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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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  • Al HartA

    New, free, product for parts list and reporting

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    @al hart said: @dedmin said: Seems that SpaceDesign doesn't support cyrillic characters We can probably fix that. (We have to do special processing on characters to get SketchUp to store them properly as attributes on components. Can you send a reply with some cyrillic characters in it, so I can paste them in and get them to work properly. Thanks, Al Няма проблем - това е български език. Translate No problem - this is Bulgarian language.
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    Chiseled face in SU (how?)

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    Captain, Here's a try at it using Jeans method. I drew a quick "From Scratch" mesh and then used "Sculpt Tools" with lag line turned on and just drug across the mesh a couple times to get this result. Then I used the radial bend to grab from the middle of the bullnoses buldge to the edge of the radius and bent it down ninety degrees. Did the same for the other side. In the second pic, I just used follow me to sweep a rectangle around a curve with pretty many segments, welded the inner lines to use as rails, then used TIG's EEbyRails to sweep the bullnose profile. That gave me enough subdivisions to run up and down the bullnosed edge with sculpt tools to mess it up a little. This method saved from having the polys where they aren't needed and will give more accuracy when doing rockfaced bullnose around radii. [image: HPNe_Bullnoserockfaced.jpg] [image: wC34_Bullnoserockfaced2.jpg]
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    SketchUp export to iMovie?

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    The way to get nice movies out of SU is to export .pngs instead of .mov. And set the resolution up by 2x the final desired size. then use Quicktime Pro to assemble all the images into a .mov and set hte size how you want it, and export (and yes I do have to ignore my conscience every time I use QT pro ). That will make a high quality movie. chris
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    Faces

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    Thanks to everyone, great help. Thank you very much.
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    Install 7.0 and 7.1 side by side.

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    version 7 won't overide your version 6, so there is no need to do everything explained here. It gets installed into its own directory, and keeps itself separate from 6. It might not import your keyboard shortcuts from 6 correctly though, if I recall correctly. Which is annoying.
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    Center circle snap works sometimes

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    Forgot the link to Chris' plugin: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=18963
  • utilerU

    How would you modelling this... Photomatch? [TUTORIAL]

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    Finished model [image: IeNE_Chair.jpg] http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=25129
  • pilouP

    Some videos for plugins inspirations

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    Yeah! This is the stuff!
  • Al HartA

    Rendering help and advice wanted - transparency

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    @driven said: IDX Free on Mac I only see the shadows on 3 pains in SU not much but hope it helps john Interesting. I guess IDX handles the transparency/color much the same as SketchUp. SketchUp does "all or nothing" on transparent shadows. Off above a certain threshold of transparency and on below it.
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    AutoCAD gets facets

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    SketchCAD?
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    How to remove lines?

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    hello, did you try to turn edges quite white (1 or 2 on rbg scale) ?
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    Lego Designer for the fun

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    can be interesting but now seems I miss something with the Jim's LEGO importer! Nothing append when I make Menu Plugins/LDraw Import/Import file I have made a folder c:\ldraw and put a .dat file inside but... So I test my model with the 3DS exporter from Leocad : no problem (it's Bryce's Shoes at the top image [image: ptR2_moto.png]
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    Licensing

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    @sketch3d.de said: upgrading a license doesn't create an additional license... No,but keepsthe old one. Like my pre-SU7 licenses
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    Material library issues...slowness..

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    Well, I tend not to use too many materials - and often I just use colours (which are obviously not as slow) as for some materials in a final render (in 3rd party software) you do not necessarily need image materials or you can swap them easily if UV mapping is not an issue. But again - I can imagine serious differences between PC's and Mac's and even within these categories, between individual machines.
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    Replace faces with components?

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    Chris FullmerC
    I also have another script called loose geometrry to groups that you mighr find useful. I wrote it specifically for what you are doing. It finds a face, then takes all touching edges and faces and turns that intoa group, then it moves on to the nect face that has not been added to a group and repeats the process. It is handy for quickly making groups of zillions of entire extruded buildings. I wrote it for the same process you are describing, something I was soing a LOT of at the time at work. I also have a snippet of code that I developed that takes a selection of faces and extrudes them by a given height, and a given amount of extrusions. It is used for selecting a bunch of flat building footprints then specifying how many storeys the building will have and how tall each storey is. And I even built in the ability to have the first floor be different than the other floors, since that is a common practice in planning to have a tall bottom floor with shorter upper floors. Let me know if that would be a useful script in your workflow and I'll clean it up and post it on Monday. Chris
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    How would one model this?

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    Hey guys. I've modelled this and posted the images here. After my crit, I have altered the design slightly and I need a far more accurate model of the skin. Essentially it'll be the same as the framework as the Great Court of the British Museum. [image: 300px-British_Museum_Great_Court_roof.jpg] I initially modelled it with SoapSkinBubble, but now I've looked at Tig's EEbyRails and Lines2Tubes to make this but I still have no idea how to make it using EEbyRails. I've taken the outline of the bubble and now struggling to make it. [image: c1.jpg] [image: c2.jpg] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/445006/Outline.skp - Here is a link to the outline of the building If someone could help me, I would be extremely grateful! I want something like what Tig made in this topic. Thank you!!
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    Photo match tool ineffective

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    Thanks for posting this Gaieus, really inspiring stuff in there.
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    Dual Installation

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    Thanks guys. I have a second PC in the office on which I can try it next time I am there (snowed in at home at present) and see what happens.
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    Adding photo textures to buildings from tight angles...

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    @tig said: "Gaius Nimium" Is what you should be... "One Who Rejoices Too Much"
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    Drop on terrain

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    This plugin: http://www.smustard.com/script/Drop

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