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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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  • EdsonE

    Angular dimensioning in SUp: can one do it?

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    thomthomT
    Problem is: there's no access to dimensions via the SU API.
  • dshafferD

    Shared material collection?

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    @unknownuser said: Forgive me ..I am not a Mac user...I should probably just shut up but... In our office we just access the library we need on the company shared drive directly through the component/material browser/dialogue....nothing special to do at all. We pick up materials and create our own folders for materials where ever. ....see I told you I should shut up!! Thanks for your response - no need to shut up! You would think that the method you describe would work on a Mac, but, unfortunately, it does not. For some reason, the Mac version of the Sketchup material palette/browser does not allow you to choose the destination of newly created the folders, and won't allow you to browse for external material sources. It IS possible with the Mac version to create shared Component Libraries. Why? I don't know. Again, Thanks anyway. Anyone else have ideas about this? Doug
  • O

    Orient a model in a photo using photomatch

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    Coolapp. And yeah, what I'm actually planning to do is a kind of interactive walkthrough in my city in its different, historic ages. I've also been thinking about panoramas (rather than "real" 3D walkthrough) because they sem to be streaming better on the internet.
  • B

    IES Files

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    Your right in thinking you cant use IES profiles in podium or SU, several of the other renderers can, though.
  • J

    Oblique cone

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    Thanks remus that helps alot. Seems so simple now in retrospect. Cheers, Derek
  • T

    Noobie question: How do I copy and flip?

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    @chris fullmer said: Welcome aboard! Then scale it to -1 (make sure you grab the correct scale handle or else you flip it in more directions than you really want). Or while the copy is selected right click and select 'flip along red/green/blue axis'
  • A

    Some problems with 3D Warehouse

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    If it's an office computer, make sure that SU is allowed to communicate with the Internet (have a check at the firewall settings for instance). Network administrators tend to limit everything as much as possible.
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    MAC: Getting Rid of Getting Started Toolbar

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    But they might try to sell me a Mac....and I for one am opposed to that There's your sarcasm, Chris
  • Rich O BrienR

    Noob Plugin Suggestions Needed?

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    When I first came across plugins for SU I looked over the lists of plugins and their description. If the description of what they did appeared to fit my workflow I'd try them out. It's really subjective which plugins will fit you as it depends on your own usage of Sketchup.
  • B

    Problem with textures

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    With SU 6 there were some glitches with the export (see some details below) so first of all I'd suggest to upgrade to SU 7 (even if you only start with the free version). Otherwise make sure that the image extensions are all lower case (jpg instead of JPG) as well as there are no special characters (maybe even spaces) in the image names.
  • B

    Mirrioring in SU

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    Thank you all. Now that I have seen how it is done I wonder why I did not think of it. I will def be coming back
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    Creating model views for 3D Warehouse

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    @gaieus said: @remus said: i think google do it on their end, so you just have to wait. Yes, they do. It takes a while to process every submitted model so from a couple of hours to a day or so... Don't worry, it will be there. Thanks for the quick replies. This is an AWESOME resource!
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    Texture tweaking

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    Kev There is always the tried and tested Photoshop method, extract an above view of only the road, take into PS and paint your road complete with lines and all then save as a texture and apply to road. [image: road1i.jpg] [image: road2a.jpg] [image: road3n.jpg] [image: road4h.jpg]
  • charly2008C

    Problem withSpace Navigator PE

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    After executing these 8 steps i reinstalled the driver but it was not successful. After a second deinstallation/reinstallation it worked without problems.
  • M

    Problem importing 3ds max models into SU

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    Thanks Bill. I'll try your suggestions.
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    3 D Warehouse ???

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    No problem at all with several searches for me. Just guessing, but try closing down all your browser windows and then trying again. If that fails, try restarting your computer. Do you have a different browser installed? If so, try that.
  • M

    SketchUp Walkthrough with pop ups

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    Hi Mike, There is a plugin which would allow you to assign a (web) URL to any entity in SU - say a building that's turned into a group and such. You need to right click though and select the URL item in the context menu and then it will open a "normal" browser window, not a neat, chromeless one within SU. (see url_link.rb here) There were requests for this during development of SU 7 though because (theoretically) dynamic components could do this but AFAIK Google finally didn't include this feature for security reasons. I see you have SU 6 anyway so you couldn't go anywhere with DC's as it needs SU 7. I'm pretty sure however that with some modification of the URL plugin, it could be made nicer in SU because webdialogs have been implemented since that script was written (before SU 6). OR you do the whole presentation in Google Earth and add as much rich html content on click as you want.
  • Rich O BrienR

    Should i migrate to ubuntu?

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    Ditto for keeping XP. I run SU on Ubuntu and it just has too many glitches plus the plugin issues Coen mentions. Just not worth it, I'd stick with Blender for Linux.
  • A

    Control of work-time of a drawing

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    I have not used it or seen it in action, but TBD has a script called time.rb that does this. http://www.smustard.com/script/TimeTrack Check it out, its only $5.00 USD Chris
  • A

    Flip issue

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    @anglaret said: I suppose you are right, but a component does not brake an area betwen 2 rooms (to change floors coverings for example) You could leave a line to separate the rooms. That's how I would do it.

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