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Hi all
I've managed to design a single storey lean-to extension for the side of my house in Devon (UK) on Sketchup Pro 8 free version, and I think it's good enough to send to the planning department without the need for an architect. Planning will accept electronic pdf drawings which saves sending 4 hard copies of everything, but insist on the drawing being on an A3 sheet, to scale, with a scale bar, so they can print them out and put a ruler on the plans to measure anything that's not dimensioned. I'll need Layout to do this so I was going to purchase it. I see Sketchup Pro8 costs £330+VAT for a single licence @ Sketchupprostore, but following sponsored links from tutorial books sold on Amazon I have seen the licence for £285+VAT @ facade-it, and £255+VAT @ softwareparadise. Does anyone know if these are genuine or fraudulent
resellers, and if genuine are you getting the same software/contract? 
Thanks in advance, Andy.
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Hi,
Welcome to SCF. Have you tried downloading the SU8 Pro trial? It last 8hrs so you might have enough time to make your plan in Layout.
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@unknownuser said:
Hi,
Welcome to SCF. Have you tried downloading the SU8 Pro trial? It last 8hrs so you might have enough time to make your plan in Layout.
Thanks Rich, Yes I have but then I discovered 'The Sketchup Show' tutorials on YouTube so I've been making my way through those and already used up my 8 hours of Pro trial. I'm afraid that Exeter City Council Planning are never happy and the planning process takes months/years!! there are bound to be alterations and that have to be made so nice thought but in reality it just isn't going to be sorted in 8 hours. I don't begrudge the money if it saves on the cost of an Architect which would certainly cost more, but why pay £400 if you can get the same software for £300?
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Hi, i'm newbie here... want to learn sketchup... thanks.
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Welcome to SCF
Great forum for learning so don't be afraid to ask!
Rich
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Yes, I am a newbe. My name is Ken. I am trying to learn how to use Sketchup for cabinet construction and drawing home plans. I am going through the tutorials to learn what I can, but the select tool is not working.
I am using a Mac powerbook with OS 10.5.8 leopard.
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Blake77How isn't the Select tool working ?
Not at all ?
Intermittently ?
When you try to do something in particular that you think should work ?
Does the cursor move?Some more info will help us to help you...
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The curser does not change into the pointer like the video says. Whatever tool I was using, when I select the select tool (I'm sorry - I guess it's the component maker tool) I still have the previous tool that I was using. I can not get the yellow box that outlines objects or anything.
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This is the select tool: and also when you press the Space bar, this tool should become active (although I have heard issues with certain Mac configurations)
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Thank you for you help, I am slowly getting this figured out as I watch the videos again, but where I am still lost is I cannot get the yellow binding box that surrounds an object that is selected to modify.
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Here is the select tool for SU:
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=94961
Go through the blue tabs on the top. Your selection colour may be blue however (it is simply a styles setting).If you do not have the yellow or blue bounding box, selection box, dots or any highlight, it probably means some display glitch (which would be rare on a Mac).
What video card do you have?
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I sketched a cabinet box. Then I sketched the face frame. How do I attach the face frame to the box. I can not get it to line up on the box. When I get to the front edge of the box the frame goes inside of the box or one end of it. Please help. Thank you.
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Hi,
I sketched up a cabinet box and then the face frame. How do I attach the face frame to the box. I select the face frame, made it a component, and using the move tool. But It just does not want to aline correctly with the box. It either goes into the box or one end of it will not sit flush with the box. Thank you. -
You may try to move it axis by axis ... This is what I usually do for engineering build-ups ... Take one edge, move it along one specific axis until it aligns on that direction./ Then repeat for the 2 other axes. Voila ... Hope you can find it useful
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I assume your cabinet box and your face frame are either components or groups.
If, when you try to attach the two, only one end is aligned, then it means one or the other is not orthogonal with the global axes.
If it is a group, activate the move tool and hover over the selection. You will see some rotation grips- red crosses and the protractor "icon". Click on one of the crosses and it will rotate about the centroid in one plane.
Or, To align the skewed end you activate the rotate tool first, hover over your desired pivot point on the selection. Click there and drag the cursor out to the skewed end, click and move the cursor over the point of alignment on the box. You will have to preset your angle units to a desired increment, or disable angle units in Window>ModelInfo>Units. Let me recheck this and verify...
Edited the path above to insert ModelInfo. Clicking on units in the list will open a box with linear increments and angular increments with option to disable either or both.
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Hi All,
I'm new! My name is Dave, and I'm an old TurboCad user. I'm going to be designing fairly complex accessories for electronic connectors, involving complex curves and threads. Does anyone have any initial tips that might help?
Many thanks
Dave
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Hi Dave and welcome!
Maybe two initial tip - one because you are coming from a CAD background:
- Unlike in CAD programs generally, layers do not separate geometry in SketchUp.
Always use groups or components to separate raw geometry and only put these groups/components on other layer than the default Layer 0. - SketchUp is rather unwilling to create faces for geometry whose edges are very small (around 1 mm). The general tip is to work in a larger scale and only resize the model at the end. Your field seems to be this "miniature" world so this may help.
Since you are on metric system, you could use a template that uses centimetres or even metres but still "count" in mind in millimetres and scale the whole thing at the end by 10 or 1000 depending on your choice.
- Unlike in CAD programs generally, layers do not separate geometry in SketchUp.
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Hi Gaieus,
Thanks for the welcome, and a special thanks for the tips. Both are really interesting, especially the scaling issue. I had been wondering how SU was going to handle small items.
Many thanks once again
Dave
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@unknownuser said:
Hello there,
Welcome to this little SketchUp Community we have set up here!
Welcome to this forum for all your beginners questions. You may also have more advanced questions and may post them in the appropriate forum.
If you're not sure if your question is beginner or advanced, then don't worry too much. The world is full of worrisome people already and we want you to get that cozy - de-worried feeling here. So in that case just post it here anyway.Hi there!
Could you tell me what I am supposed to do for downloading ROUND CORNERS plug-in? -
@coimix said:
Could you tell me what I am supposed to do for downloading ROUND CORNERS plug-in?
In the first post of this topic, there is a download image:
Below that image, there is the plugin attached in a zipped archive.
Note that it requires another plugin library that you can download the same way here:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=17947#p144178
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