Sketchup making me MAD!!!

[banditpowdercoat]

OK what am I doing wrong. I'm trying to make my tank in Sketchup, I have the bottom pane, and the back pane, but trying to make the front pane. I click one corner, then over to the other corner, click. Then go straight up fr height, but my mouse pad is not sensitive enough to just go to the height I want. I try type in 24, for 24" tall, and it makes the pane 24" long, with whatever height the mouse was at when I typed 24???? \

I did it for the back pane, whats going on here Grrrrr
Help before I go nuts

[gobytron]

I was expecting some new and exciting condiment....

[toxic111]

Cant't help you there.. I found sketch-up hard to use.. lol.. So I used Revit Architecture to build my stand design...

I would just go through the help files to see if you can find your answer.

[gobytron]

I have a ruler and pencil/eraser combo that is foolproof.

will trade for frags:lol:

[banditpowdercoat]

I'm slowly getting the hang of it. Not extremely easy, but not as hard as Autocad LOL

[purplepolypeater]

i actually found autocad easier than sketchup it took me over 3 hrs to design a tank poorly whereas i could have done an exact design through autocad in 30 minutes but i grew up using autocad versus playing with sketchup a few times.

[banditpowdercoat]

Ya I'm self taught on AutoCad, so theres ALOT I dont know LOL. I mainly use it in 2D mode for my milling machine drawings

[purplepolypeater]

autocad is absolutely amazing. if you have it i would concentrate your learning efforts on that vs sketchup

[banditpowdercoat]

Well, this is what I came up with in Sketchup in about 3 hrs.
Woulda taken 3 days in Acad. But YES, I would rather learn Acad properly. I can't 3D model worht a crap!!!

[purplepolypeater]

you should add the dimensions to it also as size reference

[banditpowdercoat]

Ya had the little guy in there but he looked goofy, Tank is 60"x24"x24" stand OAL is 112"

Now, My whole objective was to downsize my tanks and make more sump/ATO/WC room underneath, But now, looking at the room on the right side, I could add another tank. I was thinking putting my TEK 24" 4 bulb T5 init in the canopy on left. BUT, would it have enough light for a refugeum? Mangroves maybe? Or seahorses? Hmm What to put over there that's gona look good???

Heres a pic of what stand/tank is kinda now. When we were building it.
But now I look at this pic, and I think my wifes measurements may have been off?? Doesn't look like the same room between tank and wall on the right, like she said there was?? Might be an illusion.

http://banditpowdercoat.com/Powdergallery/nfpicturepro/albums/userpics/10002/normal_Dsc00017%7E0.jpg

[toxic111]

<OT> Autocad is good for certain things.. used it for 20 years... now am using Revit Architecture... much nicer once you get the hang of it..

Here is my tank stand design after about 3 hrs... (this is just the rendering)

[Vancouver Reefer]

The best way to use Sketchup is by drawing rectangles, colouring them and then use the pull/push feature.
So i would draw the footprint of the front pane on the base, then colour the rectangle, then pull it up to the height you need. Do this for each pane. On the last pane only pull it up a little way, then stop and reseect it and pull it to the top. If you dont do this it will fill in the top of the tank with a grey fill. By doing the stopping you will eliminate the filling of the top rectangle.

Does this make sense???

[michika]

I was expecting some new and exciting condiment....

:lol::lol:

[banditpowdercoat]

The best way to use Sketchup is by drawing rectangles, colouring them and then use the pull/push feature.
So i would draw the footprint of the front pane on the base, then colour the rectangle, then pull it up to the height you need. Do this for each pane. On the last pane only pull it up a little way, then stop and reseect it and pull it to the top. If you dont do this it will fill in the top of the tank with a grey fill. By doing the stopping you will eliminate the filling of the top rectangle.

Does this make sense???
Ya Ive been making them the Height and length I want, then pulling them the thickness.

[golf nut]

I can't 3D model worht a crap!!!True but your spelling is improving :)

[banditpowdercoat]

LMAO Paul, Nothing wrong with my spelling. I spell every word correctly. It's my fingers, I think they are Dyslexic HAHAHAH