It's a VERY old script from @Last It's in the PluginStore - together with parametric_grid... https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=parametric By now they are really 'example' code... And therefore unlikely to work perfectly in newer versions...

The file didn't get attached. If you don't want it to get spread around, send it to me by private message instead. I won't share it with anyone else. If you add it in this thread it'll be available to the whole world.

Maybe you just need to turn on the toolbar? View>Toolbars>Fredo6_Animator

None of the Software seems to solve my issue. I am running latest Windows 10 and Latest Sketchup 2020.2. Have tried all the tricks available on net you tube etc. But my sketchup thumbnails are not visible. XnView, or Latest Mystic Thumbs is also not helping. I could see only thumbnails of latest downloads, which are skp 2020 version. Any skp file which is older is not visible. can someone help please? many thanks

Baz, I had a similar experience related to the replacement of OR lights and the addition of some articulated equipment booms. The vendor showed a floor plan with circles drawn to show the area the equipment could cover but not the volume of space the equipment would consume in the room. As it turned out, the proposed placement of the equipment and where it mounted on the ceiling meant that it couldn't be used in the primary location. If the boom was positioned where they wanted it during use, they couldn't get the patient in the room. And it couldn't be place on the other side of the table to allow the patient to come in because they'd have to take the equipment over the patient once they were on the table and that is prohibited. The vendor wasn't happy because they had to go back and rework things and the project manager was at first upset because of the delay in the project and the need to schedule another meeting. She figured out though that it saved the hospital a pile of money, though.

Thanks for the reply! As an update, I bought the Mac mini and currently have it connected to 3 x 4k displays. Looking at the GPU usage graphs, I've been able to reach about 80% of the limit of the Integrated UHD 630 with SketchUp alone, and using maximum texture sizes. The only thing that's maxed out the GPU so far has been the screensaver I use. I can orbit large models easily, but there's a slight delay when I stop orbiting, and before the textures load. It doesn't orbit quickly with the textures still visible - it changes to solid colours. For the moment, I'm going to keep with the integrated graphics as this computer seems almost silent, but if I decide to buy an eGPU, I'll update this thread to show the comparisons. This is with the 2018 i7 Mac mini, 6 core, and 64GB Ram - running SketchUp and Layout 2020

@pilou said: Sim Lab can also make that you want...with VR or not...Interactive etc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujb618o3yF8 +1 Was thinking of this as well given the feedback above.

Jim no longer published his tools. There are other toolbar toolsets in the PluginStore... do a search there...

Il vaut mieux poster en français dans le forum français Board Index Settings USersGroups Français (+ Select en bout de ligne à droite) Bouton Submit (tout en bas à droite) Sinon aucune idée pour l'instant sans le SKP correspondant!

Cheers mate, I agree with both of you and it will be handy as you say for all the sponsorship stickers and fire, engine stop etc.

Yes, it could be slow if each of the 1000 components is unique although they could all be selected quickly if they were isolated from the rest of the model with proper use of tags/layers, then they could all be replaced in one step with Replace Selected.

@akynxs said: @tig said: Your English is much better than my Portuguese ! I see your settings etc. Most look OK - except the following... My are different to yours... Can you try mine ?? Unfortunately it did not solve. ;( I will remove all sketchup, folders and the registry and do an installation from scratch. I suspect the problem started when I installed Enscape. That's exactly what happened to me, as soon I removed enscape it magically started working again, no need to reinstall sketchup.

File size isn't the only indicator of model complexity. The delay could be caused by a number of different things in the model. Complex shadows, hi res images or textures, some style setting, etc. What is the graphics card? Has there been a recent change to the graphics drivers? This is common with Windows updates.

@mark beattie said: Yup! That worked. Weird. What worked?

If the pieces are > 8' long then you must manually edit those SketchUp components and split them into several parts. You'd have to do it to the DXF files too [in CAD] ?? There's nothing that's perfect - as far as I know ? Does CutListOptomizer do it [orthogonal?] ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbfnTOzh7_4 https://www.mynesting.com/ might process DXFs of the parts ? https://www.maxcutsoftware.com/ ?? I'd expect that some CNC software does that optimizing as a later step... But these will assume orthogonal too ? With complex curved shapes like your ribs, then manually locating and rotating them onto a simple 4x8' sheet 'template' underlay component, locked in place, is still likely to be your best solution...

Basically I think you are agreeing to using SketchUp Make for hobby stuff only. No commercial work.

thanks Dave R.

@khai said: do... but the one thing I am getting from you dave is the feeling you wish I'd just shut up. is there a problem here? I'm not setting out to annoy you, and I am pointing out a valid point but seriously, I'm getting the feeling you'd rather I leave. I don't know how you got that impression because it couldn't be farther from the truth. I recognize that your point about piracy is valid. I agree with you. On the other hand, the thing Trimble is doing by charging for huge quantity downloads is an attempt to at least slow that down. It won't affect anyone who is actually using SketchUp either professionally or as their hobby.

@pilou said: Generally you modelize this sort of volume inside a free one like ZBrushCoreMini then import it as OBJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxyMejEA0PE Ah, I see! Thank u so much!

I use the 'Tools On Surface' (by Fredo6) plugin to reconnect lines. It will draw and constrain the new edges to the existing faces and make the task of cleaning this up pretty easy.