If you use greyscale images (with the colorize function in sketchup) then PNG's are the clear victor in compression as you can specify how many colors you wish to use, dither, etc. For images that have more than 256 colors the file size tends to be in JPEG's favor. The best thing about PNG is continuous-tone(256 shades) transparency. Best, Jason.

Since version 7 this has been possible by using the slider "Direction from surface" in the ecosystem painter. If set at "perpendicular" you can populate up-side down if you want to.

@putnik said: Anssi, exporting as polymesh gives you one exploded mesh, no groups, no components. With ACIS solids export, everything is nicely grouped. I did my first 3D DWG export try yesterday and it was rather positive. Ok-had no fancy forms, but the minuscule rounded corners someone had put on his window profiles looked quite clean. I used the polymesh option and exported from a parallel projection view. Walls, slabs and roofs became simple surfaces, but family items (windows, doors, curtainwalls etc.) were neatly turned into components. Anssi

its absolutely wonderful tak2hata.. just need a bit tutorial on how the material attached first try: [image: ketewel01.jpg] regards,

This is VERY great! But what would be even greater is to have the choice from 1st and 3rd-person view like in Walkabout3D

maybe messy sex!

@yvan said: The geometries should also be exported as follow: Create a dynamic component with attributes to be exported in the csv file. [image: 01.png] Select primary face in all components to be machined. (components such as hardware are excluded if no face is selected). Only one face per component can be selected. [image: 02.png] Tooling is set by placing geometries in specific layers. For example vertical drilling with a 5mm bit would be associated with the dxf layer called “DV_5”; Routing offset for external shape with DXF layer “ROX_9” (9 for a 9mm router bit.) any combination of machining can be accomplished by linking tooling “strategies” in the CAM software with DXF layers created by Sketchup. [image: 03.png] When the model is ready all “primary” faces are exported as DXF polylines in a specified folder together with the csv file. [image: 04.png] The csv file is then used to automate the import in the CAM software (Enroute, Aspan etc...) [image: 05.png] this is very interesting and this process is exactly what i have been looking for? i need to be able to select a face of a cabinet, automatically apply the shelf drilling & hinge boring. export this as a flat dxf, i have been doing this with a section slice and opening this is in autocad to set requirements for cam but the dxf from sketchup comes through with broken segmented lines so i use the dxf to trace. can anyone help with this??

Hi Julie, I thought you were already taken care of. I will notify Mike.

Any bugs and crashes using VfSu should be reproted to ASGVis to they can investigate the issue.

Demeter see http://greenspacelive.com/site/

Remember that you also need to adjust the camera exposure, as you would in the real world. If you only adjust the intensity of the light sources you often end up with burned out areas. I find that the VfSU default is set up for exterior, so when I do interior shots I need to adjust the exposure.

As far as I know there's no way to replicate 2pt perspective in Indigo because it's an artificial view, and indigo has real world cameras. You might have more luck with Twilight as it's based on Kerkythea isn't it? Failing that you can set everything up with Twilight and then export to KKT.

Thats great. Thanks for the help.

hello ledisnomad, try to change the following option: image sampler: adaptive DMC min 1, max 4, noise threshold 0.01 light cache: untick adaptive actually im using ver 1.05.30, hope it could work on your scene goodluck,

Not very clear ??!! You can found informations on the IES web site : http://www.iesve.com/Software/Model-Building/SketchUp-plug-in

Some versions of speed fan have issues reading correct core temp. But if those are correct, then you better reinstall CPU cooler (so that you sure it do have a good contact) and enhance cooling. For cooling, you can find great tips from http://www.silentpcreview.com/ Here is a good alternatives for speed fan http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ and http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/

Hi, You should not create an Indigo folder inside your Applications folder. Drag and drop the .app files directly into your applications folder. The license file you can put where you like. Don't run Indigo from the dmg volume. Please let me know if you are still having problems running Indigo after this. Thanks!

OK - DR problem went away after I loaded a new options file, There was something corrupt in my original visopt file. As for host machine - it's just kind of annoying that that last bucket sometimes sits there for half a minute after all the buckets on the slave are done. Oh well, certainly better than no DR.

Hi, I just made a new website with our work, all renders done with Maxwell, models made with Sketchup and Modo. There are some models we actually made at real scale, actual timber, stones and so on... We use sketchup for anything regular and straigthforward, Modo for organic shapes. Vectorworks is our choice for 2D drawing. It also does 3D but that's something of the past. The UI of Vectorworks is useless considering these days developments in 3D cad. I used to model all our 3D work in MiniCad and later Vectorworks. The link to our website is here, I made it with iWeb. http://www.fillieverhoeven.nl Francois