Thank you. I appreciate your input. Determines me the more. Could someone move this to WIP? Id appreciate it. Ill begin there from now on..thx

Well... Blender is giving me the most flexible approach. I set the camera and then paint the texture. Any solution involving geometry projection would make editing (change of position, change of texture...) painful. I considered buying Blendup (a Sketchup to Blender transfer add-on) to import my Sketchup cameras and geometry to Blender, paint in Blender and back to Sketchup. Eventually, I chose to do everything in Blender (model, texture and render). I will let you know how it turned up! Thanks a lot for your help, gentlemen!

@bobrsta said: Thanks, Dave, I'll look around. Sorry I didn't find you at Basecamp. I will be looking forward to the next one! Bob There were so many people. I know I missed a lot of folks, including you. I'm looking forward to the next one, too.

@watkins said: Dear Nick, I am not an architect and so this might be a dumb question, but is your book centred on American standards or would a UK/European architect find this book useful too. If essentially written for the American market, do you plan to publish a companion book that would meet the needs of UK/European architects with respect to standards, symbols etc. People are so busy these days that they want to hit the floor running when trying something new. Kind regards, Bob Certainly. The book is more about the process. Yes it is in American standards, but that really isn't discussed at length. What is discussed is the simple process of model configuration, layout setup and overall concept of producing full CD's with only Sketchup and Layout. The book includes a full sample project in both SU and LO as well as, all the templates I use in both SU and LO.

Well I played with it a while on my son's Chomebook and I must say it was pretty smooth. I built a small house exterior and noticed no slow down at all. I will do a bit more playing with it but so far it seems to be a great addition.

This would be really useful as I have to show studies to clients and a date clock running in the animation would be great

Thanks whiterabbit I had someone rebuild the part for me in AutoCAD will always remain a mystery

Hey guys, sure was fun putting faces to names! And Pete, I looked high and low for you all conference so I could throw a couple cocktails down your throat; sorry that our paths never crossed... An excellent event, for sure, and was quite happy that I went.

Nope nothing?

@bryan k said: I'm not sure how to frame this question. I have colored individual faces in my component and would like to know if there is a way to undo this. It has created a problem when I try to color the entire component when selected as a group. In other words, when I select the component and try to apply an overall color or material, it will only color some faces and what seems to me, not the individual faces I colored when I was in edit mode. Thanks. Something like this? [image: pttD_RemoveFaceColors.gif] Remove Face Colors.rb

@box said: Make sure internet explorer is up to date, has a clean cache and isn't too restricted security wise. Thanks for the tip! It worked. I am using Internet explorer 11. I reset my settings to defaults for privacy and security. Now my extension store is working. I can see the lists, etc. However, this version of store works slow. That is the search and the opening of pages is slower than the previous versions. It seems as if I am using this store on a very slow internet connection which is not the case. Moreover, I have not changed anything as far as interference with my internet is concerned, i.e. my antivirus brand, firewall settings, etc. [image: z7d9_explo.png]

Your profile shows SU2013, still. So you can look under User/App Data/Roaming/SketchUp... for materials folders. Or you might just try running a search for all folders with "material" in the name.

First of all: I am NOT a programmer, so there is ZERO error handling on this quick-and dirty script. I had tried TIG's solution, but did not work on my DWG because some of the arcs would "clip" others as they were rebuilt by the script. So I wrote this small routine to: loop through imported AutoCAD entities. select curves and group them (individually) create a more refined clone of the curve (the number of segments is controlled by two parameters. See script) Delete the original curve. Anyone is welcome to turn this snippet into something better and more reusable. Best, Marcos. theModel = Sketchup.active_model #selEntities = theModel.selection theModel.selection.clear allEntities = theModel.entities Collect user values: prompts = ["Minimum number of segments:", "Minimum Segment Length:"] defaults = [36, 10] input = UI.inputbox(prompts, defaults, "Enter Desired Settings") #set minimum length for each arc segment (in model units) userSegs = input[0] minLen = input[1] #UI.messagebox(userSegs.to_s) #UI.messagebox(minLen.to_s) allEntities.each do |i| if (i.typename == "Edge") aCurve = i.curve if (aCurve) Sel = theModel.selection unless defined?(Sel) Sel.add (aCurve.edges) newGroup = allEntities.add_group (theModel.selection) Sel.clear else #not a Curve end end end theModel = Sketchup.active_model theModel.selection.clear allEntities = theModel.entities Loop through all entities allEntities.each do |i| #open Groups, search for Curves if (i.typename == "Group") #Loop through array of Entities inside each Group subset = i.entities subset.each do |s| curve = s.curve # if it is a curve, collect a few properties if (curve) # get coord. transformation, since entities are in a group #use "transform" below to translate to global coordinates tr=i.transformation cCenter = curve.center.transform! (tr) cSangle = curve.start_angle cEangle = curve.end_angle cRadius = curve.radius cNormal = curve.normal.transform! (tr) cXaxis = curve.xaxis.transform! (tr) cYaxis = curve.yaxis.transform! (tr) cLength = curve.length #UI.messagebox(" Curve Length is " + cLength.to_s) #divides arcs in minLen(model unit) increments divSegs = (cLength / minLen).to_i #UI.messagebox("Divided Result is " + divSegs.to_s) #for very small arcs, sets a minimum number of segments if (divSegs <= userSegs) numSegs = userSegs # UI.messagebox("Using: " + numSegs.to_s) else #subdivides larger arcs using target length numSegs = divSegs.to_i # UI.messagebox("using Divided total" + numSegs.to_s) end myarc = allEntities.add_arc cCenter,cXaxis,cNormal,cRadius,cSangle,cEangle,numSegs #Erases original i.erase! end # if curve end # entities inside group loop end # if it is a group end #loop through all entities

I'd do roads with upright extruder...

That is beautiful. I actually had the tool collection but there were so many of them that I missed this one. And the function i needed only scratches the surface (pardon the pun) of Thrupaint and that only scratches the surface of the collection. Amazing. Thanks, and thanks Fredo

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@box said: You're on the sketchucation forum, have you looked in the Plugin store right here for Tig's Mirror. Thank you so much Box, worked brilliantly. Happy days . Regards P

This could be extremelly good news. I just don't like the assumption leveraged on the article about the focus being on Revit. It's very welcome that Sketchup and Revit work well in a BIM workflow, but still, most of the world is using 2D dwg files for both work and documentation and both Sketchup and Layout would benefit much more from the vast Autocad userbase, than Sketchup alone on Revit's growing but still behind userbase. Also the amount of CAD software that adheres to the Autocad standard is something to take acount for, Revit has a more specific target group.

Using models from the 3d warehouse is a risk. Always open the model in a separate file, look at the statistics, do some cleaning, renaming, welding etc etc. Most of the time I remodel it myself and just use the original as a reference for dimensions. There's always a big chance the original 3d modeller made that model with a different goal in mind. So the glasses can be either too low poly (very faceted and not suitable for doing renders) OR too high poly because the modeller wanted to spend 1.000.000 faces in making the perfect glasses and he wanted to render just one pair using his renderfarm.

Hi you can set up multiple trays simultaneously. So I made a tray for layers only and one for materials only. Whatever tray is active as soon as I click "B" the material tray moves to the front. This way I avoid to scroll too much, instead of having all the used windows together in just the default tray. I prefer this method, if I just work on the small laptop monitor for example... In addition, you can decide whether you want to have individual trays flowing as single windows on the screen (like in older SkUp versions) or if you want to combine these trays as shown below. I hope this helps [image: 5tzI_Trays.jpg]