I'm using the latest Podium download (I just bought it last week) and my computer is a PC, with Vista. I think it's real cool how they have a library of light fixtures ... any of you guys know where I can find some lights for the entertainment industry? Like space lights, kenos, 10k's, fischer lights etc ... I'm using sketchup/podium to build sets so it would be sweet if I could show the director how the sets gonna look once we have it all lit Anyone else out there in the set building business?? Cheers

No, don't think of it like that. Think of using the ppi to control how many pixels are in an inch of real space. So if the image is 100x100 pixels, set to 10 ppi, it would import at 10" x 10". I often set up my images this way in photoshop. I work on an image that is 24" x 36" at 150 dpi. When I import that to SU, it would be nice to have an option to keep current image size, so it actually comes in at 24" x 36" in the model. I wouldn't always want every image to do that, but the option to do it would be handy sometimes. Chris

Great info guys or girls! Thank you.

Thanks loads, all the help I needed, much appreciated

Comparing both purging methods: model info\statistics\purge unused TIG's plugin It seams that number 1 gives better results than number 2 - file size is a bit smaller in a little insignificant test I did. On the other hand TIG's plugin gives more options in case there's something you want to save...

When we are at it, Tomasz (otherwise developer of the su2kt plugin therefore well aware of such problems) have a brilliant plugin to quickly reverse back faces: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=13380

Your plugin is perfect, thanks a lot ! [Topic resolved] How can i remove all material from all edge of the modele (edge only, not face) ? http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=17587&p=140672&hilit=[Plugin]#p140672 (the plugin doesn't work for component but it's a good start). How can i replace a material by an another in all the modele ? http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=96863#p96863 (the plugin work perfectly).

Aren't preferences files a Mac thing? In Windows (since 95), they are all in the Registry... Anssi

You could try Blender as a go-between. Its a frree 3d modeling software. Export from SU as collada or 3ds or .obj (requires a plugin). Then open that in blender to export as an .fbx from there. See if that exports it better maybe? Chris

Actually this is more what u re lookin for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlDxc2wyIhY or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBI_SXWoOjc .. i m modeling mostly concepts..and for those i don t need blueprints..i ve modeled after blueprints just few car and i didn t posted any tutorials of them Happy sketching! Elisei

I am not sure I understand the difficulty. However, I drew a rectangle 2' square. I then invoked the tape measure tool and started a measurement at one corner and began a measurement along one side of the rectangle then typed 12"/enter. SU made a guide point at 12" from the starting point. Then I typed 14"/enter and the tape measurement moved the guide at 12" to 14". I know that users of cad programs must "tab" to the dialog box which I think is what confuses many people. I noted that once a tool is chosen the type of information to be input appears next to the tool bar input box.(measurement, angle,length etc) after an initial selection (point, line, surface etc) the field in the tool bar input box turns white. A white box indicates SU is ready for input. You do not have to select the box, tab to the box, click on the box etc. Just type! You may change the input as many times as you wish as long as you do not move the tool (or as long as you move the tool back after moving it at which point the dialog box will read 0)

Yes, I have seen it already. And Macs went crazy since SU 7, too.

@eddyld said: Hi folks , this is my first post to the forums, I have been trying to do a Model of a PVC Loop green house, I have the plug-in "Tube Along Path" which works very well. Question is the ark I start with does not have enough segments to make it look like a smooth curve. Any way to make more segments in the ark tool? eddyld I found it !! The "tube's" arc can have as many segments as you tell it to have in the startup dialog - just set at the same time as you set its radius etc.. [I wrote TlongP...]. It's almost impossible to reset an arc's segments AFTER it has connected non-planar faces - just get it right at the start... That fixes the tube's cross section... You set an arc's segments during its creation typing NNs as you make it - e.g. 12s => 12 segments, 99s => 99 segments. To reset an arced path's segments AFTER you have drawn it simply select it and get Entity Info and type a new number for the segments - IF the arc has connected 3D faces [i.e. non-planar] you cannot then change the segment numbers...

Thanks lot of. I found some answer how solve that problem for this moment, but not sure that understand how to use the view. anyway thanks.

like you zoomed in? then you don't have a mouse with a scroll BUTTON, you have a scroll WHEEL. Then if the scroll tool appears then change your preferences

The easy going way is to just draw a line across it-or two.

try looking here

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rclub24.....Thank you

You can always just simply save the image when the render is done but AA is not yet.