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  • Newbie needs to draw house plans and elevations for planning

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    Many of the plan requirements might be handeled with general notes placed on the plans. Like Note:Existing site drainage to be unaddected by proposed existing garage remodel. For this and any other like projects; you might contact an local builder or architect and ask for an old plan set for use as a guide. Bob
  • Fredoscale plugin download

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    Hello everyone!! I am a newbee to your site and a newbee to SKU, but I am excited to get started! Where can I find info on short-cuts and tips please??
  • Want to create 3-D icons. Is this the right tool?

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    Naturally, you can create 3D with SketchUp...and then use rendering software to produce a photoreal effect or add reflective and lighting effects. Personally however, if I was considering software simply to produce 3D icons, I'd probably use RealDraw. It's vector based, just like SU...but it's much easier to produce a wide range of graphic effects right out of the box. [flash=640,390:2r1kyb0v]http://www.youtube.com/v/7jMd2Z_SPMQ?version=3[/flash:2r1kyb0v]
  • Doves

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    Well... I saw a little TIG up there and assumed and so....anyway good luck thnx
  • Trying to 'engrave' one group onto another

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    HI, i used the drape tool in a small section and that stopped the crashing ,but it did not transfer very well leaving spaces. So then i pulled the design through the ring and intersected with model and deleted unwanted geometry. .I then used fredo's pull push tool and it did not seem to bad . i did not pull it the whole through but have a look at the file i sent back . Regards Phil
  • Please help me fill/color curved area?

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    Hi Frascati, hi folks. As pointed out, this curved surface is easy to fill using hand stitching. I did one side in less than a minute. If the object is symmetrical I suggest you do one half and then mirror a copy and assmeble the two halves together. As for the white face, you have three (3) faces on top of each other. Click on the face and delete. Repeat untill you delete the last one and you see inside the model. Then Undo the last delete and paint the surface. You have probably some small unnecessary geometry that is causing a problem there. Just ideas.
  • Somtime using round courners and scale or... it get ugly?

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    FredoScale-Bend uses a temporary lattice with user defined segmentation. I have found that if you make a group of the object you wish to bend prior to the bending operation(in which a temporary group is formed, if I recall correctly), this helps somewhat. Maybe not in all cases. Round Edges, or Round Corners by Bezier also has user defined segment or facet settings. It works best by using a small number of segments. As Alan said, the results are dependent on segment count, acuteness and radius of curvature. The condition I see in your illustration is where native Sketchup Autofold did not happen due to any of the above condtions. I can see where this would be mind numbing on a large complex model to manually correct each and every condition.
  • Easy rounded rectangles only with 'Pro' version?

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    Dave RD
    What you are looking at is referring to LayOut which is an application that only comes with the pro version. It isn't drawing rectangles with round corners in SketchUp, though. You can draw them in SketchUp free the same way as you would draw them in SketchUp pro. You draw a rectangle and the use the Arc tool to add the round overs. There's a tool in TIG's 2D tools that makes it quick but this is a basic excercise in SketchUp and one should know how to do it manually.
  • Paperbox - How to turn a 3d into a 2D pattern

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    Thank you. it sounds good, I will try these. Cheers, sheebom
  • Scroll wheel

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    mitcorbM
    Is there anything unique about the mouse, such as the brand name, that we should know? Otherwise, first step is to open the case, get a cotton swab with alcohol and clean the grunge out of the gears. If this is not the problem, then get the documentation on the mouse either online or out of the closet. Is it a cabled, or wireless mouse? Does it use a ball for tracking, or an infrared sensor?
  • Match photo grid

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    Thank you. I'm glad that worked.
  • Help with computer screen

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    thanks angain the info you all posted and maby I can fix my problem if I am as good at repairing computers as I am at building cabinets and furniture.
  • SU8 Pro - blending intersecting surface

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    Hi Rich Thank you very much for your advice to try Curiloft - Fredo is a genius. I have tried to find a text user manual for Curviloft without avail as I am learning to use the plugin from various video samle tutorials which are two fast for me. Do you know if a pdf manual exists even if it for earlier versions of the plugin. Also is it possuble to enlarge the tool bar - I have my tool bar setting on Large Toolbar but I could do with it being larger. Many thanks for your prompt resonse to my initial topic & I am sure I will get a great deal of help & information from SketchuCation. Regards Old Swinger
  • Component names in outliner?

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    Hi Bob, Your last post is really confusing, at least to me, after all the good replies plus a lot of extra's you got. Back to the original: @bob-designer said: The component is named correctly in Outliner list. The problem is that it is named twice (repeated) on the same line, with the < > marks also repeated correctly. How do I correct this and how do I keep it from happening again?..... The questions are clear. a) You may at some point have copied the < > manually. It's hard to tell afterwards. Anyway, at least they shouldn't be on the same line. The first <> is plain text, Could be %$#@<**) etc. The second <> indicates a component definition within it. b) You can correct any text in name, definition and description later by just retyping at the correct location. For instance in the 'Entity Info' dialog. Or in the components browser when editing the properties. c) You can keep this from happening again by filling in proper text at in the right fields at the time of creating the components (and groups). Confusion starts by SU itself. SU does NOT show the right field text in the 'Create Component' dialog box. Here 'Name' should be read as 'Definition Name'. But even this has been said before, I think by Gaieus. I hope one day the programmers will correct this.
  • Copy + Scale?

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    @unknownuser said: I'm a big ctrl c/ctrl v fan I'm just a big SketchUp fan!
  • Shadows in conjunction with Section Cuts

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    I also have a similar example (for another help forum topic) in the 3D Warehouse: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=779b98e58f0afd42cb6ac4bba1570c24
  • Automated Areas &amp; Edge Length Display

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    TIG Thanks a lot for your help. Marc
  • Intersection lines and face

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    Maybe the tricks from Jeff are less jerky than mine
  • Help with old RP maps

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    Dave RD
    If the lines are clear enough, you might run the scanned images through an application such as WinTopo to create vector lines. I believe PhotoShop could also do that. Then you could import the vector lines into SketchUp and have most of that work done. To import the vector lines, you'll want SU8 Pro or you could try one of several plugins for importing DXF files into SU. Look at the list of plugins for that.
  • Tracing over a DWG

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    Dave RD
    Are the DWG lines in a group or component? If so, either explode the group or component or cut or copy the desired lines out of the group/component and paste them in place on the rectangle. You may also need to select everything and run an Intersect operation. Posting your model or at the least a screen grab would be a big help.

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