Yes, that’s why I said “painful”, for me if I want to extrude a face, I find it easier to just ctrl+shift+pick the surface and type “ef” - my macro for ExtrudeFace, which is just an alias for ! _ExtrudeSrf _DeleteInput=Yes…
–Mitch
ah. that’s a good one. can you try that on mac and see the pop-up that comes up? is there another way the macro could be written to avoid that or is it something that needs to be ironed out?
thanks
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oh wait… i tried this and it seems to work right:
! _ExtrudeSrf pause _DeleteInput=Yes
Odd, doesn’t need the pause here. But I’m on Windows, no Mac around to test. Did you try with -_ExtrudeSrf (with dash)? Maybe that will avoid the popup…
–Mitch
oh. I know you are a windows user… I just thought you had a mac version available as well (from seeing your posts at the mac forum)
on a phone now… I’ll try your suggestion a little later
Yes, primarily a Windoze guy… Most of the stuff I need doesn’t run on a Mac (Laser, 3D Printer drivers; Milling software, etc.). But I do have a Mac to test and stay current with Mac development as many of my students have them… Right now I am traveling which is why I don’t have the Mac with me to test.
–Mitch
[quote=“Helvetosaur, post:24, topic:1430”] Did you try with -_ExtrudeSrf (with dash)? Maybe that will avoid the popup…
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nah… that doesn’t do it… the pop up is an ‘unknown or unimplemented command – DeleteInput=Yes’ error.
so i guess the pause is necessary to allow the user to choose surfaces first… after that, delete input will be set to yes and the macro works as expected.
When you see the evolution of this software since it was bought by Trimble, I advise you to abandon SketchUp if you can. The development team adds totally stupid functions and the application collects bugs.