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  • The ideal place for beginners to get help using SketchUp
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    BoxB
    Make it a component and save it to a component collection, then select and place it from the component panel whenever you need it.

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    soloS
    Hey guys I am desperate for very high resolution/quality satellite maps, I use Placemaker and I also use Nearmap but the resolution is not that great, I have tried using AI to upscale but that too does not really solve my issues. Is there another solution?

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    please up load your model however a simple method is to split a counter into sections with if statements basic handle turn, then door.skp
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    Slow performance

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    GaieusG
    @mhtaylor said: ...I can't get SU to take more than half the 8gb I have installed... LAA will not use as much RAM as you have on a 64 bit system just up to 4 Gb (and that seems to work for you). If LAA weren't there, it could only use 2 Gb (or with some hack, even on a 32 bit system, 3Gb but it may not be stable)
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    Help with landscaping components

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    Thanks fossa, I looked his stuff up on the Internet and got some ideas, but I would have to build the texture I need from scratch, or buy his book (assuming that they are in there). One idea I got from looking at his images is that at the scale, and angle I require a view, that the use of a 2d pattern with a photo of shrub at a similar angle may work. If I place it 6" above the ground, I might even get a darkened edge. Don't know if I am getting paid enough for all that effort:-) But since when do I get paid enough>_<
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    Intersection, thought it was simple

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    Of course, but doing calculations by myself for a lot of intersections!!! Have a good day. Salut.
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    Sandbox tool doesnt work

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    Managed to get it working..for some reason selecting Draw/Sandbox/From Scratch from the drop down menu doesnt work, but selecting it from the Toolbar does..strange but works great now.
  • honoluludesktopH

    Hidden geometry

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    There's a script called Dashed Lines at Smustard. I thought I purchased it, and was going to post an example but I don't see the plugin anywhere. Anyway, you might look into it and see if it would work for your situation. [edit] I knew I had dashedlines.rb! Here's an example of what it does. [image: JS8J_dashedlines.jpg]
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    Patterns and materials

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    It would be easier to understand the problems you are having if you post the file.
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    Lighting. LED Tape

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    GaieusG
    In that topic, where I posted those "fake" led lights, I was using Twilight Render which uses Kerkythea's rendering engine. So it should work the same in Kerkythea, too. Have you got a led pattern that you would like to display? (Note that it would be very slow rendering if you wanted to place individual lights there)
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    A suggestion to De-Select All entities

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    Each to there own................
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    Non-planar Offset?

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    GaieusG
    Fredo's Tools on Surface: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=11212
  • jgbJ

    SU Warehouse has some shortcomings.

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    @wo3dan said: jgb, then don't click "Download Model" but drag the decired icon into your SU instance. The 3DW-page you are on stays open for other items to drag into SU. (b) As for the abusing tags, I agree. Well I be damned! It DOES work. I had tried drag-n-drop long time before and it did not work, but now I know why not. I always have the Warehouse in full screen, and I tried to D&D the large model view, not the Icon. So because SU does not put the Warehouse in a separate Window outside of SU, I had no place to drag it to. And you cannot drag the model view. Now with the Warehouse set to a large portion of the screen, I have a piece of my model space available to drag to. Problem solved by endrun. Thanks again Wo3.
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    Converting 3DO files to .SKP.

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    I failed, I thought Deep Exploration would be able to convert but nope it does not.
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    Problem with GE imagery import

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    GaieusG
    It's been always this way ever since I can remember.
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    Problem with SU

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    i tried with "Repair" SU, no success Then i deinstalled and installed again and now it works again
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    2d spiral

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    GaieusG
    There's also a curve maker plugin that allows you to draw different spirals (not only this parallel, if I am not mistaken, "Archimedes" spiral) [image: 9YM2_curve-maker.png] Also check out the other plugins on that site as they are really awesome for certain, special tasks.
  • arail1A

    Locate materials

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    GaieusG
    Materials can be assigned to groups/components and edges, too, so they are not always that easy to get rid of. ThomThom has a nifty plugin to work with such messy models: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=17587 and he also has one that you can use to quickly replace one material with the other: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=26013 Also it is often an issue that these WH models are compilations of some other WH models (thus the very similar or sometimes same materials with different names). TIG has a plugin that aims to consolidate them: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=33516
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    Can't import .dwg in SU 8 PRO!

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    Thanks for the help guys. To answer the questions, it said Pro in the corner, the license info was entered and accepted. I dont know what the issue was, but I managed to fix it. I uninstalled all traces of Sketchup from my computer, and reinstalled it. This time, a red welcome window popped up and said, my Pro version expired (because I hadn't entered my lisence yet) and these are the features that only Pro has... blah blah blah. That never happened the first time I installed Pro. So I entered my license info and now all is good. I don't know what the issue was... it seems like either cookies or something were getting it all confused, or somehow not everything that needed to was downloaded or something.
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    SKB icons (Windows XP)

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    Dave RD
    Of course if the SKP and SKB files are on the same hard drive and you can't access the SKP, you probably won't be able to access the SKB either. Better to just make a back up on a separate drive or other media.
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    How to change Space Navigator default mode?

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    The toolbar doesn't load on my system anymore either -- it could be a issue with Sketchup 8 or is could be they messed up something in the newest drivers. Best, Jason.
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    Creating clean site plans

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    When I make large cities like that, I almost always have all the data from the city in GIS format. So it comes with street curb lines, building footprints. Then its super easy to take those layers into SU and make a city footprint, and extrude all the buildings to approximate heights. There have been times where I didn't have the GIS data though and I've copied in G.E. terrain data, and traced all the buildings as fast as possible and then deleted the G.E. terrain imagery and just used a nice clean flat plane. That is how I tend to do it at least, Chris
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    Trail Building

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIsaATIedtI I made a video that shows how I like to do it. One important thing is that in my video, I first smoothed the terrain. You could select all the faces and edges and open the "Soften/Smooth" Dialog window and move the slide until all edges appear to disappear and the tarrain looks smooth. Then just do like the video shows. Its a good quick method to get paths onto terrains. Chris

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