![]() ![]() To make a keyboard shortcut open up the SketchUp Preferences window and then go to ‘Shortcuts’ (SketchUp Preferences > Shortcuts). If you find yourself using any tool very often in SketchUp, take the time to make a keyboard shortcut for it, you’ll thank yourself for all the time saved. You can program your own shortcuts for almost anything that you can do manually within SketchUp. It seems funny to get excited about a mouse configuration but I was so happy after I made those 2 changes because they saved me so much time and continue to do so even to this day. This can’t be done with keyboard shortcuts alone since your cursor needs to be hovering over the appropriate group. The combination of these 2 changes allows you to click one button to go deeper into a group and another click will bring you back up/out 1 level. I’ve got one of the buttons on my 3D mouse set to do this. To make this easier I set another one of my mouse buttons as a dedicated double-click. Double-clicking to enter into a group that’s 1 level deep isn’t bad at all but if you’re working with a group that has 20 sub-groups in it then getting down to the deepest level of the group is pretty repetitive. In addition to that I also wanted it to be easier for me to not just exit groups but also to enter into groups. Just with that change I feel like I save sooo much time. The program that I use is called SteerMouse, it works really well. ![]() ![]() I’ve set this mapping so that it’s only active in SketchUp so that I can use right-click normally everywhere else. A third-party software to map a certain keystroke to my mouse’s right-click button, in this case the keystroke is Control + Shift + Command + G-the default keyboard shortcut for ‘Close Group/Component’.Thanks to this you can safely reprogram the right-click button on your mouse and still have a way of bringing up the right-click menu when you need it (which in my case is much less often than I need to use ‘Close Group/Component’). Nowadays lots of people use 2-button mice with their Macs but nevertheless you can still use Control + Click to invoke the right-click menu. Historically Macs only had 1 mouse button so Control + Click was programmed into all Macs to as a system-wide way of invoking a right-click menu in the absence of a physical right mouse button.My way of doing this is made possible by 2 things: How Can I Remap my right-click button?Īlso, if I remap right-click then how can I invoke the right-click menu? (or ‘Context-click menu’ as SketchUp calls it) I’m left-handed and I use a regular two-button mouse with a scroll wheel ( Microsoft Wireless 900) and a 3D mouse ( 3D Connexion Wireless Spacemouse). This would allow me to easily go very deep into a group that had many nested groups and then ‘resurface’ back up to upper level groups. My solution was to set one mouse button to Double-Click so that I could enter into a group if I wanted, and another mouse button to ‘Close Group/Component’. Believe it or not I was happy when I first memorized this combination because it was easier than clicking outside the group and then reselecting, but after days of going in and out of groups in SketchUp I needed to find an alternative. The default keyboard shortcut for this command is the ‘super-easy-to-press’ combination: Control + Shift + Command + G. Without using a keyboard shortcut you do this by using the Edit menu > ‘Close Group/Component’. Groups are used so often in SketchUp that I wanted a really easy way of entering into a group, then into a deeper nested group, etc., and then being able to go back up to a less-nested level of that group. The most useful thing that I think I’ve done relating to my setup is to remap my mouse’s right-click button. In honor of SketchUp Basecamp 2018 I’d like to share the custom mouse configuration that I developed for SketchUp because it saves me time every day and I thought it might help other users too. So it was a long but worthwhile wait for my first Basecamp in 2018. I started using SketchUp right around the time of Basecamp 2016 but by the time I found out about the conference I had already missed the registration. I had an amazing time and met so many interesting people. I recently got back from SketchUp Basecamp 2018 which was held in beautiful Palm Springs, California.
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