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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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    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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  • fuzzionF

    SU on CrossFireX™ Dual 1GB GDDR5 ATI Mobility

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    Cheers for that So when seeking seamlessly smooth frames per second , SU is bottlenecked at the CPU at a far greater level than at the GPU level. And that ATI has now improved. Btw, I ended up getting a i7-950 and 460m nvidia sli workstation laptop.
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    Performance!

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    Thanks for your - hasty- replies. Yes looks like layers area good option! Regards Dave Ringwood. England.
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    Can't get Explode2Groups plugin up and running

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    Beware. Bomb.rb can be undone via Edit>Undo but if you make any modifications to geometry after running it, those modifications will need to be undone before you can undo the bomb action. If you explode a component so you can edit it, you lose the power of editing all the like components in the model because the exploded one is no longer related to the rest. It is just a lump of geometry. A better way to edit components is to open them for editing either by right clicking on the desired component or double clicking with the Select tool. Then perform the editing operation. If there are other instances of the component in the model, they will get the same editing which wouldn't happen if they are all exploded into loose geometry. And there's no risk of modifying unrelated components because they can't be changed while another component is open for editing. I know what you mean about bartering. It's easy to get the short end of the stick. Good luck.
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    Help lofting

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    @oneturboneeded said: Ok now i have my 4 groups extruded by rails how do i combine into one group eliminate the lines between groups and smooth? Im just getting lazy now that you are all so helpful and guide me strait to the right operation but im learning lots thanks. Select the 4 groups [hold down Ctrl to add to a selection, Ctrl+Shift to remove from selection and Shift to toggle in/out of selection!] Self right-click context-menu 'Explode'. Everything remains selected, immediately right-click context-menu 'Group'. Everything is now in one group. Select that group and right-click context-menu 'Smooth' - adjust the settings in the dialog that opens so it's smoothed. If there are an edges that won't edit the group and smooth using Erase+Ctrl OR if that fails hide them using Erase+Shift... As you have only made a 'half' you can them copy the group to one side ans Scale it -1 about Y/green so it flips. Move the two groups so they snap together correctly, when you are happy Select both groups and Explode, re-Group, and re-Smooth as before.......
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    Square Corners

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    Merci, maintenant je peux pratiquer mon français!
  • Rich O BrienR

    Colour Lines by Layer

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    Case Solved....i'm a dumbass Thanks Dave
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    CAD EXPERT WANTED FOR QUERY

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    OK, Its related to drawing with "Spaces" in 3d using the extrusion option for each space ... See attached drawing for example of what I have setup below... Using property sets and property data format options iv created a multi-view block to use as a tag for each "space" block ... which would generate the following information for each space ... Footprint: - [Automatic from Space] Floors: - [Building Height] / [Floor Height] Floor Height: - [Manual Data Entry] Building Height: - [Automatic from Space] GFA: - [Footprint]*[Floors] **All was well until I realised that its not quite perfect system ... What I would love is:** Floors - Manual Entry Floor Height - Manual Entry Building Height - [Floors] * [Floor Height] Footprint - [Automatic from Space] GFA - [Footprint]*[Floors] ..... Does anyone know if this is possible ... Chris GFA TEST.dwg
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    Smooth 'feature'

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    Cheers, so it is a known bug of sorts? I thought I was doing something at first by accident but it just kept happening. I will keep an eye out for that and try to avoid minimizing. Maybe its worth taking off autosave as I am used to saving often anyway thanks to using in house tools.
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    Incredible designs in sketchup + tutorial!

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    I've been following his deviantArt gallery for a while: http://600v.deviantart.com/
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    How can I draw this (properly)?

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    Thanks. Perfect.
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    Question: Curve on a curved surface.

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    I have tried different techniques to construct an aseptic T-piece as it is used in pharmaceutical pipelines. This example is done by Fredos Tool on Surfaces and EEbyRails. [image: Z2Tu_AsepticT-piece.jpg]
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    French Language

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    @gaieus said: Hi Kamazzi and welcome! I have added you to the French usergroup now. You can join any public usergoups in your user control panel: http://forums.sketchucation.com/ucp.php?i=167 @unknownuser said: Salut Kamazzi et bienvenue! Je vous ai ajouté à la groupe d'utilisateurs français maintenant. Vous pouvez adhérer à une Groupes d'utilisateurs public dans votre panneau de contrôle de l'utilisateur: http://forums.sketchucation.com/ucp.php?i=167 Tank you very much for that !
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    Why use Sketchup?

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    yeah . .. what he said. ****
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    Printing text for dynamic component attribute.

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    This thread seems to deal with the same issue (amongst other things): http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=14353&p=108605 It seems not, which is annoying. I'm going to see if Layout can do something for me.
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    Help! What is going on with this texture?

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    @gaieus said: Edson, Was the texture not applied to a back face (and on the front face inside the wrong one)? That would explain also (and probably explain why your workaround worked). csaba, it surely could. I was using this and other context elements from several older projects thus I do not remember when I modeled that. one of the things I did was to reverse the face before trying the other steps.
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    Curtain modelling - wind effect? help pls

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    wow thanks guys... solo thats awesome!!! thanks mate... i been keeping an eye out for SDS2, so ill wait for that to come.... hopefully soon!!!!
  • jgbJ

    Some issues with V8 (coming from V6)

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    I was advised to update my GPU drivers as SU made some driver changes in V7. SU8 needs Open GL 1.5. The highest available for my old ATI-9200 card is OGL 1.3. So I need a new GPU; which means an upgrade to my old power supply as the new cards are power hogs. But my old case may not be able to mount the new form factor P/S, so I may need a new case, which may not mount my old Gigabyte M/B. And so it goes............
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    File size after DWG import

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    Thanks for all your inputs guys... appreciated... I'll have to try various things and see what works for me. Best wishes from London...
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    Which is better ?

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    @marian said: Max is like a tool shed squized into the size of a swiss army knife and just as unwieldy while SU is the swiss army knife with the added ability of adding or removing the tools you need or not. beautifully put!
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    Photomatch model export

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    Hi Rich, Depending on the complexity of the model (i.e. on how many faces you need to do this), it can be easier or even worse... After projecting the photo, exit the PM tool and go to the faces. Right click each face and make the texture unique on each. This should crop the image at the boundary of the face on one hand and make it rectangularly mapped on it on the other. A lot of renderers have issues with matched photos and this procedure generally helps.

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