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  • The ideal place for beginners to get help using SketchUp

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    For readers finding this older Mac-thumbnail question today: I have made a free extension to restore model-image Finder icons in current SketchUp versions, Mac SKP Icon Repair & Keeper 0.1.5. I am its author. You can repair a whole library through Extensions > Repair a folder of SketchUp Finder icons… . Normal subfolders are included, without opening each model. It uses previews already embedded in the .skp files, changes icon metadata without rewriting models, and skips files without previews. It also restores the current model’s icon after ordinary saves. The installer is in SketchUcation PluginStore as Mac SKP Icon Repair. Source, instructions and direct download are in SamTSham’s sketchup-icon-repair repository on GitHub. My announcement in Extensions & Applications Discussions links to both. Testing covers Apple silicon with SketchUp 2021–2026; this is not a compatibility claim for the older systems discussed here. Intel hardware testing is unconfirmed. Folder repair needs Python 3 at /usr/bin/python3. It restores Finder icons, not the Quick Look service or the other interface features discussed above.

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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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    @myztery need hinge and finish side concept curve hinge layout.skp
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  • ntxdaveN

    How to curt hole in log wall

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    Box, thanks to your advice/info I was able to modify the Large Toolbar and add some functions (including the erase tool). Here is what I now have in the top section of the Large Toolbar. [image: x7lf_ModifiedLargeToolbar.png] Also downloaded the Eneroth Solid Tools plugin for dealing with cutting window and door wholes in my log cabin walls. Like it better than the standard tools (for this situation). Again, thanks for your feedback and assistance.
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    Importing text

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    @glenn at home said: That's usually the 1st thing I filter out of a dwg before going into SU. Are you using them for a particular reason or just reference? TIS FOR REFERENCE. I can look at the cad file separately on one of my screens but I have always wished I could have the text right in the imported cad file on a separate layer so I can switch it off & on rather than turning my head...yeah, I know...lazy. Thanks TIG, I figured you probably addressed this 100 or so years ago. p
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    Miami painting contractor

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    Imported component re-defined as "dynamic" component

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    @pcmoor said: A component file is created via the right click menu "saveas" If you open this file you see its contents not the parent, so saving leaves a parent with the groups as per your file, You need to import the file as done and explode then via right click "saveas" to overwrite or drag and drop. then the parent data is destroyed thank you very much pcmoor. I suspected there must be 'parent data' buried in the file somewhere - I just couldn't figure out where it lives or how to access and then delete it. And I was not aware of the 'best practices' of saving a component to disk via the select - right-click - Save As operations. I have always just saved a model to disk with the File -> Save As... option - without first making the model a component - and then relied on the File -> Import... into my larger model to turn that model into a component. I shall make better use of the component -> Save As... operation.
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    Updated to 2023 and now CTR M (for copy) acts very difficult

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    Are you holding Ctrl? If so, don't. A simple tap will activate the Copy function of the Move tool. This function was updated in a maintenance release of 2021. Read the tip at the bottom left of the screen when you have the Move tool. Notice that a double tap of Ctrl activates a Stamp tool which will place copies of your object wherever you click to drop one. BTW, your forum profile shows you are using SketchUp 2016. Please update that information.
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    Suggestion - Hobby License

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    OK - I just submitter my suggestion on the SketchUp forum. Here is a link to it. Suggestion - Hobby License
  • Rich O BrienR

    SketchUp 2023.1

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    2023.1 so far is working as expected on my end.
  • ntxdaveN

    Import and convert dae files

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    I tried Universal Importer and did not have much success, at least with the models I tried which was a rather complex one (see the model in my original post). One of the problems I have encountered with the dae files/models I have tried to import was missing faces. I think the solution for me is to find an alternative source/sources to the 3D Warehouse since I can no longer download skp files from there.
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    You Have Exceeded Your Allowed ..

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    @joe wood said: That fixed it, thanks for that Gus! And everyone else, for the hand holding! Happy to help.
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    Help change unit of whole file

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    Help change unit of whole file

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    快3游戏 十大经典玩法技巧

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    「今日分享」快三怎么做到三期必中〔秒懂百科〕

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    Adjust or scale roof angle

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    @dave r said: In your example, since you haven't really drawn the rafters, you could scale the roof to change the pitch. I made a group of all of the roof lines and, at one end I drew in a couple of guides with the Protractor with the desired roof pitch. I used 4:12 in this case. Then just scale the group down to the intersection. Probably you would want to divide up the roof into seperate groups so you could scale the narrower section individually. Click on the picture if it doesn't animate immediately. [attachment=0:y9rjs0cs]<!-- ia0 -->roof.gif<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:y9rjs0cs] I drew it that way to get a total LFT of rafter lengths. Your example is exactly what I'm trying to do. I had tried scale before and did not get the desired results. Surely user error. Will have another go at it. Thanks for that animation ... that's great.
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    Help repairing 2d model

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    Hard to tell what caused it. I did a site plan which was just a quick tracing of an existing site plan and then made the mistake of plotting a PDF in perspective instead of parallel projection and the whole thing was off. A slight perspective view might throw things off. Any little object with a positive or negative z value. I use flatten.lsp in Autocad to flatten all line work most of the time. This is especially useful when you're drawing over a survey with topography that can be thousands of feet above the ground plane. Even a 3D door will do the same when snapping lines. I'm still old school with Autocad using what's basically a modern version of Autocad 15 and 20 years old. Works great. Non-planar faces in Sketchup can also create a mess.
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    Abandoning 2023

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    @unknownuser said: objects moved to another tag are not staying there. That's a very weird one. I've never seen that reported before.
  • Mike AmosM

    Style builder and layout removal.

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    you could open the SU program directory at: C;\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 202#\ and delete the sub-directories "\LayOut" and "\StyleBuilder". Don't be surprised if glitches may happen.
  • boofredlayB

    2023 Tray Issue

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    Thanks guys for the assist.
  • boofredlayB

    Thumbnails not showing again SU 2022

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    Well now I am getting this with the trays. And trying to turn on and off layers, unresponsive. I ran as administrator and just did a repair and still... [image: d122_2023Trays.JPG]
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    Texture or image?

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    Sorted, thanks Dave

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