I use TIG's Originate to Component axes since 2012. https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=43582&p=620193&hilit=originate+to+component+ax#p620193 And Chris Fulmer's Center on Origin since 2009: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=152438#p152438

@try2 I would suggest you copy the model and remove the big image, so that it can get smaller and you can attach it to the thread or PM it to me. For TopoShaper, make sure that that the group only contains the construction points, and, if you wish to impose a perimeter, a FACE (or several) which gives the surrounding contour. Fredo

Thanks for such a fast replies! One additional question about plugins. Do you know if there is any plugin that would create some kind of lattice wireframe inside the object, see image below? I am just thinking if there was an easy way to do this maybe the 3d lattice structure could be created by trimming and thickening the wireframe with the help new functionality in Profile Builder 3.0 (Build Along Multiple Paths). [image: Lattice.jpg]

That is genius pixero - I totally forgot about that method. the only thing is that for some reason it scales at 1/10th scale but thats a really easy sort

Unreal ignores back faces (unless you apply a two sided material) so some thickness is necessary. Edit: regarding thickness, just keep in mind that backfaces in SketchUp are 'transparent' in Unreal. They wont generate shadow. As long as you model nicely (front faces where they should be) all should go well. Maybe this old article is a nice read about converting a model to UE; https://www.ronenbekerman.com/striving-for-real-time-photorealism-in-architectural-visualisation/

Thanks Pbacot to make it so clear - I use this "rv1974 method" so often, but never with complex layer arrangements. The thought about this didn't even cross my mind - there is always something to learn

Thank you Didier very much dtr

Please go here for downloading the plugin: https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=70027

It's in the PluginStore, made into an RBZ format download. https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=surfacegen It's not Thomthom's, it's Diggsey's plugin... It'll probably still work in v2018 - however, because it's old and unsigned, you'll need to set the SketchUp Extension Manager's Loading Policy to "Unrestricted"...

This looks interesting!

You will find the download here: https://sketchucation.com/plugin/2106-sb_trilateration

Hello TIG, Thought this plugin would serve for 2D exports but it's actually not. I might be wrong but I don't believe there is a plugin that hides the rest of the model from the 2D export. For instance, sometimes, I'd like to just make a 2D export of a furniture inside a whole project in order to show how it looks on its own. Even though the "Hide rest of the model" function is enabled, it's ignored in the export file (png or jpeg). No matter how much of the model was visible in the viewport, the whole model will be seen in any cases. The only workaround for me right now is just to select all, unselect the only element that I want to make visible and delete rest of the model, do the export, and undo the objects removal. But it can get tricky when there are groups of groups and you need to manage inside them which you want to keep or not... Do you think you could create a feature that would somehow allow this ? Thank you

Last version of PBR has a Toolbar! [image: sketch11.png] [image: GIF_samu93.gif]

@bmoffa said: I would really like to use this plug-in, but it seems to not save or not load comments that I add. At first it lost comments from one of the two tabs I set up, then it lost everything. I'm using version 2.3.5 in SketchUp 2015 Pro 64 bit (current build). I really hope you can fix this as I really like it. Hi, I'm having the same problem as BMoffa. The data in Tab1 is always deleted after I close and reopen a file. Tab2 seems to be fine... Using version 2.3.10 on a 64Bit Win7 machine

Hello Sketchers, I am still struggling with the 45° shadows on elevations. I tried to use north angel animator or north angel tool - the results are not stable and Layout has a hard time to update the shadows as created in SU Jim Foltz once work out the north angel animator. I ask him for an update but unfortunately he doesn't work on plugins any more. But he aloud to work and improve on the tool. Anybody out there who would like to work on an Tool update ?

To make a short script to do this... Use Notepad++ [or TextWrangler on MAC] to make a plain-text file that must be UFT8 encoded. Name it say myUN.rb It goes in your user's Plugins folder. Find that using this snippet in the Ruby Console: UI.openURL("file;///#{Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')}") Then add one line of text as follows + return, substituting the desired code you wish to run, where I have put CODE [copy paste from the previous examples as desired]; you can also name the menu item as you wish - I've named it "myUN..." UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("myUN..."){CODE} After SketchUp restarts the new menu item should be seen in the Plugins menu - which is now called the 'Extensions' menu in newer SketchUp versions... Select that menu item to run the code... Also remember that you will need the Extension Manager Loading Policy set to Unrestricted to run your own 'unsigned' scripts...

I was always trying to do this as well. Not sure you still need it. Couple months i got it to work. If you have the unix version you open Terminal and drop that file in there. Best thing to do is to make a folder on you desktop. It doesnt like space in file names therefor its best to do it there. Then drop you xml model file also on there, now you see 2 file paths next to each other. Then simply hit enter/return, you could get a warning if you dont have proper java lib installed, click more info and download the java for OSX. Then try again. The OBJ will be put in the folder where you dropped the xml model file from. It doesnt get a MLT file, so you would need to recreate the material though

I would appreciate an option to scale all components definition to their current scale. Is there some plugin for that or any other way of doing it component by component ? I have problems with large dwg imports after I scale the to desired size. Formal dwg block imported to sketchup as components are all scaled and I need to manually scale their definitions witch can by labor-some.

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This tool was combined into SplitTools with other similar ones... https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_splitTOOLS