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    Rich O BrienR
    @dkuucharzak said in Username change: @Rich-O-Brien, I misspelled my intended username. Could you help me change it? I can if the one you need is available. Send a mail to support@sketchucation.com and we sort it out

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    soloS
    Hey guys I am desperate for very high resolution/quality satellite maps, I use Placemaker and I also use Nearmap but the resolution is not that great, I have tried using AI to upscale but that too does not really solve my issues. Is there another solution?

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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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    Revit 'Curtain Walls' to Sketchup

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    boofredlayB
    Sorry to hear that. Do you have a screen shot of an area of your curtain walls so we can share in your pain.
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    Modeling from plans

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    marked001M
    this is definitely quite the list.. i might just have to utilize it too, if no one minds. and for the record, i too like modelling from plans/elevations...not sure why, but it can be 'fun'... its probably a good chunk of my workload, too.
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    Concrete cracks & pitting

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    brodieB
    Is this being rendered? Is there any particular reason you want to do this w/ geometry vs. textures? With pits and hairline cracks I can't see not using a texture. If it's being rendered a decent bump map will help you there. If you really want to get fancy or if you want to show some more depth from larger cracks and deformation then you're probably looking at more of a displacement map situation. -Brodie
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    How to fix this?

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    Problem solved. I just dragged the piece I'm working on in a new drawing and voila! Thanks for the help!
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    Surfices interfere with eachother

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    GaieusG
    Yeah, it definitely seems to be a (maybe just "almost") coplanar z-fighting issue. Do those lamp shades have "thickness"? Or are they just single faced? (painting on the front and back faces - even if you paint different materials on them - shouldn't cause this problem). Such a z-fighting can occur with even not entirely coplanar but very close faces like EscapeArtist says. It happens when the "physical" distance of two faces - viewing from far enough - is already foreshortened enough to be less than 1 pixel on screen; the limit OpanGL can display. In your 2D export that distance must be very very small however (if that's the case) since it's not a very far away shot OR I'd still suggest there are exactly coplanar faces there.
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    Different styles to different components / layers

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    Thanks for the posts and feedback. Looking around other forums and posts and yes I guess its not doable in SU and has to be hand rendered externally. I wonder how difficult it would be to add to the software. If you can change the style on everything in one file should it not be easy for the software to style a individual component and have different components with different styles within one file? Would certain save a lot of time. Thanks
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    Creating Snow

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    OK, so now that I got that looking pretty ok, anyone have good snow materials in vray?
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    Face Selecting

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    GaieusG
    Hi, You have already asked this here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19553&p=161757#p161757 please, don't double post. If there's a solution, it should go into the same topic.
  • RichardR

    Onyx trees into SU

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    RichardR
    @aidus said: Well now you need to place complex tree in skp format directly in your project. I thin pavol is working on stuf which allows us to add mxm file as proxy not putting complex tree in main model. With this we can simply use very realistic trees like evermotion trees. I'd say now they will try and save this and all the bug fixes till version 2 of maxwell! I hope though they will consider fixing the bugs in studio and release a fully working version of 1.? so that those restrained by the current economic climate are forced to buy V2 to gain the fixes!
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    Texture help

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    arail1A
    Use Pixplant and make the texture?
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    Issues using "Make Faces" Ruby - layers 10+ faces

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    Here's a fixed version. Draped it onto a surface to make sure it was flat. The main things wrong were the parallel lines didn't often meet the faceted curve - fixed by copying a long line at the centres drawn multiple times, overlaying existing lines and auto-cutting curve's edges, then deleting unwanted bits (v7 auto cuts intersecting edges). A few unconnected vertices and strange overlaps didn't help. Make Faces was not needed that much once that was fixed... There are still a few messy bits around the circular shape - suggest you might redraw that over the top [in a group], then erase the unwanted mess and then explode group to insert the good circle etc ? Note this version is stripped down - no layers, materials etc... 680_LagoonaTilePattern[fixed].skp
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    Follow me an keep! Need help

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    Thank you to all who answered, today i tried it again with a copy of the line and it worked. this step belongs to a quick tutorial for road design. If you are interested have a look here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=19578 Comments are welcome Karlheinz
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    How to model a good sofa??

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    I think it was 3d max
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    Helicopter components

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    GaieusG
    I could reproduce it in that particular file. Haven't tried in another one (yet) however. I suppose it's somehow related to the combination of the groups and face me component axes but I can't tell for sure.
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    Models in realistic Terrains and creation of roads

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    Now it looks more realistic Karlheinz Alpen41-2.skp [image: olQs_Alpen41-2.jpg]
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    Projecting a line to a curved surface

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    charly2008C
    Thankyou very much for this advise because i faced a problem with the method i used. But after toggeling start and end point, the result shows some faults. I will correct them manually. Karlheinz There are no problems, only questions. [image: y6OK_Alpen41.jpg] Alpen41.skp
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    VCB box in SketchUp 7 toolbar

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    @chris fullmer said: Any way you could make a video of it? If its a bug, a video might help verify and track it. Chris Here you go. VCB.mov.zip
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    Windy Mountain Roads

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    I suggest drawing the road outline, push/pulling it, placing it in the desired position on the terrain, and intersecting. delete the faces and you have a road.
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    LICENSING ISSUES

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    plot-parisP
    thank you, kwistenbiebel. just came back from a one week trip to Amsterdam. and in many hours of brooding (quite relaxed on the sun lit cobblestone streets of the city centre) I got some ideas for dear old SketchUp. sometimes, when the limitations become painful, I start looking for something else. but I always come back in the end
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    Question to Chris Fullmer

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    Hi Karl, I'l take a look at it. I'm not terribly optimistic about making it though. I've got a long list of rubies to make/fix already. But I'll check it out, thanks for the heads up! Chris

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