A Welcome Message to New SketchUcation Members

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.

I have my minions specialize in stellar crafts. I was directed by one of my advisers that I might seek guidance in such a tavern as this. Please visit my fleet works:

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.

gertjanakerboom · 4 Jan 2009, 19:32

yes you may and i have to say that im not sure if i even have one, just looked at "about this mac" and it didn't show a graphic card. it did say this at the graphic/display button.

Chipset Model: GMA 950
Type: Display
Bus: Built-In
VRAM (Total): 64 MB of shared system memory
Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device ID: 0x27a2
Revision ID: 0x0003
Displays:
Color LCD:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1280 x 800
Depth: 32-bit Color
Built-In: Yes
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Display Connector:
Status: No display connected

remus · 4 Jan 2009, 19:55

Sounds like integrated intel graphics, which unfortunately arent particularly good for running SU as their openGL support is pretty bad (when you turned of hardware acceleration you wre pretty much tell SU not to use the graphics card to render the model, this is what causes SU to slow down.)

gertjanakerboom · 4 Jan 2009, 20:05

alright thanks for that, i just have to live with that then i guess.
i think ill be alright because i was only going to use it as a tool to help me get the perspective right for my drawings on paper (sounds a little weird eh? http://www.gertjanakerboom.com/1pages/bigpoppage.html )
for instance i did that one on the paper and it took forever! now i can just use su to build a structure, take a picture of it and then use it for my drawings!
anyway thanks again!
gj

remus · 4 Jan 2009, 20:10

You might be interested in some of the stuff andyc does: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/search.php?author_id=229&sr=posts

I think it might be similar to what your doing, although he does a lot of it in photoshop.

Gaieus · 5 Jan 2009, 10:39

Hi GJ and welcome,

Now as your video driver issue is "solved", back to your drawings; a pretty good idea.

I used to teach art history to fine art students and lately some of them started to use SU as a basic tool for their perspective studies as well. What they actually do is that they project the basic image onto the paper/canvas they are working on. You can even use guide lines to project perspective lines to the infinity.

DesignerGay · 5 Jan 2009, 15:46

Hi,

i'm Christian from Canada. I'm trying SketchUp for the first time. A friend from Germany told me about this forum, i hope we have a good time together.

Christian

Gaieus · 5 Jan 2009, 15:54

Hi Christian and welcome! There are a couple standard members here from Canada,I hope you'll ind your companion.

Username · 5 Jan 2009, 17:37

Hello, I just began using SketchUp a few weeks ago and thought that I could learn quite a bit by joining the forum here.