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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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    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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    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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    Group Polygon Bug

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    Hi ThomThom DUH! I will slap my self now hahaha thanks anyway TT, I'll put this in the DUH thread ultimatez
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    Best way to show house addition on photo

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    Thanks for all the advice. I have a couple photos I will bring my model into. The videos and text links were extremely helpful. Regards, John
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    How create an Master plan using Sketchup?

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    You should work full-size in Sketchup. It doesn't "draw to scale". Set you empty SKP model - Model Info > Units - to say 'meters'. Import the site-plan image and place it down flat. Use the Tapemeasure tool and pick two points on this image that you know to be a given distance a part - perhaps a road width or a building-frontage width - let's say it's 30m. The VCB will show a dimension [it won't be 30m unless you are the luckiest guy in the world! but that's not important], immediately type in the correct dimension as 30m and press <enter>, a dialog asks if you want to rescale the model, say 'yes'. Group it and lock the group so you don't accidentally change it. The image is now scaled to the right size, so drawing things over it at their true size will be in the correct relationships/proportions. Now you can draw over it to add new roads and block-building forms, entering the sizes in meters as you want... Group or make components of these parts so they don't 'stick-together' when moving/rotating... You can set some scene tabs of 3d perpsectives or 2d plan [no-perspective] etc with shadows on as desired. Export these as images - you can scale a plan later - once your model is more complete...
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    Pregnancy avoidance

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    @rv1974 said: @Fredo: I swear you was the real target of the topic starter! Gotcha! Actually, I was referring to the interactive method to edit curves shown in the Russian demo. For the Ramp question, there are approximate solutions. Attached is a small standalone plugin showing the concept (indeed, it would deserve a GUI to pick the contours, play with parameters, propose to skin with curviloft, etc...) - maybe I will integrate the function in Curviloft [image: FubM_RampShearing.gif] The plugin is realsed in the Plugin section of the forum: see http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=29230#p254673 To use the plugin CurviShear Select one or several curves (it has to be real Sketchup Curves) Contextual menu (or plugin menu) Curve Shearing Dialog box to enter the base height, the maximum height and Group option. New curve(s) are generated The plugin also works with a single curve. When you have more than 2 curves, the ordering is unfortunately dependent on the SU selection order. IMPORTANT: For the time being, the Direction for Shearing is the Z AXIS. So you curves should preferrably be in the Horizontal plane. Fredo
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    Cannot Modify Solid created with Sketchy Solids

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    @thomthom said: And the flutes could be made into CutOut components for easy reuse and quick editing. Another good idea
  • brookefoxB

    Circle intersect face *ugs

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    I get the same thing sometimes. Not only with circles. All kinds of shapes. My solution is usually to draw a line over one of the edges of the shape that needs to be cut out.. this usually solves the problem. if it doesn't, I draw a line from one side to the other, crossing the new face. sometimes this does solve the problem, sometimes it doesn't...
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    Aligning faces

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    A nice trick I like to use is the following, but mathematically not exactly the same as the above options. It's very fast though, and versatile. Activate pencil tool Hold mouse over rectangle (or any other desired face) until it says 'on face' from then on, hold shift. draw any desired shape, aligning with points or lines already in the drawing (NB: aligning with a line is not the same thing as aligning with a point!) after finishing the shape, release shift.
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    I'm a n00b. I need a gazebo drawn up.

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    looks like he is a hitch hiker... got his free ride and disappeared.
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    Transparent panels

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    @gaieus said: Even easier (than to applying on both sides) to import such an image as "Image" (not texture), scale it to your needs then right click > Explode (or leave it as an image entity). My Duh! moment...thanks Gaieus!
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    Im no noob but this is a chalenge to me...

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    Thanks Tig, that helps a lot. now i got it. ...What can i say... thx guys Cookieschredder
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    Material on separate layer

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    What I ended up doing was adding a new face to a group, by retracing the lines of the group. I ended up pulling the new face out a tiny bit to keep the new layer from "flaring" or reacting with the original face, when orbiting/moving it works for now.
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    "use sun for shading"

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    lso worth mentioning that "Hidden line" face style will not be shaded (when sun is turned off). This is good to know when you need to export some 2d thing for post-precessing (like creating alpha masks and such). Also it does not use the default material but the beckground colour.
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    Import of attributes from other CAD systems

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    Of course no problem with the wrong place - I just didn1t understand. And welcome to SCF by the way. I saw that you were directed here in the SU Help Forums, too - now found TIG so you should be able to sort this out with him.
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    SIMPLE HELP!!!!

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    It worked, thanks for all the help it is much appreciated!

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