Thea 4 Sketchup is very good in that. IES lights are represented as SU geometry - components which can be saved as you wish. Here is how lights work: https://youtu.be/wpfxLgbsSyQ

Thank you

@steve rugg said: Still has great flaws but I have not seen anything easier and better. Couldnt agree more Steve. I decided to shift and abandon Sketchup for its "lack of robustness" in handling complicated models way too many times. But the ease of use factor and the countless good things that is added every single day kept me coming back. Thank goodness , very sloooow, but making great progress... I still see a promising future for SU as the user base grows tremendously.. It may not be "the one and only" 3d software you'll ever need, but it is becoming more and more indispensable in many 3d production workflow.

Maybe. I'd kind of be surprised if there is. You'd think someone would have done something like that by now if they could. Leader and other text looks so much nicer in LayOut and it's easier to control, too.

[image: l0xs_ScreenShot2017-09-26at3.24.30PM.png] I DID IT!!!! I have spent all day trying to do this. So I will share my learnings. I started with a Google search: Plugin Extension HouseBuilder How to install, a sketch up community link forum populates. With user posts circa 2015. This is important, scroll down until to find contributor: Tig -- the Sketchup God, he post a link to the HouseBuilder plugin, which I understand he went in and recoded a fix. Ok, here is the breakdown. (FYI I'm using MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 with SketchUp Make 2017-- FOR METRIC--thanks TIG) Step 1: Download TIG's HouseBuilder. This is not as simple as meets the eye. You must get TIG's improved version of HouseBuilder. As TIG is a contributor to SKETCHUCATION.COM you must go there and create an account. This is were I wasted a lot of time. I created a log in and simply tried to click on TIG's link. I got nothing! Hours later, much desperation. I started over at the google search (mentioned above) and followed TIG's hyperlink to SketchUcation.com, LOGGED IN BEFORE PROCEEDING, and then followed the link TIG posted here for METRIC. Note: there are two, one is a ZIP other is RBZ, I took the second. It landed in my DOWNLOADS. Lesson the link came up as broken even though I was logged into SketchUcation. If, this happens log out start over. Step 2: Open Sketchup. Go to WINDOW >EXTENSION MANAGER, note HouseBuilder is not visible here, click the red button INSTALL EXTENSION, you will get pop-up to navigate to your DOWNLOADS folder, yay... almost there. select your recent download house builder.

@pbacot said: From the size of you model, clipping may likely be caused by objects far from the origin, or just the model being very big. You can look for objects that are not needed far away to delete or copy out, and move the center of the model or your center of interest to the origin. That'll do it. I had a mass of people, probably a mile or so away from the origin. Thanks!

No. The Style's default front and back colors are that - just colors - NOT textured materials. It's best to have a distinctive back-face color, so that in Monochrome view mode it's them easy to see incorrectly oriented faces.

Thank you for the replies, and sorry for the slow response. Co-ords to datum plugin works well.

@juju said: @jasonwd said: Cool... I'm trying it out! Let's hope it plays nice with Skalp! I have not experienced any issues with Skalp by using the Layers Organizer. Good to hear.... I did notice it flashes the Organiser window loads between Scene views which is a bit off-putting!

Welcome to Sketchucation neverx. One would hope that John got his issue with the Shadows window fixed a long time ago. Otherwise he's been without shadow control for 5-1/2 years and numerous SketchUp version changes.

I agree, having to rely on internet connectivity to validate your license is probably not a good idea. Even if you are online, what if the server you are phoning home to is having issues or experiencing some downtime. For that reason a more reasonable approach is probably better.

@ktkoh said: As such I am looking for the absolute min config that will run 2017 make. I have been happy with the performance with graphics acceleration turned off in ver 8 thru 2016. However I am having disc errors so computer is no longer reliable. swapping the disk maybe replacing by a much nimbler SSD isn't a big thing... but why not simply stick with SU Make 2016?

+1

See this for another way. https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18%26amp;t=68150 Due to internal tolerance settings, points that are closer together than about 1/1000 of an inch are considered coincident. That can sometimes create gaps.

@sk8er6 said: I've tried going over a few times,manually closing what I thought were the holes, using make faces, intersecting with model, <snip> Thanks for your time, -sk8er6 I find it's easier when you use solid inspector if you turn on xray mode-- that way you can see the context of the borders much better, plus you can edit as well in xray mode.

@sdmitch said: When you click on it does the entire line get selected or just the segment you clicked on. It matters because curves have to be adjusted differently. In this example, I use a 10 degree polynomial regression on the curve that is the top side of the face. For some reason, I couldn't see your attachment until today. That looks like an amazing plugin. I fixed the problem area by creating edges with a closed loop using sandbox, deleting the face, and then using Soap skin & bubble. The result was much smoother geometry. The new tools will definitely help in the near future. Thanks to all for the input

@pjenk51 said: Hello I also can't log in to the plug in store. Hi, Pjenk51, Are you trying to log in at the SketchUcation site or in the SketchUp plugin? Do I understand well that you forgot your password for the site and you are trying to reset it? But if it is so, how did you log in to write this post? Regards, Gábor

@stefanq said: I suspect Solo to be a gamer who spam this forum, for awhile. Now I'm sure! Not a single game on any of my machines, who has time to play?

Actually, correction! It wasn’t TIG Layerwatcher, it was doing what it is supposed to do, just in a funny way. The real problem was me! Creating line work & faces off Layer 0! Sorry TIG. Layerwatcher is a great extension & is reinstalled because I think I need it. LOL.

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