I don't have money to buy v.ray for blender.... is there any affordable animation plugin in sketchup that is compatible with v-ray?

Wow guys, i wish I'd joined this forum far sooner! Thanks to Rich 0 Brien & Pilou Those ideas worked magnificently. I didn't use Gilles' method, but thanks very much too for showing another way Edit: Finished item [image: 18741335_10155108127700837_1026135825_n.jpg?oh=a25ee15fa850d0fb3fc794ea6d04919a&oe=5928F0C6]

If you deleted guides in SketchUp, those lines for your footings would be gone. When you update the reference in LO, the viewport will show the state of the SketchUp model when it was last saved. We should talk.

@unknownuser said: That would have taken us a long time to guess. Yeah, I think so too . However TIG put me on the right track somehow. Thank you all for your help and being such a fine community!

The general trick! You must subdivide your cylinder in multiple objects (group(s)) then group them! ( here a group of 4 groups! + a box group ) [image: xVGl_GIF_cylinder.gif] (if there are no news functions created! I don't follow aespecially this sort of very tricky program) cylinder_ms.skp

Maybe the problem isn't shading caused by faulty normals but just a visual effect of all the dashed lines. What happens if you do the Unity equivalent of SketchUp's hide hidden geometry?

My thanks to you all -- Rich, and Box, and sfto1 -- for your inputs. I think, before I buy any books, I'll take Box's advice and read a lot more of the forum postings, and try the sketchup.com videos, and see what else I can use to learn on the fly. I don't watch reality TV shows, but I do waste time watching NCIS and Blue Bloods and their ilk. [sigh] I'll try to do better. Thanks again. If I produce a basic design for my 12x16 meditation room, I'll post it. It won't impress anyone.https://sketchucation.com/forums/posting.php?mode=reply%26amp;f=79%26amp;t=67671#

@rich o brien said: Export materials to .csv? Yes to .csv or .xlsx

Check this tutorial: How to Create REALISTIC Materials | Vray 3.4 for Sketchup

@eadoll said: ....... or are the "textured" aerial imagery on the location snapshots unable to display shadows? Both the terrain and the snapshot can display shadows. Open the 'Shadows' window and see if display: on faces is checked. Also play with both available sliders, light and dark. The contrast might be too low to even see the shadows.

Thanks Anton appreciate your reply. I will try your suggestions. Fairly early on the learning curve for me, cheers.

Sorry seems this pluging not more updated! Seems it's works not entierely with the new version of SketchUp! So take Curviloft by Fredo ! Many options are inside! Another little thing : for put face's object perpendicular to a curve use the tricky Pependicular face tool by Chris Fullmer Here between a Circle and a Rectangle by an Arc Circle [image: lzOC_GIF_curviloftt.gif]

Great job of modeling HornOxx

Export in 3ds with full hierarchy on

For what it's worth, I normally work up my survey data [total station] in CAD [draftsight] as far as possible before importing the dwg drawings to SU. For example, i may setup 2D Plans/Elevations etc along with 3D data like spot heights. I just use the raw nodes points as markers which import as guide points but you could create blocks for your markers. The main issue is that the text is lost although there are ways around this if you really need it. Another tip is to import and arrange scaled JPGs of the CAD drawings as a visual reference. If this type of workflow would suit you and you want to continue to work on the base survey data you can also XREF the Survey drawing using TIGs plugin.

@oceanembers said: Are the lines coming through as solid, or just not appearing? Yeah, if they're coming in solid that's because sketchup doesn't have dotted edges.

You have: https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/estimator-sketchup And also Profile Builder 2 which has the same principles for estimation with the added bonus of genereating profile and assembly geometries in a parametric way: http://profilebuilder4sketchup.com/learn/

http://regular-polygon.com/keyframe-animation/download/

Perfect solution for multiple dimensions: Auto magic dimensions plugin by Brighter3D.

You won't find much when searching for "mac" because as @pbacot observed, the vast majority of extensions/plugins run equally well on both platforms. In that case, they don't break out "mac" as a visible keyword anywhere that the search would find. You should search for the functions you need and then verify Mac-compatibility rather than the other way around. Plugins usually state both the OS and the SketchUp versions the author has tested for compatibility. Given the major changes in SketchUp and the version of Ruby it uses since SU 8, many authors no longer support SU 8. That's a bigger factor than Mac vs Windows.