A Welcome Message to New SketchUcation Members

paul smith · 26 Nov 2008, 21:01

Hello all, registered a few days ago but didn't announce myself to the wider world. I have been digging about the forums and found lots of really useful stuff already and also been humbled with the quality and generosity of the SU community. Its script heaven here. Been using Sketchup since those @last days mostly to work out tricky design junctions in building construction. More recently I have been using it with Piranesi and V-ray for visualisations. Lots of questions shall be asked on lighting and shadow..tbc. Well that's my life story. Thank's in advance for the future help, and I will do what I can.

All the best,
Paul

Gaieus · 27 Nov 2008, 06:44

Hello Patrick and Paul and welcome!

Patrick; I am a ship fan myself - looking forward to see some of your work!

Paul; if you have been using SU since the @Last days, you are not really a "newbie" but of course everyone has a lot to learn and I also wonder many times how much there is out there.

There are some folks here using both Piranesi and V-ray

JCDESIGN · 27 Nov 2008, 21:53

%(#000080)[Hi there! Im a sketchup user since 07 but i never knew that SU could do so much more..ive been using the basic SU for a year now.. and i was indeed happy with it before..but knowing that plug ins can be added is way better!! although i need help with it.. Can you please POST a complete List of plug-ins that are Available??? there are so many and i dont know if i missed any important ones i could use haha please! if its ok because i need to master it come january because i would be defending my thesis and hopefully graduate and become an Industrial Designer come march.

And since SU is so user friendly i would use it for my thesis. i hope that you could help me out all you PRO's of skecth up! CHEERS! -
JCDEZIGN from the philippines -> Yezzur! Represent! ][/color]

Gaieus · 28 Nov 2008, 06:54

Hi JC and welcome to GSCF!

As for a complete list of rubies? You must be kidding 8or rather not know too much about the abundance of the plugins...) There are literally hundreds and thousands of plugins starting from very simple ones to really complex ones.

Have a look at the "Resources" page in the Ruby forum - scroll down to the bottom to see general and special collections of plugins. I doubt that there is anyone who would have tried all of them.

Fatolbaldguy · 1 Dec 2008, 16:50

Hi my name is Ron. I am a Webcomic artist and I am always trying to expand my horizons a bit. My comic Magical_Misfits is a Fantasy comic with a twist in that it happens in the future. Anyway my main character the dwarf Wheels Ironkeel has a star ship named Starworth I would really like to Model the Starworth (and eventually all the ships in the story). A fellow artist turned me onto this program and I must say I am floored. I just started watching the videos and I have managed the basic shape of the old space truck but I have so much to learn!. I have way more questions than I can even begin to ask today and I will refrain until I have watched more of the videos. Anyway Hello

gealagie · 1 Dec 2008, 19:40

Hello everyone. I'm testing/trying out Sketchup Pro to see if it's right for our company's needs. We are in the upstream oil and gas industry--we wish to create solid-appearing 3d models of the subsurface. Primarily that means models of underground geological structure (= the way strata undulate and are faulted). For the most part these surfaces (the tops of a rock strata layer or a vertical fault) will all be non-coplanar. You have probably already guessed the more horizontal (layer) surfaces are not at all unlike topographic surfaces--just underground. These can't really be drawn freehand--they need to be the actual x-y-z surfaces we have interpreted from 3d seismic data. I can export these geologic surfaces from my interpretation/exploration software as flat ascii x-y-z data files and modify to hopefully be imported into Sketchup. From what I can see so far, the .dem file format might be the best bet, but (I hope) many of you know of other ways as well. Right now I don't even have a proper sample .dem text file to look at for comparison. Can you guys point me to similar discussions of this within your forum and/or give me advice. I'd be happy if the moderator should decide to start a new thread with this too. Thanks!

gealagie · 1 Dec 2008, 21:22

How about you, James. I'm talking about importing multiple tessellated surfaces into SU and using Intersect/Model, then clipping away the excess. Imagine creating a cube of non-coplanar sides this way. In your experience with this forum has this been discussed before?

gealagie · 1 Dec 2008, 21:36

Sorry James--see the thread you just created for me.

vica6a · 1 Dec 2008, 21:38

Salut, je suis francais donc je sais que personne ne va comprendre ce message, j'abrège donc ma description : je m'appelle Jean-Pierre, j'ai 20ans et j'ai terminé mes études d'informatique, voila !!

Jean-Franco · 1 Dec 2008, 22:01

tu as un forum en français ici sur ce site. inscris-toi.
En haut de la page tu fais un clic sur User Control Panel puis Usergroups et là tu sélectionne le forum en français. Il te sera ensuite accessible.

Gaieus · 2 Dec 2008, 05:29

Hi Ron and welcome - your project looks interesting. There are already a couple of cartoon artists here and their work in SU is quite exciting so I guess it is a good tool for it.

Gealagie, I have already posted in your topic - that's another nice field!

Vica, I have added you to the French UserGroup so you should be able to see the forum now.

CubeSquare · 5 Dec 2008, 22:01

Hello every one. Today is my first day at this site, but I have been using SketchUp for a little more than 4 months. I have a queation. I would like to produce a series of screen of screen shots that i can use as a slide show to show my brother how I am able to draw roof rafters. I want the tape measure on screen, and want the screen shot to capture the exact measurement, showing the construction line being inferenced to another line. Does anybody know how to do this?

Chris Fullmer · 6 Dec 2008, 01:04

You can use a software called snaggit which costs $50, or you can get JING which is a watered down version of snaggit for free.

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Or you can hit the printscreen button on your PC and then edit it in photoshop.

I'd recommend trying the trial version of snaggit first though,

Chris

Jim · 6 Dec 2008, 01:21

Besides being an all-around useful image application, IrfanView can take screen-shots using a hotkey to save a series of screenshots to a folder.

Gaieus · 6 Dec 2008, 08:13

Hi CubeSquare and welcome.

Instead of just taking still screenshots,why don't you record the whole process in a video file?

There are lots of screen recorders out there - commercial and free alike. An example: AutoScreenReorder.

OneWay · 9 Dec 2008, 10:38

Hello everyone. I am sort of new to SketchUp. I just got the hang of the basics and I would like to learn more so here I am.

mateo soletic · 9 Dec 2008, 10:53

OneWay,
Welcome to the community enjoy your stay and
feel free to ask anything.
Cheers,
Mateo

Gaieus · 9 Dec 2008, 11:01

Hi OneWay and welcome.
As Mateo says, feel free to ask - or just read around until you know what to ask!

FenS · 19 Dec 2008, 20:07

Hi,

My name is Fred, and I am from the Netherlands.
I discovered SU about a month ago and I am loving it and to be honoust, i have joined this forum because i have a question and need your help.

In my holidays I am working in a shelter in Bosnia, and here we have a cabin (is that the correct English word?) with a lot of wooden beams which is supposed to be a house. (excuse me for incorrect English every now and then).
I am trying to learn SU myself and with the help of a Dutch forum but i have a question which they also cannot answer and who knows, maybe you can?
I have created a model of all the wooden beams we have in the shelter and this should become a house. Unfortunately we do not have the constructionplans... (and actually we are not even sure if we have all the beams)
In a thread on the Dutch forum (which unfortunately is Dutch) i have explained what we have and i have inserted the model.
Is there anybody around here who can play with this model and make a correct house? (thé correct house if possible or a big house that also might be possible? (without sawing if possible)

The link to the thread (also with some pictures that might help):
http://www.sketchupforum.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1040&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

and a link to the model:
http://www.sketchupforum.nl/gallerij/balken_voor_forum.skp

If you need more information, feel free to ask,
a lot of volunteers working in Bosnia (and the owners) would be very happy if this pile of wood could become some kind of house...

Regards,
Fred

Gaieus · 20 Dec 2008, 07:45

Hi Fred and welcome!

There are a whole bunch of Dutch people here as well so I hope they will be able to help after they read those posts.

Until then,here are a couple of topics about such log cabins (as they are called I think):
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=12043
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=10203
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=6096
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=3245