It’s also wise to save your progress before importing anything heavy or complex with problems, in case it causes a crash. To save time and not overwhelm yourself, make sure you only inspect complex objects as you create them or before importing downloads into your model. These problems are usually highlighted in red you just have to orbit or flip the object to see them. It fixes what it can fix and tells you what you need to fix yourself. What’s so great about this tool is that you can inspect modeled or imported objects for errors that may lag, crash, or corrupt your Sketchup file and ruin hours of hard work. This single button plugin can save your whole model from a lot of glitches. Keep in mind that this isn’t a one-size-fits-all tool and that you need to be smart about choosing which objects to bend and how you bend them.

You can use this tool to bend literally everything to every shape. To draw the new object, just press ‘Enter’ on your keyboard. If your shape is bent the wrong way around, you can use the ‘Up’ arrow on your keyboard to toggle the curve, and the ‘Down’ arrow to toggle the line. It takes a few seconds or minutes, depending on how complex your model is, but you’ll see a green outline of your object over the bent or curved line.īecause it’s a mesh outline, you can’t really tell if your shape is bent facing the right direction, so take note that these ‘Start’ and ‘End’ labels match the ‘Start’ and ‘End’ labels on the original object.

It says to select the straight line first.

You’ll see the tool’s instructions at the bottom left on your Sketchup window.

Select the Object, THEN click the tool button.

It doesn’t have to be the same length by the way, but all lines have to be parallel to the Red Axis which is the X Axis in Sketchup ( The object you want to bend has to be either a group or component or this won’t work.)

Draw a straight line along the length of the object you want to bend.

You need to mimic the curve of your desired bend by either drawing it or copying the line.

This scenario was similar to the trouble I was in when I was an intern.Īt the time this looked like the end of the world for me since I didn’t know how to model a curved window to save my career, so I needed a shortcut. Let’s say we have a curved window opening + a straight rectangular window and we need those to fit. I have sentimental feelings towards this one because it was my first plugin to use ever and it literally saved me form getting fired from my internship back in 2014.

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