Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual

Tools Tour

This chapter covered several tools from the Large Tool Set (Figure 2-26). Here's a quick review of the tools, their keyboard shortcuts, and some related tips:

• Select (space bar). The cursor changes to an arrow, and you click objects to select them. Shift-click to select more than one object or to deselect an object.

• Eraser (E). The cursor changes to an eraser. Click directly on objects you want to erase. If you're already using another tool, you can always erase an object by right-clicking and choosing Erase from the shortcut menu. You can also select a line and then press Delete.

  

  Figure 2-25. The lines in the two rectangles shown here have both thick profile lines and thin shared edges. It may not be a big deal for 2-D Skeeter, but the difference is major when you create 3-D objects, as you'll see in the next chapter.

• Rectangle (R). The cursor changes to a pencil with a small square. You can create a rectangle by clicking two points, or you can click once and enter dimensions in the Measurements toolbar.

• Line (L). The cursor changes to a pencil. You set the two endpoints for a line by clicking, moving the cursor, and clicking again. You can create lines of a specific length by entering a distance in the Measurements toolbar.

• Circle (C). The cursor changes to a pencil and a circle. Click once to set the center of the circle, and click again to set the radius. You can also set ...