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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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  • brodieB

    Can you view images outside of your component view?

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    @thomthom said: I have found a way to make components not fade out. Stay tuned for a new plugin. Should be useful for modelling by references. Thanks buddy. If you happen to think about it please post back if/when you create it as I don't follow the plugins section as much as I should sometimes and would hate to miss it. -Brodie
  • M

    Preview and Model aren't matching? What the heck!?

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    @unknownuser said: I seeing the Building Maker version. Did you search for the .skb version on your system? I have the Skp version. Not the Skb. I uploaded this one just like I have all the rest, using the "Share Model" button. I'm still having this issue..
  • hellnbakH

    Have you had a model stolen?

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    GoldenSim is apparently quite upset that I referred to the stolen Caddy as "my" Caddy. And technically, he's right. I did modify his original model for a contest that he was holding (see Topic http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=333&t=38739). So I just wanted to set the matter right. The model stolen was in fact my heavily modified/corrected version of his original basic model.
  • jgbJ

    How to place object on spiral path?

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    Thanks, but for my specific problem that would only be a partial solution. It would do the spiral portion OK, but my bearings do a loop back through a specific path, that your solution could not handle. It would require a secondary operation to place bearings on that loopback path, and while not a difficult job, the "String Comps" Ruby did it all in a single step, not counting the path definition step I would need to do for both, if only partially for your solution.
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    Load Error Sketchup 8 win7 x64

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    OH MY GOD! Now i get this error when i use JPP plugin General Problem: cannot compute the transformation & then SketchUp BugSplat. how I can recover the original file "Win32api.so"? I think that is the cause of this problem ... Help please.. thx!
  • hellnbakH

    FollowMe frustration

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    Hi Hellnbak, hi folks. Your path is not coplanar. This is why the face twist when following the path. Just ideas.
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    ''Fixing''

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    Obviously I meant a gluing component that way; placing its axes (i.e. gluing plane) where it should be to glue properly. OP also wrote: @baileyboi said: ...they would then slide along any axis that you hadnt fixed... Translated to SU-lingo, that is typically a glued component which you can move on the plane wherever you want but cannot get it off the plane incidentally.
  • F

    Disappearing Walls

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    Hi Cotty. it was just a simple block model, the outline extruded and further extrusions to create the roof, so I just decided to place the window opes and noticed when removed the rectangles that the inner face of the block model was gone. I just thought it might be a quicker way to model rather than pulling up the external walls, it's not causing any grief I was just wondering is this usual with sketchup, thanks for your reply
  • jgbJ

    Solid has an Open Face

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    I was really more curious about why than getting a fix. I edited the "solid" version with the open face, by deleting 1 line of the round hole and redrawing that 1 line. The face re-formed and the object is now a proper solid.
  • TK0001T

    Why does SketchUp lose days of work

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    It's not a SU problem. And, I've never heard of Windows coming out of sleep without user intervention (unless you've got wake-on-lan, etc turned on). Something you're doing or not doing is causing this issue. I'm not sure why you seem to have been resistant to closing SU at the end of the day. That would have explicitly forced you to save or discard your work.
  • R

    Collada export files

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    You could try pasting a camera into the .dae [edit it with Notepad++ or similar plain-text editor] <camera name="eyepoint"> <optics> <technique_common> <perspective> <yfov>45</yfov> <aspect_ratio>1.33333</aspect_ratio> <znear>0.1</znear> <zfar>1000.0</zfar> </perspective> </technique_common> </optics> </camera> add the value for the Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.fov add aspect_ratio as Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.aspect_ratio IF it's set, BUT if it's not [==0.0] then use say 1.33333 ? Then add znear and zfar set the view limits in 'current units'. Paste the code inside the main .dae files code here near the end [?this_is_a_guess?] </scene> HERE </COLLADA> I don't have the faintest idea what I'm doing but it might work ???
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    Help: Need a render produced.

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    [image: CB.jpg]
  • kuponoK

    New Layers automatically added to Scene

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    kuponoK
    Works like a champ - like it should. Thanks
  • hellnbakH

    I forgot what Plugin does this

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    @edson said: pathcopy.rb by rick wilson does the same thing. Hi Edson, i know that one too. from Dave R tutorial or something. on making a lawn chair or deckchair. i think the pathcopy.rb have a little flaw that it might leave some components unaligned to the path. component stringer by the exhibit shows that it has the ability even to modify the alignment. don't know for sure.
  • S

    Anchor point when pasting

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    @mwm: In my workflow I group/component everything that is a physically distinct object for the most part. I feel like it makes the model behave more like a real world object and is easier to edit. I do not use any geometry that is not in a group or component because it always seems to create way too many problems when I move or alter things. I use components for anything that is identical or symmetrical so I only need to modify one of them or one side of it. In this case each stud is unique so I use groups. This way if I duplicate a stud and alter one of them later they both don't change. I use layers for assemblies that are related (wall framing, roof framing, wall skin, windows and doors etc) I use sections seldomly since SU doesn't render solids I find them to be of limited use for my work. In this case I am modeling the walls due to the complexity of the angles involved. I have a 5 man crew at the moment and If I can give them a plan with the angles and lengths called out it makes the work much quicker. I am in Taos
  • boofredlayB

    Material Orientation Change Upon Component Creation

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    Would it be possible to create a plugin that would "bake" the locations of all the textures in a group or other selection?
  • P

    Animated Update Rotation wrong way

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    I did find that I could overcome it by just getting bigger and bigger with the angles. ie. specifying 352 degrees say, then 380 degrees, then 420 degrees etc. It seems to work. But I actually used a suggestion Aerilius made, which was to get to 359, then do a change to 0 with a duration of 0 so it spun anticlockwise infinitely fast, then carried on with 20 degrees, 80 degrees etc. That also works. But it is all a fudge. Surely there is some way of forcing the rotation to the desired direction.
  • hellnbakH

    Progressively Smaller Array?

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    hellnbakH
    Great! Will give it a try. Thanks
  • J

    Solar Rotation

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    Create some scene-tabs with different times, and then animate then ?
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    Continuous dimensions

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    We call them running dimensions. RD. I like them a lot. Would be good to have in layout maybe someday but there are tons of other things I would like to see first.

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