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  • The ideal place for beginners to get help using SketchUp

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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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    @myztery need hinge and finish side concept curve hinge layout.skp
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    Invisible backfacing

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    Jean LemireJ
    Hi folks. Your image suggest that hidden geometry is visible. A hidden face appears as a dotted array, as in your image. Try the View Menu and select the "Hidden geometry" to uncheck it. These hidden faces will disapear from view. This method of hiding geometry is good when you want to hide only a few items. When the number of hidden objects begin to get larger, you may loose track of what you have in your model. A better way is to create a layer and make it invisible. After that, assign all items that you want to hide to this layer. If you need to check a hidden item, simply show the layer. To work inside an enclosed object you may also consider going inside or using a "Section Plane". Just ideas.
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    Those trailing dots...

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    honoluludesktopH
    I would try updating the driver.
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    Move multiple entities to z = 0 ?

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    If you have SU Pro, you can export a 2D plan view DWG, and re-import that Anssi
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    A few questions....

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    GaieusG
    Your friend could upgrade for a $95 fee from his older version. As for classes, search for "Certified Google SketchUp trainers" or "Authorized Google SketchUp Trainuing Center". Depending where you live, you may have luck to find one nearby. They can give you a certification with a nice badge. In many countries these classes can even be credited as college/univ courses.
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    Erase help!

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    mitcorbM
    can you not also select the hidden items as a selection set and either right click select Unhide, or, if the right click menu does not contain Unhide, then you would select from top menu Edit and select Unhide?
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    Photo match challenge

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    I've given up on Photomatch for birds eye view images. The lens angle, and the fact that the imagery is cropped - makes it pretty much impossible. I do it by hand now; load the imagery as a background watermark set the AOV to about 6-8 degrees hide anything other that key features of the model pan/zoom by hand to get an approximate match. finish off in post
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    SU Components Window freezes (from new) MacOSX

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    I did add one new plug-in/ruby (tt_uv_toolkit.rb) but that has long since been deleted - I'm just trying to get it working with a clean installation and new window! All signs of the "old" stuff have been moved to another drive, the main hard drive has had all traces (that I can find) of SU and associated files removed. I render files with Podium (which continues to work as expected) Thanks for your reply.
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    Making Curve Coplanar

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    Thomthom's Vertex tools will do it for you too. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=29636
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    Sketchup Component

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    thanks, I ran into the plugin fur played around with it. Was just wondering if this would be easier / quicker. So I will play with the fur plugin some more. Thanks
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    Helical Column

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    See here for how to model a twisted strip - a column is very similar... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=58876#p58876 This tutorial is even better... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=224746#p224746
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    US Architects: Do You Use the Word 'Plant'...

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    @box said: [image: http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s296/storeben/SU/plant1.gif] That had me slowing down the first time I saw that sign. (I studied in England for three years) I had a series of very amusing images in my head as I saw the sign - and I do believe I was looking around half-way expecting to see a herd of giant plants crossing.
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    Multi Copy Along a Path?

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    Sorry, but I don't understand your problem. The plugin has two options to choose from: "copy to path nodes" will place your components on every node of your path indipendently from the distance; "copy to spacing" will place your components each other at the input distance indipendently from the nodes. [image: Cattura.JPG]
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    Exporting Hi Quality Animations

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    Yes, when you go to export the animation, there is the "ok" box, the "cancel" box and also an "options" box. Click on the options box and you can change the resolution in there. Chris
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    Do you delete your .skb files after modeling is complete?

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    thomthomT
    Yea - the revit system is awkward. I'm not to happy about the Autosave system in SU - too many people at work completely ignore the "Autosave_" bit of a filename and use that to continue working on. Make it very hard to know which files can be removed.
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    The problem with Sketchup...still

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    Heres some images from the project. [image: Front View] [image: Rear Slope]
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    Camera positions

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    You can quite easily change the location of the sun by selecting the location tab in the Model info pallette under the window menu. see atttached just type in 180 in the box to rotate the sun through 180 degrees or as required. [image: NORTH.jpg]
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    Strange view area in sketchup

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    There has been several discussions on this on the Thea forum http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20399#p20399. Apparently it is called letterboxing. There are a couple of code snippets in the above link that can be typed into the console. I know they work for the .skp files I use in for rendering in Thea, I think they may work for files created by another exporter as well, but it may take a ruby guru to verify this.
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    Call sketchup api through process?

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    thomthomT
    Are you sending mouse events to SketchUp? Or do you want to translate gestures into SketchUp commands? If the latter, then you might be able to use the Ruby API or the C++ SDK API?
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    Error loading file projectsketch loader?

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    Thanks Guy's I couldnt remeber what it was so I deleted all the related files which got rid of the error messages. Thanks for the link Cj, if I decided to use it I'll relosad it more carefully.
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    Handrail for spiral stairs

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    Jean LemireJ
    Hi folks. See this SU file for ideas. Spiral_handrail.skp

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