1. Home
  2. Categories
  3. SketchUp Discussions
🔌 Smart Spline | Fluid way to handle splines for furniture design and complex structures. Download

Subcategories

  • The ideal place for beginners to get help using SketchUp
    9k Topics
    60k Posts
    ntxdaveN
    @Rich-O-Brien Thanks Rich. Now I know that I can share the link with Fredo6 on the Animator thread so he can download the file and look at it (to hopefully identify the problem I have been having trying to generate a video). You might also try generating an Animator video and see what results you get.

  • No decsciption available
    209 Topics
    2k Posts
    soloS
    Hey guys I am desperate for very high resolution/quality satellite maps, I use Placemaker and I also use Nearmap but the resolution is not that great, I have tried using AI to upscale but that too does not really solve my issues. Is there another solution?

  • No decsciption available
    821 Topics
    4k Posts
    T
    Hey Mike, I'm sure you figured this out already, but when you first create the attribute type a number with the inch mark like 0" or 0' in the value box and hit enter. This will set the unit for that attribute to inches. This only works for the first time a value is entered. After that first initial value, you will need to use the attribute info dialog to make changes. In addition, you can use 0 to set it to text (not "Default: Text") and 0cm to set it to centimeters. If anyone knows a shortcut for setting the unit to Decimal Number, I would love to hear it!
Log in to post
Load new posts
  • A

    Erasing/creating faces/surfaces

    sketchup
    4
    0 Votes
    4 Posts
    1k Views
    plot-parisP
    and if all that doesn't help, you may be in the "wireframe" face style mode. then you just have to change to one of the other modes (shaded for example) and you will see all the faces again. this sounds far too simple. but it happens quite often...
  • F

    I just got the Sketchupdate :( and send Adian a mail

    sketchup
    10
    0 Votes
    10 Posts
    1k Views
    G
    pretty new to these forums, but have been using sketchup pretty regularly for the last few years. I am in the videogame/film/tv industry and have found sketchup to be heavily used in the design process. It's a similar industry to architecture, considering the needs for conceptual, photoreal designs. I have been waiting for sketchup to take the next step in terms of modelling and am hopeful that 7 will address some of the issues. I hope Google understands the widespread use of Sketchup in diverse industries. If in the next update there is little to address the need for better modelling, and maybe even more extensive lighting options (like the light up plugin) i think i'll have to bite the bullet and learn modo...ouch. I hope not because i love sketchup and am heavily invested in it. just my two cents. i love this board by the way, have learned an amazing amount and am constantly inpressed with the quality of the work displayed!
  • S

    Different Line Types

    sketchup
    5
    0 Votes
    5 Posts
    674 Views
    R
    i think this is the script markitekt is refering to, unfortunately you have to pay for it, but dont let that put you off. Cheers for expanding on your original description
  • Joe WoodJ

    Pan and Orbit Problems

    sketchup
    8
    0 Votes
    8 Posts
    2k Views
    plot-parisP
    ...and you can change the mouse's balance with a set of weights I have no idea how to balance it correctly though (just made it as heavy as possible)
  • J

    Benefits of Pro over Free?

    sketchup
    19
    0 Votes
    19 Posts
    3k Views
    soloS
    The answer is simple really, most folk that bought the professional version were indeed using it in a professional capacity and in doing so their workflow would probably require exporting and importing over several other apps in order to deliver the final product. I cannot comment about the Layout feature as I have never had the patience to deal with it and it never yielded anything productive in my hands.
  • thomthomT

    Sandbox Stamptool mess up soften geometry

    sketchup
    2
    0 Votes
    2 Posts
    573 Views
    R
    I havent had this with the stamp tool before, but i have had problems with grouping/ungrouping subsmoothed geometry. No idea why it does it Not sure why softening the edges is causing the model to lose its colour either, it stays put in my little experimets.
  • B

    Multiple push/pull

    sketchup
    3
    0 Votes
    3 Posts
    2k Views
    B
    thank you SOOOOOOOOOOO Much!
  • F

    Prism problem

    sketchup
    38
    0 Votes
    38 Posts
    4k Views
    Jean LemireJ
    Hi folks. Just in case someone is interested in the Platonic solids (also called Pythagorean solids), see these two SU file that show the relation between: 1 - The cube or hexahedron (6 square faces) and the octahedron (8 triangular faces). 2 - The dodecahedron (12 pentagonal faces) and the icosahedron (20 triangular faces). For each pair, you can get from one solide to the other by joining the center of each faces to the center of its neighbors faces. For the tetrahedron, you will get another smaller tetrahedron if you use this procedure. In conclusion: 1 - You can get the tetrahedron and the octahedron from a cube (see previous posts). 2 - You can get the icosahedron from three intersecting golden rectangles each at 90° from the others two as was shown in a thread somewhere. 3 - You can get the dodecahedron from an icosahedron. Thus, you can get all five solids with great precision using only basic SU tools and without using any mathematics. Just ideas. Cube and octahedron.skp Dodecahedron and icosahedron.skp
  • C

    Processing or other aspects of Groups vs components?

    sketchup
    4
    0 Votes
    4 Posts
    750 Views
    R
    Just did a quick test comparing the file size of 100 individually grouped cubes and 100 copied component cubes, and surprisingly the component cube file was slightly bigger. I imagine this is only really true for quite simple geometry, and that when you strat getting more complex components the advantage (file size wise) will become apparent.
  • thomthomT

    2D Export aspect ratio

    sketchup
    3
    0 Votes
    3 Posts
    1k Views
    thomthomT
    I will have a look at it. Thanks for the tip. The problem is at the office everyone has their own set and layout for the toolbars so if one person needs to update some SU images then we end up with deviating images. I'll add a request for custom aspect ratio.
  • S

    Help -- how do I do this

    sketchup
    5
    0 Votes
    5 Posts
    726 Views
    DavidBoulderD
    You may also want to make a group out of the property box. This way you can move things around that you place on it, without affecting the property itself.
  • plot-parisP

    Boundin boxes not aligning to coordinate axes

    sketchup
    4
    0 Votes
    4 Posts
    574 Views
    bazB
    I've had this happen sometimes, I think it's something to do with pasting groups or comps from another file with a different axis. But if you explode the group or comp then regroup it fixes itself. baz. here an example: [image: YMT9_Clipboard01.png]
  • soloS

    .kmz to .3ds

    sketchup
    2
    0 Votes
    2 Posts
    2k Views
    pilouP
    Maybe by : Kmz-->Blender-->OBJ (or 3DS) ?
  • A

    Glass panel

    sketchup
    11
    0 Votes
    11 Posts
    2k Views
    S
    Not quite what Amo was envisaging, but it's a step closer. Enjoy. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/245
  • N

    Transparent material not always appearing

    sketchup
    2
    0 Votes
    2 Posts
    497 Views
    plot-parisP
    first guess: try to switch "transparency quality" in the style window (edit tab > face settings) from "faster" to "nicer". second quess: if you have grouped your fence and outside of it is another face in the same position, SketchUp may get confused which face to display. if that is the case, just delete the additional face. could you post your model? would be interesting to have a look at it...
  • O

    Creating a smooth surface form many connected units

    sketchup
    3
    0 Votes
    3 Posts
    6k Views
    R
    If what gai mentioned doesnt yield satisfactory results your only option is to redo the model but with more triangles, although thats usually really tedious so only do it if you really need to. If youve got a bit of cash to spare it might also be worth checking out the subd and smooth plugin, i reckon itd be pretty useful for the sort of things youve shown already, and its very good at getting smooth surfaces. subd and smooth: http://www.smustard.com/script/SubdivideAndSmooth
  • Z

    Quality hard copy prints from Sketchup views

    sketchup
    4
    0 Votes
    4 Posts
    813 Views
    S
    Just a quick addition - for better results, try editing your styles so you have thinner edge lines, I find it gives it a slightly more professional look.
  • J

    Window still transparent when textures turned off

    sketchup
    5
    0 Votes
    5 Posts
    964 Views
    GaieusG
    I hope you don't mind if I say that this model is a complete mess (seriously, I don't mean any personal). Actually not only some (but many) of the rear and some of the front windows are also see-through (only from that angle it's not apparent). For some reason, all your window components contain another window component. Exploding the outside ones make all the inside ones see through. I wonder which component has gluing/cutting features and which is cutting what... (although you have all the window openings cut into the walls anyway). So my guess is that there's something with the "cut opening" feature but seriously speaking there are sooo many components nested into each other that I can't really investigate which is which and which is causing the problem. For this particular project, I'd suggest a "workaround". There are two styles in your file now that I created. One is in monochrome mode with transparency turned off and one is the shaded with texture mode with transparency turned on. Use the styles dialogue to change the rendering modes instead of the buttons in the toolbar. Also purged the model a bit... Hope didn't delete some components you were going to use later 7 Nightingale Rd Extension 30 var.skp
  • S

    3D PDFs

    sketchup
    6
    0 Votes
    6 Posts
    1k Views
    R
    http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=9864 Hello All, Interesting Topic here. I saw Hypercosm mentioned in this tread, from my very limited experience it does not support section planes from SU. Would be interested to know how this is in the different varieties of 3D-PDF? Btw, I asked some other questions regarding Hypercosm here. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=9864 I guess that sub forum is a little quite, if someone feels like having a look, I will appreciate it. Kind regards, Robert
  • S

    Global Texture Replace

    sketchup
    15
    0 Votes
    15 Posts
    3k Views
    RichardR
    @plot-paris said: I am a great fan of drag-and-drop actions (even if I am no mac fan ). a cool option would be just to drag a material and drop it onto another, which brings up a prompt if you want to replace the material with the dropped one... cool, isn't it? Very!

Advertisement