@unknownuser said: pm @unknownuser said: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=335&t=34736 I think you wrote this reply and you hurry but thank you Rich @unknownuser said: Hi Jamalito! Well I have two answers for you, 1st if yo wanna get deep into SU I recommend you follow up the link to the tutorial: viewtopic.php?f=335&t=34736 (That would be a challenge wouldn't it?), and 2nd if you don't download it from the warehouse: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ ... b716d03a58 , which by thank you CAntonis but I work with wisdom, which says: (do not teach me how to eat fish, but teach me how to hunt it ) becouse I enjoin here to teach how hunt fish not eat because here all ppl will teach us how er hunt not eat I know what do you say?(This person thinks he is (Plato) when he speaks ) but thank you so much to your Information

Hi Csaba, Rich and TIG, I thank you all for the quick reply. Sometimes you do not see the forest because the trees. I feel like a beginner. Charly

I generally do not care with the exact depth of the stamp tool while stamping. When you are done, you can just select the stamped face and use the move tool to accurately position it to the desired height. Way easier than suffering with the stamp tool (that's only good to make the stamp outline and offset it in the surrounding TIN)

Thanks Mitcorb. Now added. (Note that it's the old, SU 6 Guide but there's simply no good description in the current manual and also whatever there is, it is hard to link to) Rich: what? Are you not forgetting things sometimes?

I managed to create what I want! Thanks for telling me the plugin line2cyl.rb.

thank you numbthumb for those links, much appreciated!

You can do that but if you need to fiddle around anyway, why not just do it once?

Congrats to all - some really nice renders over there (too bad some are really small on my screen). Published a short article in TDC: http://news.sketchucation.com/sgaderlight-render-contest-results/

Not having loaded sketchup.rb first must have been the problem. When I restored my plugins, I loaded all fo the my_programs first, the first of which did not load sketchup.rb. Once bezier.rb loaded before my_programs, since it loads sketchup.rb, there was no error when my_program loaded. Any idea what caused my animation to export after removing the plugins, and why it continues to export after replacing all the same plugins?

I understand. You are the best Thanks very much!

Hi Joel, Well, yes, when you upgrade, you need to do all these. Copy all plugins (be careful not to overwrite the ones that come with native SU), copy your components folder, your materials folder, your custom template, set your toolbars again and export/import your custom shortcuts. But then there should not be any issue your SU 7 installation will be in this folder: C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 7\ while SU 8 in this one: C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 8\ and they can nicely co-exist on the same computer (I have everything since SU 6 - even SU 7.0 and 7.1 separately, I think - or maybe not on this computer any more). Your system will always try to open skp files in the version you used last but I guess you will not want to keep changing what you always use.

Thanks. p

When You need real precise geometry - real curves, circles and etc. When You need geometric and dimensional constrains, real holes that can be changed easily, BOM, associative drawings of your 3d model. SketchUP - fast, easy and use it to sketch your ideas.

Layer Manager seems like a most potent ally in taming the Layer Beast and its beloved clunky brother, Scene Beast. Thanks much, DB, for sharing.

I don't have a network license, so I'm not quite sure how it works. My post here may help you test it out though if you adapt it to your needs.... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=34019&hilit=+dropbox -Brodie

I made a model a while ago with pre-set isometric view angles, here.

Well, from SU (Pro), you can export pdf as "2D graphic". As far as I know, this can be opened in PS and the pdf graphic export from SU is vector based (i.e. no raster jagginess at all). Also, when you are in LO (and please, do not discard it yet), you can turn your rendering either to vector or hybrid mode and then the export will also be vector based (for the edges). Please, have a look at this post in the LO forum: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=307473#p307473 It explains exactly the same. @teoj said: Um.. I do need to ask if your reply was an answer to the SU to PS question or SU to Layout? Well, I was referring to LayOut (it is a "paper based" app so there is paper there while in SU, it is only for printing). But eventually, when you are already at vector based drawings, paper space (in PS) will also be a useless term. But in any case, in LO you can define paper sizes and dpi settings and 2D export resolution will be adjusted to your settings if you export raster (with vector, again, resolution does not mean anything)

@tpstigers said: Sometimes, though, I just want to render a part of the landscape (a house, for instance). Well, Thea has a really cool feature: region rendering. Combined with the Interactive render feature (where you navigate; orbit, pan, whatever to get the view you want and it is interactively rendering the "final" image - sort of) then make a rectangle selection and there you go; it will render you that part. If you build the main features of your landscape in SU, you can add pretty high poly plants inside Thea (and later, when the exporting plugin supports it, you can place "dummy" proxies in SU and turn them into full fledged 3D plants in Thea). Hm. Still selling at 45% pre-release price until the 21st of February (RC2 has just been released).

I just checked out your Voodoo camera tracker video..just brilliant. It's very close to what would be needed..could you import each image and line it up with the camera and point cloud too?

try if disabling the "hardware acceleration" (= OpenGL) in the SU OpenGL settings fixes the problem, if yes the OGL support of the used video driver causes the problem. you then might want check the official nVidia driver downloads pages for something more current then your recently installed driver version (which? -> "Start > dxdiag > Display..."). The current version is 266.58 from 18.01.11. Installation preferrably with administrative user rights: right click > run as admin... hth, Norbert