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    thank You I can't believe I am benifiting something from 2013

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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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    Easiest way to create 3-D home from plan view?

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    Hi, Import your plans as an image. Then use the measuring tape tool to measure an internal wall and then just type the actual length of the wall and hit enter. You'll be asked 'do you want to resize the model'. Choose yes, and now your imported image of the plan is to scale! It's a case of happy modeling from here. I advise to use layers for different things like Walls, floors etc. It'll prove invaluable
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    Zoom problem

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    This is called "clipping" and Google offers a few suggestions here: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=36261&topic=9042
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    @mods: pls del

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    thomthomT
    Very interesting!
  • DavidBoulderD

    Levi's cloths eco cloths dryer competiion

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    Well for green machine washers: at a farm where I used to live, we had a gas powered wringer machine--but we took the gas motor off, added a starter engine and ran it all on solar collectors. The drying was also solar / wind, on a clothes line. McGyver, I suspect some of the problem with the competitions is not the green element, but the fact that people are trying to invent such things all the time and if it worked, it would soon be on the market. Probably there are examples of some such competitions that actually created a result by proposing new threads of thought--but probably best suited for "appropriate technology" solutions for rural or undeveloped areas.
  • brookefoxB

    Please confirm: one cannot snap to a component's origin

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    GaieusG
    That's one of a hell "yellow-back" novel (as well as most of his) but since they are rarely translated to any languages (not as if most of them couldbe translated), they will always remain a secret common language between Hungarians...)
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    Looking for Dead Trees / Tree Post

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    Have you tried any of the real 3D trees from the WH and removing the leaves? Most of them are kind of basic (but therefore would also fit what the images show) and generally the leaves are the poorest part actually so without them they might look okay. Also, Alan Fraser posted some example of his work in the CMS forum like this one: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=8246 or this one: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=20675 where stripping the leaves off will also result in some dead looking trees.
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    Extrude Request

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    Hi Jean, Thanks for the model, but I'm afraid I've gotten to far in the model to go back and change the seating. I've gotten the seating done by just offsetting the bottom of the racing surface to the back of the building's rim. Plus, I have a road leading in and out of the track area so that cars and other vehicles can enter. I will gladly put you under the contributers for the track when I upload it to the warehouse.
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    Dividing a curve not an arc

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    great find. Thats exactly what i ended up doing, used the poly segmenter.
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    Huh? rewind annimate?

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    A quick little rewind plugin can easily be made. All the code needed is: Sketchup.active_model.pages.selected_page = Sketchup.active_model.pages[0] You can see the result when types into the Ruby Console. A custom toolbar with extended controls maybe?
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    Why is Sketchup saving two copies of a file?

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    Ok now I get it. It was a backup file. I had always thought the back up file was the Autosave one, and never checked the difference between the two. You learn something every day and on Sketucation I learn several things each and every day.... Thanks to both of you for clearing that up... I'm glad its not my file or my computer ... Its just me
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    Aircraft three-views. Lots and Lots of Three views

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    Thanks, these will definitely come in handy for those fans of these models. Maybe we could move it to the components/materials/styles section? Not completely where it would fit but here I guess it will sink too soon.
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    Rendering Stretched Textures

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    That seems to do the trick. In one instance, I had to make it a unique texture, then re-apply and make unique again. Oh well, whatever works, correct? Thanks for your help.
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    Requesting Information from Mac Users

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    I've had a time with the zoom feature with middle trackball on mighty mouse. Randomly stops working. Zoom extents and it's back on track.
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    Copy/Paste alignment problem...HELP!!!

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    BoxB
    Just a tip, lock the 2D template so you can't select it.
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    Section Plane Visibility

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    This video might help you, let it play all the way through and I think it will answer your questions.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaQFpCQS_y4
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    Free SU users: Would you pay for exporters separately?

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    I avoid Collada as it never imports right in any app I've ever used, I do not know if it's due to SU not exporting it right but it just does not work. I also say .obj is true universal, just remember to flip axis and you are golden.
  • brookefoxB

    Line (edge) visibility with small displacement

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    brookefoxB
    Uh... 'twas because the edges defining the faces were on a different layer than the other entities in the group and not '0' and the mother entity was on another layer still. Should'a looked there first.... and saved myself the humiliation of being an object lesson in answering one's own, or some such contained more explicitly herein, about being very mindful of nested layers almost always being best '0' and '0' only. (Which I knew and practice, but made a boo-boo just the same.)
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    How to create fabric top of a pagoda tent

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    It's difficult to UV map textures like that - why not paint alternate stripes red/white like this [switch hidden geometry 'on' first - then 'off' afterwards][image: jLY9_Capture.PNG]
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    Intersect Cleanup Plugin ?

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    You can hide the rest of the model whilst editing a component [under edit menu] that way you can see what you are doing and more easily erase unwanted overlaps from the 'intersection with model', by hand...
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    Print to Scale Crop Region

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    Thanks, Paul. I do have Pro. Just not too familiar with it. But it sounds like the best way. The best alternative is suppose is as you suggest- get the area I want covering as much of the monitor screen as possible and then fiddle with it. Thanks, much. Dave

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