in any other 3D software. Do you know the reasoning behind this?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

@@MrTomStanton SketchUp handles the objects in a different way that's intended to be simpler. Blender, for example, allows you to do this, but there's a lot of complication with applying scales, etc.

[@johnjlopez]

I knew this before this vid but yes it took me way too long to learn that you can scale by measurement (Feet/inches) compared to the normal scale by percentage. This is a great tip vid for beginners. Most likely don't know it. Also selecting edges and moving should also be basic common practice (I do this all the time) and in other vids you've also covered fredos (or tig?) box scaling are all tools to do the same/similar thing and people should be knowledgeable about all of these abilities. There is a reason I'm very proficient in SKP and still watch these and Aarons/Tysons and other SKP vids is because there are always little things that most don't know or forget etc... Separately, dynamic components are a godsend when done right and very underappreciated. I wish they were more high quality as most are very basic and not worthy of rendering but I keep a library of dynamic components (and everything else) and Im always keeping an eye our for new DC. The SKP warehouse has a good library of windows as example that are dynamic components. I use marvin ones a lot because they have a large library of near every type of window and the models are well detailed and very customizable. FYI, a new version of both d5 and enscape came out today.

[@stahlmandesign]

I wanted them to support this years ago and didn't know support was added. Thanks for letting us know, and that the shift-key problem is also fixed.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - only took me a year and a half to figure it out

[@corey688]

Hi Justin. Always love your videos. How can you scale an interior shape to a specified distance and allow the outer shapes to scale accordingly ? For example if I have a 3” pvc water pipe and on the outside of that pipe is a slightly larger joining collar. - I want to scale the 3” pipe to 4” and let the collar scale automatically too. When I create a scaling boundary box the green points are always on the outside of the furthest shape so not sure how to select all and get more green points on the inside shape ??? Cheers.

[@billferrol4202]

The distance works in 2017 if you use metric distances just put mm, cm or m after the numeric input.

[@user-lr2lu4xf2s]

can you please make a tutorial of modelling an organic cave in sketchup? Thank you

[@ChuTu379]

Hey Justin, one thing I often bump to throughout many Sketchup versions is when I scale even just a simple object like a square box to a long rectangle box, it looks fine without material. But once I apply material onto it... nuh uh. All messed up

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Fair Comment - outside of using the FredoScale extension, you could just explode and regroup the object after scaling it, though this would remove any component functionality. Also probably could use something like ThruPaint

[@existsmancing]

👍👍👍

[@DILEEPKUMAR-sg6fx]

sir is it possible to scale in centimeter? not in feet or inches..

[@studio2513]

@@DILEEPKUMAR-sg6fx no, only inches or parsecs

[@Cyentruk]

Yes, just enter "30cm" (for example). Just add the unit follow the number: Ex: 1m, 100cm or 1000mm, they're all accepted

[@Sketchup-fe6ef]

He is a tip, say you have a window opening 3 ft from the ground, but you want it 4ft, You can select the surface on the bottom of window opening and select an edge on the floor that allows you to scale up to 4 ft. Save loads of time. I have some plugin I would like you to review, Would you be interest, Not charge just a review.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Depends on what it is - shoot me an email - www.thesketchupessentials.com/contact/

[@studio2513]

"Stretch by area" plugin solves all distortion problems

[@florinapostoiu]

That one works only for simple (straight) objects, and not nested too much, if the object is too complex (not straight, but curved with a lot of edges and faces)... it just has limitations for the amount of geometry that it can process. Instead, Fredo Scale can process more complex and more nested, but still has limitations. But, Curic Stretch is the best - I don't know if it has limitations, cause I didn't reached them yet. :)

[@studio2513]

@florinapostoiu BS - no limitations with nesting/polycount for a *decades*

[@florinapostoiu]

@@studio2513 You really are s....d, for sure.!

[@triumfdula8830]

​@@florinapostoiuHow can you stretch curved object without distorting, it's not about effectiveness of the plugin, you just can't stretch organic models without distorting but you can scale them yes, while stretch by area wich is free and other similar payed are for symetrical things only like cabinets

[@florinapostoiu]

@@triumfdula8830 🤣🤣I speak only from experience...! 🤣 I was in a situation, where a cabinet assembly had a curved door on the left end, and another curved door on the right end, but between those two doors, I had 4-5 straight doors which at some point I needed to make them wider but equal, everything was very big ant pretty nested... Well, Stretch by Area did nothing, I mean nothing at all, Fredo did something but not everything (just creating a bit of a mess...), and Curic had no problem at all.! How is that for a... "curved".!? 🤣

[@nperson]

I'm not understanding the problem using the shift key. I'm using Sketchup 2017 and I'm able to use the shift key to enter inches. I make small woodworking projects and I use this feature frequently.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Holding the shift key at least on my PC to type the " symbol on versions prior to 2023 locks the tool into uniform scaling mode, which was not ideal

[@nperson]

@ well, it does work on Sketchup 2017

[@pmelchman]

I tried , but my cabinet panel sides grew from 18,mm to 24mm. I am trying from a 457mm wide cabinet scaliong to 610mm. This would be such a time saver if I can get tit work. thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Yeah you don't want to use the scale tool for cabinets because it'll distort the panels. You want to either use a dynamic component, use something like FredoScale's box stretching, or just set the raw geometry of the object up so you can just drag the sides and the sticky geometry of the box adjusts with them

[@pmelchman]

@ do you have a video on the above mentioned

[@Thesketchupessentials]

@@pmelchman kzbin.info/www/bejne/epzWoIikm7KnoKs , kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYHQqmuDlKugg7s

[@pmelchman]

@@Thesketchupessentials thanks

[@patmat.]

I guess you could use CAPS LOCK

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I don't think Caps lock works in this case - on my PC all this does is locks to capital letters

[@ahmedanwer6437]

Sketchup is very poor in stretching, scaling,, etc

[@Thesketchupessentials]

What do you mean? Having used Rhino, Blender, SU, etc, it doesn't seem THAT different