"Leon" writes:

"Swingman" wrote in message
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On 12/7/2010 1:55 PM, blueman wrote:

As a newbie to Sketch-up, I thought it might be helpful to start a
thread where we could all collect and discuss our favorite Sketch-up
plug-ins and tutorials.

Tim Killen's pdf book is an excellent intro for woodworkers new to
Sketchup:

http://www.tauntonstore.com/sketchup...ok-077846.html

You and I have been using Sketchup for a while now but reading this book I
finally learned how to lock a line direction with the arrow keys. Stupid
simple but I couldn't figger it out. ;~)

Cool trick!
Now it would be even more helpful if that trick also worked for setting
the plane in the rectangle tool -- it is a PITA sometimes to have rotate
the canvas to get an orientation that favors your intended direction...