@kaas said: hi TIG, Recently I did a project with lots of (high-polycount) trees and several camera positions. I really was missing some kind of LOD system. For instance, in one view some trees were very near and I wanted to use the high res version, in another view they were more in the distance and a low poly version would have speeded up the export of the views. So I looked for an LOD system for sketchup and Google turned up your 'old' plugin. I tried it in Sketchup 8 (the clients preferred version) but I can't get it to work. See attached file (all the components should be saved inside). What am I doing wrong?? Regards, Max You example SKP only contained instances that were called 'doos'. If they had been named 'doos+' or 'doos-' or 'doos~' the Proximity WILL work. So Select all of the 'doos' and use the context-menu option in the Components-Browser to replace all selected with 'doos-' ... Run the tool and, depending on your settings and the instances distance from the camera, you'll get 'doos+' or 'doos-' or 'doos~' for each appropriate instance...

Not work on Mac OS

There is a button at the bottom of the dialog. You click on that to confirm your choice of destination folder*** *** If you have the dialog 'minimized' drag its bottom edge downwards a little so that you can see the button... [image: mE2Q_Capture.PNG] Incidentally any idea why you have more than one destination offered, if you haven't specified one using a tool like Fredo's AdditionPluginsFolder tool ? What is the choice ? Always choose your own User Plugins folder UNLESS you have a good reason to choose otherwise ! Some 3rd party Plugins with their own installers** can put things into the 'shared' location without asking clearly, that then gets listed as an option **Like 'octane_render'...

Maggie, if you can see the toolbar icons for the plugin in Sketchup but they don't work, chances are good you didn't install the plugin correctly.Close SketchUp and reopen it. Do you get any error messages? As Jim said, the best thing to do is contact the author directly. If you get any error messages, send those to him.

Thank you very much for a great plugin.

@jim said: [Works better how? The other one didn't work for me on mac v8, not sure why. The stl mm exporter just worked straight away and in the units I need.

Very cool ! [image: decko.jpg] [image: decko1.jpg]

Here is the non-working tool which needs the do_zoom() method filled in. https://gist.github.com/jimfoltz/15b0178ad353a6f7a845

@tig said: Look at http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=SectionCutFace Not really what I was looking for; however your flatten plane is; I will experiment I mean: http://sketchucation.com/forums/download/file.php?id=57217%26amp;t=1 Its exactly what I was looking for. Ill try running it. Edit: Well it seems nearly perfect; I'll take it as it is; its faster to erase unneeded ages then to draw your building again by hand. [image: eDEi_Experiment.png] Its seems to also flatten smoothed/soft edges. So when you smoothed/softened a lot of faces; you sure get a lot of line deleting. It also traces geometry that is hidden behind a face closer to the plane; however I can live with this, its not a big issue (it only takes a few secs. to delete).

Hi, that has sorted it. Thank you

Rich I sent a PM just to make sure. dtr

Seems you have DXF and STL Export format from OpenSCad! So where is the problem ? DXF is native import format inside SU free V6 ! And Didier Bur has made a very coool Import Export pluging STL !

Well, I have my Scale Group Definition plugin - which has the code for scaling definitions. All that code needs is a loop to traverse the model. I'm quite busy this week, and then disappearing on vacation for two weeks. If anyone want anything before that they can just pull out the code and wrap it up. https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/scale-group-definition/src/30c19da82371f5dcaf95ef6e66098368da265a6a/src/tt_scale_group_definition/core.rb?at=master#cl-64

@mickath said: Hi All Sketchup expert out there. I have been using SCF hide tools with sketchup 7. However recently I had upgraded to Sketchup 2014. SCF hide tools cannot work with Sketchup 2014. Have any one of you experience the same problem ? What is your advice. Thanks Mickath This is unclear... Please post a link to the plugins which which you are having a problem...

I downloaded and installed today. Running SU2014, Windows 7. END key did not move down (or any direction). SHIFT key did not appear to move faster.

Hey Jim, Very cool tool, thanks! Little prob: on SU8 Pro, OS X version, I cannot deactivate the "Attach Camera to Sun" menu item. It keeps showing as checked, and keeps following the sun. Could you please fix? Thx..!

I tried installing 1001 in my V8 plugin folder, and nothing works and so have uninstalled the plugin. Any ideas anyone?

@whaat said: Is there any chance you could develop a library and API for the hole drilling functions? Dale, Thanks for your encouragements, I appreciate. The algorithm is not that complex actually (the GUI is more time-consuming), but I have isolated it anyway in a separate class with no GUI dependencies. Note that the hole shape itself is specified as another class, called Stencil, which allows to aggregate several faces to build the hole pattern. Fredo

Hi Fredo Thanks for taking the time to look. I see from your video that your cursor is moving as you move the face around Does the point where you first clicked still lnference or is it the cursor that inferences?. So I would say it wouldn't be much use in the latter. But picking up the corner of the face would still be useful - you've travelled to the location and locked your face to its location in one move (I hope I've used the term 'inference' right)

Hi: Could you upload an image to Sketchucation instead of that link? It is requiring a login.