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    • R Offline
      rdluther
      last edited by

      Just a quick question to find out if anyone knows of a work around for my problem. I am dealing with a large model that has road stripes, parking stripes, football fields with painted stripes, basketball courts, baseball fields, concrete with parterns... is there a way to convert a single line into a 2", 3", 4" thick colored stripe other than offsetting and outlining the line to create a face and then painting the face and turning the lines off? Just wondering if anyone has a solutiuon... if not I will be offseting and trimming a lot of linework in autocad and importing it into SU!

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        remus
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        If the stripes are on flat ground writing a plugin to make the stripes would probably be fairly easy, just a matter of persuading someone its worth while...

        http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          Look at 2D Tools LineStyle - this lets you select lines and make them into editable style lines - i.e. faces with hidden edges in a range of widths, colors and continuous/dashed styles...

          TIG

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            rdluther
            last edited by

            Thank You TIG that is perfect!

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            • maxhouserocksM Offline
              maxhouserocks
              last edited by

              Hello all,

              i am trying to quickly make a bunch of lines imported from autocad into parking stripes. I am trying 2d tools, linestyles, but it is only letting me select one line at a time.

              Is there away to apply the settings to a bunch of lines at once? select all is not working. it wants to pick each line.

              Thanks,
              bob

              Robert A. Christman
              http://rachristman.blogspot.com/

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                rv1974
                last edited by

                The new profile builder 3 is what you need. Works with multiple paths. Free for 30 days.

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                • maxhouserocksM Offline
                  maxhouserocks
                  last edited by

                  thanks! i'll give it a try and try to remember to report back.

                  i have traditionally changed isolated parking stripes in autocad, convert to plines, give them a width, them wblock out for import to sketchup which works well enough. trying to avoid cadwork thought and streamline the process in SU.

                  ALSO,
                  Vali Architects, "Instant Road NUI" has great many features including "Striping" which will take SU lines, convert them to faces and drape them onto a surface mesh.

                  thanks,
                  bob

                  Robert A. Christman
                  http://rachristman.blogspot.com/

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