hey guys
i'm aaron and this is sketchup square
one where we take a look at the basics
of sketchup
today i want to take a look at a
functionality
that is part of a tool we've already
looked at
that is the move tool in the move tool
you actually have the ability to
rotate groups and components while using
moves you don't have to switch over to
rotate if you want to just spin
something around
there are a few pieces to it that make
it
well let's hop in and take a look
okay so first things first i have
i have a couple things here on the
screen i have sumela and then i have
a group so this is a bunch of
lines edges faces that create kind of a
box you can see up here it says it's a
solid group
over here i have the exact same geometry
but it's not in a group you can see it's
just loose
faces and edges now
i'm going to take a look at how this
tool works and then we're going to talk
about
where it will and won't work so first
thing i'm going to do is
in select i'm just going to go pick on
this group so this box
group inside of or box inside of a group
then i'm going to come up here and hit
the move tool
it also hit m on the keyboard that would
work just as well
and now this functions exactly the same
we did this covered move in another
video where i can actually grab it by
the edges or
i can do a relative move but you'll
notice if you move
your cursor in so you're over
one of the sides of the group you get
these little
red x's show up or pluses is really what
they are
these are handles for rotation if i
hover
over one of them it's going to show me
the compass that's in that axis
and if i click click and release now i'm
actually
moving around that center point
if i watch down lower right corner it's
telling me the exact angle
if i want to i can start moving in
direction type an exact amount in 90
enter and boom there it goes
this rotate command only works
on groups or containers and what it's
actually doing is rotating
the containers rotating the box the
container that this geometry is
in and you'll see as you move over
different sides
you're going to move on those different
axes
okay so how is that different from using
the rotate command
well if i keep it selected and i go hop
in here and click on rotate
i can do very much the same thing but
rotate works off of snap points or
points
just like move does so with rotate i
might come in here grab by the corner
and flip it up like that see that's very
different from
what move does because move always moves
off the center of the face
so the rotate that i use and move is
always going to be the middle
of the highlighted face you could get to
that point with rotate too
so using rotate i could use inferencing
to find where does the middle of this
face
hit the middle of this face and find
that middle point and now start rotating
around just like
just like the move command does but the
move command is going to be faster the
other thing that is nice is
while i'm in here i can do that i can
drag it
move it over here rotate it again
line it up again with the origin so
i'm in move all the time so i can
constantly come in and move
and rotate seamlessly without switching
commands
now like i said there are caveats
when it's rotating it's basing those
rotation points
on the container so even though i have
this nice
square group here with nice fat flat
faces
if i go to move i can grab it and i can
move it around
but see if i hover i don't get those
controls why do i not get those controls
because it's not a group or component
if i want to one solution to that is i
could temporarily
right click make it a group use that
rotate on that geometry
and then right click and explode and
that would let me use those commands
those controls without having it
actually be a group
so kind of a cool little tool that's in
there i didn't cover it when we talked
about move originally because there was
so much stuff just to cover with a basic
uh command that i didn't want to spend
another how i don't know how many
minutes that was several minutes
adding that on i wanted to do that
justice because it's such a cool command
if you work with a lot of groups which
you should be doing if you're using
sketchup you should be putting things in
groups
then using that rotate piece of move
is it's just essential it is a great
command it'll really help you if you're
moving things around your model
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