1) Push Pull Connected Faces

So the first function is one of the functions that are basically everyone or just everyone uses the Push Pull Tool for. One if the great things about it is this tool is really great for push pulling connected faces. Like for example, draw a wall with the help of push pull tool. Here we can create a wall with connected faces and extrude it. In a single click , we can push pull a sing connection of faces.

2) Cutting Holes

Function two is cutting a hole in an object using push pull tool. One of the built in features of push pull tool is giving us the ability to cut a hole in an object as long as the faces are parallel to each other. Example given above , the wall, we will create an opening into the wall. If I Push Pull this to the back phase, you will notice automatically push pull will cut a hole in the wall or any object. Because of that we can use quickly and easily create openings within a wall.

3) Inferencing

Another one is a great function of push pull tool is the ability to use inferencing. Let’s take the wall example to make it easy to understand. We will create a door on the wall. The nice thing about push pull tool is it automatically goes into an inferencing mode. Meaning , it basically , where ever we move our mouse , this will inference , where ever we put our mouse over. So in this case , in order to cut a hole for the door, we have to push pull it parallel with the back wall or we can just put our mouse over the thickness of the wall anywhere above the line , in order to do this , it will automatically inference to whatever the thickness the wall has. Thus can also be useful in setting heights of an objects.

4) Remove Geometry

We can also use this tool to add and remove geometry. For example, we create a house and we have to make it’s roof. We can draw a pair of triangle lines. We can use the Push Pull to remove the extra geometry lines above triangle lines. We don’t only need this tool to add geometry but we can also remove geometry.

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1) Aligning your axes set your inferencing

Here we will talk about how to replace your axes. There are couple of different ways to do it. Draw a plate in Sketchup .Go to Tool and click on Axes. Click on the plate and set a new location for axes. And basically , in this case, things change a whole lot because the directions we are inferencing is still the same. However, when things gets important when you start modeling things that goes off axes . For example , when we don’t model things on the Axes point , what we can do is by going to large tool set and click in axes. This is another way to locate your axes.

2) Quickly Change Your Axes by Right Click

Another way you can quickly align your axes to an object, is you can just right click on the faces and click on the button align axes. That will going to reline the Axes based on the shape that we have selected. One of the places which this will be useful is , if you are modeling, based on a location and your modeling stuff does not necessarily align perfectly straight up and down, right to left in axes. You can relocate your axes.

3) Set Component Axes when you Create Components

Last tip is we can also adjust the component axes while creating components. For example, create a rectangular box . To make this box component, just right click on the whole box and click the button make component. Under this dialogue box, there is actually a button called set component axes. This means , when you first initial create the components and set what those axes are going to align with. So if we click on it create a new set of axes. We can do this many time or in different orientation as we want to until we get what we want within this component.

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