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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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    soloS
    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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    POLYGON MESH TO SINGLE PLANES

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    xiombargX
    @mac1 said: Sorry we will have to agree to disagree. I did some studies some time ago looking at MeshLab to address model simplification ref https://sites.google.com/site/sagesuwiki/tutorials/tips/meshlab#1+Meslab+Cleaning+and+Repairing+Filters.jpg?attredirects=0. Unfortunately there have been reformats by others than the author and all graphics appear lost. At the time there were issues with SU / dae and now Su is nearly 100% compliant to it and results should be better since that was required to import to it. MeshLab has a number of filters that can simplify the OP model, these are used in many other programs to form their basis of filters. It will be up to the OP to evaluate the various recommendations included herein and select the approach he / she feels best meets the needs at hand. The link I have shown shows some of the programs capability. If vertex tools has a simple solution why not show it so OP can compare? I should have been a little more gracious... sorry. And actually maybe this is what he's looking for. I get stuck in this mindset that everyone wants perfectly flat planes (because that's what I'm always looking for!), so I guess it depends what kind of results he wants and whether he wants to move in-between programs.
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    Earthworks plugin?

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    Thanks, we will check it out!
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    Claim Credit

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    I figured this out!! This may help someone else ... You have to rightclick on the program icon, run as administrator, open the model, then claim credit. (This for those in the pc world)
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    Print Shortcuts found

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    this is indeed a great plugin. what is great, is you can command + F to search your lengthy list of shortcuts. I have an older versionprintkeys.rbas unfortunately this one did not work for me. however on mac it outputs in weird hieroglyphics, but in Firefox, if you pick View, Character Encoding, UTF-8, it will appear correctly.
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    Raked Walls and Cutting Planes

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    Dave RD
    Hi Steve, Sorry that video isn't available. I think it got vaporized into the ether unfortunately. I sent you an e-mail, though.
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    Problems with installing plugins

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    Dave RD
    Did you just copy the plugins over from an older SketchUp installation? If so, go into the Plugins folder and delete the files related to them and install freshly downloaded version. It looks like you need to get fresh copies of: bezierspline artisan joint push/pull LibFredo6 TT_Lib2 Vertex Tools FredoScale
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    MAC palete texture & edit texture problem.

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    mmmm thats rigth, i think its not a good mode to work, because we need to load again the texture from the original imagen file, and we lost some time, the edit mode maybe can work better. pbacot, yeah thats the happen, on windows the edit mode, change to other tab on same windows, then u cant ruin your texture. and the other think, the problem whit the edit texture fail, i try to change access atributes to all folder tem on MAC and still fail the edit texture. saludos amigos!
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    Cutting Many Groups/Components

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    pbacotP
    Nice job, Dave. Good instruction!
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    Invisible Text With Windows 8.1

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    ...aaaaand as of turning the machine on this morning, the problem has resolved itself. White box, black text, all is well. No apparent connection to any intervention, on my part. I'll take it.
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    Need Help with my Model

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    Hey Box. I'd like to hear more of your sad experience looking into the loop. Feel free to post some images so we understand what you're talking about.
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    Projected objects pt2

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    xiombargX
    Here's a solution that I tried out and it works relatively well. 1- Ungroup everything in your car model. 2- Make a copy of the car (if you only need two views, front and side views) 3- Viewing each copy separately in each orthographic view of front and side, use the Artisan knife tool to slice the car in half. Delete the back half of the car in the one model and a side of the car in the other (the idea here is to get rid of any pieces that when flattened into a pancake we do not want to see IE the back of the car...). 4- Use Vertex Tools or any scaling tool that allows you scale an object to absolute flat zero and flatten each instance of the car pieces to the appropriate plane. Essentially the idea here is to crunch the car by scaling into a single plane but getting rid of the details of the opposite sides when merged together. For your side view you might be able to just scale the vehicle without cutting it in half, but you might end up extra unwanted polygons depending on how well the two sides of the car mirror each other.
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    Closing a tricky corner shape

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    Well..that was easy. Feel bit embarrased now haha, thanks for the help guys
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    Face / fill a odd object

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    pbacotP
    To me, the purpose of the object would define the method. Ido buildings. In fact I am avoiding working on my project at this moment .. So I would normally see a wall going up to a ceiling or a roof, and an intersection with or extrusion to that surface(s) would be the method. For a sculptural shape, the top is up to the artist of course, and method varies.
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    Tufted Chair

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    As would I
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    Maximum number of entities?

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    AureusA
    To widen this topic a bit. Does anyone knows some good and free collection of low-poly trees and bushes? I need it for some landscape/cityscape design. I have a model of the terrain with streets and several hundred buildings and some extra stuff...And all that makes a model of 800,000 entities. And then I import a tree from a warehouse and - puff - my whole complex model displaying a significant part of the town has 800,000 entities and one sole tree has a milion and half!
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    Default Styles

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    ntxdaveN
    @dave r said: Since you are running the pro version of SketchUp, install it again. You probably still have the downloaded file from when you last downloaded it. Or download it again. It'll renew your Default materials library. If you are getting rid of unused styles in your In Model library, don't delete them manually. Use Purge Unused from the Details menu instead. It's easier and faster and safer since you don't get the purge option in the Details menu unless you are looking at the In Model library. Thanks for the reply Dave. This was a dumb mistake on my part. I have 2013 installed on another laptop so I just went there and copied them and reinstalled on this machine. I realized what I had done as soon as I did it. I was just trying to make sure I did not have styles in my model that I did not want but forgot to click on the "Model" button before deleting. At least I know I have a backup copy now
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    Orienting texture on cylinder

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    Dave RD
    When you import the image as a texture and apply it to a face in SketchUp, it becomes a material in the In Model Materials library. You can then choose that material from the library and apply it to other faces in the model. I would suggest you go to the Help menu and use the Knowledge Base tools to read up on The Paint Bucket tool and textures before you go back to working in SketchUp.
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    Tool Button Size in SU 2014

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    @box said: Have you by any chance altered the default icon size in your windows settings. i don't think so. Can i decrease it? @aerilius said: Screenshot? V8 [image: v89pjhk.png] V2014 [image: v201457kzv.png] And btw. WHY does the Photomatch window has to be wider now than before and than the other windows?!? I really doesn't make any sense to me... no new info or buttons - just more space on the left side. If you dock it the other windows will also get wider... @aerilius said: I believe the incentive for the 4px margin introduced in 2013 was to have a cleaner workspace and better distinguishable buttons. I believe it was referred to scientific studies. For me it is the opposite... Less icons possible and even more space needed.
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    Material sample section plane bug

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    Dave RD
    It seems simple to me. Don't try to sample the material through the section plane. It's simple enough to turn off the section plane so it isn't in the way. You can't sample a material through other planes in SketchUp either. This doesn't seem like a bug to me.
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    Crown molding component & wood texture

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    Thanks again pbacot!

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