BEST SketchUp Array Copy Mode Trick

what's up guys Justin here with the sketch essentials come back with another sketch up quick tutorial for you so in today's video I want to talk about a tip that you can use while creating array copies inside of Sketchup if you're looking for more great sketchup tips make sure to check out my best sketchup tips guide at the sketch of essentials comm slash tips now let's go ahead and just jump into it so I've talked a bunch of different times about the ability to create arrays in Sketchup so arrays is basically the ability to create multiple different copies of an object using the move tool or the rotate tool so I will link to a video about this in the notes below but basically that's when you activate the move tool and you click on an object and then you tap the control key to create a copy and then you type in something like x 5 or x 10 and hit the enter key and you can adjust the number of copies that you create so if I was to type x 4 this would come back and create 4 copies of this object and so this also works creating copies between different points so if I was to make a copy here and then type in divided by 5 and hit the enter key this would create 5 equally spaced copies starting here and ending here so you'd have your original and then your 5 copies so we've talked about that before but there's actually a function of this that I actually didn't know was here maybe a bunch of you did know was here but the way that it works is let's say for example that I created seven copies of this object just like this so 2 space between here and here you can see how if I wanted these to be spaced at 5 feet it's kind of difficult to do because I didn't set this spacing originally or that's what I thought because I've already created my 7 copies in here but if you come in here and you type a distance after you create your copies so let's say I type in 60 inches all your copies that you create are actually going to get spaced at 60 inches so you can see how this took all my 7 copies that I had created and spaced them so the origin of each one of these objects was spaced on 60 inches and you can adjust this multiple times as long as you don't click off of your object so let's say I decided I wanted this to be 48 or 30 six I can type that value in and hit the enter key and then the other thing is since this is still live I can also still adjust the number of copies so you can see how I had seven copies while I typed in times six so let's say that I had come in here and I had created ten copies at 72 inches well really what I need is I need six copies at sixty inches so what I would do is I would type in a value of 60 in order to reset my spacing to 60 and then I would type in time 6 and hit the enter key and you can see how that would remove those extra copies so both the number of copies and the spacing that you create is actually adjustable using the arrays just by typing in different values and I will note that it's really important that you don't click off of this because as soon as you click off of this or you go back and select another tool now if I type in a value like 60 or 70 to nothing works anymore so you do have to do that while this is all initially live but that was a function I didn't know was in here and so the next thing I tested is of this also worked on the rotate tools array function so and it does so if I was to create whoops if I was to type in x 5 to create 5 copies in here I can actually also type in a value and in this case the value is gonna correspond to the angle rather than the number or the distance between these objects so you can see how I can type in different angles so let's say for example that I wanted to have six objects total so I would type in times 5 that would give me the 5 copies and then let's say I wanted 30 degrees between each one of those you can see how that would give me a hundred and eighty degrees between this object in this object or if I decided that I wanted this to be 360 degrees or I would type in an angle of 60 degrees and so you can see how when I type in an angle of 60 degrees this comes in here and this sets the angle of each object based on this center point to 60 degrees and I can still adjust the number of copies as well so I could type in like a times 12 and then I could set my angle to 30 degrees and that would allow me to add 12 copies at 30 degrees from the center so you can see how this really makes adjusting the number of copies and things like that and Sketchup using the array function really easy so that's harmony in this video leave a comment below and let me know what you thought I'm super interested to know if you guys knew about this if it was just new to me or if it's new to you guys too so leave a comment below let me know what you thought if you liked this video please remember to click that like button down below if you're new around here remember to click that subscribe button for new Sketchup content every week if you liked it I'm doing 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Length: 5min 4sec (304 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 30 2019