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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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    SketchUp 2013 Maintenance Release 1

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    yup, my bad. actually, I did update most plugins and unloaded a whole bunch I never used... but it is odd that friday, before M, I was doing fine, hého, mine is not to reason why ! BTW 2013 is otherwise a great improvement & Layout has become usable without driving me back to smoking ! (the previous versions were so slow that I nearly started nicotine again & went back to bricscad instead) & no, I still have the same machine as before, so i imagine that on a super-duper machine with a vavavoom graphics card it would be even better. thanks
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    Illustrator to sketchup

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    Nice drawing. Wonder if turning it into SU edges is of use. How do you intend to use it? could it be better used as a texture or in post-pro? I assume you aren't going to make it 3d...
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    Restore Toolbar Position? SU2013

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    Except when you change icon size...
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    Revizto & Sketchfab

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    @box said: Does revizto have this capability. Simply put, can I use your excellent program as a way of viewing and manipulating models on an Android Tablet. Revizto Using Android or iOS you need to download our free vewer from App Store or Google play. This vewer is working with local projects on your tablet, downloaded diectly from Revizto gallery onto your tablet. You may view and navigate your scene. At any time you may connect your tablet to internet(Revizto) and using your 3D scene set new markers with comments, sync with cloud - other members of your team or your customer will see these markers as well, even they would connect later or connected in real time. Using tablets you will see the scene with almost the same quality like I posted above, however theare still present some limits due to limited power of tablets. Currently the main limit for Android and iOS is the size and complexity of project (as well as how accurate it was done in SU in terms of 3D modeling culture). There are not web viewers for Android or iOS devices. Revizto web viewer is working only for PC or Mac.
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    Topology (again) & Land Surveys

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    Some good suggestions, thank you all very much. I will try following up to see what works best in my situation, although I feel I will end up with a laser level and quite a few batens hammered into the ground to pick up levels from.
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    Retaining tool setup in skp file when sending to others

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    TIG is right of course but With Dynamic Components you can do almost everything you want to do. Try opening the Dynamic Components toolbar, (view > toolbars > dynamic components) select the hand (interact tool) and click on the guy that shows up when you open Sketchup 2013 (Derrick). Then go activate view > hidden geometry and click with the interact tool again and see what happens. Insert some more Dynamic Components from the component browser. Insert some more DC's from the Google Warehouse. Search about DC's here or at Sketchup website. Try a lot, fail a lot and you'll succeed! Best regards, JQL
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    Extensions and rubies doesn't load [Mac] [solved]

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    The resetting of your MAC's plugins folder's permissions to FULL Read/Write has been covered many times in the forums... Here's a good one http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=468689#p468689
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    Piping Plug-In Beta Test Volunteers Needed

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    PipeDraft, Yes, it Bugsplats before I launch anything. In fact, it Bugsplats as soon as Sketchup opens and the toolbars show up. And no, I do not have any of the quarantined plugins installed. I will try it again later and report back. Thank You, Paul
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    Weld rb

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    Just had a complete evaporation from using the explode command so I think there is more than meets the eye going on here. I will try the test you described on sunday when I am no longer tearing my hair out. Pain in the proverbial. V8 is the vanilla of choice now and this is going poof too so the model itself may have some gremlins in the drivers seat I suppose. Sod.
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    Escaping Out of Eraser

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    It works as TIG described for me.
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    HELP! Revit to Sketchup problem

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    @tig said: Have you got the Units of the exported dwg and then matched them in the Imported geometry - set in the Import 'Options' sub-dialog in SketchUp ? Measure something in the imported geometry using the Tapemeasure tool and see if it's the size you expect... For example, if you have jumbled up m & mm the SKP components might be 1000x or 1/1000 of the mis-sized imported geometry - thus making you think that the components are not adding but they are either so big or so small you can't see them Also check your imported geometry's origin is set NOT to be the CAD origin [again set in Options], otherwise the imported geometry could be located many miles from [0,0,0] and thereby cause graphics glitches etc in SketchUp too... Oh snap. So that's where I went wrong. Thank you so much. I rescaled my door and it automatically rescaled the building too. You were right, the components were too small.
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    Please guide me !

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    Thanks Mr. Gaieus
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    Weird Display While Trying To Print

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    Ok. I have some updates. The block shadows does not appear when I select "Standard" Print Quality under the Print Preview dialog box. Shadows appear when I select "High Definition" or "Ultrahigh Definition". Currently I am sending my print output to a Canon Pixma iX4000 on A3+ glossy Canon paper. All sketchup models with complexity of this drawing level display the shadow problems on the Core i7 PC. Simpler models goes through ok "most" times. My thoughts are, once the cpu/gpu has successfully sent the high res print output to the printer, video should not be affected on the display. They almost use different paths altogether. Most times, the block shadows are very stubborn and I could be toggling the texture faces/shadows on/off for like 10 mins before it returns to normal. I have to do this and hope it reverts back to normal. Off Shadows, switch to hidden lines face texture, then switch to shaded with textures. And repeat after trying shadow on. Included one of my older models. Just tried and voila. Printed on high definition. [image: A5hM_photo1.JPG] [image: csww_photo2.JPG]
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    Old plugin list

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    Yes. I found it. BTW IMO the index should be as it was - in the pull down menu on the sketchucation website: Resources - Plugin Index, just below PluginStore.
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    Complex Curves

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    Try CurviLoft or Extrusion Tools guitarlist.com has a free sub-d plugin if Artisan is not in your budget http://www.guitar-list.com/download-software/sketchup-loop-subdivision-smooth-plugin
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    Missing Groups and Can't Unhide

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    It has happened to me many times and I found this plugin to unhide all that is very useful http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2052 unhide_all.rb
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    Having Troubles With Rendering

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    I had a similar 'plight' with a design I was creating for a very large model of a bespoke hospitality (tensile/inflatable) structure being built on the beach at Cannes - the model was constructed in SKP to show a beautiful pitch render (to the MS client) via Lightup, as well as serve as technical layouts, construction details, and work-in-progress sign-off scamps in Layout. The necessary additional detail/model (including glowing inflatable cell-structure) size was killing my renders (and my soon to be updated PC), so I came to the state of breaking the model down and 'sub-render' (eg the exhibition zone) elements. Sketchup & Lightup work brilliantly - it is just the scale of my designs that sometimes get in the way!! I would concur and suggest 'pretty house' and 'real house' models! There are limits with all of this. Good luck with it!
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    Snapping Distances in SketchUp on iPad

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    If you export to dxf you can view in AutoDesk FormIt. http://autodeskformit.com/getting-started-with-formit/
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    Best way to create textured curved track segments

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    Thanks for the recommendation! I don't know what I did but I just textured a track segment perfectly within 10 seconds. There must be magic involved. Edit: I made a video about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E0k-t5qEEg
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    Shortcut question

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    That's the trick! THANK YOU very much!

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