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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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    A question for the wood workers.

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    That's one of the things I love about woodworking. So many ways to skin the same cat. (American idiom which has nothing against cats, but which expresses the possibility of having many successful outcomes.)
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    Point at center

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    Hi folks. "Point at center" also works with polygons. Just ideas.
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    Z POSITION

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    Thank you Gaieus for your prompt assistance. That solved my problem. I have been having problems with Sketchup lately and I just noticed that all of my extensions were turned off (not by me). I am just wondering whether my settings have been corrupted and whether I can do anything about it. Walter
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    Article for Designer magazine

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    Damn. Derek, I wish you hd stubld onto this request sooner, but I just sent out a draft of the article to UCDA which they will be fitting into the magazine on Monday. Looked at your site adn there is no question you guys do good work.
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    Barrage of inference points...

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    Anssi is correct...open GL redraw "droppings". Thanks for helping out! Cheers, - CraigD
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    Japanese type joinery

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    Hello Charlie. Very nice work indeed. I remember seeing your unique joinery in Fine Woodworking not all that long ago. I was impressed then as I am now. Welcome to the group.
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    Mac OS X Leopard & SketchUp!

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    GaieusG
    Guys I have split the selection bug off this thread and moved to the Bug Reports subfolder for better attention by the Google Team (and as was requested by Barry or Brad somewhere above). Here is the link to the new thread. I hope you don't mind...
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    Random Delete?

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    Yet another great addon! I really like the Proximity script. Same kind of function I'm familiar with from 3DSMax. I love how SU can be extended so easily. Like Firefox, addons makes it such much more invaluable.
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    VCB dimensions order

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    thanks guys, I was hoping it would be in the form of longside/shortside or somehow follow the first movement of the cursor, but x/y makes sense. It seems to be slightly more inconvenient when you are working in a view turned 90 degrees and the origin is not on the screen =D
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    Voice activated Sketchup - it's here

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    I remember back in the days of AutoCAD 10....at work once I was so frustrated I pounded on the "ESC" key so hard I nearly shoved it through the keyboard. I wonder if you can train this software to to understand sarcasm. as in "Yeah that's right I wanted you to extrude the wall 10,000 feet... No really leave it there it looks fine. hehe. As if my wife did not think I was mental enough wait till she hears me talking to the computer. Soon enough two big guys with a nice white jacket with really long sleeves will be visiting me.
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    Settings for area tool

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    So brilliant and fast, thank you very much Tig this is the tool I needed. I do not like to look in the engine of my car, but your demonstration encourage me to do so. Merci beaucoup - Marc
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    Woodworking projects for kids

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    I love that tool box. That's definately going to be one of our projects. Thanks.
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    Any news from Google on future Sketchup versions?

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    Believe me, they read the Wish List quite often...
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    Spiral ramping form

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    http://www.crai.archi.fr/rubylibrarydepot/ruby/em_sel_page.htm Grow works on any platform... Didier's site has LOTS of goodies...
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    Component insertion point

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    @daniel said: Your welcome. Glad I could b helpful. Maybe that should be a request for the next version - a "change insertion point" option. I think so. As you way be can tell I have an extensive Acad background and I think that having the ability to set the insertion point at time of block/component creation would be a great asset. Thanks again for the assistance
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    Need suggestions for golfcourse

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    @unknownuser said: does the 'drape-tool' also work on non-sandbox-surfaces? Only on triangulated surfaces. SU (natively) creates "simple" curved walls with parallely edged, coplanar rectangles - so the answer is no. Most of the other 3D programmes though make up every face of triangles so that can work. Some plugins (like the "Bezier Patch" or the "Soap Skin and Bubble") also make triangulated surfaces so the sandbox tools must work on them, too.
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    Zooming

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    Thank you Howard, I completely forgot about the other layers. Thank for the tips Many thanks, Bruce Watt
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    Mass file conversion

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    OK, so I've downloaded the trial version of the program, installed it and using it to convert some models to SKP format. Here is the thing. The model converts beautifully, but there are no textures to it. Completely white in SU. This makes the models I'm converting a lot less useful. The models I'm converting is some stuff I bought from 3Dplants.com - all nicely textured and such, but now they're pretty useless without textures. I tried importing them one by one and then converting them but even then some textures are lost and it seems that Deep Exploration does a better job at converting the geometry than SU does itself! Go figure... Please people, anybody with some advise, make yourself heard!
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    A List of Shortcuts?

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    Here's a txt version of the "Introductory SketchUp Notes" I provide my students - these are the "default" shortcuts - you can easily change them to be whatever you want - there's also some additional information listed here as well - maybe this will help (& I hope I'm not infringing on any copyright laws by posting this): start To change units to decimal: Window --> Model Info --> Units --> Format --> Decimal --> (close the dialog box) To show toolbars: View --> Toolbars --> Getting Started View --> Toolbars --> Large Tool Set View --> Toolbars --> Views Note: Status Bar – the long gray rectangular area at the bottom of the drawing area Value Control Box – located on the right side of the status bar Must press Enter to have a value accepted Default Shortcuts: T = Tools --> Tape measure Space bar = Tools --> Select S = Tools --> Scale Q = Tools --> Rotate P = Tools --> Push/Pull B = Tools --> Paint Bucket F = Tools --> Offset M = Tools --> Move E = Tools --> Eraser CTRL + Z = Edit --> Undo CTRL + T = Edit --> Select None CTRL + A = Edit --> Select All CTRL + Y = Edit --> Redo CTRL + V = Edit --> Paste G = Edit --> Make Component Delete key = Edit --> Delete CTRL + X = Edit --> Cut CTRL + C = Edit --> Copy R = Draw --> Rectangle L = Draw --> Line C = Draw --> Circle A = Draw --> Arc Z = Camera --> Zoom H = Camera --> Pan O = Camera --> Orbit end
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    Black screen printing problem (its back!)

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