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

[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