The first effort that I actually attached to one of my responses was done with the follow me tool, and I usually add materials by using my own samples and swatches. I work in Special Events and so more often than not have to add the actual material being used to the render not just something close. The clients can be very literal, and expect that what they see is what they get - to the t. This was a challenge for sure, and I will keep on trying time permitting with various methods until I can come up with something acceptable. The decor for every event seems to become more of a head scratcher and I am not the best SU user. I don't work exclusively in SketchUp so trying to keep up with "continuing education" in the various programmes that I use just never seems to leave enough time to focus on just one. Have a lovely weekend.

Thanks

Hi George, Please log out from the site, log in again on the main page at https://sketchucation.com. Do you see menu point near to the upper right corner of the window named "Dev. Tools"? If yes, please click it. It should work now. I also try to set your user to be able to send PMs...

The object is 1/4" thick by 5" long by approx. 4" I will try the scaling method to see if it works with the follow me tool. I just installed fredo round corner. Can round corner do a full half moon round moulding like I am trying to do with the follow me tool? Or would I have to draw two round corner profiles that match up at the half way point ?

SDMITCH! After searching for hours, I finally found your script and it does 90% of what I was looking for. Thank you so much!!! This is the closest thing I have found to a batch material import for 2019. I still have to save the skms back to the folder i want and then upload the collection, but bringing the images in into sketchup is the real timesuck.

You're right... fredo's joinpushpull does something very similar to what I wanted (I didn't know until now) Thanks allot!!!

Yes. Open a new file and set the dimensions to the units you want to use. Then use File>Save as template. Make sure that template is selected to be the default. From then on, you'll use the same units in each model unless you change them in Model Info.

Nice resource Anyone looking for UK based items can try https://www.bimstore.co.uk/categories/walls

@dave r said: How did you rename it? In Windows Explorer. I guess I have to rename it in Sketchup Materials>Edit to affect the list order in Materials drop down menu (ie. put at top of list for convenience). I actually just put them in a separate folder. Happy days.

Thanks for the link. Guess I wasn't using the right search terms. Crap indeed. I tried the revit importer-to-revit-to-sketchup work around and it bloated my model from 11mb to 76mb. Since I didn't have time to experiment with other options I had power through it. I told the higher-ups until I find another route, models requiring heavy terrain work will either have poor accuracy or will require a topo survey. Since topo's are rarely handed out with requests for proposals it looks like we're going with poor accuracy.

@serrot said: what am I doing wrong? Did you read what I wrote? In SU2016 and earlier versions you could turn off hardware acceleration which would make the CPU do the rendering. With SU2017, that is no longer an option. The rendering is done by the GPU. That means the GPU must be sufficient. Again, what graphics card? What driver version? There have also been many user reports of delays related to some files Microsoft pushed in automatic updates. Removing those fixed the problem. First, make sure your graphics drivers are up to date and that your graphics card can support OpenGL 3.0 or higher.

Thanks Fredo. Do you think it possible to technically achieve this? In particular, I'm interested in a workflow where all hard edges are rounded for a given object at once. Even better if it can be proxied, so one could continue working in the non-rounded version, then update the proxy. Blender has a great set of plugins called hard ops, which does this. This plugin is amazing, and I think this can be done even better in SU if there's a good enough fillet algorithm. https://youtu.be/MOr0RBraRaI

How about uploading a sample SketchUp file showing what you want to do?

... this green "Ripple Render" looks awesome Cotty

I use the axis tool and align it with a wall corner on the plan. So, on the cabinet wall, I can take the tape measure tool and search for a corner of a cabinet door for a reference point from which to measure and it doesn't find a corner to reference. You didn't encounter this? Are you on a PC or Mac? I'm on a Mac Thank you!

Thank's filibis

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