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  • The ideal place for beginners to get help using SketchUp
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    @Rich-O-Brien Thanks Rich. Now I know that I can share the link with Fredo6 on the Animator thread so he can download the file and look at it (to hopefully identify the problem I have been having trying to generate a video). You might also try generating an Animator video and see what results you get.

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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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    Need a Turnstile

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    nice one jean, your is a lot cleaner than mine, a lot more accurate a much better component.
  • Tim DanaherT

    How to Tell Which Material is Assigned to Which Object?

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    Tim DanaherT
    Hmmm...are you on Windows, Scott? Doesn't happen on the Mac version...
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    Model Info Settings

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    Thanks everyone. I realize now that as I wasn't updating my scenes after resetting the Model Info/Components diaglog box. Ben
  • Tim DanaherT

    Empty Groups Disappear?...Oh, and Hello Again!!!

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    @wo3dan said: Tim, I don’t get it. You mean that when you have selected something it is not possible to click next to the group- or component- names in the outliner to deselect, i.e. in white space. That would be an immense MacDrawBack. In Windows we can. And what would be the purpose of an empty group…… I still don’t get it. Clicking on a special empty group in the outliner to unselect is like asking for that white space. A group of any size that has nothing visible (and I don’t mean by hiding entities) is easy but you would still select it by clicking on it, whether in the model or in the outliner. Dylan’s suggestion for another mouse sounds like a good idea. Wo3Dan Wo3Dan -- I can see you've never used the Mac outliner! OK, we can stretch it vertically, but often, my list of groups fills the entire window. No white space. Clicking in the white space to the side of a group selects that group. If we could simply click on the top-level model name to deselect everything (like you can in Windows)...I think it was CraigD who agreed this should be implemented, but that was over a year ago... There are a LOT of problems with the Mac Outliner...but that's for another place... Oh, and thanks for the tip, Johnny!
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    POLL: Background color forums and topics

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    @unknownuser said: Well if nobody wants to share an RGB I'm going to close this poll. Try "off-white" R,G,B = 233,233,233 or any permuation of these +/- 13
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    Location of default Components folder on MAC

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    That's it. Thx. Marc
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    Scale component file size question

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    GaieusG
    Obviously the file itself needs some bytes (save an emty one to see how much) and additionally, the info about where, what size, how rotated etc. of the individual instances are also takes up some space. Obviously, with more complex components, the "profit" is bigger.
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    Turning black lines to white

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    GarethG
    I usually make my parking lines 100mm wide by say 5500mm long and construct one of them using the rectangle tool.... I then fill the rectangle with White..... then I copy the White filled recatangle to create each of the carparking spaces and then soften (hide) the black lines. You are then left with a 100mm wide white line with no black line borders. Seems to work well but it can be tedious if you have a very large carpark. Cheers, Gareth
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    Screw thread

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    Thanks Ron I have had a look at it. It looks complicated and I am not sure I fully understand it, but I've saved it and will study it. Thanks again. Paul
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    Printing PDF -to dark ?

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    When you print a vector PDF, either by clicking on the "use high-accuracy HLR" option in the Print dialog, or by exporting a PDF via the Export>2D Image function, the SU view is exported as a 2D image with vector lines and flat-colour fills. It seems to me too that no settings in the shadow settings dialog, like the light and dark sliders, or the "use sun for shading" have any effect on the darkness and colours of the generated fills. I don't know if it is a bug, or just a feature lacking... Anssi
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    Soft, photorealistic shadows in SketchUp

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    I have often wondered why a shadow couldn't be expressed as a material. I think you're on to something here, Tim. I'm sure the SU gurus have pondered this, yes?
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    2 great finds...

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    And many thanks to Rick W, of course, for "selectatstart" and many other fine scripts!
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    Duplicate tool or shortcut?

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    gai and dan, i apologise for my moment of stupidity. of course i know the move/copy sequence but somehow i totally forgot the control+C way. what i was probably after is something like there is in vectorworks: control+D duplicates the object and leaves it on the same spot. then you can move it by a specific distante through a dialog box. but one can do basically the same with move/copy. sorry and thanks.
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    Problem with alpha channels (solved)

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    @mateo soletic said: I have great confidence in this forums general knowledge. Good to see Paul proved you right in less than 15 minutes
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    Macworld 2008

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    Any news would be a surprise
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    Glad you're not me?

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    tinanneT
    Great job Chuck! That is a monster! I'm looking forward to seeing more as it progresses.
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    A Question about SketchUp & 3ds max

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    Alan FraserA
    When you are exporting to 3ds...or anything else for that matter...you need to go into the export options (small, hiding-in-plain-sight button on lower right of export dialog box)and uncheck the Export stand alone edges box. You should only need to do this once.
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    Graphics Card Question.

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    AndyC, I experienced the same with ATi HD 2xxx series cards... not the best solution to use with SU... For my new machine I chose a Nvidia Quadro (FX2500 / 512MB). It works perfectly for SU.
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    Need some Help w/ objloader.rb

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    spenceS
    Well thanks guys, I really thought I had tried that before, but I never did because I thought it always would say "Save As" instead of "Save Link As". For some reason i thought that "Save Link As" would save the internet address. Thanks again. I should have known better.
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    Help with Soap Skin Bubble

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    GaieusG
    He must have - it works now without the "workaround". Downloaded and works fine.

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