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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      Because each SKP is now firmly connected to GE et al the more recent versions of Sketchup only allow you to have one 'location' and therefore by extension only one 'north'.
      The work round is to make your model and then insert it as a component into an empty SKP that has a different north.
      One version for each 'north'.
      You will have to reload the inserted SKP if you change the original model file.

      Another work round is to make the entire model into a component and use layers for various "north's" with instances inserted and rotated. You don't change 'north' but rather rotate the instance to be aligned to north differently in each version on a layer and only have one of these layers 'on' in each scene. If you edit the model [i.e. change the 'original component'] then all versions will match in each of the instances on their own layers in each scene...

      TIG

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      • utilerU Offline
        utiler
        last edited by

        Thanks TIG, If we have to find a 'work around' then it's a real shame.... north worked fine up til V8.0... 😞

        purpose/expression/purpose/....

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        • GeorgeG Offline
          George
          last edited by

          Before setting up your scenes...
          Window > Model Info > Animation > Disable Scene Transitions
          Each scene will then retain its individual North setting.

          -Geo

          "Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts." ~Patrick Moynihan

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          • utilerU Offline
            utiler
            last edited by

            Really? I won't have thought disabling transitions would have any relationship to the orientation to North... I have to try this.

            purpose/expression/purpose/....

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            • beginnerB Offline
              beginner
              last edited by

              George,
              You are right πŸ‘
              You can have any North position if the Animation Scene Transition is OFF πŸ‘ πŸ‘
              I used to disable the Transition to produce some simple slideshow but, I didn't notice that it would retain the North position for each Scene as well πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘

              Something new every day πŸ˜‰

              Regards, SU 'beginner'

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              • utilerU Offline
                utiler
                last edited by

                Actually, this contradicts the reason why each scene needs manual setting of orientation:

                SU to LO allows the user to preset their scenes in both so that when exporting the model to LO the preset scenes are created automatically. So it seems pointless if each preset scene requires manual editing in every file to correctly align north.

                If the orientation of north was global the whole process through to layout would be much easier.....

                purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                • beginnerB Offline
                  beginner
                  last edited by

                  Hi utiler
                  I think the orientation of North is global ❓

                  99.9999% of my work would have one single North position ❗
                  The Transition would be ON by default.
                  The Animation would go from 'Scene to Scene' and animate the shadow at the same time...
                  (if required) πŸ˜„

                  Regards, SU 'beginner'

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
                    last edited by

                    @utiler said:

                    So it seems pointless if each preset scene requires manual editing in every file to correctly align north.

                    When you create a new scene, it will always "inherit" all the settings (including north) of the previous one. Now you can make changes (style. as per above, north - thanks Geo, I did not know it either; "doh" - etc.) in any, already created scene of course.

                    So if your design is about a single building and you (obviously) need to keep north, I guess you need to do nothing but keep it.

                    Gai...

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                    • utilerU Offline
                      utiler
                      last edited by

                      Thanks Csaba, It seems like a totally unrelated fix to the function of orientation.. Glad I know it though; Ditto, Geo!!

                      purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                      • V Offline
                        valerostudio
                        last edited by

                        BOOM! Mind blown! I have been trying to figure this out for months. Guess I should have checked SketchUcation before! This is very handy for those of us that 'cheat' the shadows to achieve the lighting we want in a model. Awesome hidden trick.

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                        • R Offline
                          Rudhamstile
                          last edited by

                          Update from this old thread. ENABLE scene transistiions seems to work

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