Details of Axes Tools in SketchUp

"Details of Axes Tools in SketchUp"

Axes Tools is a small utility that reset the axis of components to their bounding box centre or corners and can be found in the SketchUp Warehouse.

About SketchUp: SketchUp or Google SketchUp is mainly a 3D modeling computer program that is used for a broad range of drawing applications used by architects, interior designer, landscape architects, civil and mechanical engineers, film and video game designers also. SketchUp can be getting as a freeware version named SketchUp Make and a paid version with many more extra benefits called SketchUp Pro. SketchUp is software from Trimble Company and there is an online library of free model congregations and 3D Warehouse to which users can add other models; besides that, the program has drawing layout functionality with variable ‘styles’, supports third-party ‘plug-in’ programs hosted on the Extension Warehouse to supply other abilities and enables placement of its models in Google Earth. As SketchUp users are most of architects, designers, builders, makers and engineers etc. who works hard to give a nice shape to our physical world, they need great tools to do the work. SketchUp is in mission to bring their best to produce some great tools for drawing as drawing is the key thing of the SketchUp users. They draw to search ideas, to identify the things and to show other people their work that they do with love and love to build; SketchUp understands it truly and trying to improve their software day by day. SketchUp is a worth useful software for its ease of use, it can be downloaded or installed o computer and right after that user can work on it. Though SketchUp can easily handle but still there are some sides where people will find some difficulties and lots of solve also are there like YouTube tutorials upon SketchUp or visiting SketchUp website or search Google etc. But people will get confused to have lots of information from different places upon one thing so there should a proper place or website where all the answers can be found.

SketchUp Warehouse has various extensions and plugins that allow the users to design quickly and accurately and like all other extensions, Axes tools can be used to bulk reset of group and components axes. This article is going to discuss about another tool named Axes Tools which is used less by users.

About Extension Warehouse: It is an online resource with various plug-ins developed made especially for SketchUp and these extensions help to add some special tools and features to SketchUp. These extensions can be found for any particular application like drawing or 3D printing and some industry specified tools for architecture, interior design, construction and many more. So basically in this Extension Warehouse people can do the following things:

Users can search extensions by name or as per the functionality.
They can also install various extensions with a single click of a button.
Or users can also control all the extensions from easy-to-use location in the My Extension page.

About Thom Thom: Thomas Tomassen is actually known as Thom Thom, he is a modelmaker with a large desire for physical, digital and traditional design in most kinds of the trade. He is also focused on webdesign or programming and 3D visualizations but he is specialist in 3D modeling, SketchUp, Webdesign, graphic design and web programming.

Axes Tools: It is actually has a small utility that reset the axis of components to their bounding box centre or corners. This is useful for them who imports pesky DWG files where the insertion point of the blocks are too far that makes components jitter.

Menus and Toolbars: Plugins > Axes Tools

Requirements: SketchUp 7 or Newer, TT_Lib2 (v2.2.0)

Source: www.extensions.sketchup.com