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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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  • hellnbakH

    Five more Pro licenses, IF there's a demand

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    Hi everyone, Chiming in here from the SketchUp team: it's very likely that the licenses in question here are not valid. A few folks on the forum have already mentioned the not-for-resale clause of SketchUp's end-user license agreement; to clarify, we can arrange for the transfer of a valid license upon request. However, in this case, we can't validate that they are valid SketchUp Pro licenses in the first place. I'm not saying at all that helinbak's intentions are malicious (in fact, his posts on this thread prove that he isn't), but I do want to give everyone a heads-up for when they see licenses like this in the future. If anyone has questions about these licenses or how to transfer a valid license, please use contact the SketchUp Pro sales team here: http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/request.py?contact_type=sales Mark
  • brookefoxB

    Modeling fairly flat terrain

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    Nice idea, and thanks very much for the example. I'll try it. Thanks, Charlie.
  • hellnbakH

    Upgrade to Pro very cheaply

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    Hi everyone, Chiming in here from the SketchUp team: it's very likely that the licenses in question here are not valid. A few folks on the forum have already mentioned the not-for-resale clause of SketchUp's end-user license agreement; to clarify, we can arrange for the transfer of a valid license upon request. However, in this case, we can't validate that they are valid SketchUp Pro licenses in the first place. If anyone has questions about these licenses or how to transfer a valid license, please use contact the SketchUp Pro sales team here: http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/request.py?contact_type=sales Mark
  • hellnbakH

    Sketchup Pro on Ebay

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    Hi everyone, Chiming in here from the SketchUp team: it's very possible that the licenses in question here are not valid. A few folks on the forum have already mentioned the not-for-resale clause of SketchUp's end-user license agreement; to clarify, we can arrange for the transfer of a valid license upon request. However, in this case, we can't validate right away that they are valid SketchUp Pro licenses in the first place. If anyone has questions about these licenses or how to transfer a valid license, please use contact the SketchUp Pro sales team here: http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/request.py?contact_type=sales Mark
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    Change the length of a line.

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    @tig said: OR type 6.789m and the total dimension along that axis will become 6.789 meters, because you can input dimensions as well as scaling ratios... Another 'duh' for me.. (shakes head) I personally draw sketchy when designing even though i try to keep correct dimensions. After the concept is mainly done i redraw the project (or parts of it) to have a clear and correct drawing. If you have the correct dimensions, a drawing is quite quickly done, quicker than correcting a bad one. Anyway, to combine Peter's and TIG methods you could do it like this: [image: Emvj_Scalelines.jpg] Correct me, if i'm wrong. (if you know the distance you want to move the outer line it's easier to use just the move tool, but if you just know the overall distance, it would do the trick)
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    Faces stay connected even should be divided

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    @brookefox said: Here I think the issue is that you don't hold ctrl down, just click it to engage the copy, then you can click a start point and input the distance. No, no, if that would be the case, the adjacent faces of these lines would be moved downwards as well. It happens to me quite often. I surely can say it's not the Ctrl key.. If i do the action described above and nothing happens, i can do it as often as i want to, it will just not do it- only by Ctrl+moving without typing the distance it snaps to the distance i typed in before (when it did not copy the lines). Maybe, as i assumed, it has to do with the same reason why SU does not cut faces even if it could / should / sometimes just doesn't.
  • brookefoxB

    How to spec transition size with stamp

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    Quite. Not made for SU, not the way I practice it anyway.
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    Shadows not appearing

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    the model is at 49.190966N,16.611552E so the UTC+1 time zone should be fine - the shadows appear correctly at rendertime, i just miss them in the preview. no other view mode (shaded/textured/monochrome...) brings them back. as for the toggle - as is seen on the screenshot, only the 'From Edges' option switches its state. EDIT: ha, i found the solution; see attached screenshot. thanks everyone for answers [image: 6xRI_SU-shadows-resolved.png]
  • masterpaulM

    [ Not sure where to post this] Designing a house.

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    Ill thought Ill share this: [image: zvy9ms.png]
  • john2J

    Yellowish sunset colour?

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    okay thanks
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    Export Layers to AutoCad

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    A Pro 3d Export to DXF/DWG will keep the layering as in the SKP. The CAD files layer-colors should match the SKP's layer-colors The Scene tabs should also come over as Paperspace layout tabs in the DWG...
  • brookefoxB

    Draw 3D arc point to point

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    @charly2008 said: Hi, @unknownuser said: @matt that's already possible with tools on surface which tool in TOS are you using? arc on surface? if so, try using a simple line on surface.. click on the start point then the end point and that's it. be an arc) I Have tried it with the line but it does not work. I do not know if I did something wrong. I'm with you Charly. I've tried this before also and found that drawing an arc on surface with TOS makes the tool get confused especially if the curved face is totally not in view of the user... [ie: having to orbit the model to continue drawing.] I do like Rich's use of Curvishear though; that could be the way to do it.
  • john2J

    Most common mistakes in Sketchup

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    This is pretty much a description of my modeling techniques
  • hellnbakH

    How come so few car modelers???

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    here's what I've been working on for the last few years. and now working on the NASCAR 2013 Season cars. [image: 6Hew_35070_127113733998048_126988347343920_140831_6587980_n.jpg][image: ImXf_33427_126990780677010_126988347343920_140169_5107975_n.jpg][image: qmkA_422350_327846943924725_126988347343920_947621_1101926830_n.jpg]
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    Nasty texture bug

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    @spookychick1013 said: I just came back here to post that I found turning off Hardware Acceleration and fast feedback cures the problem. It's not really a cure. The performance without Hardware Acceleration will be very poor. What it is is a confirmation that it is a graphic card issue. Either the driver or the graphic card itself. If you haven't done so already I'd recommend you update your graphic card drivers to the latest version. If that doesn't solve your issue it's quite likely that your graphic card doesn't fully support all the OpenGL features that SketchUp requires.
  • bmikeB

    Collada Export Sideways

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    It may be a problem with IBooks Author rather than SketchUp. I've exported Collada models to a number of other heavyweight 3D programs without them changing orientation. Some model formats do use a different axis for 'up'. Models in the obj format, for example, are often to be found lying on their side. SU recognises this and has a setting to swap YZ axes on export. There's no such setting for Collada, because it's not thought to be needed. If the problem persists, then the easiest solution would probably be to make the model as usual, then on completion, but before dae export, right click one of the axes and select Move from the context menu. Then in the dialog box, experiment to see which combination of rotating 90° around the one or all of the axes gives you the result you want in iBooks Author. Once you've discovered the right combination of rotates, it ought to be just a matter of the same few mouse clicks for each model.
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    Animation Export - Cropped

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    Animation can only be exported at 4:3 or 16:9 aspet ratio. This means that if your SU window is different from these ratios, there will always be some cropping. I see you are on Windows. First of all, I would recommend this plugin to hide all your toolbars (before they get messed up when you resize your SU window): http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=42926 Then this little freebie to resize your SU window so that the inner (model) space is exactl 4:3 or 16:9 (you will need to experiment a bit - try to export a 2D image and set it to export at screen resolution to see what it is): http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/ It works like shown below; you right click on the edge of a window and tell it what size it should be. As you can see, presets can be saved. [image: UWnf_4-3.png]
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    Lost files !!!

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    @tig said: Do you have some OS settings to purge old backup files etc that is somehow mis-set and thereby erasing things you want to keep ? Well I created a new repertory contaning my newest files, and It still ok I'll watch carefully my Mac. I'm running OS Lion... By the way, ..."no news, good news"...
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    Replace multiple components from library

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    Thanks TIG - yet to test this out properly (other projects on at the moment) but hope to try it out shortly. Cheers
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    Coordinates

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    Perhaps I'm missing the intent of the original question, but, is the question about finding the coordinates of an existing object relative to the global or world ('all the world's a stage...') coordinate system? If it is, then why not use the query tool?

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