@draner5 said: bonjour, je rencontre un problème de lenteur avec sketchup pro 2014 avec un modèle de 57 Mo, ce qui est normal vue la taille; mais avec un autre modèle de seulement 700 Ko cela devient une éxtrème lenteur (plusieures minutes quelque-soit la commande utilisée) ce qui n'est pas normal vue la faible taille du modèle conçu de la mème façon que le modèle 57 Mo. Bonjour, Il s'agit d'un forum anglophone, donc s'il vous plaît poster en anglais, ou post dans le forum français. En outre, votre question est sur ​​SketchUp 2014, ce qui n'est pas approprié dans ce fil de discussion, ce qui est pour SketchUp 8. Néanmoins, vous devez savoir que la taille du fichier et la complexité géométrique ne sont pas les mêmes. Petits fichiers qui ont de grandes quantités de géométrie ou qui font usage de modèles sommaire de pointe peut être plus difficile à utiliser dans SketchUp que les fichiers qui sont grands que parce qu'ils contiennent des textures photo. Merci! Andrew

@box said: You can use Jim' custom toolbar to add a view up bottom button. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10041 Yep. I just found that. Thanks for the replies. I got it going.

I never see any ads here that are not sketchup related. I often hear about or see things for the first time in these ads. I would add an exception in your blocker for SketchUcation.

Have a read here http://sketchucation.com/resources/tutorials/37-beginner/108-installing-sketchup-plugins

Here is an example of a messed-up solid, and how to create it. Works every time. I'm astonished that such a basic operation would cause a problem. In my experience, if I work an 8-hour day doing complex mechanical assemblies with SU, at least 1 hour is spent fixing solids. Happened again yesterday, with very simple parts: flat plates or angle iron with holes punched through them. Seems as if every other time I move the holes or change their dimensions, the whole thing goes ka-boom and I have to start over. Messed up solid.skp

@bruce watt said: I can open this file in 2013 but get a bug splat in 2014, anyone else seeing this ? Did you submit the BugSplats? Did you enter any description we can search for to look it up?

Thank you. Now just to figure out how to guide the new copies of my plug-ins to the 2014 version of SU. Plug-in of choice and the one I would worry about the most - LightUp. I will check on their forum to make sure I can install a fresh and separate copy on Make 2014 and still maintain my SU8 in it's current state.

Perfect, thanks! -Brodie

@Txusic View the forms with Hidden Geometry ON. You will probably find that the 'good' intersection results from the segmented edges of the two cylinders aligning correctly. If the segmented edges don't align you'll get jagged edges when they intersect - as you might logically expect

Silhouette to Plane by TIG ? [image: http://sketchucation.com/forums/download/file.php?id=57218&t=1]

Go to Window>Preferences>OpenGL and change the setting for Use hardware acceleration and/or Use fast feedback. You might also check for updates for the GPU driver. Why it got changed is difficult to say.

Search for topics on 'Organic' forms. Here's one with a specialist sub-forum: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=335 The tools needed are things like Artisan, VertextTools, CurviLoft and my Extrusion tools... These are available from the PluginStore and have their own threads too...

Is this for visuals or production? If you're trying to make a seat for a tool I think Dave's process would work great. For fun, you might try an app like this http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?319906-Turn-your-Android-Phone-into-a-3D-scanner-with-this-app on your phone to get the geometry.

Thanks so much for the response! This is exactly what I needed! Tim

It really depends on what you are exporting. I never found a single fit-all solution when porting geometry from one application to another. It depend on what is important for you, model structure, filesize, material and UV mapping. Various application will treat this different depending on their own internal data structure. But I usually start with DAE as it's a newer format, where as OBJ is much older and produse problems if your meshes has more than 32.000 vertices.

Further advice well received. I will also look for the Purge plug in. I saw a post below mine that was griping about SU. Every program has its limits no matter the dollar assigned to it. Frankly after 5 years and the need for simplicity in 3D drawing I think SU has really been a great addition for the amateur world. Especially when Sketucation can come through with pleasant down to earth, straight to detail, advice like what I have just experienced. I did not mean to start anything new here. I merely mean to again (and in another way) thank those people that so enjoy the program that they are willing to offer free advice. Fords are Fords. Fords simply just don't come with Rolls Royce interiors. But, you can still have a nice ride through the countryside while in a Ford!

I can't log into the Warehouse anymore with my main browser (Cyberfox, a 64bit Firefox variant), however, with Chrome it works. I just get a screen with three rotating circles and different symbols, and then the ruby symbol stops rotating and I get redirected to the warehouse without being signed in. With Chrome, the ruby symbol and the right sketchup symbol stop spinning, then I get signed in. Does anyone have an idea what could cause this? Most likely it has nothing to do with add-ons, since I can't sign in in safe mode as well. edit: Solved the problem by deleting cookies.

Tig Once again, thanks for saving the day.. I was also thinking the accent had something to do with the problem & have created a user account called patrick and SU automatically created a plugins folder... C:\Documents and Settings\Patrick\Application Data\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\Plugins I popped my plugins in there & zoom, all is well, no more ruby console messages on startup ! Makes me think the Trimble crew might like to take a closer look at their code... What would be best, is if there were a preference item where like in other cad programs the user can define the support file paths. In the office we put our plot config files for bricscad on the server and point all instances of brics/autocad to that. Anyhow, many thanks best, Patrick

I think Chris's tools have moved on from those old posts... His ColorBySlope tool colors facets according to their 'angle'. In his Plugins subfolder's ..._data.rb near the end you can see how the faces are processed and their angle is calculated as 'segment' [as an integer]. The array of materials [matarray] is inspected and the material number corresponding to the 'segment' is assigned to the facet... If you setup 90 colors then for each degree of slope you get a correspondingly colored material on the face... With just 9 colors you get a 10 degree range of slope between flat and vertical. So for example - set 'low' to green [0,255,0] and high to 'red' [255,0,0] Then the steeper the slope the redder it gets ? The flatter the slope the greener it gets ?? Not all colors will get used - r.g. if the majority are quite flat it's predominantly greens as there are no steep red parts ! [image: Capture.PNG] [image: Capture1.PNG] [image: Capture2.PNG]

Hi Frank, Open the Materials window and click on the Details menu icon on the right edge of the window. Select Open or Create... Navigate to the folder containing the materials you're after and choose Open. Go to the Details menu again and click 'Add to favorites.' That ought to take care of it.