@unknownuser said: With that video card you should have hardware acceleration active. In fact, it would be a huge mistake not to. In SU - Window/preferences/open GL, you should have hardware acceleration checked. If you don't, SU will be painfully slow. Exactly. If HW acceleration does not work properly for these cards, you may wish to update your video drivers instead of turning it off.

Hi Stuart, This may be of some interest to you as well: http://sketchucation.com/resources/tutorials/36-intermediate/115-internal-external-components#redefining-thumbnails (Read the previous explanations too if it is too "brief").

Yes, it's a known problem. See this sticky post in the plugins forum: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=47371

What you are looking for are DEMs. Digital elevation models. Most cities have ones created be synthetic aperture radar, accuracy about 1 meter, or lidar, accuracy about 1 foot. Rural areas are a lot more variable. The shuttle flew a mission that did SAR from orbit, but the grid spacing is about 30 meters, and the accuracy is awful. If USGS topo data is good enough, I vaguely recall a page on converting topo lines to terrain. Warning: topo data is not very good at the house lot size level. There is typically a semi-systematic error in the horizontal placement of contour lines equal to several times the contour interval. The shape is right, but slope inflections tend to be moved away from the centre of the photographic track. If its critical to get it right, rent a DGPS, and take a waypoint every 10 meters. If the terrain isn't too bad, you can do a hectare an hour.

@slbaumgartner said: I just exported a 10310x6650 jpeg (I set 12800x6650, but SketchUp seemingly overrode the larger dimension during export - perhaps due to the size of the screen?). I tried even larger, but got a popup saying "The export failed or was cancelled". This makes me think there is an undocumented upper limit, but I don't know what it is. Steve Hi Steve, Thanks for your answer. During exporting of multiple files I eventually also got the popup. So sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't. I have no idea why that is. Perhaps not enough memory. The export dimensions are indeed related to the size of your screen.

i found the proper plugin. this is the link to it.. if someone falls into the same problem.. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12494

see also fredo trhu-paint.. excellent, easy to use, and free..

@solo said: ...tsk,tsk Google! Bing has better maps. Not everywhere. In my place, Bing map really sucks while Google is bearably average. Edit: it does not even suck that much. They must have updated it.

This is a register issure I know for the free this will work HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp8 save the old sketchup 8 register key and make 2 copy delete old sketchup 8 reg register now reinstall new sketchup 8 to differnt location move a copy of plugins to new sketchup 8 now it should work for the new and old edit old reg to tranfer back setup infor you want to bring forward to new register. once in a wild copy plug-ins back to old to keep toolbars link

@3eighty said: Duh..Forgot about Mustard..Was looking here..Thank You You're welcome. Not all plugins are here. But if search for 'Make Faces' this link is also good: http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.7888556.8344/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg

Gerrit said: "Plugins are a great way to level up SketchUp." They are. But I feel there is more sense in pressing the SU developers to better the bare SU body in terms of efficiency, functionality, stability and overall performance than sitting and expecting people to spend their own time in making great plugins. After all, it's their program. One more word about plugins. I remember that once (in one day precisely) I downloaded I huge bunch of free plugins. As Jean pointed very well, that's the situation when the SU interface does look like CATIA (if most of them are visible of course). But no matter how many plugins you have it seems to me that SU always starts much faster than those monster programs with million functions and several GB in size. After trying them I deleted the most since I realized there are some that repeat some functions of other plugins and some other perform the same function with more reliability and speed. At the moment there are, I think, several plugins with 'make roof' function. Over the same base (face) some of them need one second to produce a desired roof and some of them ask several seconds for the same action and result. I guess it all has to do with the algorithm applied. And you were totally right when you mentioned knowledge needed for this kind of work. And bright mind, I'd add. It was a pleasure having you here again, Gerrit. Come around any time.

We had some down time today with our server.

Lines2tubes by Didier Bur ? Precision give the number of segments of the tube's section: 3 to 100) Here 4 Of course you must simplify before the model following wished And of course increase size of section! PS I have used Xline (free) by Rick wilson for transform Construction lines / lines [image: zy50_skull.jpg]

Thanks for keeping the discussion alive guys. Interesting. As an update, I have forked out and got AutoCAD and Revit as a suite. Big bucks, but for a business that needs to work as seemlessly and efficiently as possible with other consultants that are using that combination, I think the cost will pay for itself over time. @jbacus said: Maybe it would help if you were to describe the data you want to exchange with Revit users. Here's where I show how green I am regarding BIM. I'm a structural engineer that started in an office that drafted on the drawing board. The office went to AutoCAD but the drafters I've found (even recently) just use ACAD to draw lines on an electronic drawing board. They don't seem to use some of (what I understand are available) the powerful features of ACAD to make their daily grind even more efficient and fast. eg Sheet Set Manager, Layer Managers etc. While I'm an engineer, I also have an interest (and Graduate Diploma) in IT. If I were using software like ACAD all day long, I'd spend some time learning and implementing every feature in there to make my daily use more efficient. But the drafters don't seem to have the same drive, and the company I work in wasn't big enough to have the knowledge/time/money/resources to get the standards to that level. An excuse maybe, but what's done is done. Now BIM and Revit are here and I've started my own company. From the ground up I want to use BIM mostly and ACAD only where the project would find it more applicable. I know a fraction of what BIM is capable of. Most consultants we work with (I believe) are just using Revit as a drafting tool. Not many use all features, 4D etc. I think most are modelling in it for plans and sections to 1:100, maybe 1:50 or 1:20 type outlines, then drawing the rest in 2D. I'm yet to decide how far I go with it. I'm meeting with a local Revit guru to assist setting up my new company standards and families, and I'll discuss with him a practical line to draw in the sand of what gets modelled.

@unknownuser said: @shannakae said: Would you mind telling me what the plugin library is so I can decide if I need to install it, (or maybe I already have it??) LibFredo6 is mainly Ruby code shared by all my plugins. It also drives the start up of the plugin. So you'll need it and you may already have it installed. Always check if you have the latest version. Beside Fredo, Thomthom uses this approach for some of his plugins, too. So watch when you install something and it does not work: it is very likely that you overlooked something and need TT_Lib too.

That's it! Dank u thomthom. That was a quick help.

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I rework it and now it's a closed shell volume: by these steps I started wuth the car body draw with line tool and close the volume [image: QUms_pic_0157.jpg] I copy and offset scaled by 1/16 inch as before with scaleGroupFloat_dj scaleGroupFloat_dj will create an offset call "shell". the settings shown ealier above 4 ) I then vector push-pull the wheels acoss [image: 9SJc_pic_0158.jpg] 5) right click and used context intersect face to model cut away [image: qXVC_pic_0159.jpg] and then cut the bottom interial face of the car [image: EKWf_pic_0161.jpg] @unknownuser said: by marvins_dad » February 27th, 2013, 9:36 am Is there a ruby out there that will create an offset or "shell". I have a car shell... 1/6" thick lightweight ... The problem is ... the programs won't simply print along a plane with zero thickness. and now marvins The Answer: yes- Use scaleGroupFloat_dj.rb and a vector push-pull tool (=to SU push-pull then one end exploded face move by the move tool) by the process above you get this car+body16_dj.skp

@unknownuser said: Maybe at the end you will need something like that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXS6_WdXZ3s Yes and I have been wanting to explore Sketch UV (I have it installed but have not really used it yet) Have not heard of roadkill yet...When I am done modeling I will see about using this tut to help me learn those two plugins. Thanks!

THanks for your input guys. that profile/rotation thing came to my mind shortly after i posted the above and so i did it. apart from that it is interesting how to solve such issues and it's interesting to know that sketchup has issues with smaller objects. Thanks for that hint @voljanko. Also thanks to the other for pointing out things. I'll try that out.