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  • The ideal place for beginners to get help using SketchUp

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    Does trimble still support Sketchup viewer for iphone?

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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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    @myztery need hinge and finish side concept curve hinge layout.skp
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    Circlar artifact in drawing

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    Hi Aerilius That was it, exactly, thank you very much. cheers Nigel
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    Trying to align components

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    @tintin99 said: Did you find the solution ? Yes that was the solution. And I am very grateful for the help, however embarrassed. The gluing function made it impossible to put the objects side by side. They were put in the model on a face. I don't know if one moved once the face's layer was off. But that is the problem, without that layer on they cannot be put in the side by side position. Thanks to all, Peter
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    Tutorials on SU 8 solid tools etc?

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    What am I in the middle of?
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    How to protect my model?

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    @gaieus said: You can also do special sharing in the 3D Warehouse but what I "smell" here is that Laucity doesn't want the studentsto play around with editing the stuff. I thought the same,so tried one of my docs by changing to public, no edit and then used link and signed in as non owner. I had the option to download which it did as a .htm file and by changing the extension to skip I could open and edit So much for hair brain ideas May thinking is Google Docs protection may depend on what file system is used. If NTFS is used maybe?? I can also download one of Cat's posting as a "regular" user ( no edit) , save, and then edit.
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    Magic wand

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    Thanks Tig, just needed a little lateral thinking. The workflow I was using was to create the walls with dline.rb, which obviously doesn't create the floor slab, I was then telling myself I needed to trace the room boundary. Using what you have suggested it is easy enough to open the wall group, redraw one of the inner edges of the wall to create the face that forms the floor. Select the face WITHOUT the boundary edges and edit>cut. If you select the face AND boundaries the edit>cut will destroy the original geometry. Close the wall group and then paste in place to create the floor which can then be pushpulled, grouped & layered as required.
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    Preview window not showing up in Podium for SketchUp

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    @pmolson said: single click on the file in the podium render manager so it is highlighted blue. Then click on the "show" button. i can't see any file there the manager remains blank without any file.
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    Open sketchup 2 times

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    I've been having troubles closing the files. Everytime I close one it hangs and says the program does not respond (I work in spanish so I don't know the equivalent in english). I'd say this started when I installed SU8 without deleting SU7. But I need them both!
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    Random scale for selectred objects

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    Chris' Scale and Rotate: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=17507
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    Any model of a carpark?

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    Thanks for your idea. I did the search you recommned and found models that indeed did not appear in my previous searches...unfortunately, they are all EXTERNAL views, you cannot get INSIDE ... still searching!
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    Painting Image onto surface plane

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    Hey thanks for the great answers to my question! I learn something new here everyday! (and I have a lot to learn....) Thanks again! Stuart
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    Poor quality animation upload

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    Could you post a screenshot or something to see what it looks like? I always recommend exporting at a higher resolution. Perhaps try doubling the resolution (or even tripling) and reduce it afterwards. -Brodie
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    Camera position relative to component?

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    @gaieus said: I see you have SU 8 Pro. In that case, Advanced Camera Tools http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/download/plugins.html#advcam GREAT I'll dig in.... Thank you
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    Lost in lights!

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    Hi Martin, I am a Podium user and I agree with Gaieus that you should look to the Podium forum for help. The issues you are experiencing sound render related not sketchup related. When you post your question at the Podium forum give as much info as possible ie podium version your using, preset used, image of render, etc. Also If you are new to podium, check out the lighting and other tutorials found at the Podium forum. Good luck, hope to see your post. http://supodiumforum.websitetoolbox.com/ Paul
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    Can't open a hole in the wall

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    If you slowly push through the wall you should get a tool tip that says "on face" when you get to the other side of the wall (if you can see into the opening), at which point release the mouse. Alternatively if you know the wall thickness (accurately) you can enter that in the VCB to create the opening. Tip: To create more openings in the same wall, hovver the pushpull tool over the required opening area so it highlights then double click - instant hole
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    Resized my model - texture problems with scale? SU8

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    That's true. However especially this texture scaling issue is the reason why one should not scale groups/components only just a little bit (so that the different instances do not differ too much from the definition itself). Just an example: I model everything in a bigger scale knowing that SU has issues with too small scales. Now if I use ten instances of the same component and at the end I scale everything back, the texture will get distorted on each so the scale definition command is useful in this case. In the above case, the model was already messed up (some parts with scaled while other parts with normal texture) so here it's almost all the same which method we choose, neither is really "clean" any more.
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    Solid-trim-solid = solid+non solid

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    Here is my solution to this problem: -change units from mm to meters -resize the model with the measure type tool (1mm = 1m) -apply trim to the solids (and also all other operations till finished the model) -change units back to mm -resize back the model with the measure type tool (1m = 1mm) I'm sure that there are other problems related to the size of the model, that can be overcome in this way.
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    From SU to papermodel - Thickness of paper issues.

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    Totally off topic, I wrote a reply earlier to you earlier today but I Just figured out that it hasn't been posted, it has happened a few times before, I'm sure it's something I did but hmm strange!
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    Like Button Please

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    We have had a closer look to this already. It would need yet another javascript to load and it is quite an active load to always query the Facebook site for the stats it seems. Sometimes SCF is getting slow anyway (looking for solutions...)
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    Face won't reverse

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    John, before you get finished with this component, you might want to adjust the edges of that end face. Take a look at the two scenes in the attached file. The guideline runs along the edge at the end of the slope. Notice the edges of the end aren't coplanar. I expect this is a big reason for the triangulation required to get the surface to fill. I fixed it by replacing extending the round part and slicing it off with a cutting plane. Edit: I moved this thread because it isn't a bug. Crescent Wrench 3.skp Crescent Wrench 3 fixed.skp
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    SketchUp Pro 8 Update?

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    No, the versions are always updated together. In fact, there is just one core program. Your version is the most up-to-date now - it came out some time in January or February. Aaron may still have had the previous version (from September).

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