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I was able to use the arc on face tool to draw an arc that actually followed the face of the curve I was drawing on. Lines followed the curves of the shapes I was drawing on. Usage was simple вЂ“ just click on a tool, then draw on a face.

When working with these tools, I was excited to note that they allow you to draw everything from lines to arcs to geometric shapes on curved faces. It contains options for drawing lines on surfaces, drawing shapes on surfaces, drawing arcs, a great offset tool, and its own dedicated eraser. This is a very robust toolset, and IвЂ™m not going to get into every single section in this post, but itвЂ™s fair to say that this is the go-to toolset for drawing objects on surfaces.

This includes everything from drawing lines and arcs to shapes. Tools on surface is a suite of tools that allows you to draw lines and shapes on curved faces.

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In order for this tool to work, you will also have to download and install Fredo6вЂ™s library extension ( Download here) What does it do? This toolset has been around for several years, but it allows you to work on surfaces that are not flat in a way that would otherwise not be possible in SketchUp.

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HeвЂ™s created plugins that do everything from allowing you to draw on curved surfaces to extensions for creating full animations in SketchUp. This allows user to have their shortcuts functioning inside and outside vertex mode because the menus act as proxies that knows which tool to activate.Anyone who is familiar with Fredo6 knows that heвЂ™s one of the most prolific developers of extensions for SketchUp. When not editing vertices this trigger SketchUpвЂ™s native Move tool.When vertex mode is active this trigger Vertex ToolsвЂ™ Move tool.Using Tools В» Vertex Tools В» Move as an example: Some of Vertex ToolsвЂ™ menus have double functions. When Auto-Smooth is enabled these new edges will be softened and smoothed ensuring a continuous surface. These edges are normally not soft or smooth which as a result produce a faceted surface. When a face is deformed in such a way that its vertices are no longer coplanar, Sketchup Autofolds the face by adding new edges. Preserve UV mapping when you manipulate the modelвЂ™s geometry. Read more about the tools in Vertex Tools LOCK UV MAPPING There are two types of fall-off for the soft-selction radius: This is illustrated by colour-coding the vertices from Red, Orange, Yellow, Green and Blue вЂ“ where Red is 100% and Blue is 0%. The further away from the selection, the less they are affected. Vertices within this distance from the selected vertices are also affected by tools that modify the geometry. Soft Selection is set by typing in a Length in the VCB while a selection tool is active. It even takes into account the soft-selection.

Use the Gizmo to quickly extrude edges from your selected geometry. All its actions can be adjusted by the VCB for final precision adjustments. The Gizmo allows for quick manipulations without switching out of selection mode.

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