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  • J Offline
    juju
    last edited by 8 Feb 2020, 12:15

    @mike amos said:

    A short question if I may, why the video to make such a small point? Why not just give a simple instruction?

    Because we are creative people, and creative people are visual people?

    Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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      Mike Amos
      last edited by 11 Feb 2020, 07:12

      I am a creative person and like to think visually, that's why I like text, so much simpler and less room for waffling. Nice.

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        samnorth
        last edited by 11 Feb 2020, 10:22

        ThomThom's Camera tools has a shortcut to the camera parameters panel [SU menu->Camera->Advanced]

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          jiminy-billy-bob
          last edited by 12 Feb 2020, 07:39

          @juju said:

          Interesting how this is somehow "discovered" and only makes it "out there" AFTER clipping plane was released...

          The "Force" checkbox was added in SketchUp 2017. We've known since then.
          The issue is that it is not exposed in the Ruby API, so no extension could leverage it.
          I guess Daniel Tal's extension simply found a hacky way to check this box automatically, but simulating clicks or something like that. This is probably the reason it is only available on Windows.

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            GD3Design
            last edited by 23 Feb 2020, 13:13

            $50! 😮

            Greedy much..?

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              juju
              last edited by 23 Feb 2020, 19:15

              @gd3design said:

              $50! 😮

              Greedy much..?

              Not cheap/inexpensive no.

              It works (Windows only), it saves time, it saves aggrevation, it is a perpetual licence. From what I understand it makes use of 3rd party software/code which is licenced, nobody else has been able to bring a solution to market since ever.

              Rather say you can't afford it, no shame in that.

              Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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                Pixero
                last edited by 24 Feb 2020, 09:48

                I've made a plugin that opens the advanced camera settings window on rightclick if you want to adjust clipping plane manually.

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                  slbaumgartner
                  last edited by 24 Feb 2020, 13:56

                  Not meaning to whine, but this all raises the question of why no such camera parameters dialog has ever been available on Mac - meaning it isn't even possible to create the equivalent of Daniel's plugin!

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                    Dave R
                    last edited by 24 Feb 2020, 14:19

                    Be aware that if you set the Near value too low you can create other problems. You might end up with something like this:
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                    Instead of this:
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                      Pixero
                      last edited by 24 Feb 2020, 15:08

                      @slbaumgartner said:

                      Not meaning to whine, but this all raises the question of why no such camera parameters dialog has ever been available on Mac - meaning it isn't even possible to create the equivalent of Daniel's plugin!

                      Doesn't this work on Mac?

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                        Dave R
                        last edited by 24 Feb 2020, 15:17

                        @pixero said:

                        Doesn't this work on Mac?

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                        No. It's a PC thing only.

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                          sfto1
                          last edited by 24 Feb 2020, 16:47

                          @pixero said:

                          I've made a plugin that opens the advanced camera settings window on rightclick if you want to adjust clipping plane manually.

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                          Thanks Pixero!

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                            sfto1
                            last edited by 24 Feb 2020, 17:18

                            @dave r said:

                            Be aware that if you set the Near value too low you can create other problems. You might end up with something like this:
                            [attachment=1:2ofksyrr]<!-- ia1 -->Screenshot - 2_24_2020 , 8_17_37 AM.png<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:2ofksyrr]

                            Instead of this:
                            [attachment=0:2ofksyrr]<!-- ia0 -->Screenshot - 2_24_2020 , 8_17_54 AM.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2ofksyrr]

                            Using Pixero's solution, if the z fighting effect happens, uncheck the "force" box and zoom out. The camera near distance resets and the z fighting effect should disappear.

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                              Dave R
                              last edited by 24 Feb 2020, 17:23

                              Yes. I found that works. I was just advising that one shouldn't just set a very small Near value and expect it to work for all camera positions.

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                                sfto1
                                last edited by 24 Feb 2020, 17:47

                                @dave r said:

                                Yes. I found that works. I was just advising that one shouldn't just set a very small Near value and expect it to work for all camera positions.

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