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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
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      @unknownuser said:

      I am sure that if AutoDesk would have bought them we would not have seen the free version of SU but on the plus side development might have taken off a bit more or maybe more refined, maybe.

      😲
      I don't think AutoDesk would have been any good for SU. Of all the apps that cause the most grief here at the office, they all comes from AutoDesk.

      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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        sorgesu
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        You CAN get vector DWG exported from Layout. It is a setting option. You need to change your Layout Image to vector first.

        Take a look at this video:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCve65JJhI&feature=player_embedded - Drafting in LayOut

        Susan Sorger
        Former Seller Hand Rendered Entourage
        Former Canadian Authorized Training Centre, SketchUp

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          Glenn at home
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          I hear that a bit but honestly I have no issues with it. I open it up do my work and turn it off when I am finished. About the only time I see issues are when users don't have the correct hardware or if they just don't know what they are doing. Been using it for 15 years and there have been a release or 2 that had issues but they were some time ago.
          To each their own I guess πŸ˜‰

          @thomthom said:

          @unknownuser said:

          I am sure that if AutoDesk would have bought them we would not have seen the free version of SU but on the plus side development might have taken off a bit more or maybe more refined, maybe.

          😲
          I don't think AutoDesk would have been any good for SU. Of all the apps that cause the most grief here at the office, they all comes from AutoDesk.

          SketchUp Pro 2024/2025 Dell XPS 8950 i9-12900K 64GB Ram RTX 3080

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          • genma saotomeG Offline
            genma saotome
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            With each release I'm always surprised and disappointed that some basic improvements to texture manipulation are not included... small things like letting me create a shortcut for rotate texture 90d or adding a preference that lets me choose texture by texture the default location of the "red pin" -- is it going to be the center of the poly or at a vertex over on the lower left corner? Depending on the material it's always one or the other and right now it's a PITA when it's always some corner vertex.

            How about letting me pick a color for all endpoints -- just the endpoints -- as black on anything really dark is almost impossible to see... or the colors of lines within a component. Show line color for "this" axis only would be useful too. Those are just object attributes, not rocket science.

            How about select by material when a material has not yet been assigned? Can't be too hard to do....

            Last two, probably a bit more difficult :

            1. let me select a bunch of faces and when applying a texture, let me choose whether I want the texture applied individually to each face as-if I was doing them one by one (the way it's done now,everything is relative to the face) OR as a collective set where the red pin for each face has identical xyz values (i.e., where there is one absolute point for the set and all faces have their texture start from there).

            2. Think stone arch bridge: Texturing multiple faces that follow the vertical faces above an arch is quite painful so how about a texture follow-me?

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              pmolsen
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              The "Get More Imagery" Google Maps replacement for the old "Get Current View" from Google Earth is even worse than I foreshadowed in my previous post. Not only can the view not be rotated to line up with the building, the imagery has the Google copyright notice splattered all over it. How is one supposed to use it to texture built-up terrain with writing all over it?

              With that backwards step plus all the other bugs introduced in V8 I cannot see any benefit in using it at present.

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              • bmikeB Offline
                bmike
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                @pmolsen said:

                The "Get More Imagery" Google Maps replacement for the old "Get Current View" from Google Earth is even worse than I foreshadowed in my previous post. Not only can the view not be rotated to line up with the building, the imagery has the Google copyright notice splattered all over it. How is one supposed to use it to texture built-up terrain with writing all over it?

                With that backwards step plus all the other bugs introduced in V8 I cannot see any benefit in using it at present.

                I like the new way of getting terrain and imagery. Much easier than in 7.?.

                Running Pro8 the logo is in the lower left hand corner and the imagery copyright is in the lower right.
                If you do not want it in your model - can you grab an area larger than you need and crop it out?

                As for rotation - once in SU, unlock both the terrain and the image and you can rotate, copy, move, etc.

                FWIW I usually bring my model into my terrain for presentation, and keep the model file lean and as simple as possible.

                mike beganyi design + consulting llc

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                  pmolsen
                  last edited by

                  The copyright notice is all over the image, not just in the corners. See attached. (Click on the image to see it in full size).

                  Grabbing a much larger area results in a much less detailed image. When used to texture built-up terrain it looks terrible.


                  copyright notice.jpg

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                    Aerilius
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                    @bmike said:

                    As for rotation - once in SU, unlock both the terrain and the image and you can rotate, copy, move, etc.

                    I'm sure Peter meant to rotate the map in the "Add Location" window. For efficient modeling, we actually used only as much of the satellite image as necessary. That means if a rectangular building is directed towards south-west, we rotated the view in Google Earth so that the building fills the view as much as possible (for best resolution and to get rid of the corners).
                    There are lots of users who critizise this regression although I can understand that the SU team had to drop the Google Earth method for long term (deprecated).

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                    • bmikeB Offline
                      bmike
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                      The problem of taking too large an image for low quality is reduced with this update - I like that I can go back and grab more terrain an imagery at a later date as needed.

                      For my needs, this works better.
                      Perhaps Google can add rotation / skew / etc. to the 'grab' process - much like those pins on material / texture adjustments.

                      mike beganyi design + consulting llc

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                        tfdesign
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                        @pmolsen said:

                        The copyright notice is all over the image, not just in the corners. See attached. (Click on the image to see it in full size).

                        Grabbing a much larger area results in a much less detailed image. When used to texture built-up terrain it looks terrible.

                        To be honest, I think that is a small price to pay in return for a (free) colour landsat image. You wouldn't necessarily use that for a final image anyway, because it's so dreadful. It's fine to most clients- especially for mockups etc (which essentially is what SU is for anyway, right?). I'd rather use good post-processing tools to create an artificial landscape than use that crappy photo. πŸ˜„

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                          pmolsen
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                          Google requires or at least strongly recommends that models be textured with their imagery for models submitted for inclusion in the 3D Buildings layer. Failure to do so can result in the model being rejected. Naturally for other purposes it is irrelevant.

                          When texturing built-up terrain it is essential to use the GE image in order to achieve a seamless result.

                          I have in the past recommended (and if Google is reading this, I recommend again) that Google add a new texture option to Sketchup called "Google Imagery". Any texture with that attribute would have the standard GE imagery (full resolution, not a grainy substitute) automatically applied to it when displayed in the 3D buildings layer. When viewed independently it would have whatever texture is actually applied to it.

                          The big advantage is that when the GE imagery is updated the model and built-up terrain etc. would automatically receive the new texture without the need for the user to re-texture it. It would reduce model size and would also result in perfectly seamless integration of models and built-up terrain with the underlying Google Earth imagery and terrain.

                          Naturally if there was a significant sideways shift in the imagery it could require manual adjustment of the building location by the modeller but for built-up terrain that would not be a problem.

                          This model of mine is a good example that would benefit from that: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=736735667eaa157548846c67671d9660

                          This is another one, which I have had to completely re-texture twice already due to new imagery: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=8f0ba6075e797f2248a0c60ecb66c42

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                            tfdesign
                            last edited by

                            You do have a good point there. I'm also a little perplexed and confused why high resolution isn't included in SU Pro, when it is available in Google Earth Pro. Maybe we have to buy that as well?

                            My book "Let's SketchUp!" Download from here

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                            • pbacotP Offline
                              pbacot
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                              @pmolsen said:

                              This model of mine is a good example that would benefit from that: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=736735667eaa157548846c67671d9660

                              Looks like a fantastic model. Why can't I download it (no download button)?

                              MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                pmolsen
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                                @unknownuser said:

                                Looks like a fantastic model. Why can't I download it (no download button)?

                                It will be made available for download at some point, dependent on discussions I have been having with the Peruvian Tourist Bureau (Promperu).

                                (Linked at http://www.peru.info/en/culture/archaeology/machu-picchu-1140-2-576-4.1.16.7 )

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                                • genma saotomeG Offline
                                  genma saotome
                                  last edited by

                                  One more basic feature that could be added: Why can't I type the rotation value when rotating a texture? Or the distance value when moving it or stretching it? It's just another object and should be open to manipulation by all of the basic commands.

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                                  • brodieB Offline
                                    brodie
                                    last edited by

                                    @genma saotome said:

                                    One more basic feature that could be added: Why can't I type the rotation value when rotating a texture? Or the distance value when moving it or stretching it? It's just another object and should be open to manipulation by all of the basic commands.

                                    Great idea!

                                    -Brodie

                                    steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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                                    • genma saotomeG Offline
                                      genma saotome
                                      last edited by

                                      Two more very specific suggestions:

                                      There are times where I take a component in a model and rotate it for use in another situation. Because the axis of the component instance also rotates. I have many situations where that's not acceptable, so I have to explode the new instance and make a new component under a new name. It would be far easier if there was a function I could use that reoriented the component axis to the same as the whole model -- the move axis feature is far too cumbersome... I simply want a single click - bang - it's done solution.

                                      The other one is about textures (again). This morning I'm orienting textures along an arc'd surface... many polys, each of which requires a rotation AND positioning the red pin on a vertex. Now if these were poly faces I could easily grab a bunch and move them but textures have to be done one by one. So how about letting me highlight multiple textures-on-faces and let me move them all at the same time? The ideal would include another function to snap red pin to nearest vertex.

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                                      • GaieusG Offline
                                        Gaieus
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                                        Hi Dave,

                                        As for texturing arches, ThomThom has a nifty plugin: UV Toolkit which can do wonders. Look at this mini-tut I made with the use of it.

                                        Gai...

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                                          tfdesign
                                          last edited by

                                          @gaieus said:

                                          Look at this mini-tut I made with the use of it.

                                          Phwoar!!!! Cheers Gai! This is just what I am looking for at the moment! πŸ˜„

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                                          • GaieusG Offline
                                            Gaieus
                                            last edited by

                                            One note;

                                            You can assign the same "mini-texture" to each facet at the same time (select all > paint) and then while all are selected, run the plugin. to quad-UV map them. This will create a very homogeneous looking arch however so if you want to invest a bit more work, you can paint the facets individually with a few variations of the stone/brick textures and run the plugin individually on each. This takes longer (though you sill save your time from positioning the texture) but will provide a more convincing arch.

                                            And do not forget to combine the small texture pieces as you will end up with a whole bunch of them!

                                            I developed another technique as well but that is also slow and manual - but will provide a nice transition (as the texture turns or wraps) between the cylindrical vault and the arch on its edge (see an example with an Ancient Roman burial chamber below) IF you need to display both. Once I have some time, I will make a tut of this as well.

                                            VaultAndArch.jpg
                                            We are getting off-topic however (sorry folks) so that will be in another topic...

                                            Gai...

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