A Welcome Message to New SketchUcation Members

mr_turco · 24 Dec 2008, 15:56

Hi everyone,

I am Eren and nice to meet you all,
I am an architect,and i am intrested in presentations thats why i start using SU,and to be honest even as a newbie i had nice feedbacks,so now i am trying to set up my web site and like to use SU for presentation also,and as far as i've sen from this forum,i am now sure that i am at the right adress to discuss anything about SU

remus · 24 Dec 2008, 16:03

Hello eren, hopefully we'll be able to help you with your queries

Gaieus · 24 Dec 2008, 16:15

Hello Eren and welcome! Surely you will find a bunch of helpful people here.

geo · 29 Dec 2008, 12:43

hello everyone ( sorry in advance for my english language..)
i'm geo ( sébastien ) and i'm frenchies from south of france
i'm very happy to discover your forum
from job side , i was technicien in aeronautique ( european helicopter manufacturer ) during last 15 years.
and, i'm totaly by the helicopter sikorsky black hawk
but now( since 1 years i have created my own compagny on renewable energy ( solar ).
and i use SU 6 free for customer case studies (i'll join example when i'll understang how to join picture to my post..)
i have plan to buy SU pro version quickly ( may be SU 7 french version ...)
regards
geo

Gaieus · 30 Dec 2008, 06:16

Hello Geo / Sébastien an welcome to the forums. I see that you have already found your way to the French subforum where there are a bunch of nice and helpful folks there

You can attach pictures or other files under the text area you are writing your post in - just scroll down.

huma65 · 30 Dec 2008, 19:54

Hi my name is Mauricio Vélez, I´m new in this community and using sketch for a few months, now I´m working with idx renditioner for rendering, and I´ll like to know if somenone has some information about this program. I have some simple examples that a have made but I don´t know if I can post them here. Well see you people. Bye.

Gaieus · 31 Dec 2008, 09:31

Hi Mauricio and welcome to the forums.

Sure you can post examples and hope there are people who can help you (I also have IDX Renditioner although I have to tell you that I have not had much time to to fully get around it yet).

wmanning · 2 Jan 2009, 19:58

Hi Mauricio,

I'm William and I'm with IDX. I'm on these forums from time to time, mostly learning about SketchUp. If you have specific Renditioner questions I should be able to help you. For general rendering and SketchUp questions the Gallery area here is fantastic for quick feedback! If they are narrow questions about how to do x or y, you will probably get faster help on the IDX forums at http://forums.idx-design.com .

JenniferFar · 2 Jan 2009, 21:27

Hi everyone,
I'm new here to the forum and hope to learn lots from everyone. Please be patient and I'll try to not be too much of a pain

Gaieus · 2 Jan 2009, 21:31

Hi Jen and welcome. We really TRYnot to be a pain either but hey, this is the NEWBIE section where particular patience is applied

ilKhan Ozy · 3 Jan 2009, 20:54

Hello, I am the ilKhan Ozymandias of the Sol Sector.

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jordahl · 4 Jan 2009, 01:01

Hello all. My name is Jeremy and am about to install SketchUp. I am a little unsure about SketchUp being the software I need. My actual need is for a 3d posable model of a spider monkey. The visual surfaces of the model are less important than the ability to pose the model and use still photos of the various poses for some silouette artwork. Is SketchUp capable of manipulating a model in this way? I really hope it is as the free aspect of the program makes it very attractive! Let me know your thoughts and if SketchUp will be able to get me where I am going?

Jeremy

JamesAllen · 4 Jan 2009, 03:28

I don't seem to be able to find where or how to download the zorro plugin.

MALAISE · 4 Jan 2009, 06:18

Hi JamesAllen

May this be useful :

MALAISE

Zorro.rb

remus · 4 Jan 2009, 08:24

For future refernce, theres an index of most of the scripts at SCF here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/search.php?keywords=Plugin&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=titleonly&sr=topics&sk=s&sd=a&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search

Gaieus · 4 Jan 2009, 13:56

Hello Ronald and welcome. Your models look interesting so keep them coming and if you have any question,just feel free to ask.

Jeremy, welcome too. I'm afraid SU is not the best tool for this although I have already seen such things by experts.

Hi James - yes, what the others suggesdted above. Hopefully we will soon have a better index of plugins but until then that search function is the best.

gertjanakerboom · 4 Jan 2009, 19:09

hello there

i just discovered sketchup and im totally amazed by the possibilities, and how easy it all is.
i'm currently checking out all the tutorials on youtube and trying things out, i have however a little problem.

when i try out things in sketchup sooner or later it starts acting weird, my cursor starts leaving a sort of trace of the tool i was using at the moment. i cant imagine that's normal

i attached a screen shot to show what i mean, can anybody help me?

thanks
gj

remus · 4 Jan 2009, 19:17

Looks like an opengl problem to me.

Make sure youve got the latest drivers for your graphics card. If that doesnt fix it, go in to SU window->preferences->openGL then turn of hardware acceleration.

gertjanakerboom · 4 Jan 2009, 19:25

thanks for that!, turning off the hardware acceleration seems to work, im not sure what i actually did there though. will turning that off effect anything else in the program?
gj

remus · 4 Jan 2009, 19:26

It will slow SU down a lot with bigger models.

Might i ask what graphics card youve got? if any.