Textures for 2D Presentation
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Does anyone have a work around for applying 2D textures ie:Black & white line hatching etc in SKP models for 2D views (with Perspective "Off"). Have seen some postings on this but would like to be able to work in SKP mainly because of good work flow plus Opening in Layout. This is required for quick transfer presentation ideas with clients etc mainly as PDF's & Construction Drawings but for hatching currently open with Adobe Illustrator. SKP would be very easy to select areas then apply. Have tried downloading textures but these do not present well, also tried creating my own set without much success! The problem seemed to be Line weights. Thanks
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Hi Skeerc,
Here is a topic in the very old and retired @Last forums:
http://groups.google.com/group/sketchup-materials-components-styles/browse_thread/thread/7c0e443fcdb72bd4/e1045aec3d29ac3b
In the second post, you will find a zip file with a bunch of hatch patterns as textures which you can use in SU. -
@gaieus said:
Hi Skeerc,
Here is a topic in the very old and retired @Last forums:
http://groups.google.com/group/sketchup-materials-components-styles/browse_thread/thread/7c0e443fcdb72bd4/e1045aec3d29ac3b
In the second post, you will find a zip file with a bunch of hatch patterns as textures which you can use in SU.HI Gaius,
Can you help me install this folder of hatch textures. They are .jpg and apparently need to be .skm file. I dropped the 'hatch' folder into the materials library. The title appeared in my textures window in SU, but no actual textures appeared. Can you help me get these installed? thanks, Keea
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@keea1111 said:
@gaieus said:
Hi Skeerc,
Here is a topic in the very old and retired @Last forums:
http://groups.google.com/group/sketchup-materials-components-styles/browse_thread/thread/7c0e443fcdb72bd4/e1045aec3d29ac3b
In the second post, you will find a zip file with a bunch of hatch patterns as textures which you can use in SU.HI Gaius,
Can you help me install this folder of hatch textures. They are .jpg and apparently need to be .skm file. I dropped the 'hatch' folder into the materials library. The title appeared in my textures window in SU, but no actual textures appeared. Can you help me get these installed? thanks, Keea
There are some plugin tools available to batch import images as textured-materials - look in the SCF Plugins Index...
After you have imported all of the images as textured-materials you can adjust the texture size etc...
When you have a set of suitable textured-materials in your model you can use the Materials Browser's pop-out menu to save them all as a 'collection' of SKM files in a Materials subfolder... any of those newly created SKMs can then be used in subsequent models...Incidentally my 2dTools set has a 'hatch' capability - the images in its appropriate subfolder [and the supplementary sub-subfolder of images] can be used to make a set of hatched-materials... either using 2dTools OR by batch-importing them and saving as a 'collection' as outlined above...
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@tig said:
@keea1111 said:
@gaieus said:
Hi Skeerc,
Here is a topic in the very old and retired @Last forums:
http://groups.google.com/group/sketchup-materials-components-styles/browse_thread/thread/7c0e443fcdb72bd4/e1045aec3d29ac3b
In the second post, you will find a zip file with a bunch of hatch patterns as textures which you can use in SU.HI Gaius,
Can you help me install this folder of hatch textures. They are .jpg and apparently need to be .skm file. I dropped the 'hatch' folder into the materials library. The title appeared in my textures window in SU, but no actual textures appeared. Can you help me get these installed? thanks, Keea
There are some plugin tools available to batch import images as textured-materials - look in the SCF Plugins Index...
After you have imported all of the images as textured-materials you can adjust the texture size etc...
When you have a set of suitable textured-materials in your model you can use the Materials Browser's pop-out menu to save them all as a 'collection' of SKM files in a Materials subfolder... any of those newly created SKMs can then be used in subsequent models...Incidentally my 2dTools set has a 'hatch' capability - the images in its appropriate subfolder [and the supplementary sub-subfolder of images] can be used to make a set of hatched-materials... either using 2dTools OR by batch-importing them and saving as a 'collection' as outlined above...
Thanks...It seemed like the 2d tools is an easier way to go, so I tried to download the plugin, but not appearing within my SU. This was the plugin: 2Dtools_53.zip Is that the correct one. Simply dragging the folder into the plugins folder didn't seem to do it. Can you assist me here. These hatch patterns would be of great help to me if I can get them up and running....thanks,
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If you have unzipped the "2Dtools_53.zip" archive you should have a folder named after it, "2Dtools_53".
Open that folder and you'll see some files and subfolders, move all of these into the Plugins folder, keeping all files that are inside subfolders intact and inside those moved subfolders.Alternatively... get thomthom's Simple Plugins Installer from the Plugins Index - v8M2 only.
Once that's installed it adds a toolset to the Plugins menu that let you "auto-install "tools from RBZ/ZIP archives, or even simple RB/RBS ones... -
@tig said:
If you have unzipped the "2Dtools_53.zip" archive you should have a folder named after it, "2Dtools_53".
Open that folder and you'll see some files and subfolders, move all of these into the Plugins folder, keeping all files that are inside subfolders intact and inside those moved subfolders.Alternatively... get thomthom's Simple Plugins Installer from the Plugins Index - v8M2 only.
Once that's installed it adds a toolset to the Plugins menu that let you "auto-install "tools from RBZ/ZIP archives, or even simple RB/RBS ones...I got them installed and working. Are these hatch patterns visible in LO? Didn't show up even in Raster and Hybrid? thanks,
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If there's not enough contrast trying editing a jpg in say Gimp and increase its contrast ?
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