It's pretty amazing the things this program can do!... if you're ever able to figure it out. Jesus. I've been struggling so hard for the past 2 weeks trying to get a simple presentation to work. It's scary to see that people have had some of the same problems for years now. I've got my money, in hand ready to shell out a whopping $4200 a year ($600 to use the program, $300 a month to display unlimited models) but I'm having SO many problems trying to get it to work! The tutorials only cover so much, and you're left fending for yourself to figure it out. Also, Good Luck contacting Customer Support, I've gotten 2 responses back out of ~6 emails? According to the website they're only even available 6 hours a day, 4 days a week, so support is obviously not much concern for them there. Oh, did I mention, it crashes mercilessly? Seriously. I expect to reload the browser no less than 5 times in a 2 hour period (mostly when attempting to preview). Oh God, and there's no undo button so be careful! I would pay for customer support, if that's what it took! I want this program so badly, there's nothing like it. This program could be HUGE in the design world, if it wasn't so buggy, hard to learn, or as expensive (though, I can deal with the price). Unfortunately I really don't think it's near ready. I love this program. but I'm trying so hard to make it feasible, and getting nothing in return from the program, or the company. Hopefully there is a community out there for tutorials, or just other users because that is the only way I can see me moving forward. My boss has given me 2 more days to figure this out before he scraps this "venture" completely. TL;DR I love CL3VER, but CL3VER "wants to see other people".

An RBZ file is an archive containing a loader-file and a subfolder of the same name containing all of the other files needed to make the extension/plugin work. It is actually a ZIP file with a different suffix. But do not worry about that ! Since v8M2 SketchUp has had a built-in tool*** to automatically extract the contents of an RBZ and install them into the correct Plugins folder and load them. After that SketchUp automatically loads extensions from the Plugins folder as it starts. ***Open SketchUp's Preferences > Extensions and use the 'Install Extension...' button. Find the downloaded RBZ file and choose it. Answer in the affirmative to any prompts. Extensions can be activated/deactivated from the same Preferences > Extensions dialog. Most extensions are set up by their author so that they are active and therefore load their functions when first installed. However, in v2016 there is a known glitch, whereby any extension is deactivated when it is initially installed - irrespective of the author's wishes. It will hopefully be fixed in a maintenance release. So in that case you simply need to activate it in Preferences > Extensions. If it has a Toolbar you might also need to activate that too. The activated state of extension and toolbar should be remembered next time SketchUp restarts. The two main sources of extensions are the Extension Warehouse and the SketchUcation PluginStore [see the Resources menu above]. These both allow you to download RBZs. The EW only supplies 'extensions'. There are also many 'plugins' available which do not appear in the extensions list, and always load as SketchUp starts - these are not available at the EW. The PluginStore has many plugins AND extensions - some of which are not available at the EW. The EW should be able to install selected extensions from within SketchUp, without the need to download an RBZ file at all. SketchUcation also has a toolset - its RBZ is available from the Resources menu above OR the PluginStore itself. Once installed that has several tools. These first three are usable off its Toolbar. An SCF PluginStore dialog - this lets you AutoInstall chosen extensions/plugins - again without recourse to actually manually downloading the RBZ. It also has an Update option and Bundles to allow syncing across versions and/or computers. An Extensions Manager which acts like the native preferences-dialog, but with a much improved user-interface and experience, and other tools let activating for this session only and saving 'sets' of extensions to activate/deactivate en mass. A Plugins Manager which acts like the Extensions Manager, but this one allows you to disable/enable non-extension plugins too. The SketchUcation submenu also includes a Plugin Uninstaller and an Archive Installer [RBZ or ZIP], and some other utilities to list shortcuts, open your Plugins folder and so on... So I suggest you first learn how to install a downloaded RBZ using the native tool, then get the SCF Toolset and install that. Thereafter use that to AutoInstall Plugins/Extensions and use the EW for those few not available there - e.g. those authored directly by SketchUp staff, or a few 'paid' extensions for other authors which might arrive as RBZ after payment, or got from the SCF-Shop etc...

Thank you for your swift response. Appreciate it.

Thank you for the feedback team, I will study this more very shortly and report back soon!

@juju said: You can try LightUp for creating baked textures, you'll need something else for the 3D PDF though... I tried Lumion RT (as they have a free version), but indeed i can't take the model out from there... i will look to that composer thing

Thanks! Actually, after I sent my post, I rebooted -- again -- and that seemed to take care of the problem. Go figure! But I will also check my preferences to see that other extensions I install will have a better chance of installing properly. Thanks again.

Thanks for a good words, we just upgraded for version 2.5, now brdf's have got its own colors. http://www.brighter3d.com/blog/ Best Regards, brighter3d

Thanks solo for the thread a good read. I'm just going to take a look at the latest version. will include my thoughts as well coming from sketchup and C4D background.

interessting

See this new videos made by Twinmotion 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAiW9ew-4oM

The updated version just released seems a bit different than sneakpeak. anyway I can contribute to feedbacks?

@flatchoum said: HI! I do have the same problem, can you tell me where to find this old version of the vray_SettingsRenderChannels.dll file? Since I don't get an answer from Chaosgroup, I'll have to try the other way to fix it. Thanks Here are a copy: http://www.mediafire.com/download/hap0k3w50277wi4/vray_SettingsRenderChannels.zip

@hornoxx said: the good is often so close Right? I haven't bean able to model for almost 2 months. Main computer was down. With one thing or another I was only recently able to fix and rebuild it. I have a laptop, but would not want to spend hours using SketchUp in it. I also used 8 on my old computer and decided I had better upgrade this time around, but I was unfamiliar with how to install the plug-ins I use. Now everything is back and I'm ready to rock!

@kellenraidfractal said: I have an organic shape that I would like to latticeify (I don't know the correct term), you know, make parts of it in a lattice to save time and material on 3D printing. What would be a good plugin for this if there is one? Possibly http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=latticeMaker or http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Latticeizer by TIG.

When you download the .fbx it comes with various pose models. you need to parent those to the main model to attribute the pose.

I have the same problem. How can we fix it?

what are the relative screen resolutions? size matters...

Hi! It was I who wrote this question back in 2012 and I haven't worked with any 3D-visualization since then. But I have missed it a lot and I'm thinking about start again. So I have been playing around with free version of Sketchup 2015 and Maxwell Render. And it's about lights again. Is it impossible to create a nice render of a kitchen interior with the free version of Maxwell Render? Are there better performance and options available in the paid version? If I do a room with a big box in Sketchup and open one side. I then create some spotlights and point the face downwards inside the box, I see no light at all from them! The outside light is sky without the sun and time is set to evning. Shouldn't there be any light? Is the paid version of Maxwell Render worth the money or are there any other free or low cost renders out there that is better? Renders made by SU Podium seems very realistic, especially the of interiors. Kerkythea is free, but I guess there has been no development with that since the release in 2008? Thanks!

hi could i also get a copy i too am late to the blendup party i hate being late thanks

We tested a solution shortly. We combined SketchUp & LightUp and made the walk through with edddison. Please read a tut how to do http://edddison.com/improve-quality-sketchup-lightup-walkthrough-edddison/ Thomas