@dan rathbun said: What are your goals concerning the cost per seat ? Will it require a SketchUp Pro edition ?? Will there be a more than one edition (ie, Novice, Pro, etc.) Are you planning to incorporate any extensibility that would allow 3rd party extensions to your BIM system ? Right now, we don;t have a set price, but we WILL have multiple levels of functionality, though, that is not set, either. As of now, we don;t plan on making anything dependent on PRO, though I can see where having Layout would be ideal for this sort of work. As of now, we are considering interfacing via a generic IFC format, but nothing is carved in stone. @brewsky said: Hi Aaron! I'm also working on a BIM plugin for sketchup, check out: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=34007 I just added a tutorial to highlight it's functionality! Development could be much more effective when all sketchup-BIM-developers are working together. I'm interested in your answer to Dan's question, is your goal a free(open source?) tool? If so, would you be interested in joining forces? And if not so, maybe together we could make some "BIM-guidelines", so a wall in one plugin can be recognized as a wall in another plugin... Maybe even share IFC-import/export... Cheers! Jan I have seen your work in the past and I have to say it is quite impressive! As much as several of us enjoy the spirit of open source, we are being payed by a company who will want a return on investment, so it will be secured software that will be sold. As for the "BIM-guidelines", we are using the IFC standards, right now. They are not complete and, I feel, will change in the future, but it is a start, and it is already gaining acceptance and following. Again, thank you for your input and comments, we are very excited about this product and are looking forward to as much input as we can get from the members of SketchUcation! Thanks, Aaron

It's worth pointing out that a Component would be better for multiples than a Group.

I am not sure why sketchup does not like faces with too many sides. Modifications on such a face takes forever. A single face with 65K edges is on the too much side. You can always add redundant softened planar edges to divide the whole face to faces with each one having manageable number of faces.

Yep! You got it, NVidia was repositioning my dialog windows. Thanks!! - Joel

That's the only setting there.

I'd give component spray a whirl. It is fast and polite. Try it with a simple 3d tick of the same cross dims as your balls, then redefine the component as you wish if it works out. [image: 0VbU_SPRAYBALL.JPG]

Get an earlier version of Sketchup that still includes dwg/dxf import/export options in free and pro. You can have more than one version installed. There are good download links in several posts on the forums here - search... Hint: http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60107

Thank's for the tips everyone! I'm working on getting the poly count down a bit, and converting other pieces to components. I'll let you know if it helps.

There's also Elefont from Armanisoft. It not only allows you to interactively adjust the resolution of the curves, but it also offers a range of different bevels. It exports to dxf. It's Windows only...but you don't need to install it. In fact it will work right out of the download zip file.

@unknownuser said: 3D Viewer not collada file Seems Meshlab have that @unknownuser said: import:PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS, COLLADA, PTX, V3D, PTS, APTS, XYZ, GTS, TRI, ASC, X3D, X3DV, VRML, ALN export:PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS, COLLADA, VRML, DXF, GTS, U3D, IDTF, X3D So load in Collada then export as OBJ

@brooksl said: I don't understand why the Rectangle and Rotate tools should not respond to the arrow keys being used to force an inference similar to how they do for the Line tool, Move tool, or Tape Measure tool: Locking an inference http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=70142 ...I think the Rectange tool and Rotate tool SHOULD respond similarly to the arrow keys by settign the inferred plane Perhaps the reason the rectangle tool doesn't work with the standard inferences is that it requires two directions rather than just one, so any single inference is not enough. They work for a line (an edge), as it may be defined in one direction, not so a face (a rectangle) which has two dimensions and thus two directions.

I gave it a try, it's a typical stiff and edgy AutoDesk application and not so nice flowing as Sketchup. They may have some nice features, but it's 2.5 D working on planes. I still prefer Sketchup spiced up with Some really good plug - ins. My first impression was that like in other AutoDesk applications you have to focus on how to do it rather then just let the creative energy flow.

I had that feeling as well. Thanks for the confirmation.

Just an update to this. 'Repaired' the installation and now works.

Er ... It's not that who I want : I want to reverse face without losting texture like this: (This is a exemple this is a photoshop making) [image: 1832332.png] Front Face in white , Back face in Red [image: 1832331.png] [image: 1832333.png] [image: 1832334.png]

Thankyou for putting all the videos up!

I have updated it but it still has the same number!

Ah finally 'found' my model. Setting clip to a large amount and pressing numpad . did the trick, thanks guys!

You can soften the entire mesh in one operation. Just select it (you need to have both faces and edges that need softening selected) then just r-click and choose soften edges from the context menu. Rack the slider up until all the visible edges disappear.

Been swamped with work - finally checked it out. Another great one gang!