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  • The ideal place for beginners to get help using SketchUp
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    Rich O BrienR
    @dkuucharzak said in Username change: @Rich-O-Brien, I misspelled my intended username. Could you help me change it? I can if the one you need is available. Send a mail to support@sketchucation.com and we sort it out

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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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    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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    Cutting Panel lines in an object?

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    Rich O BrienR
    you know when you smooth geometry with SDS and the size of your mesh scales down slighly? Tgi's 'up-sample' uses a fancy algorithm to smooth but keep things to size. There are other features that are pretty good but that's another time...
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    Teaching SU to a student - Lesson Plan?

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    Rich, David, thanks ever so much for your replies. Daivd, would love to have a look at your lesson outline. Thank-you.
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    Shadow Gremlins

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    Something is happening though. If you adjust the shadow date from 01/01 to 06/22 you go from a light to a darker coloration on the object at the RHS.
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    .prc graphics files

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    TIGT
    @bob james said: Thanks, TIG. Will they loose their high quality as a result of this process? Probably - try it an see. A .prc file is a format for text, the .pdf version will probbaly replicate it's quality but any images will almost certainly loose 'something' in the processing - of course it depends on what you want to do with it! It might not be so bad
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    Car Body Problems.

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    CraigDC
    More of one of my models. [image: J0XZ_Tesla_Model_04.jpg]
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    Dual screens

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    Bob JamesB
    @unknownuser said: I reinstalled the keepers and I am back in business. I did the same and life became a whole lot better Now I do a test after I add any new ruby to see if my (or new) gremlins come back.
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    Dancing skeleton

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nElUfcaZpy8&feature=related Thankx for your kindness.
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    Carving like modeling

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    Blender has this - to make a mesh from a picture "displace-modifier" Blender is lighter even than SketchUP and this carving modeling is by nature manual work. So, You can start with displace-modifier and tweak it with excellent blender mesh modeling tools which SketchUP lacks. http://www.davidjarvis.ca/dave/blender/tutorial-16.shtml http://www.gotmyidea.com/67998-blender-tutorial-displace-modifier.php http://www.blendercookie.com/2010/04/06/tip-adding-extra-detail-with-a-displace-modifier/ http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=31339&hilit=Rhino&start=15 http://www.blendermasters.com/cms/en/materials/displacement-maps-3d-objects-based-on-2d-maps-3.html Stick with Blender - if You insist to learn the basics they will became your second nature - I'm a Blender newbie and even made my keyboard shortcuts in SketchUp as in Blender. http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Blender-Source-Modeling-Animation/dp/1430231262
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    Disappearing text on export??

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    The Mac can render only 1024x1024 bitmaps in HW. SU tile renders the scene and then puts the tiles together into the final bitmap. There's a bug where text that spans tile boundaries will get clipped (what you're seeing). Insert your models into LayOut and add your text in the LayOut document.
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    Import 3Ds with textures?

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    If you export an object with ArchDesign or Vray materials as an FBX and import it into SU, does it maintain the textures? -Brodie
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    Bug splat crashes

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    Dave RD
    You didn't answer my questions. @unknownuser said: Do you have any plugins loaded? Are you sending the Bug Splats to Google?
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    Paint a curved wall with an image?

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    GaieusG
    I really hate advertising my own topics/posts but have a look at this tutorial about texturing arches with ThomThom's new version of UV Toolkit. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=34072 If your friend has already made that arch"ing" texture, how about posting the file here?
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    Problem using Kerkythea materials in SU

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    GaieusG
    OK then, you have two choices. Wait till someone more knowledgeable at Kerky than me chimes in here - or go to the KT Forums and (hopefully) get a more prompt but even more importantly; precise answer there.
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    Export To What?

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    @krisidious said: it's always vector for me... dwg and for adobe that works well. Krisidious, I mostly export dwg as well. However, the quantity of entities KILLS me. The SketchUp drawing below has 49,595 entities. I believe this is because dwg does not support Bezier curves or ellipses. All arcs, ellipses, curves and many lines are broken into segments. That is, a simple circle (a single entity item in some vector drawing programs) breaks down to 24 entities in SketchUp. And, the quality of the dwg export is not really good - even for relatively simple objects. Many lines go missing, corners don't meet, etc. I've tested this in Corel Designer and Illustrator. If I have a choice, I bring 3D models into SolidWorks for export as dwg. The filters are fantastic and the results are nearly perfect. Other programs with similar results to what I get with SketchUp (high entity, bad quality vector export) include QuadriSpace, Right Hemisphere (Deep Exploration), and Adobe 3D. [image: Overall.png] JJ
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    Co-work on a same file, possible?

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    Hi, For what it's worth, number of years ago I saw at SIGGraph (possibly 2006, in Boston) a development from Caligary's trueSpace, a 3D modeler (http://www.caligari.com/), that allowed people to work synchronously and simultaneously yet remotely on models that lived in a shared 3D space, without recurring to any 'baton-passing'. This shared space was called truePlay and though it didn't have A/V/chat for communication, coordination and collaboration, I saw them using it with NetMeeting - http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/story_7710.html. Caligari was later bought by Microsoft and then... who knows but at the very least this proves a point, namely that co-working on a same file was and moreover should be today perfectly possible at least so, with the right tools and in an appropriate environment Cheers, . Diego .
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    SketchUp in the Cloud?

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    SketchUp does not run in the cloud. The above example "Roozz" was scamware. It messed with the local install of SketchUp because it did install SketchUp locally into 'Program Files'. "Spoon" is at least as clever to install unobtrusively into '%USER%\Local Settings', but it doesn't succeed to display the application inside the browser (it's displayed in a normal window). Running a local app in a browser is really not the point of cloud computing (we do already run media plugins or pdf viewers in the browser; there exist plugins that can put any application inside firefox, also SketchUp). Those plugins Roozz/Spoon don't give platform-interoperability. In the best case, such a plugin would create a VCN connection to a computer/server that runs those applications on a real Windows/OS X. I think Google did good to remove SketchUp from Roozz (which is dangerous) and possibly the same for Spoon. On the other side, Google likes web applications and confirmed that they keep an eye on a future SketchUp Web App, when the technology is ready: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=39d42ddba38c76b3&hl=en
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    Transparent backgound

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    wow, cool! Thanks!
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    Vertical slats

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    Two options: Apply the image as a texture to a continuous face. Make two similar components, each unique. Soften the edges and multicopy them to the model a specified spacing.
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    Droping hunderds of trees on surface

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    @thomthom said: @chris fullmer said: @fuzzion said: We have a fur/grass/leave making plugin. Whats stopping us from makaing a 3d tree maker plugin? Nothing. I started writing one one night. I got it to make the trunk and branches randomly, then got busy and never got passed that unfortunately. It has always been a dream of mine to write this toool.....someday I guess. Today Chris - today! Plus it will make a lot of people happy and i bet it will be a very very popular plugin. . . .
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    Major SKP and Podium problem

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    Chris FullmerC
    Also a good idea is to try removing all other plugins and see if it is not a plugin conflict. There are a couple out there that will completely crash SU when combined with other plugins.... More specifically speaking, I had a VERY similar issue with another renderer - turned out it was a different plugin I had installed that would cause SU to crash when I tried to run the rendering program. So you might just remove all other plugins for a bit and see if that helps?

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