@chrisglasier said: But if they are imported some other way, is there some nifty way to refer to them? I guess there has to be an observer which checks if an instance of a component is added. @chrisglasier said: I don't know much about observers. I guess they can "see" changes in xyz's, rotation and so on but can they also log logical relationships to other components. (design criteria type thing). An observer will tell you that an object has been moved (transformed), but that is all. The AI has to be coded to react on such an event. It is the hardest thing, I think. Tomasz

be continued... Moi, SU SU, SU Kerkythea, Podium [image: 19648d38b8e7de83.jpg]

KT on Mac's no problem at all. Pinoy

There is a more professional piece of software available called Lamina which is also designed to unfold geometry. It allows you to input the real thickness of the material being unfolded, and then it prepares a cutting sheet with numbers and even tabs if you want them. You can save the output as a DXF cutting path for use with laser or plasma cutters or a waterjet/waterknife. http://laminadesign.com/index.html It's pricy...$395, but it's aimed at fabricators and rapid prototyping shops. I bought a copy after learning that some sculptors were using it for preparing sheetmetal for assembly...it does a nice job making complexly curved surfaces developable (not that's a situation you often see with SketchUp models...with Rhino, it's inevitable).

this is what imean always at asgvis whe you are using vray. imho, if you are trying to use all these artificial lights (without sunglight)... do not use the camera yet. it will greatly confused use without really knowing how vray works. you see in vray sun, is very bright, so you need to use your camera in order to balance the harsh lighting. like what stinkie said, why not visit the main vray site. there are even basic tutorials there. that black there is because of the camera). in order to correct it. 1. read the manual 2. if you are lazy to read the manual, then you either increase your light multiplier for your omni or rect lights or you have to adjust the camera exposure...

If you have problem with Podium can you call in the Podium forum ...It would be useful if you post skippy with your post.

Brad I use TurboCad with SU for condoc creation. Flatten the model and export as 3d dwg. (2d export does not work the same) Dimensions and leaders export as Tcad default and I just select and change formating to suit.[Edit/Select by/Entity type] Text comes in as Tcad "Multi-text" and is format/content editable too. Not parametric but a pretty good work-around for 2d and the price is right too. Good idea to make both a 2d and 3d version of the model concerned. Both dimensions and text actually come across substantially OK so do check it out. dtr

modelhead, not necessarily. You just need to turn the power up a lot if you dont set the background to black.

You should contact the author and see if they can help you with this ancient old plugin. From your error message it does look like you installed it into the wrong directory. Maybe it would help if you put it in the right one which should be User/App Data/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins. You shouldn't be installing extensions into the Program Data directory.

Hi. Im a Spirit user also from New Zealand (Wellington). Upgrading to 2009 asa I can find time to do it. I use Pro7 SU too. Have had problems getting onto this site, but back now thanks to Gai' hard wk ..Im trying to locate some kiwi's again Cheers Jeff

That's a neat little program. Is there anywhere to freely host a hypercosm model to be viewed by the public? I would love to be able to rotate through some of the great models that people on here have made. Hell, I think there is a whole city being modeled right now by someone in the gallery, and screen grabs just don't do it justice.

Sure! I'm glad I was able to help. When I was talking to one of the tech's at V-Ray they said they were aware of the problem and are working on it. I think if more people let V-Ray know the faster the will fix it. I use V-Ray all the time and feel it is the best rendering program available that works "inside" Sketchup. I know Maxwell is a great rendering program as well but it's nice not to have to export your model into another program. That's what makes V-Ray so nice for us. Until that last update by V-Ray it has worked great.

Although we have our own Forum for IRender nXt: http://nxt.accurender.com/forums/146.aspx I think many SketchUp users would prefer to post all their SketchUp related questions at a single forum. I was hoping that SCF wanted to be just that - a place for all questions relating to SketchUp - (SketchUp itself, 3D Warehouse, COntent providers, Ruby and other extensions, Renderers, other apps, etc.) By making the add-ons section more flexible (i.e. a sub-forum for any add-on which requests it), we would make it easier for users to post their questions to the proper sub-forum, to read questions about the add-on, and to subscribe to questions about the add-on)

sorry, thatll be $195 for v1 and $295 for v2 then, and $100 to upgrade from v1 to v2.

Works fine on my laptop with XP 64 bit

I vote for the return of sub forums..! Was much more easy to deal with...please!

Yes "The first official release of LightUp is now available" is released so no more beta for free after the first try