A Welcome Message to New SketchUcation Members

Gaieus · 26 Oct 2012, 21:49

Am I in the right place?

Welcome, Mark. as an admin, I cannot say "yes, this is the right place" but I doubt your could find any better at least.

kowlisammy · 28 Oct 2012, 18:06

Hey everyone I am new to this forum..I have just began exploring sketchup for my projects at architecture school..I came across sketchucation when i youtubed how to make a curved sloped road/ ramp. I have downloaded the shapebender plugin but i am finding it difficult to use. I made a group of object to be bent, a line along the red axis and the curve of the road. The line and the curve did get selected..However nothing seems to happen after the curve is selected..Am I doing something wrong? Could someone guide me? I have to actually make the road on a contoured site (carve the road). So i thought i could make the road by shapebender n then use intersect model to carve it in the contours. Is there any other way of doing it?

Aetria · 1 Nov 2012, 13:37

Hi all!

I´m a design student and just joined the forum!
I just started an internship and never before used SU haha
So I´m learning slowly but faster than I expected (at least i hope so haha)

Therefore, I already got a lot of doubts about some stuff HAHA

My goal is to elaborate an library of components, but I need to edit them more freely, for example, if I make a box composed of 4 separated pieces, i wanted to edit the measures as the software Armarius... not scaling, but like opening an box to change the lateral measures, only the thickness and such.
I´ve tried searching for an plugin that does that, but haven´t been sucessfull yet... anyone knows if there is such plugin that does something similar to that? (don´t know if I was clear enough... maybe even I don´t know what I want exactly HAHA)

Thanks

pbacot · 1 Nov 2012, 15:49

Aetria,

Welcome to the Sketchucation forums! You might take your plugin idea to the "Plugins" Subforum (under the "Resources" Forum). You probably have to restate it (maybe pictures would help) unless someone knows about the other software and that specific feature. People usually post ideas like that as "[REQ]", for "request"--- then someone directs them to a plugin or someone might even create a plugin, if they like your idea Good luck.

Is this for "parametric" manipulation, or do you just want to stretch an object without changing edge dimensions (like making a window wider without widening the frame)?

Peter

TheIsingGuy · 2 Nov 2012, 10:12

Hi, I have been playing with SU since I was 15 years old, now I use it for product design along with CAD and meshLab

chagas22 · 5 Nov 2012, 03:53

Oi, sou Francisco estou chegando hoje a esse espaço de interação dos amantes e usuários do sktchup, espero ter oportunidade de aprender e compartilhar sobre esse belo programa. Grtato pela aceitação

Gaieus · 5 Nov 2012, 09:18

Hi Francisco and welcome!

I have added you to the Portuguese usergroup so you can even post in Portuguese down at the bottom of the Index page.

Aviglémy · 5 Nov 2012, 10:02

Hi...
Bonjour à tous !
Je reste dans ma langue natale car vous dire ce que je pense de ce site dans la langue de shakespeare serait incompréhensible.

See you soon.
Rém

Aviglémy · 5 Nov 2012, 15:02

I don't understand why i can't see the French Forum when i'm online ?
Can you Help me please ?

Gaieus · 5 Nov 2012, 15:07

Hi Remy,

In the French forum, there is an announcement:

@unknownuser said:

A tous

Après la mise à jour des 16,17 voire 18 Août,(cf le courriel de Coen), les forums en langues étrangères ne seront plus directement accessibles à partir de l'Index Board lors de la connexion (Log). Pour cette raison, nous allons créer des "User Group" spécifiques.

J'ai déjà rajouté tous ceux qui avaient une extension fr dans leur adresse e-mail ainsi que ceux qui ont déjà posté des courriers dans ce sous-forum.

Pour tous les autres qui ont une adresse e-mail différente (de type gmail.com par exemple, ou bien les futurs inscrits ), ou bien ceux qui n'ont jamais posté de courrier dans la section française, il sera nécessaire de se réinscrire dans chacun des sous-forums en utilisant le UCP ou User Control Panel.

I have added you now so you should see that forum. Welcome to SketchUcation!

Kegira · 5 Nov 2012, 16:05

Hi everyone!
Was a long time since I came here, but this time I've registered an account. My name is Kevin Girard, french, 22 years old, and I create models with SketchUp since 2006. I create architectural models optimised for Google Earth.

In 2010, I've been selected as a Google SketchUp Super Modeler. I attended a conference ( 2010 Google Mapper/Modeler Summit in Zurich ) and I have been part of some projects.

I'm working with :

SketchUp 8 free version
Google Earth 7
Photoshop CS4
Maxwell renders

Some uses of my work :

Augmented Reality
Tour Eiffel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDPgsHghp6M
Notre-Dame de Paris : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCLm6bDIJkM
Academic Thesis - Gesturespace
Notre-Dame de Paris : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipviG-tWeAw
3D Printing
Taj Mahal : http://blog.sculpteo.com/2010/10/27/design-de-la-semaine-le-taj-mahal-une-des-plus-grandes-preuves-damour/
Periodicals
Taj Mahal : Quo Magazine China, february 2009

My links :

My renders
http://kegira.tumblr.com/
My profiles on Google 3D warehouse
The new one : http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?viewer=1611330176447490582631655&scoring=m
The last one : http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=0844714371776674424138893&scoring=m

I'm glad to be part of the community!

Kevin Girard

IamL · 5 Nov 2012, 16:22

Hello! I'm Liam.
I'm working on my portfolio.
I'm using Sketchup with one of my project.
I'm glad that i find here!!!

silic · 6 Nov 2012, 18:10

Hello tout le monde

Je suis un utilisateur relativement expérimenté de sketchup 9 pro, mon anglais est plus que déplorable, et je viens rechercher quelques astuces, plugin et conseils d'utilisateurs plus expérimentés que moi. je travail dans la menuiserie et le batiment. Merci de m'accepter sur votre forum

Gaieus · 6 Nov 2012, 19:25

SketchUp 9??? We are all looking forward to it!

In any case; welcome!

Kegira · 7 Nov 2012, 04:08

Salut silic, sois le bienvenue !

silic · 7 Nov 2012, 12:42

Oops, sorry i write too fast ! naturally sketchup 8.
Sketchup 9 is my dream.

Aetria · 8 Nov 2012, 16:25

@pbacot said:

Aetria,

Welcome to the Sketchucation forums! You might take your plugin idea to the "Plugins" Subforum (under the "Resources" Forum). You probably have to restate it (maybe pictures would help) unless someone knows about the other software and that specific feature. People usually post ideas like that as "[REQ]", for "request"--- then someone directs them to a plugin or someone might even create a plugin, if they like your idea Good luck.

Is this for "parametric" manipulation, or do you just want to stretch an object without changing edge dimensions (like making a window wider without widening the frame)?

Peter

Thank you, Pbacot!

Sorry it took so long for me to answer...
I´ll do a research on the plugins subforum
thanks for the tips! i´m still new in this forum stuff haha

Well, what i managed to find about that parametric manipulation is that when you use it you change the whole object, not an specific part of it(that´s what i found, maybe it does something else...)
That exaclty what I wanted to do (the part about the window)! My goal is to be able to edit the component whithout editing all its measures...

Thanks again!

Camila

cluny · 16 Nov 2012, 09:48

Hi there, I'm new. I've dabbled with Sketchup now and again over the years, but never tried to use it for anything practical until now. I'm developing a non-CNC(euphemism for low-tech/low-cost/high-effort) manufacturing process for custom, wood keycaps in my garage as a hobby, and I'm hoping to use Sketchup Free ver. 8 for quick visualizations and making design choices. I came here looking for a specific plugin, but after reading a couple supremely informative threads, I decided this would be a great place to ask questions as they will no-doubt arise in learning the new software. For now, hello, and thanks for just being here you great, big, beautiful online community!

Chris Fullmer · 16 Nov 2012, 10:02

Welcome, and don't hesitate to ask questions!

Chris

timberline · 17 Nov 2012, 20:25

Hi, I'm starting to look at SU to see if I can interface it into my cabinet program. I wrote it in C++ and would like to use SU as a 3D modeler for the cabinets. Looks like the samples I downloaded from Google's website are pretty thin. Hope to find more examples of how to export files from my app into SU.

I should also say that I have not used SU for any modeling so I am a newbe.