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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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    Components involuntarily becoming unique upon importation

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    Cheers TIG, can't believe i missed that, all this time. That little bit of info is worth its weight in gold, should save lots of time now. Thanks for the codes too, they should provide some good avenues for me to explore ruby coding.
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    Component Library

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    Could you post a component or two? Or, if you don't want to share publicly, do you want to PM them to me? I'll see what I can see.
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    Creating a model starting with a Exterior Elevation CAD file

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    @rodman100 said: Try these... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCEoIcBfcw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AIzFNB9C2A or this series showing importing CAD dwgs, aligning plans & elevations to respective levels by robyn shrestha... https://vimeo.com/20773126 These links are great references. Thanks! For those after me, the first has audio, and the Robyn Shrestha series is detailed but no audio.
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    Push/Pull an object flat

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    You can use Selection Toys to select faces of the same orientation. I use that often for such task you describe.
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    Crash with drape tool

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    I had this problem. What I did is grouped the area of the mesh I wanted draped on, detached it from the rest of the mesh, draped, then attached it again.
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    Screen capture

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    GaieusG
    For stills I use Gadwin Print Scrreen I do not know about the other apps mentioned above but it's important to have a delay function as it can be used with all the modifier keys for SU.
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    Multiple solid subtractions help?

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    Hi Guys, I got there in the end. I worked a way around and learnt a little on the way. I would just like to say thank-you to all who responded, and thanks for the little scene animations! I can see I could be learning a lot by being involved on this forum! Cheers, P.
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    Hide/Show Objects

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    Thanks for answers! I did not know the thing about hide inside a group/component... I understand now! Thanks!
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    CAM / CNC ?

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    For 3d Carving, I am using the following process: SketchUp Pro ---> (export as IGES using IGES plugin) ---> MasterCam. --> Thermwood CNC For 2d Cutting with drawing based control of cutting depths and tool use: SketchUp Pro --> (export dxf) ---> Thermwood CNC Thermwood CNC's can accept DXF drawings where the drawing layer tells the G-code generator what to do. I wrote a Sketchup guide for my specific Thermwood CNC. Some information is applicable to other CNC's. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=183&t=51468 I hope it is of some help to people trying to navigate the software end of cnc machines.
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    Quickest/Easiest Way to Create a Sphere?

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    Easiest and fastest way yet only two tools were used with crosshair display on: 2 times circle tool used 2 times follow-me tool were used to touch a same aline tangent points that's it done. [image: mHxL_Movie_0008.gif]
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    Quickly paint internal wall faces black

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    Once you sort out your face orientation you may find TIG's Section Cut Face plug works as expected. The only edit I usually need to apply is to delete unwanted faces which obscure the room, all my other voids close as expected.
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    Textures On / Color Off

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    Don't worry - Jim has encrypted it as an rbs anyway, making changing it academic - you can't. If you were to PM Jim perhaps he'll explain these things better ?
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    Applying same material to both sides of a face

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    GaieusG
    TT's UV Toolkit can apply materials added to front face to back faces (or vice versa) even keeping the original texture positioning. [image: dfVf_uvtoolkit.png]
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    Modified

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    @kachupp said: Hi everyone; I have just started getting a pop up messages saying the model "current one open" has been modified outside of sketchup ? Anyone else getting or know anything about this. When this happens; components names are changed to the last component I was working in. Only started noticing this when generating reports "beside the popup message" it makes it annoying to not find what you expect in the report. Figured it out. It happens when you add a comment to the file either through windows explorer or a 3rd party util like 4nt/tcmd describe's command. So if you're trying to find out if its a bug in one of your many great plugins i use from many different authors fair not. lol
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    SU aborting w/ MS Update + LIBFREDO6

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    Thanks for posting this ... this morning my Win 7 64 machine (Lenovo T400 with ATI graphics) refused load SU 8 without Bugsplatting within seconds. I have win Update set to manual and may have updated something like a Defender file late last night, but nothing major. GOOD NEWS - removing LIBFREDO6_Dir_47 has stopped the crashing. I had already tried removing TT stuff (started there because of the .dll objections posed by Online Armour, not because of any doubts about TT, or Fredo, both of whom I hold in awe for their excellent plugins) and was working my way through when I saw this post. So ... Thank you, again <edit> SU 8.0.16846 Checked update logs ... updated Defender definition KB915597 2days ago (22 Mar) but didn't restart from off until this morning, Next most recent Cumulative security updates KB2809289 and KB2807986 (as mentioned by OP) plus a number of others (Silverlight, MSRT, defimition updates etc.) on 14-Mar but I have restarted numerous times since & using SU each session. </edit>
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    Scaling problem

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    GaieusG
    There are plugins that draw real geometry around the bounding box and you can measure this geometry precisely with the Tape measure tool: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21427 or http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29377
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    Paint Sampling Closes Group

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    Interesting...I unistalled Lumen RT 3 and updated to Lumen RT 4 which was just released today and I still get the same behavior. This is the only SU plugin I have installed at the moment. Maybe it is something unique to my configuration. I'll check over on e-on's forums when I have the chance to see if anyone else is experiencing this.
  • utilerU

    SketchUp to DWG - Hierarchy of layer punctuation marks

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    Thanks Nigel, I thought this thread was dying a slow death.... I don't use ACAD myself but do import / export to it, hence the question. I have used '.' [fullstop] in SU layers but don't know how it exports. Maybe a test export with many punctuation marks should yield an answer...
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    Interesting article on newish rendering tool - not in SU??

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    Dave RD
    There was a lot of buzz about it back when it was in beta. It looked like a nice renderer but the price tag is just too steep for many.
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    Cannot get the program to install

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    windows 7 ult.. thanks.. will try I hoped I fixed the system to never have to run as admin.. took ownership of everything.. turned off UAC, unhid sys files.. etc but will give it a shot did not work.. will not install I did find an older version 8.03something that does work or I'd have nothing

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