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    • R Offline
      remus
      last edited by

      What you can do, though, is render your model effectively useless for anything but looking at.

      The easiest way to do that is to explode all groups/components and then do an intersect with model on everything.

      http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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        Gaieus
        last edited by

        That's cruel. Imagine they explode you and then intersect. I's like vivisection! 😲

        But yeah, that's a way to make it worse than starting from scratch.

        Gai...

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          logscape
          last edited by

          Thanks everyone. very helpful.
          Saving as a 3D pdf file, what standard program can show it in 3D?

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          • GaieusG Offline
            Gaieus
            last edited by

            Adobe Reader 8 (or even 7?) and above (the latest is 9). See a direct plugin for SU here:
            http://www.renderplus.com/pdf/pdf_product.htm
            (not free but has a 30 day free trial so you can check if this would be good).

            Gai...

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              linea
              last edited by

              Sorry Logscape, in my early morning state I thought you could import a kmz into SU.

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              • ArcA Offline
                Arc
                last edited by

                http://hypercosm.com/
                You can export sketchup model to html and view sketchup model in IE.

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                  logscape
                  last edited by

                  Hi Arc. In my SU pro I can not export into html.how do I do that? Can the model be seen in 3D and then be orbit around it?

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
                    last edited by

                    If you install Hypercosm (it has a free version, too), there will be a html export option in the export file types pulldown. It will create a so called "Applet" which can (and during the export will) be embedded into a html file.

                    Anyone to be able to see it online in their browsers (IE and FF on Windows and Safari on Mac as far as I was informed during my last visit to the website) will need to download-install a browser plugin. Also, there is a standalone viewer for not embeded applets.

                    Gai...

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                    • Alan FraserA Offline
                      Alan Fraser
                      last edited by

                      There really has to be a way of password protecting a locked group...because all you'd then have to do it group the entire model and lock it.

                      As things stand, a locked object cannot be copied...and if you save it and then re-import it, it comes back in still locked....getting you nowhere. All that leaves is disabling CAD export.

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                        logscape
                        last edited by

                        Alan,
                        are you saying there is a way to lock a group with a password? it sounds the simplest, rather than exporting drawings to other formats and hoping the person has a program that will open it. can you tell me how it's done?

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                          johnsenior1973
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                          Just make the drawing 600x400 so that it isn't worth saving by anybody.

                          I'd say it's pretty much impossible to make a drawing so that people can't copy it. Even if you go to the lengths of making it save disabled, anyone with a tiny knowledge of computers could just save a screenshot of it and get it that way.

                          IMO if a drawing is so precious to you that you don't want anyone else to have it, you don't share it.

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                            remus
                            last edited by

                            Logscape, there isnt a way to password protect locked groups, i thnk alan was making a (rather good) feature suggestion.

                            http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                              Gaieus
                              last edited by

                              @logscape said:

                              Alan,
                              are you saying there is a way to lock a group with a password?

                              No, what he says there should be a way...

                              And yes, the problem is not only opening and editing a (still not possible, pasword protected) locked model but also exporting (at leat to vector format) should be disabled.

                              This feature request has recurrently arised (especially since the free version was firt released) already and I don't think it would be very hard to program.

                              Gai...

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                                Anssi
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                                @gaieus said:

                                @logscape said:

                                This feature request has recurrently arised (especially since the free version was firt released) already and I don't think it would be very hard to program.

                                I would guess that it is not as easy as it seems. SU would probably need a totally new, encrypted file format. I don't know if it is still so, but Adobe used to warn users of Acrobat that using the password-protection in it could rather easily be circumvented by third-party programmers.

                                Anssi

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                                  remus
                                  last edited by

                                  Theres been a new file format with each new version of SU. Could be tricky with people using older versions of SU though.

                                  http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                                    linea
                                    last edited by

                                    I tend not to give clients the model at all, they wouldn't know how to use SU anyway. Just give them an animation file.

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                                      MALAISE
                                      last edited by

                                      Hey, and what's about SU viewer ? Does it still exist ? ( I've downloaded the last version for a while)
                                      That the way I send skp files to some customers, but animations possibilities are restrained.

                                      MALAISE ( if that may help )

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                                        Gaieus
                                        last edited by

                                        For the SU Viewer you still need to send an skp file which could be opened in SU if someone wanted to change anything.

                                        Gai...

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