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    • jeff hammondJ Offline
      jeff hammond
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      @jql said:

      I'm I talking nonsense here?

      heck no.. grasshopper like capabilities in sketchup would be awesome and i imagine very popular.

      dotdotdot

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      • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
        jiminy-billy-bob
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        • pbacotP Offline
          pbacot
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          ho hum... sure wish I could save Styles on my Mac.

          MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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          • bazB Offline
            baz
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            @jeff hammond said:

            the tricky bit with introducing this type of fuzzy logic(?) into sketchup might not be so much with the fact that user specific numbers / actions are stored or remembered.. i guess that part might even be the easy part.. the tricky part (as i see it right now at least) is how the data is then re-presented to the user..

            Couldn't the rapid advancement of 'personal assistant' tech like 'Siri' add a lot of functionality?

            "Hey Sketchup, draw me a table like xxxx.skp using same material and timber specs, but change the width to xxx, depth to xxx and the height to xxx. Oh, and update xxxx.layout as a new file with this drawing."

            ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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              driven
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              @pbacot said:

              ho hum... sure wish I could save Styles on my Mac.

              why can't you?

              john

              learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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              • pbacotP Offline
                pbacot
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                @driven said:

                @pbacot said:

                ho hum... sure wish I could save Styles on my Mac.

                why can't you?

                john

                It's seems I never could. You have a Mac. I thought it didn't work on Macs. Nothing gets saved except empty collection folders. I make up new styles each job, if they aren't in my template.

                MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
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                  Copy+Paste this in the Ruby Console +<enter>
                  UI.openURL("file:///#{Sketchup.find_support_file('Styles')}")
                  It opens the SketchUp default 'Styles' folder.
                  Is that where you are saving your own Styles [inside a subfolder] ?
                  Also check that the parent 'Styles' folder has FULL read/write permissions for you [all]... and that those permissions settings trickle down to apply to the whole folder's contents...

                  You can save your own Styles on PC and MACs...
                  I can't imagine what you are doing wrong ๐Ÿ˜•

                  TIG

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                  • D Offline
                    driven
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                    mine are saved to my /Users/johns_iMac/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Styles/SubFolder
                    I believe SU makes it when you save the first one, if not make your own in there...
                    For actually making them, I find having the double window the easiest, edit in the top window, update, then right click the 'in one' and 'Save As', I'm fairly sure it has always worked on mac...
                    john

                    learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                    • jeff hammondJ Offline
                      jeff hammond
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                      @pbacot said:

                      It's seems I never could. You have a Mac. I thought it didn't work on Macs. Nothing gets saved except empty collection folders. I make up new styles each job, if they aren't in my template.

                      try it like this: (or some combination of this ๐Ÿ˜‰ there's really not a direct/simple/obvious way to do it)

                      Screen Shot 2015-01-24 at 6.30.06 AM.png

                      (these aren't in order necessarily.. the numbers are just used to correspond with what i'm typing)

                      1. push the expander which opens another browser below

                      2. push that to create a new collection (i put mine in ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/SketchUp201x/SketchUp but you can put it anywhere.. or-- you can just add to existing collections if you like but they'll be overwritten when upgrading sketchup)

                      3. This is where the new styles will be saved to.. in #2, i created a new folder called 'MyStyles'.. now in this browser, i've selected that folder

                      4. drag & drop the new style you've created in the model into this folder (like what the arrow is showing.. drag from the top then release into the bottom white space).. and it will save as a new .style.


                      edit
                      was typing this as john posted above.. see, different methods ๐Ÿ˜‰ ..i think it's more confusing than necessary. (same goes for the material browser)

                      dotdotdot

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                      • jeff hammondJ Offline
                        jeff hammond
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                        @baz said:

                        Couldn't the rapid advancement of 'personal assistant' tech like 'Siri' add a lot of functionality?

                        "Hey Sketchup, draw me a table like xxxx.skp using same material and timber specs, but change the width to xxx, depth to xxx and the height to xxx. Oh, and update xxxx.layout as a new file with this drawing."

                        ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

                        i don't doubt that type of stuff is coming eventually.. like your examples along with just requiring less explicit instructions from the user.

                        "hey skiri, draw a 9' radius sphere with the top third cut off" (for example).. instead of what we'd have to do now to achieve this volume.

                        dotdotdot

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                        • pbacotP Offline
                          pbacot
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                          Thanks I've tried it all over the years. I'll do the ruby search. Don't want to hi-jack the thread.

                          MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                          • S Offline
                            siim11s
                            last edited by

                            Sketchup:
                            Better layer management as in this Layer Panel plugin by jiminy-billy-bob. Does exactly what is needed but has bugs and is not currently being worked on.

                            Layout:
                            Components
                            Plugins + ruby API
                            Improved autotext: Create formulas re-using data from other autotext tags.
                            Layers as for sketchup above.

                            //S.

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                              L i am
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                              I am at a loss to understand why when navigating in Sketchup you are suddenly navigating trough heavy mud with the mouse and getting muscle burn with the ineffectual center wheel but as I grab my 3d Dexion "mouse" with my left hand the mud is gone and easy navigation returns. Surely this is an issue with the mouse/SKP navigation if the issue disappears with another navigation interface ๐Ÿ˜• Surely this can be fixed in 2016

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                              • utilerU Offline
                                utiler
                                last edited by

                                @frederik said:

                                @jql said:

                                I don't like the fact that:

                                • All commands are different in LO than they are from SU (we are so used to SU why reinvent the wheel in LO?)

                                I agree 110%...
                                The commands should be the same...

                                All in all that's a really great list, Joao...! ๐Ÿ‘

                                Ditto, JQL / Frederik... I scratch my head as to why Layout functionality does not mimic SketchUp in everyway possible??? Maybe beacuse the way it started was quite amateurish but has really developed into a solid companion... although a little way to go. ๐Ÿ‘

                                purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                                • C Offline
                                  Calstock
                                  last edited by

                                  Shadows that respect PNG transparency would be great - I presume I'm right in saying we don't have that yet ?

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                                  • pbacotP Offline
                                    pbacot
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                                    @calstock said:

                                    Shadows that respect PNG transparency would be great - I presume I'm right in saying we don't have that yet ?

                                    Good idea. And some other improvements in png if the system (openGL?) allows: eliminate halos that occur in some instances. Stop StyleMaker edges bleeding through png "solid" parts. These would all open up some possibilities in SU native rendering.

                                    MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                    • S Offline
                                      saimonh
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                                      Modifier stack like 3ds Max..

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                                      • DesertRavenD Offline
                                        DesertRaven
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                                        Okay here it is,

                                        1. More import option from CAD programs Text, dimensions, Hatch patterns. This should not be missing ---in a PRO version.
                                        2. More stability in Solid calculations.
                                          Comes with the Quad face Idea and a better, cleaner topology.

                                        How many times have I spent hours, cleaning up models from customers to make them fit for 3D printing!!! I hope I'm not the only one who ever had a complex model, performed a boolean operation only to find out SU rendered the previous clean solid into a reject Solid!!! ๐Ÿ‘ฟ ๐Ÿ‘ฟ

                                        1. Come on! Please fix that push pull tool to where it doesn't leave line fragments and hidden lines in the model! I think this has to do with the auto-fold and smoothing.
                                          So again a big issue with the topology. ๐Ÿคข ๐Ÿ‘Š ๐ŸŽ‰

                                        Meanwhile I use MOI and form Z to save myself from long added hours dealing with this unclean modeler.

                                        1. Now if the topology issues were kind of dealt with, I'd ask for some mapping tools next. โ˜€

                                        Edit:
                                        5. !!!!! Give us an override for that obnoxious constraint engine and give us object-snap options already!!!!!!! Try tracing something that's not supposed to be square?????

                                        simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

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                                        • eneroth3E Offline
                                          eneroth3
                                          last edited by

                                          DesertRaven: What pushpull bug is this? I don't think I've ever seen it.

                                          My website: http://julia-christina-eneroth.se/

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                                          • S Offline
                                            slbaumgartner
                                            last edited by

                                            I'd like a built-in user-configurable tabbed window for tool sets. This would go a long way toward decluttering the typical SketchUp screen! I've seen a couple of examples built using WebDialog, but they are still somewhat buggy and awkward due to the necessary communication between javascript and Ruby.

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