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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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  • KrisidiousK

    I need to build this.

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    That with a bump map would look quality!
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    .SKP turned into .LAYOUT???

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    Thank you all for your help. I just ended up recreating what I lost over the last few days... Still not sure how it happened?
  • john2J

    Good graphic card recommendation 4 sketchup?

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    From my Windows System Info, it appears that the Nvidea has 1.5GB Again, not necessarily all that you need. However, what you need is tempered by what you feel you can afford. May I suggest you also do maybe a googlesearch "comparison of graphics cards" which is what I did well in advance of purchasing the system I have. I do not do very much rendering. I do not do any Nonlinear Editing- which is what video folks do in post processing (and these systems apparently require a lot of horsepower). However, I find in conjunction with the Studio XPS W7 I7-930 and 8G System Ram, my Sketchup experience has significantly improved from my old XP machine which had another Nvidea card.
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    Translation and rotation vectors of copies of a component

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    TIG, I'll keep answering your question on Octane forum.
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    .jpg to .skm files

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    BTW my profile is wrong I have , 7, 8. If you only have 6 SU is not upward comaptible so you may need to post the model and have someone change for you.
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    Stability issues/model hang

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    I have the same problem. Seems to have just started today.
  • M

    Paste component flush to surface

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    Hi mmrajote, hi folks. Make sure that the gluing property of the component is set to any. Just ideas.
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    Random lines/faces - dwg import

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    @thomthom said: Your lines are 380km !!! away from ORIGIN. SketchUp doesn't handle such large lengths. Import the model and untick "Preserve drawing origin" in the import options.
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    TIN from Contour Issue

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    I have found some success by rotating the contours up by 45 degrees so that they do not overlap vertically. It unfortunately does not solve all of the cliff problems. I do wish the SU team would investigate what is going on with the Sandbox tools. There seems to be some loss of functionality since 7.1.
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    Terrain intersecting solids

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    That's it! Thanks mate. Knew there had to be a simple way.
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    3DS models increases file size, drastically .

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    Pretty much the same rules as making any SU model smaller. If it's a repetitive model you can turn geometry into instances of eachother. It depends entirely on what's making the file size so big though. Maybe you can post a screenshot of the model. -Brodie
  • Mike AmosM

    Face me components.

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    I made this little component a while back. Just import into your model and scale as needed. Use it for any images you want to face the camera. It's sized for people PNGs, but you can use it for whatever. FaceMeBlank.skp
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    Import materials from 3DSMax

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    The 'colors' are set within the 3ds file. The 3ds file will be looking for any textures' image files in a certain place. So either keep the relevant folder of images with the 3ds file OR put the images in the same folder as the 3ds file. If the 3ds file has an absolute path set inside it, then I'm unclear how we might find that out...
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    B/w sketchup graphic ideas?

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    allanxA
    Yes John, I thought your referring about the black and white convertion... About the watercolor, I have a tutorial at the Sketchup Books section please check it out... allanx
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    A new home for SketchUp

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    @juanv.soler said: Locking the toolbars once and for ever is something that does not need to be mentioned I hope. OH Yes Let's mention that again and again until it's fixed.
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    Creating New Materials Group and Sharing with Others

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    An individual Model Material has a SaveAs == 1 SKM file.[image: 6n0U_SaveAs.png] But the right-side pop-out menu lets you save everything as a Collection == a folder of SKM files.[image: D3PZ_Collection.png]
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    Is there a way to unskew mesh?

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    You can use the Move Tool and move any vertex to an absolute position,[x,y,z],or by a delta amount,<dx,dy,dz>. If the mesh is on a regular grid, my Snap2Grid plugin at my blog might solve the problem.
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    Create hole (crack shape) on surface

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    @TIG : Thanx for the tip this is really helpfull. Btw, there's another question : i can cut the glass with no problem, but the frames consist group inside group (nested group structure). in pro version i can use 'solid' to solidify all frames blocks so later i can subtract with the crack volume, but what if in this case we use 'free' version. To be able to reach all the face to cut out , i have to go one by one of the group and do 'intersect' or other option is to explode everything to get the face level. Is this the right (fastest) way to do it? or maybe there's another better alternate way. Thanx
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    Rounded roof hips

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    @tig said: There are plenty of things to snap the green to. A Circle will align to the surface it is hovering over. If that surface is axial it will take the color of the axis or be black otherwise... OR in the absence if a surface it will align to the nearest current axis otherwise. To get it to lock to the [current] 'red' axis you need to orbit so you are looking somewhat along the [current] 'red' axis. When the circle's cursor turns 'red' you know it's on that axis. To lock it to 'red' hold the shift-key. Click on the hip's edge to locate it, it will be made centered on that line. Change its size and segment-count as desired, before you do anything else... Afterwards you are best to Group it - this will avoid it sticking to other existing geometry unexpectedly, while you are changing it later. I moved the circle down [locked in the current blue-axis] because a round ridge-tile is only a partial circle, and wouldn't be centered on the hip-line... Sorted, all understood now. Thanks for that
  • novenaN

    How to get eye &amp; camera position coordinates?

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    Thanks a lot Sam!! will try it tonight... best V

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