AMAZING Extrusions in SketchUp with Extrude Tools – ALL TOOLS EXPLAINED! – Extension of the Week #47

In this week’s extension of the week, we’re going to review an extension that allows you to extrude faces from lines, rather than just faces.

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Plugin Name – Extrude Tools

Plugin Developer – TIG

Plugin Cost – Free (Please remember to donate to your developers)

DOWNLOAD EXTRUDE TOOLS – https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=ExtrudeTools
DOWNLOAD WELD – https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/weld

Tool Functions
I’m actually really excited about this extension – I wanted to review it much sooner, but it never really got updated to work with SketchUp 2017, so I couldn’t really do any tutorials with it.
Now, TIG has updated it for SketchUp 2018 – however, he has noted that some of the things he had to do to get it working with 2018 made it more unstable, so he warns to save your models often to avoid losing work. It sounds like especially using the undo functions can make your models unstable.
The cool thing about Extrude Tools is that it allows you to extrude lines, rather than faces, giving you a whole series of new modeling options.
What I wanted to do in this video was just run through the different tools and explain how each of them works.

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Hi, I'm Justin Geis, and I'm the founder of The SketchUp Essentials. I started using SketchUp as part of my work as a general contractor in 2008. I quickly realized the power of the software and started using it for personal projects. I started The SketchUp Essentials as a place to share easy to follow SketchUp tutorials and tips to help everyone harness the power of 3D Modeling in their lives. When not working with SketchUp, I enjoy playing soccer and spending time with my wife and our two dogs.