Quick Answer: Can you select similar in SketchUp?

Select Instances: Perhaps you have 15 instances (copies) of the same component in your model and you want to select them all. Just make sure that you’re viewing your In Model library, and then right-click the component (in the Components dialog box) of your desire. Choose Select Instances, and your work is done.

How do you select objects in SketchUp?

Here’s everything you need to know about selecting things in SketchUp:

1. Just click anything in your model to select it (while you’re using the Select tool, of course).
2. To select more than one thing, hold down the Shift key while you click all the things you want to select.

How do you select the same color in SketchUp?

Right-click one of the faces you want to paint. Click on “select” > “all with same material.” Then use the paint bucket tool to apply the new material to all of the selected faces.

How do you select multiple items in SketchUp?

To select multiple objects, you can hold the shift key and click on them. To deselect some objects from your selection, you can hold the shift key and click on them again.

How do you select edges in SketchUp?

Switch to wireframe ( 3th icon in styles toolbar) to see only the edges. Or you could install an extension ( selection tools by ThomThom is free,as in beer) which give you an apprehensive comprehensive set of possible options.

How do you select all faces with the same material?

You could also use Shift – G to Select Similar Material, which is also accessbile from the Select Menu in Edit Mode. This button will add the faces that have this material to the current selection, so make sure you have unselected everything else before clicking that button.

How do you extrude multiple SketchUp?

If we want to extrude (push/pull) a lot of faces the same distance, we might use the default SketchUp Push Pull tool, but it might take very long if we have a lot of faces. By default, if we push one face and then double click on different one, the new one will be push/pulled the same distance.

How do you select and delete in SketchUp?

To remove a single face, context-click the face and select Erase from the menu that appears. Delete selected geometry. To delete several edges and faces at once, use the Select tool to select all the geometry you want to erase, as shown in the following figure. Then context-click your selection and choose Erase.

How do I select the same component in SketchUp?

Select Instances: Perhaps you have 15 instances (copies) of the same component in your model and you want to select them all. Just make sure that you’re viewing your In Model library, and then right-click the component (in the Components dialog box) of your desire. Choose Select Instances, and your work is done.

How do you unlink objects in SketchUp?

If you no longer need a group, select the group entity and choose Edit > Ungroup from the menu bar. Or context-click the selection and choose Ungroup from the menu that appears.