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  • The ideal place for beginners to get help using SketchUp

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

    Help - Preference window will not open

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    Just found this post and it resolved my issue - I know its a blast from the past but thanks for posting the fixes TIG and chariy2008!
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    Importing 3D Formats?

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    An old post but now you have Fusion 360 or OnShape or FreeCad that can import/export for free in formats compatible with SU! This site has more than an half million objects! https://www.mcmaster.com In Moi3D [image: https://s6.postimg.org/hlgetx3td/object.jpg] and then in Sketchup [image: https://s6.postimg.org/6adr5jwy9/plop1.jpg]
  • hellnbakH

    Question about scenes

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    @hellnbak said: Thanks Jim, but if that's the one I came across when I was researching this question, didn't it have a problem working on any version prior to 2016? Or maybe I'm thinking of something else. I don't think so since I never released my extension. I just tried it and it works fine in SketchUp 2015.
  • Z

    Weird export animation behavior

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    Yes, but that box is not checked and it doesn't loop to the beginning. It loops to a scene that is no longer there.
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    Save Toolbar Positions

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    I thought maybe not, but didn't hurt to throw it in. Haven't done much of this stuff in six years, so a little rusty, as well as being not-too-knowledgeable in the nuts & bolts area. However, I've grown to absolutely rely on SU to aid in making my living and will probably be working on a model on my deathbed.
  • fusshokuF

    Mask

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    Yeah, it's cool, but I have to think out mine. But thanks, I analyze proportions and try make another.
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    Using Sketchup for the whole process?

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    Thanks folks!. Yes you can. I've been doing it for years and it works exceptionally well. Matt Donley and I co-authored a book on my process. You can see it here http://www.sketchupbook.com
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    IPad sketchup viewer with interact?

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    probably not with the mobile viewers but maybe with a future release of the my.SketchUp.com browser version (currently WIP).
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    How to stretch a part of a model

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    Thank you for the responses, Fredo6 was able to do it. Just needed to explode the curve as per the authors instructions above. Very nice little program. Regards. [image: Stretch using Fredo6]
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    Real Displacement Textures on Sketchup:

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    @andysvision said: 3ds Max, Unreal Engine, Cinema4D? I have no experience with those.
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    3D Warehouse - downloading nearby models

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    Alan, you've dredged up an ancient topic. Things have changed since then. Google hasn't owned SketchUp in over 4 years and the 3D buildings that show in Google Earth are not SketchUp models like they were back when they did. You can search the 3D Warehouse to see if the original author might have shared the model or if someone else has created a model. If you have no luck, you'll most likely need to create the buildings on your own.
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    Extension to project 3D geometry to 2D geometry

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    Ok.. tried it and it was a bit too aggressive in how many stray edges it removed on the first run though on default settings... I will play with it and see if I can make it work. Thanks for the suggestion!
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    Newbie question on Mac toolbars

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    @fredo6 said: I see the issue with the MDI approach (so toolbar must be independent of model window), but I don't understand why the Sketchup team did not address some of the basic issues, such as the icons for New, Open, Save, as well as the size of icons in the main toolbar, the text size in most inspectors. After all, there seems to be many Mac users around, including Pro users. Fredo We Mac users often wonder about the same things (and more). It seems that the Mac GUI has gotten very little attention compared to Windows and things like my.sketchup, starting all the way back when Google bought SketchUp and continuing through Trimble's ownership.
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    Radial texturing

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    As srx suggests, you can draw the table top as an array of wedges or you can draw radial lines to divide the top into sectors. Hide the edges after you applied the texture. The top on this table was drawn by making a wedge-shaped sector which was then copied into a radial array. [image: https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3906/19208781128_0e5eb9e962_z.jpg]
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    Intersect faces / slicing... can't do the job

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    I have made a video for you: https://youtu.be/QYd2a1rpsAk
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    Move to Origin

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    @bob james said: Or is this a "duh" that I've missed all these years I guess it's a "duh" moment. Start moving the selection, let go of the mouse and type [0,0,0] and hit Enter. The selection will move to the origin with point you grabbed with the Move tool located at the origin itself. [image: move.gif]
  • Bryan KB

    Am I late to the party? SketchUp just went browser

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    @slbaumgartner said: @bryan k said: I'm still hoping they make a version for Linux. As Apple is now Unix based and there is an Apple version, I would hope a Linux version will be offered one day. This has been discussed frequently on the sketchup.com forum. Although Mac OS X is a UNIX variant, the GUI is proprietary to Apple and is very different from anything available on Linux. It would take a significant amount of effort to port the Mac version to Linux. Yeah, I've seen those discussions and as an IT guy myself, I understand and do not blame them for holding off. Still, one can hope!
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    If I cannot use one of the normal views....

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    Thank you so much, it was so easy
  • yantinoviikaY

    Mass building doesnt appear in final rendered

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    Have you tried exploding the images. They will then become rectangle faces and images will convert to materials applied to the faces, but they will look the same as the original images. I don't know if Vray renders images, but it will probably render the project after exploding them.
  • srxS

    Structuring walls PLUGIN?

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    @Srx - is this what you are referring to in your original post? Do you use solids for modelling the original shapes? If 2x yes, this might be a simple plugin I think. Edit: or not so simple as I thought. There is no easy offset method for loops / contours in the API. Detecting the upper boundary loop is easy but you would then have to make you own offset algorithm... [image: split_walls.jpg]

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