Computer Cooling Components

Google-ing for Models.

Sketchup Collection of AC products - WizD Forums

3 Cabinet Models

Yurko Design & Architecture, P.A. has 3 simple, but effective models available.

SketchUp Workflow Videos by Justin Chin

Justin Chin (monsterz3r0) has posted some time-lapse videos on Youtube that show how he creates sci-fi models in SketchUp. He's a talented artist and modeller, so check them out. He also has a blog.

SketchUp Mover Script

I posted a script that moves or copies Groups and Components a user-settable distance.

See the Pro Ruby Forum for download and discussion.

Reversing Faces

Gully Foyle, over on the Google Help Forum, has posted a great idea to speed up the tedious process of reversing faces.

In the post, it is pointed out that the Push/Pull Tool is unique in that it selects entities when you simply hover the mouse over them. By assigning a shortcut key to Reverse Faces, you can select the Push/Pull Tool, hover over the face you want to reverse, and press the shortcut. Ingenious!

UPDATE: I've since heard from Gully that he was not the thinker-upper of this idea, rather he remembered reading it in the Pro Forum.

Great Image Viewer

I found this great image viewer (freeware) from FastStone. Small, fast, and free - what else do you want? Now go check it out yourself.

Drawing Effeciently With Shortcuts

The idea is to minimize the distance your hands need to travel while selecting the most common tools you use.

Keep your right hand on the mouse. The only exception is entering values in the VCB. (You are right-handed, aren't you?)

Your left hand should be confined to the left-half of the keyboard, pinky on the shift key. I suggest these shortcuts:

• Shift-space => Pencil Tool
• h => Edit/Hide
  
• Shift-H => Edit/Unhide/All
  
• g => Make Group
  
• Shift-G => Make Component
• Shift-C => Toggle Components Window
  
• Shift-E => Erase Guidelines (construction geometry)
• Shift-A => Protractor Tool (think A for Angle)
• Shift-S => PushPull Tool
• Shift-Z => Zoom Extents (I use zoom_selection.rb, a custom zoom tool.)
  
• Shift-F => FollowMe Tool
• d => Edit/Delete
• x => Explode
• Alt-1 => ISO View
• Alt-2 => Top View
• Alt-3 => Front View

I have tried other combinations, but I keep coming back to these.

You can import these directly into SketchUp by downloading Preferences.dat