: Extrudes faces along a specific direction (vector) rather than just perpendicular to the face. This is ideal for flattening terrains or creating angled extrusions. Normal Push Pull
Double-click your curved surface to highlight all connected faces.
Extrudes multiple connected faces along their average surface normals. This keeps the faces welded together seamlessly.
Go to the SketchUcation PluginStore . Search for and download both LibFredo6 and JointPushPull as .rbz files. Joint Push Pull Sketchup 2021
The tool will automatically create the thick shell, joining the curved segments seamlessly.
Always restart SketchUp after installing new plugins. Tutorial: Using Joint Push Pull for Curved Surfaces
Double-click your curved surface to highlight all the connected faces. Step 2: Activate Joint Push Pull : Extrudes faces along a specific direction (vector)
Set a custom shortcut for JPP:
To get started with the Joint Push Pull tool, follow these basic techniques:
: Extrudes surfaces along a specific direction (vector) regardless of their individual face normals. Normal Push Pull Search for and download both LibFredo6 and JointPushPull as
Extrudes surfaces and automatically rounds the resulting edges.
Offers multiple extrusion modes based on mathematical directions.
Because Joint Push Pull is a Fredo6 plugin, it requires a "library" file to run.
Push/Pull had long been SketchUp’s signature move: the intuitive, physical-feeling gesture that turns a 2D face into 3D form in an instant. But users frequently hit a tension point. Fast ideation demanded momentum — quick extrusions, playful massing, iterative sculpting. Yet real projects required precision: aligned faces, matched joint conditions, and clean geometry for downstream modeling, rendering, and fabrication. The original Push/Pull behavior could produce messy joints and unintentional splits when faces shared edges or when multiple adjacent extrusions interacted. That friction cost time — messy cleanup, hidden edges, and geometry that broke later operations.