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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

    Using YouTube for tutorials

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    My only complaint about Fraps is that it doesnt capture the toolbar, only the working window. So you don't get to see the icons being selected or any of the windows or toolbars. I only use fraps for capturing 3dgames. It excels at that and it is a pretty cheap program. Chris
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    EnergyPlus Plugin

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    Cool, well good luck with it. There is also some discussion regarding E+ going on at pushpullbar.com under the sketchup section I believe. Have a look
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    Shadows not appearing on certain polygons?

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    In the shadows setting box you want to check that "On Faces" is turned on. That is what your model looks like is missing to me. If that doesn't do it, could you upload the model? Chris EDIT: Ok, sounds good. Glad you found the problem
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    How to make a bedcover?

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    Today after work I will capture step by step what I did, so you could tell me what I'm doin wrong. I'm now pretty sure that I'm making the mistake somewhere in the process, but still don't know where.
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    Importing Large AutoCAD files (with multiple XREFS) into SU

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    Oh good, glad I could be of help! Thanks for the nice comment on the presentation too. I had a blast at basecamp, Chris
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    Ambient lighting when Exporting to .3ds

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    I don't really know anything about the 3DS file structure, but I would guess that as SU itself has no other material properties than colour and texture, the exporter would set all the other required values to something considered as a default. Most users export 3DS in order to render the model in some external rendering application by adding lights and other features not available in SU. In the applications I have used, the ambient property of a material, makes it glow quite unrealistically, so I would have had to turn it off. I am not even sure that the property is set by SU. If it is optional, the problem might even be with your receiving application or its settings, if it adds a black ambient "channel" if your 3DS file has none. Just blundering guesses Anssi
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    Naming Layers [Architectural use generally...]

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    Hi all, thanks for your explications and addition; it's OK now. A special thankyou goes to utiler! Please excuse me for the expression vaporfile, I'm sorry! Bert
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    Export lineart - poor quality

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    Thanks Chris. I'll try that
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    Terrain Clipping Issues from Imported Contours

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    Thanks for sharing this rabbit, I'm gonna give a look at it !!
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    Animating a Paper Fold

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    Thanks for the reply, Dave. @dave r said: First, to force the axis of rotation to be along the fold line, get the Rotate tool. Click on the end of the fold line and while holding the mouse button, drag along the fold line. Let go of the button and click again for the start of the rotation as normal. Yep, that much I know. It's animating the folding of the paper that I can't do. @dave r said: As far as the animation part, you'll see in the Read Me file that edges and faces do not have transformation data. Yep, I saw that in the Read Me file. @dave r said: You need to make components or groups of the separate parts. SO each smaller face created by a fold will need to be a separate component. And that's precisely what I did. I used the line tool to draw a diagonal line across the piece of paper. I then made one of the resulting triangles a group and rotated only that group. However, it doesn't rotate about the fold - hence the reason for my post. This should all be obvious in the file I attached. I'm still at a loss for how to force the axis of rotation to be at the fold line during the animation. Regards, -Steve
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    Some visual Issues with my graphics

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    Switch to parallel mode, that should sort this out. If your model still looks clipped, hit Zoom Extent, then zoom back in.
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    Help please! Stamp Tool causes crash!

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    Hi Hoangduong, I'm frequently confronted to this problem when I use the stamp tool. For me, it happens when i have other objects near the surface I want to stamp and when my model become too large. To avoid this, there's a few solutions : Try to put all others objects in a turned off layer Take your surface and your building print out of your model, and do the stamp in a new file, and then copy it in your model (not always possible...) If you have an old version of Sketchup 5, save your file in the SU 5 format, do it under SU 5, and reopen it with SU6. It never crash on sketchup 5 for me. Hope it helps you.
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    How to make a terrain from contours and points

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    Thats great! I always learn something new here. Thanks Panga.
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    Modeling joints or reveals

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    please,please,please!
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    How to organise toolbars

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    Ahh, I see. I have not spent much time looking at the Mac SU screen. I didn't realize thar all the toolbars were sort of separated out that way. I'm afraid I do'nt know Boa sorte e tenha um bom dia! Chris
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    Cutting out shadows?

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    Presto, by right clicking the png (or using the identy info pulldown menu) you can set the image not to cast shadows...so no bounding box shadow, but no shadow at all (ok sometimes).
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    Dealing with Moire effects?

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    so far as I know, setting a 2x or 4x antialias in the opengl preference dialog (if supported by your graphic card) doesn't affect your texture, but only the edges of your model. On my computer Sketchup doesn't apply any improvement to the texture antialiasing: many other programs, especially computer games, have this feature. The best workaround I know, if you need a static image, is to render it bigger (2x, 4x) and resample it with an image editor with a good resampling algorythm (bicubic, spline, ecc) like The Gimp or Photoshop. If you still want to avoid the moire effect inside Sketchup, another way is to edit your texture with an image editor and soften or soft blur it. If the texture is not so crisp, this will reduce the moire effect. Here some snapshots: [image: 5s1X_testnoantialias.jpg] [image: 7m67_testantialias.jpg] [image: btXR_testresampled.jpg]
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    New SketchUp Bible!

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    It seems this guy has written a lot on AutoCAD, so maybe it might be worth a look. V7, someday soon I imagine
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    Progam speed

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    @matteo said: never download the models of Max Grueter from the 3D warehouse! they kill your computer (I love the work of that guy and I'm wondering if he uses sketchup as modeller for his pieces) He uses Cinema4D for modeling his stuff. (he explained me by e-mail some time ago)
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    Push/pull a cad file

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    If you go over to smustard, theres a ruby script called makefaces. It will fill in all the faces on the file so you can push/pull them.

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