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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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    Activate Section Planes

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    @unknownuser said: @unknownuser said: Halroach, thank you. Wow, just had one of those "duh" moments after reading your first suggestion. So if you want the same camera view though for each scene, you set up the camera view first, then switch to the next scene and make another section plane active right? you can: after setting up all your different scenes, place the camera where you want it, and recheck the camera position in all the scenes. save one scene with only the camera position checked - that way you can snap back to your favorite position without worrying about anything else. That makes sense. I'll try it and thank you for responding.
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    Mesh Surface Calculation, Can You?

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    Hey thanks a lot everyone, this has been very helpful and enlightening I now have a doctorate in selection and data on mesh surfaces. Love this community, best bunch of pros . The selection toys are super Thomas, you have some awesome skills in creating quality plugins. Fredo6, I don't think I have ever seen the Area within the contextual Menu, awesome, thanks.
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    Seeking advice

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    J-O, I would suggest that you might consider showing samples of what you are doing, either full or partial drawings / models. I personally find it much easier to offer advise on a SU situation when looking at the drawing / model. My eyes start to glaze over a bit when reading long lists and I imagine the same goes for some others here. Just a thought! Mike
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    Updated version of SU notice?

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    And the Follow Me icon!
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    Graphics card compatibility

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    @hellnbak said: Do you mean that it would not be... would be of great benefit but very difficult for modeling/display operations if not impossible. Thomas has elaborated already, extended information concerning this feature request can be found in the appropriate Google Group. @hellnbak said: It's such a shame... And I'm not "blaming" Google for anything. of course Norb.
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    Photomatch exterior photo w interior model?

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    A few other thoughts.... Does the building have a handy balcony or roof access? Either would be quite useful. Have you checked Panoramio to see if anyone's already done your work for you? Terry
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    Find unconnected lines, how?

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    Hi! I actually wanted to find them and erase them, so your plugin was just perfect! Thanks a lot for the help!
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    CraigD says HI!

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    Great to see you posting here again Craig. We have missed you.
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    Reducing file size

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    Beware of styles with large images set as watermarks.
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    How Many Susans Can Your Computer Do?

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    @gaieus said: Did you doSudan??? Bummer you beat me to that post, same thing i was thinking. Anyway on my 600 aud budget computer. I got 350 000 of those pasted.
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    IMPORTING DFX / DWG FILES

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    If you have SU7.1 Free install the DWG importer: http://sketchup.google.com/download/plugins.html#dwg (make sure you keep a copy of it.)
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    Is it possible? To use plugins from USB stick

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    Type this into the ruby console: require_all("G:\Plugins") just make sure all of you're plugins are in "G:\Plugins" You're flash drive might not be named "G", in which case, you would need to type the letter of you're flash drive. require_all("F:\Plugins") Or, require_all("H:\Plugins")
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    Close faces

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    Hi folks - thanks for the replies. I have been giving the plugins some trials without much success. For the record, it will only work for the smallest selection areas but will crash otherwise. I had better luck going with a typical 'from contours' surface even though it was less accurate.
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    How to make screen to shrink

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    @jarynzlesa said: to thomthom: can't find the V-Ray Toys plugin. Can you post a link. thank you. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=15491&p=119728#p119728
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    Animation scene transition problem

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    Hi Dave Thanks for the advice. It works although as you mention, adding more pages makes the animation longer to complete at that point. I'm basically trying to create walking up and down a street on a loop to illustrate how a building sits within a street scene. M @davidlouis said: Sketchup will string together scenes / saved views in a straight line. If an animation is producing an undesireable path (i.e. the camera goes under the model as you describe) you can insert additional scenes at key points to 'force' sketchup to transition between two views in a particular way... Rendering out the animation will take more time as sketchup will have to process more intermeadiate frames. You could counter this by changing the transition time between frames and thus the number of camera steps. A bit of trial and error will be needed. Hope this helps. Dave
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    TT Material Replacer

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    Very useful. Not sure why I never tried this plugin because it looks excellent.
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    Elusive angle in a few pencils

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    @box said: The mathematics is beyond my skill level, I still count by stamping my foot. +1 One of these days I'm going to have to dive into trig -- it seems alot of things I would like to be able to do rely on trig... Best, Jason.
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    Limitations on Model complexity

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    Yo, mac1: Sure wish I had known about these links earlier. Seems a lot of discussion could be answered about this 64 bit question by simply providing the link. Thanks for sharing, because the info in both links is presented with clarity.
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    3D Relief Map??

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    Yes, if the geography was in scale, it wouldn't look much different than a projected image. I picture a map or globe with the mountains and seas all exaggerated and obvious. Somebody somewhere must have something.
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    Setting Ground

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    You are right. A transparent material (with a transparent image) does not receive shadow (just casts shadow). Sorry, I was wrong. And you are also correct that it does not receive shadow over 70% opacity. It only casts shadow when it is over. I do not know why I remembered incorrectly. In this case however, I can see no way you can cast shadow on a transparent surface - unless you draw the outline of the (supposed to be) shadow and make it darker this way "baking" it in the model. But of course, that will never be interactive (like when you change the sun position).

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