A Welcome Message to New SketchUcation Members

mwenvironments · 22 Mar 2009, 14:58

Hi! I have been a sketchup user for a couple of years now and consider myself an intermediate user. I am an environmental designer and use sketchup to build environments I am working on. I love Sketchup 7 - it seems like a nice improvement over 6, but one thing bugs me and I have not been able to figure this out:

How do you 'turn off' the overlapping lines where lines intersect? I want to sometimes be able to view the model without these accentuated lines and also want to be able to print or save a JPEG file without these showing up. I could not locate anything in view or in preferences.

If you know how I would love to hear.

Thanks!

Mark

Gaieus · 22 Mar 2009, 15:22

Hi Mark (and welcome)

It's a "Style" setting. Go to Window > Styles and in the dialog In model (the little house icon), select the style you are using (by default there's just one style) > Edit tab > Edge settings.

Now when you are here, turn off extensions and endpoints (I generally turn these off as well as profiles).

If you wish, you can save this file as a template (File menu) and from Window (Sketchup on Mac) > Preferences > Templates use your custom template with these (and in fact any other kind of) settings.

mwenvironments · 23 Mar 2009, 17:23

@gaieus said:

Hi Mark (and welcome)

It's a "Style" setting. Go to Window > Styles and in the dialog In model (the little house icon), select the style you are using (by default there's just one style) > Edit tab > Edge settings.

Now when you are here, turn off extensions and endpoints (I generally turn these off as well as profiles).

If you wish, you can save this file as a template (File menu) and from Window (Sketchup on Mac) > Preferences > Templates use your custom template with these (and in fact any other kind of) settings.

Thank you very much Gaieus! I knew there must be someplace to do this.

Regards,

M.

Magnus · 27 Mar 2009, 12:52

Hello fellow SUsers. I'm new to these boards, but have been using SketchUp for several months now. I look forward to absorbing all your knowledges.

Gaieus · 27 Mar 2009, 13:24

Hi Magnus and welcome aboard!

tiriki · 31 Mar 2009, 08:43

Hi everyone!
I start reading this forum a couple of weeks ago and I'm finding it so interesting!
I'm using sketchup since september and last week I bought Sketchup 7 pro... I like it soo much and I'm trying to do also some renderings whit Podium.

Sorry for my english... I'm italian

remus · 31 Mar 2009, 09:14

Hello tiriki I dont suppose you fancy posting some of your renders in the gallery? i'm a sucker for a good render

tiriki · 1 Apr 2009, 07:05

@remus said:

Hello tiriki I dont suppose you fancy posting some of your renders in the gallery? i'm a sucker for a good render

Ok remus... I'll post my renders

remus · 1 Apr 2009, 07:18

Yay

tiriki · 1 Apr 2009, 08:38

I saw your blog and your renders are beautiful!
I'm still at the beginnin...

GregT · 1 Apr 2009, 19:08

Hi, My name is Greg

I am new to SketchUcation, but have been using SketchUp for several months (great program!)

Anyway, I found y'all from a link to the FreeScale plugin, which I definitely want to downlaod and try. However, when I go to that discussion thread, it tells me I am unauthorized to download. So, how do I get there so that I can download?

Thanks in advance.
Greg.

remus · 1 Apr 2009, 19:42

Thats strange. Were you logged in when you tried to download it?

and welcome to SCF

GregT · 1 Apr 2009, 21:54

@remus said:

Thats strange. Were you logged in when you tried to download it?

and welcome to SCF

Yes I was logged in, and I too found it strange. Can you give me a link to the download for this plugin?

mitcorb · 1 Apr 2009, 22:21

If you will contact gaieus<at>sketchucation<dot>com, he may be able to help with this matter. It is his job.

Edit: oops, sorry remus. I did not see that you have rank here. Just trying to help.

remus · 1 Apr 2009, 22:26

have rank, i like it Gai is the man to talk to about permissions problems, though. He's the one who deals with the back end stuff.

Gaieus · 2 Apr 2009, 12:05

Hi Greg and welcome. "Theoretically" speaking, if you are signed in - and able to post here, in this("Newbie") forum -, you should also be able to see (and download) every attachment in other forums as well so it is indeed strange.

Can you confirm that you are still unable to see the attachments in the Ruby forum (where free scale was posted)?

mitcorb · 2 Apr 2009, 14:24

Yo, remus:
I hope the phrase "have rank" isn't one of those cross-cultural difficulties.
I didn't want to invoke the term "seniority" and create all kinds of other semantic problems.
best regards, mitcorb

Gaieus · 2 Apr 2009, 15:00

It's actually the 'Forum Software' (phpBB) that calls it "rank". I also hate the expression but this is similar to other cases - one gets lazy and instead of finding out better ones,uses the "default" expression.

The same with "users" here. It would be better to "call" them members but the software uses the term "user".

Tekkybot · 7 Apr 2009, 23:07

@dang said:

I am a new user and would like to know how to create a new material fill.

DanG

what you do is, draw a 3d box, (or whatever you want to draw, then at the top you will see something called the 'paint bucket' you cant miss it, it right next to the tape measure tool, and its spilling yellow paint. click on that, a materials box will pop up, click on any color, then use paint bucket tool to paint face

wtf may 2 2008

remus · 8 Apr 2009, 07:36

I wonder if he'll reply?