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    Does trimble still support Sketchup viewer for iphone?

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    BlenderGIS can get you pretty good images.. you do need an API key to get set up but it's all free and you can even generate 3d geometry based on the elevations in the satellite images.. it tiles in blender so you the more you zoom the better the image quality to a point.

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    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!
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  • chippwaltersC

    Anyone know how to find and import high rez terrain data?

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    Thanks guys for your help! Much appreciated. I'll report back on my eventual workflow...
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    SU2107 slowing down

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    No I don't actually, I rarely use it at all.
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    Plug in

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    Thank you TIG for taking the time and replying my question! And also BIG THANKS to you for all your plugins! I couldn't stand it anymore and so I decided to reinstall the whole damn windows 10 because my system showed all kind of funky behavior. I suspect there was something fishy going with visual C++. I don't know I am not that splendid computer expert. I have reinstalled SU and fredo scale and it's behaving nicely, let's see how long that will last. Have a good evening!
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    La valeur ne s'active plus avec l'outil pousser tirer !!

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    SCF : Français (joining required)
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    Curviloft

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    @safetyfatboy said: Thank you for reply, in extention manager, LibFredo is active, and also the Curviloft is latest version, but it still cannot run curviloft, What do you mean by 'run Curviloft'? Do you see the menu entries for both LibFreo6 (Windows > LibFredo6 Settings....) and Curviloft (Tools > Fredo Collection > Curviloft)? Fredo
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    Creating realistic timber (how?)

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    To match the images you show you need to either UV unwrap the mesh and texture paint. Or sculpt the mesh and bake the high poly to a lower poly mesh. Both non-novice topics and activities. For displacement to work properly in rendering you need tessellated surfaces and SketchUp isn't suited to too much tessellation. The most efficient way to do this is to trick the eye with texture detail rather than mesh detail.
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    WebGL

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    @paul russam said: If you’re looking to have your models viewable on a web page then you might want to look at SketchFab, here’s a link to models I’ve uploaded https://sketchfab.com/dma-ni/models and here’s one in action on a page https://www.dma-ni.com/dma_projects/dma_view_proj/maghereagh-kilkerley-dundalk (click the ‘view in 3d’ button) Yes, I have some test models out there also. It is a good product but I am looking for a little more flexibility than what it does (at least currently). I have been testing SimLab Composer. I like it because of the following features: Allows me to host the pages on my own server (not tied to their portal) Allows me to add a fair amount of interactivity to the model and the web page: Animation of both scenes and geometry Links to display annotations (they call them message boxes), URLs, change object materials, and show/hide objects. These items can be achieved with both links within the model or via links on the web page itself. Pretty powerful stuff IMO.
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    3D PDF

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    I use Simlab Composer
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    Printing incorrect styles when printing to PDF

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    @sjotcher said: I am using SU 2016 pro... for evaluating if the issue is caused by a faulty OpenGL support of the used graphics card driver, disable in SU v2016 "Window > Preferences > OpenGL > Use Hardware Acceleration", close/launch SU and print again. If everything fine than the graphics card driver is causing the issue. If the recent driver version doesn't fix the problem, swapping to a recent GeForce GTX 1050Ti/1060 (or better) might be opportune. Norbert
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    1001Bit Tools - follow me tool

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    Perhaps you could share your file so we can see exactly what you are trying to do.
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    Spend $ on Renderer, Animator or learn Blender?

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    I use MSPhysics with Twilight Hobby or indigo RT
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    Huge OBJ file importing ... RAM issue

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    Did you try Blender to import it? 1GB is a big ask for any app. But Blender might be able to better segment it to export more manageable chunks. Is the 1GB purely mesh data or mesh and texture data?
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    False perspective

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    Pilou, you are right! haha, thank you!
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    .obj to skp question

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    I think you will have to run a script to turn the VRay materials into standard materials because when you export to OBJ it will not recognize the VRay maps.
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    SU & Windows 10 Current State of Play

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    Like Dave, one morning I was unpleasantly surprised with Windows automatically installing Windows 10 (I credit it to a co worker who came in early, started my computer, and hit "yes" when prompted). Once installed, I didn't notice any problems running my programs. Windows 10 itself was a little bit different from 7, enough to be annoying at first, but I've gotten used to it to the point I think I will now install 10 on my home computer. There was an early security update that messed up our network settings, and they replaced Internet Explorer with Windows Edge, which I am not too crazy about.
  • chippwaltersC

    Realtime ArchViz: SketchUp to Unity Workflow

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    @chippwalters said: Please review occlusion culling: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/OcclusionCulling.html It works! I very thank you!
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    Model in sketch mobile viewer lags - need help reducing size

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    im pretty sure I purged all the unused (could of missed something though) - I did the model info purge and also used thom Thoms plugin to ease a little more out texture wise I used those preloaded on sketchup and a few from https://www.sketchuptextureclub.com (I did rotate a few textures as they looked a little odd in their current position - I don't know if that of made a difference) I don't know what the average persons model size is - I never thought that a 16mb sketchup file was considered to be large but obviously I'm very wrong (though I would of thought that the mobile viewer would of been able to handle at least 20mb models well - I hope Trimble will release a version in the future that will be able to do so. Thank you Dave, that is terribly kind of you - did you private message me details ? - I'll check now
  • john2J

    Component and material library in 2017 version?

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    SketchUp is not loading the shipped materials from AppData. It would be best to add new collections to favorites rather than trying to replace the shipped materials. If you do replace the shipped materials with your own and you have any reason to uninstall SketchUp or if you install a maintenance release, you'll lose your materials and the shipped ones will be put back in their place. It's better to make a directory in Documents or some other non-program directory for your materials. Then, those materials don't get touched in the event of a reinstall or upgrade. And you can use the same location for each version of SketchUp you might be running. When you upgrade to SU2018, you can pick the same directory for materials.
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    Terrain Image and Elevation solutions?

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    As of right now, I am not sure there is a very good solution. I spoke with Bryce directly and he told me, "It seems that something is going on with how terrain data is served and how the resolution of the grid is determined. We're going to try to make some improvements but I don't know when you'll see them." Thats the best they can offer right now.
  • PixeroP

    Revit to SketchUp my best workflow (so far)

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    I agree with Pixero on this one. This is the best workflow. I have been doing the same for years on many projects. Also, when your client sends an updated Revit export, you can just use the method above and then use ThomThoms replace material from the old model to the new model. The entire process is very quick. The one caveat with working with Revit imports is that I always find that SketchUp tends to run very weighed down, so try to replace as much Revit garbage as you can such as railings, fixtures, furniture, etc. with SU components that are clean. Jut yesterday I imported a model with terrible columns that had millions a tiny little triangles. They were so heavy and the 10 min it took to swap them out was well worth it.

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