@sellberg said: I also think you have slightly messed things up by when it is no longer possible to copy the old scripts through explorer and just run them. Sure, It is more maneageable on the small scale, but when you wanna install 20+ plugins or so it is not easier to install them one-by-one. You've missed a very important point. You can copy plugins for your old installation to SU2014. It isn't advised because Ruby 1.8 is no longer supported, SU2014 had to switch to Ruby 2.0 and a large number of plugins weren't written to meet the Ruby 2.0 standards. Simply copying from your old installation would have created many problems. It's easy to find examples here of people who did just blindly copy over plugins and then whinge about them not working. Ruby isn't an invention of Trimble nor of the SketchUp team so it isn't proper to lay the blame on them. I for one am happy for the Sketchucation Plugin Store and Extension Warehouse and Install Extension. They have reduced somewhat the number of posts from users who can't figure out how to install plugins or can't get their plugins to work because they installed them incorrectly. There's a number of us who have spent countless hours helping others to get plugins installed correctly. You can go back and look through the Plugins forum and easily find example after example. The problem hasn't been eliminated because there are still people who insist on installing plugins manually and can't manage to do it correctly, but it is fewer than it used to be.

I've tried adjusting the options for the various formats but none of them come out looking too good. I've been messing around with Layout export options and the results actually seem worse than if I export directly from SU. It seems that SU tops out at maybe 200 dpi, but all the lines still appear pixelated. I would really like a 720 dpi image so that it conforms with my other graphic settings.

Good luck animating something like that in Sketchup. One suggestion would be to animate it using section planes I suppose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sQ-7dt95yw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khsFvyXLe-Q

Not much I can say to that. Try it so shadows don't toggle off on transition. Thanks for sharing.

@jiminy-billy-bob said: @glro said: I came to the conclusion i needed such a plugin too i didn't find anything simple already made Layers Panel does that : http://sketchucation.com/plugin/751-layers_panel yes, i tried but it doesn't work on my computer bug related to IE v11, it seems...

Thank you very much. I'll try both options.

Thanks for clearing that up for me. I was trying to close down the holes and fix it, only to run into that same problem again. Which basically lead me to redrawing those parts again, but it's fixed now. Thanks!

@dave r said: ...not doing so can create problems for you. You can write "... will create ..." in most cases

Thanks.

I had this issue earlier this year, I found that by ridding Google from my life and my computer I was able to get the service back - I was getting odd error messages saying the service was not available for my region (NZ)

@dave r said: That's not the fix that was outlined above. Read Norbert's post and follow up the link he posted. SU8 is no longer supported though so you might want to update anyway. Oh, I should have mentioned that in my previous post. I did ensure hardware acceleration was enabled under OpenGL as a first step. Just to close the loop for others' information, I upgraded from ver. 8.0.11752 to ver. 8.0.16846. The problem was fixed and our shared network licensing was not affected. Thanks for the help.

the alignment of the window frame with the ship's hull is indeed working well that way, just the glass plane does not cut through entirely the underlying hull meshes - which reckon can be expected with this sort of uneven/curved mesh [image: XOnz_componentgluedto.PNG]

@dan rathbun said: @ntxdave said: I have tried various things like modifying the path name to my .dae files, ... If it helps, my environment is Win 8.1 with IE 11.096.............. You may need to prefix with file:// or file://localhost/ Thanks for the reply......... Here are the statements that reference the file name and location (this is the way the sample code that I downloaded was coded and the .dae file was located in a subdirectory of where I put the downloaded code) // Specifier le chemin du fichier collada | specify path for collada file var scene = CubicVR.loadCollada("Sketchup/solaire.dae","Sketchup"); var objectBounds = scene.getSceneObject("Sketchup").getAABB(); I tried several variations of your suggestion including the file:// and the full path name on the hard drive to the file. Still nothing but a blank page. It should be noted that I am not running server software but this is the only page that has failed to display. The page does come up but it is blank. BTW: There is also a css style coded as canvas{ background: #fff url('voie-lactee.jpg') center no-repeat !important; } which does not display either. If I change canvas to body, the image background is displayed. Again, any feedback that anyone can give me is greatly appreciated.

I like the idea of using otherwise wasted space. I'll be interested to see your plan.

@zergone said: Hello, I would like to do the following: • Read CSV file containing height and width of the object (depth is optional or same for all) • Create 3D object (1 per row of CSV file) • Export as Collada file I guess it would be achievable since I have similar workflow to create images/textures in Pyhton. It is obvious I don't know Ruby. Are there any extensions that I could use? Thank you. I think I have a plugin that will do this for you but would like to test it with your data first so post or PM me the CSV file.

@kenneth r kuhlman said: SU2014 is very buggy. It freezes up at least 3 times a day. probably an incompatible plugin/extension copied from an ol' SU version... disable all plugins and try to reproduce the crashes: @unknownuser said: Sketchup.plugins_disabled=true enabling again with "...=false", checking with: @unknownuser said: is_disabled = Sketchup.plugins_disabled? restart SU for taking the disabling/enabling into effect. Norbert

Kerkythea can do clay renders. I expect almost any rendering app can do them. When I read chalk, I think of this sort of thing. [image: 8160873898_89b72a70d0.jpg]

I'll PM it to you from my office and let you know what we are looking for.

Yes, there have been a lot of under-the-hood improvements that might not be so obvious to the user but they should make it possible for more noticeable feature upgrades in subsequent versions. There have been major improvements in LayOut, too. As for when SU2015 will come, it's anyone's guess but based on SU2014, it would be reasonable to expect the next version to come in the first quarter of 2015 or so.

Cut it out and make a 'Face me' component?