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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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    The one thing in Sketchup that WILL drive me nuts!

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    Chris FullmerC
    Ahh, thanks Mike. Well, I agree, that response from google is a bit underwhelming because that was the very first thing I tried too and it definitely does not work. I'll see if I can drum up a bit more support from them for you. I think this is a great bug that should be looked at. Chris
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    ADVICE NEEDED Re: Running SU on PC & Laptop

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    Chris FullmerC
    Sure, go to Window>Preferences and go to the shortcuts tab. Then click on export and save the .dat file somewhere like on a flash drive or a network location. Then do the same on the laptop, but choose import instead of export. Good luck Chris PS There used to be a bug where commands that already had a shortcut assigned would'nt get updated correctly. I don't know if that was ever fixed or not, but I think it was....
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    Transparent backgrounds

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    Chris FullmerC
    Ahh, true. If he is using the free version he won't have LO. Oh well. There is always the magic wand in photoshop or whatever photo editor you like. There are good free online photoeditors you can use now too. I'm still baffled why SU on a PC won't export a transparent png file automatically. I was always under the impression that it was something that the Mac OS facilitated. But now that I know LO does it automatically, it seems like SU should too. Chris
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    Question for 3DSMax users

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    Chris FullmerC
    Ahh, I' starting to get the picture. Yeah, I guess that would be handy. I dont use podium Kerkythea or iRender like I said. I generally just set it all up in 3dsmax. So, that is just my 1 person workflow. And I really don't know what I'm doing in 3dsmax. So I'd suggest finding more input. Speak up people. anyone else out there that this would benefit? Chris
  • DanielD

    Password protection

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    DavidBoulderD
    Well that is a little more comlex than I thought. I was jsut thinking straig jpg export from rotatig camera. I had seen the information from the other post. Very cool technology. I used to work in interactive panoramic photogarphy and saw this demooned two years ago. Its going to be some pretty amazing stuff, on the fly 3d modeling as you capture video. I'm sure Google is cooking up something as well, ieally using Google Earth as an interface for all of this content. Here are some old panos I did linked to Google Earth. Of course now you can do panoramics directly in Google Earth. http://www.fullscreenpanos.com/sphpblog/index.php?d=24&m=07&y=15&category=18 So things brings up another "protected" option for interior spaces. QTVR Pano (vs. object) export. In this you can spin and zoom but can't move camera position With the Ojbect it is just the opposite. Camera can move but target is stationary. I've already menteiond soemwere that this would be nice feature to add on to GE export in SketchUp. Low poly exterior model, but within that are links to panos from inside the building.
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    Groundplan as image

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    DavidBoulderD
    If you don't want to use jpg export then dwg/dxf export is an excellent idea. Can open in Illustrator and alter lineweights, styles colors, etc. I remember at some point needed higher resolution images so I just tiled my image and imported it in pieces. You shoudl be able to slice up an image using Photoshop or other apps that slice for websites. Then you can add back into SketchUp.
  • Chris FullmerC

    What if all gemoetry was forced to layer 0

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    Dave RD
    I've run into the same problem Chris has when I've been trying to help others get their models straightened out. I agree that forcing geometry to reside on Layer 0 makes much sense. pbacot, when I am teaching new SketchUp users about components and groups, I use an analogy to try to explain how they keep geometry separated. Think of a sandwich. A couple of pieces of bread and some stuff in between. Lay a great big dill pickle on top and the juice soaks into the bread changing the sandwich. Wrap the sandwich in cling wrap and the pickle juice can't soak into the bread. Assigning a layer to a component or group effectively turns that cling wrap into some of that new "cloaking device" fabric. Unchecking the visibility box turns on the cloaking device. The geometry remains where it is though on Layer 0. It's kind of a lame but it seems to get the point across.
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    SU for linux?

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    So far it looks that only some users with nVidia graphics cards gets the best results. I got an ATI Radeon 9800 on my Ubuntu box and as with the rest of the ATI users SU on Wine is no go. I have an 8800GT and 6800GT on my main rig, but I only run Vista on that.
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    Is this acceptable in professional software?

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    @remus said: xbjllb, the bug we're talking about is when you have a camera position mid animation that passes through shadows. It messes them up, to put it bluntly. What your describing sounds somewhat different. Though his solution could have some merit!!!
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    Trace Tool?

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    I like to use the arc, freehand, and line commands for tracing things! This works real well when you need to do a company logo but you don't the text they used to create it!
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    Creating a smooth animation path

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    thats what I tried to do. perhaps I should learn tools before using them I was not able to snap the control points of a bezier curve precisely to the camera position points. perhaps I should have closer look at the tools provided by fredo. will let you know, if I have success with that. [Edit] ok, as far as I understand it, it is only possible to draw these bezier curves on a plane, but not in 3 dimensional space. so it doesn't work for me when I try to connect camera-positions that differ in height. please correct me, if I am wrong (I would very much like being wrong on this matter ) [/Edit]
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    Exporting As 2D Graphic Problem

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    I am having this same issue, and I need to print on 36x48 for a presentation!!! The highest I can get it to export is 2,600, and that's with anti-alias turned off. I'm running SketchUp Pro on a Pentium 4 running at 3 GHZ, w/ 4 GB of RAM. My only guess is that it could be the video card, but its an ATI FireGL V3400 w/ 128 MB. Any ideas?
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    SketchUp for multi level Decision Trees

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    @sorgesu said: hypercosm? not to forget Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended (formerly aka Acrobat 3D) for creating and editing interactive 3D PDFs displayable on every system w/ a recent Adobe Reader installed, i.e. w/o installing another unwanted plug-in. 30-days trial avail. Norbert
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    Construction face

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    GaieusG
    Hi Ken, well, to my best knowledge construction geometry consists of points and lines (infinite and finite). I don't know what these ruby gurus might come up with (nowadays you dare not say NO to anything) but I don't think there is such a geometry as "construction face". You could use a simple face however put on a certain layer (where you could also put all your construction geometry as well) and control its visibility. Make sure to group that face though otherwse it will interact with other geometry.
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    Component Thumbnails

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    Oh well. Like I said, it doesn't come up that often for me at least. Thanks again for the help. Dave
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    Dimension Tool orientation

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    Hi Susan, hi folks. Dont forget that you can Orbit, pan and zoom in the middle of a dimensionning operation to force SU to use a plane instead of another. See this SU file for ideas. Dimensions positionning.skp
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    Working on the quite of highly detailed project

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    I haven't read all the posts in the other thread, but I'd recommend the component approach. Just break your model into components and then save each component out to its own file. Then you can work on the individual files, and update them back into main model later on. This also allows for alternative versions of specific elements since you can have multiple files for any component. Then on top of this if smaller files are slow follow guidelines by others about having shadows off, not show textures, outliner closed, etc.
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    Seamless pattern repeats wrongly on curved surface :(

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    Another way to sort the textures out natively is to turn on hidden geometry (view->hidden geometry) then sample the texture on the main face and paint it on to every other face. Probably a lot easier to use the UV plugin for anything with lots of faces though, as painting every face can get a bit boring.
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    Precision drawing: moving stuff, placing stuff

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    Thanks so much for the replies. Guidelines are perfect, I use them in my CAD package all the time. What a great feature. I'll try all this, and especially get a lot more experienced with components, groups and layers. Keith
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    Big File Sizes/ High Poly

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    i stuggle with this as well. I do a lot of site modeling that requires trees and I like to use 2D cllips as often possible, but for aerial views, I kinda need 3D trees, and the good ones are so High poly. I guess I should play around with Proxies more to simplify and only turn on the biggies when it comes time to render or something, but Any other hints to manage the file would be grateful. Ps. I havne't done it yet, but I have the link to the 3D basecamp workshop on this. I oughtta listen to it. . .. I wasn't invited, you know. . .

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