New version release notes

There is a page on the Sketchup website, where they talk through it about the exact features that have been added to the new version and if you want to read this in detail just follow the link given below:

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So this particular update, all of it has been focused on the behavior of different tools more uniform in Sketchup and more usability.

Modifier Toggles (Scale Tool examples)

For a lot of tools inside Sketchup, they have a behavior that allows you to toggle on and off on the different modifiers of the tool. For example, if I act with the move tool, if you remember, we can tap the control key in order to jump in copy mode. That means we don’t have to hold the control key in order to act in copy mode. But there are other tools which have been in this case.

So for example, if you act with the Scale Tool, in past, if you remember, if you want to uniform scale in the center, you have to hold the control key down on your keyboard. But if I was to do it in Sketchup 2021, you just have to tap the control key, you will notice a red box that shows up and now it’s a persistent tool that stays active as long I don’t hit the control key.

This change also happens with the eraser tool.

Pre-locking of inferences

Sketchup 2021 has added to pre-lock some tools. In Sketchup 2021, the rotate tool if you act with that and then you tap the up, left, or right key that will lock it in different axes.

Face Orientation Improvement

In the previous Sketchup, if we draw a rectangle, the face orientation is quite random. Sometimes the front side is facing towards the camera and sometimes it’s facing towards the down. Now what they have done is anything drawn on the ground it’s always going to be drawn with the front face, facing up. If you draw a rectangle upwards way, you will notice that the front face (lighter color side) is facing towards the camera. Now you can control the front side according to the camera.

Other Improvement

There are other performance improvements like the API class which is the programing class that allows a lot of extensions to do geometry works which have been improved. There are many other extensions that also has been improved.

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1) Flip Along Axes

In this article we will talk about a few different ways to flip objects within Sketchup or mirror objects within Sketchup. First option we will talk about is the Built-in objects or Flipping objects along the Axes. So this will , probably going to be the easiest way to flip in objects to the Sketchup. The way we can do that , we can pick an object and right click on it, and when we go down , there us an option called “flip along”. When select the option Flip Along, we can use this object to flip in different axes. So that’s the easiest way to flip objects within Sketchup.

2) Flip with the Scale Tool

The second option to discuss about is flipping object using the Scale Tool. The main reason of using this tool is it gives a visible indicator to how will the object look like. When you act with the Scale Tool, we will get much of the Scale boxes and we are aware of it that we can use this to resize different objects to whatever sizes we want it to be. One of the other functions we can use this to negative scaling an object. We can also use it to conjunction to move tool to copy mode, because it is really quick to create a copy of an object.

3) Flip about Centre with Scale Tool

The third way to do this is we can use the Scale Tool to flip an object in place. To do this, activate the Scale Tool by clicking on the object and hold the control key (CLT) . Holding the control key will lock the central mode. When the central mode is locked, now we can scale the object without moving from the central place.

4) Using TIG’S Mirror Extension

Last thing we will discuss is using an extension. This extension is called mirror. This extension is from TIG and it allows us to set a number of series of points along which we can flip in an object. If we activate the extension , it allows us to select the points along which we can flip an object. One last thing about this extension is, it is really good for flipping objects that aren’t on the X and Y axes. It is really easy to do no matter what the Axes orientation is.

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