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  • The ideal place for beginners to get help using SketchUp

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    thank You I can't believe I am benifiting something from 2013

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    BlenderGIS can get you pretty good images.. you do need an API key to get set up but it's all free and you can even generate 3d geometry based on the elevations in the satellite images.. it tiles in blender so you the more you zoom the better the image quality to a point.

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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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    Any New Yorkers out there want to come to Maker Faire?

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    I'm interested. My child (12 yrs old) is a big Maker Faire fan so we tend to go every year. Last year I felt the fair was a bit inundated with 3D printers - all great but all pretty much the same. Maybe the rage for those things will have passed a bit by now.
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    Problems with BezierSpline

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    @fredo6 said: Edson, When you get a crash, could you send the bug report to Trimble, specifying this is about BezierSpline. So far, I don't have enough elements to figure out in which area it can be. Since SU8 and SU13 use the same version of Ruby, it must be something more subtle. Thanks Fredo I have already done it.
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    Looking for tool to cut non-solids along a plane

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    Apologies for the overlapping tiles. After experimenting with the various approaches, it appears to me that trimming instances of tiles components with the Solid Tools Trim tool may be the quickest method overall. My thinking has evolved over this thread and I now see the value of having solid tiles. For one, they look much better, and they save space. Now that I know the Trim tool makes trimmed components unique, saving what I thought was an extra step,I find it relatively easy to step through and trim each tile. Zorro2 is a great tool and will very quickly trim groups of tile components, making each one unique as it does so, but it leaves the trimmed edges without a face. This is fine in many cases, but when you want a face, it takes time to edit each component to replace it. That said, there's a place for each method.
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    Xml parser in sketchup

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    Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, i can not use DOM parser to do xml parsing. [edit] I have used the libxml and its performance is good enough for me. I setup the old version libxml and copy the ruby files, dll to plugin folder of sketchup, it works for me.
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    Ruby Programming Course discount

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    @hellnbak said: @jpalm32 said: Was refereing to your Gas Station. Great stuff you do. I was wonderering if you did more. Thanks. Yes, I've done several more, also working on some diners along Route 66. But right now I'm concentrating on several other projects, including a couple of very unusual vehicles and a very unusual aircraft. Started on diners awhile back uo learn SU. Played with glass block entarnce, booths..... Gave up after awhile. Looking forward to your work.
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    DWG files

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    http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?siteID=123112&id=9078813
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    Skp 2013 to Dwg problem

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    First place I would check would be your export options dialog box to make sure the settings are similar in 13 to what you had been using in 8. If this doesn't fix the export, then you might check to see if the lines are really not there as sometimes their color properties in autocad match the color of your screen background and it looks like the drawing is empty. Try opening your empty drawing in autocad and doing a select all. you will quickly see in the dialog box how many entities it has found. next type in properties from the command prompt and change the color properties to a different color and see if that lights them up. best wishes, Chad
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    Converting hidden geometry to non-hidden geometry in bulk

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    I have solved it... never mind
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    Podium Walker crashes SketchUp 2013 on Mac OSX

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    Deleting the podium walker file worked - I am a commercial Architect and I have trusted sketch up since version 3, you address me as frustrated, in your view unduly, however, I didn't expect to learn the inner workings of my O.S to keep shoddy programs working and the answer I received was 3 hours later in which time I had missed my clients and could not open my files. Podium forum is renowned for non answered posts that's why I posted here. Your remarks where the next day ! I've now learnt to delete and re-install plug ins and delete and re-install Sketch - up and generally be cautious with any ruby scripts because you never know which one is going to continually cause problems - that's fine, it doesn't mention that in the sales pitch funnily enough and I urge anyone who has commercial responsibilities to think twice before installing walker and any ruby unless you know how to get back to the basic program.
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    Locked folder not visible

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    Managed to retrieve it thanks, although I don't have a 'virtual store' as such, but I looked in AppData and searched the folders there. Still strange though, as to why it had been placed there. I have created other component folders since and they all appear. My understanding is that Windows uses virtualisation when the software creating the file is deemed to be not up to par?
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    Is it possible to do something like this with SU?

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    Well Rich O Brien, thank you! I'm going to export still images without Anti Aliasing Thanks! ...even if I cannot find anything about nested animation on th help...
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    2D Export options for Make/Free?

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    Free vector file STL & OBJ exporters work on Free/Make... BUT these are NOT importable into Inkscape There might be a free SVG exporter which would then be importable into Inkscape ? http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=52949 http://code.google.com/p/sketchup-svg-outline-plugin/ etc ?? Or you could perhaps print out from the SKP as a PDF... Then import that into Inkscape ?
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    Frozen scene manager

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    Yes, I've been trying that myself. Further investigation has shown that is I set the scene manager to 'detail' (previously it was set to 'list') this seems to work. However, the files already effected by the problem will not re-open (the position they were last saved at being a view with complex shadows). At present we think it could be a clash with other software. I am continuing with the project re-building from a previous model (I'll lose about 5 hours work) with these new settings & save, save, save! In the mean time, if anyone has any other suggestions...
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    Impossible import from 3dsmax 2014

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    In Sketchup 2013 - save as - sketchup 8. Then import skp in 3ds.
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    SU Pro 2013: Mac... or Windows + BootCamp (or Parallels)?

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    @caronte01 said: ...Apple has moved away from discrete graphics for all entry level hardware, and only offers it on 15" macbooks, and some imacs, but not on their line of macbook air, or mac minis, or even on their 13" retina macbook. Intel graphics are imo inferior to even entry level nvidia cards, esp. for sketchup work. It's shame indeed... Honestly, if machine needs to be good with CUDA, maybe macbook pro is not the ideal choice as they GPU's have fairly limited RAM (512MB to 1GB). Not sure what's with next Mac Pro, looks like it will have state-of-the-art AMD FirePro GPU cards, so no CUDA there too (from published images it looks like one simple cannot swaps those to nvidia cards).
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    SKP Files do not save and resorting to opening SKB instead

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    This is happening to me and it's not permissions. Will save a file have worked on for days and I get a message file doesn't exist. This will happen in a sessions that I already saved the file a few times. Have to use save as. Then I see file 0.skp, 1.skp, .... Eventually saves. Sometime I keep trying and it works. Thought it was only imported files but now happeneng to some of my old files. Then thought it was because I was saving while rendering but that was it either.
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    MP3 Files in KMZ upload

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    I just noticed something strange. I just copied my kmz to a new folder that did not have the image folder as a sub-folder and it no longer displays the images. Can someone else please verify whether the longer version http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=cf8544f0c3074395dfd89dd71a555b12 displays all of the photos as per the YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM1oBDw08x4 My image links used to be eg. images/pic1.jpg. I changed them to ../images/pic1.jpg based on a forum post I read about a change to GE that was apparently made with GE6. I wonder if that could be the problem.
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    Help please !

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    what kind of model did you submit to the 3D Warehouse? Is this for Google Earth? If so, perhaps you ought to contact the Google Earth folks instead.
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    Car models required

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    At the 'simple' end of the car spectrum I recommend Richard's http://sketchucation.com/shop/models/319-ultra-low-poly-car-set
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    Visual Problems on one model, others fine

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    Nope, no renderers, camera tools or other plugins that may affect this.

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