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  • The ideal place for beginners to get help using SketchUp
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    @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.

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    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?

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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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  • Rich O BrienR

    SketchUp 2016 is here....

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    I need to reiterate.......the software needs to be revised so the materials palette pops open when the paint tool is activated - like it used to do.
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    Estimator for SketchUp

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    No, not yet. Summer has driven me adrift. It is still in the back of my mind thought.
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    Drape Tool not draping all entities

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    Hi Guys out of the office yesterday, many thanks for all your comments and assistance, invaluable as ever.
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    Another (continuing?) question with animating scenes

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    Hi Bob, Probably the quickest way to accomplish this, without extensive use of plugins, is to control your camera location/movement through scenes. This precludes the need to manipulate the model in any way. For example, you could draw a hexagon that encloses your entire model, with one vertex lined up with the front view. Then you could place your camera on the front vertical of the hexagon. Use guide points to try different elevations until you get one that frames your model correctly. Now adjust the height of the hexagon to match the perfect height. Re-place your camera on the front vertex, making sure that you are in the front view, and save the scene. Now place your camera on the next vertex and repeat the process and save a scene. (you can control your camera even more if you make an alignment face for each vertex that is perpendicular to the plane of the camera view at the vertex and use that to align the camera after you place it on the vertex. This might be more control than you actually need and "fudging" the camera location to better frame the model in each location is a valid method too. Once you have all the vertex views saved as scenes, run the animation. You may need to zoom in or out slightly, at each scene, to keep from clipping the model as the camera moves. Keep refreshing the scenes as you dial in the flow. It sounds more complicated than it is and you will find that you can "fake" an object-based animation pretty easily.
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    SU2015 toolbars won't stay in place

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    Nothing, eh? Well, that's ok, I solved it myself.
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    Plugin to create smooth sketchup video from scenes

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    @pritam8888 said: Hi, is there a plugin to create smooth sketchup video from scenes ? Look at: Smutard's Presentation Bundle 2 D. Bur's ScenesTool (Extension Warehouse)
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    Please help find a way to unravel the curved back to cut

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    pbacotP
    It's slick!
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    How to build this model in SketchUp?

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    @sdmitch said: Just the type of mindless exercises I live for. Over the weekend, I tried various scenarios and this was the best of them. Created in less than a minute under SU2016 64bit. Usage:Extensions>SDM Tools>Misc Tool>Random Cubes [attachment=1:1at0ardt]<!-- ia1 -->Random Cubes.jpg<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:1at0ardt] Wow! Amazing. Thanks so much for sharing!
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    Center line Align of objects?

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    Thank you both sdmith and tig. Regards Pedro
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    Texture mapping on wavy form

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    Try SketchUV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRXT3vC0mnc
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    SKUP 2015 - Outliner box is off-screen

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    This works. Thanks for the tip!
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    How can I switch off a layer in multipe scenes in one step?

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    You can add a layer that is invisible in all other scenes with e.g.: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10%26amp;t=36583#p322291 Or you can have a look at VisMap2 for a more advanced control (haven't tested it): http://www.martinrinehart.com/models/rubies/vismapdoc.html
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    Fastest way to download a collection from warehouse

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    You can download 12 at a time from the Components dialog "Save as local collection."
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    SKP 2016 TOOL INFERENCE

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    Thanks Rich for the video Tig - the premise of this exercise was not to change camera position - aka do not pan/orbit/zoom. But thanks anyway for the good narrative.
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    Want to edit Google Earth )Location Snapshot) jpeg / editor?

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    Don't know if this can help you? In English with a little French accent of my friend Denis! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76gaFDLSto
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    How to set a non-standard view?

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    Duh. Thanks guys. Amazing how I always assume things are more difficult then they are.
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    Call to Retina users (for Fredo6 plugins)

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    Thank you Fredo, This is actually helpful for high-resolution windows machines as well. Although some control over the scale value other than 2 would be great as well. Anyways, much better than no scale as all the texts and toolbar are scrambled without.
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    How to set up MIRROR tool in Sketchup Make 2016?

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    @gene davis said: I copied the plug in from there and pasted into 2016, and all works fine. You shouldn't do that because there may be incompatibilities between different versions and it's always better to download a fresh and up-to-date version of plugins. (This time you were lucky because 6.0 is the current version in the Pluginstore: http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Mirror ) (TIG was faster, but for me the answer was more work, so here it is.)
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    Center the view on selected object

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    Thank you so much Numerobis and Sdmitch for your time.cheers
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    Reduce model complexity

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