Push/Pull - Square One

hi guys i'm aaron and this is sketchup square one where we take a look at the basics of sketchup today we're going to look at what is a lot of sketchup users favorite command push pull this is the command that lets us take 2d shapes and pull them or push them into 3d space there's a lot to this there's stuff that push-pull does that people don't know about so everybody's going to need to limber up we're going to cover a lot in this video let's hop in first things first how do we get into push pull it is on the toolbar the main toolbar up here at the top you can see right here this is the push pull icon it is also in the large tool set if you go to view tool palettes on mac toolbars on windows and turn on large tool set right here we have the push pull command there is also a default key for this so the shortcut key for it by default is p if you tap p it will bring up push pull so once we're in push well i have a couple shapes here on the ground i have a square circle and a rectangle if i hover over one of these shapes you'll see they do highlight in blue like that if while it's highlighted i click and release my mouse this is again the way i want to do it i want to click and release and then i move my mouse to where i want to push pull and then i click and release again i have just pushed pulled so that is the default method for doing is you click on the command first and then you move over the space the the shape that you want to push pull there is another option if i go back to select i can pre-select i can actually click on this surface first then hit push pull you can see it's already highlighted and now i just have to tell where i want to pull from and where i want to pull to now last time i just kind of arbitrarily picked a spot but i can use inferencing to just mouse over a space so if i want this to be the exact same height as this one over here i can just move over that and click and i'll go to the same spot there are certain situations like if you're using a tablet or something like that the pre-select is not an ideal solution so if you go to preferences preferences is under sketchup the sketchup menu on mac it is under the windows menu on windows if i go to preferences and i go to drawing i do have the option to disable pre-pick on the push pull tool if that is turned on and you have a surface selected when you hit push pull it will turn it off and you'll have to go pick it again like i said there's certain interfaces that that benefits where it's not ideal to have pre-select available all right so we arbitrarily pulled this one up we use inferencing to pull this to the same height the other option of course is to click and release start moving in a specific direction then type in an exact dimension so if i type six foot and hit enter this push pulls to exactly six feet now you can see here as i'm mousing over these other shapes i can actually click and drag any of these shapes i want uh hitting escape while you're in the middle of push pull will put that surface back where it was and if i come in with a line i'm just going to grab a line and i'm just going to draw it on this surface i'm just going to click a point on this edge and click a point on this edge i can use push pull again to grab that surface and pull it so if a surface is broken by a line that creates two separate surfaces that's two separate surfaces to push pull you'll notice when i mouse over the curved part of this extruded circle this cylinder it gives me the no the anti-symbol you cannot push pull push-pull can only be used on a single face at a time round surfaces are made up of a series of surfaces that are all smoothed together and can't be pushed pulled all right next thing to look at is i have another example over here this is a common use of push pull of course is to put things like holes in walls or in surfaces so all i have here is i have this extruded rectangle we'll call it a wall and then i drew a rectangle on top you can see that rectangle does not go through it's just on the face so if i was to come with push pull and hover over here and click and release i have the option of pulling it out this way or i can pull it back this way now i'm going to spin around see this is the cool thing i click and release so it's attaching my mouse as long as i hit that left mouse button again i will keep doing this so it means it's real easy to use the scroll wheel to zoom and move change as i'm doing this while still in this command so what i'm going to do is i'm going to hover over the back so what this is doing is it's push pulling from the front side to the back side when i click on the black back side look what happens it punches a hole anytime i use push pull to take one face and go completely co-planner with another face it will delete that face so if i want to push pull something through a window like a window through a wall like that all i have to do is go from the front to the back this also works with faces on their own so if i was to click the front of this wall and pull it all the way back until it snapped to the back wall when i click everything goes away because i push pulled one face into another and those are completely coplanar so they cancel each other out they're all gone all right two more things to look at and like i said i know we're covering a lot but there's so much to push pull and it's such an awesome command all right so i'm going to grab this one click release pull it up click and release now let's say i want each of these to be the same this is cool as long as i don't go into another command if i mouse over a surface and double click it's going to pull it up the exact same height double click double click and i can stack that too so if i double click here it push pulled that the same distance as the first push pull so if i double click here it pushed it down the same amount and it disappeared because again i pulled the front face to the back base so double click will repeat the exact length of the push-pull of the previous push pull so one last thing i'll look at here if i come in with push pull and i grab right here and i start pulling it up see i'm just grabbing that face and stretching it i do have one modifier key if you look down at the bottom again the status bar here will tell you if you have modifier keys this is option on mac control on windows if i hold down that modifier key look how my cursor changes see how i get that little plus so every time i tap the option key it toggles that plus on and off if that plus is there when i click and start moving look at that see that line it left down there it actually left i'm going to go in and select and delete these two front faces delete here delete here and look what it left inside it actually left that face here and created a brand new face pulling up so if i undo two times to put that back that's what i got there so again if i go to push pull and i grab a surface and pull it it's going to always create that that or just pull the existing surface like that if i click tap on option or control one time now it's not just push pulling it's actually creating a brand new surface and this you can see this bottom section is split because it left that original surface inside of that original cube that we had created there yeah i think that's all the things i could think of i'm sorry i know that was a lot but i tried to keep these videos fairly short like under 10 minutes and there was just so many things to look at with push pull i may have forgotten something if if i forgot to step something that you use push pull for please let me know down in the comments if you like that video if that helped you at all any way shape or form please hit like that way we know we're doing a good job and if you haven't already please subscribe we create several videos every week and you'll be notified of each and every one if you subscribe most importantly though like i said before please leave us a comment let 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Channel: SketchUp

Views: 16,088

Rating: 4.960114 out of 5

Keywords: SketchUp, 3D modeling, Push, Pull, PushPull, Tool, SquareOne

Id: IUVg088Z2OM

Length: 8min 35sec (515 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 29 2020