Quick on the draw!

Tig, Thanks for the thoughts/ideas. I do not think cad orgin issue is at fault here, but I will look closer to be sure. I will try to get the file to a reasonable size and give you the link. I am on a deadline at the moment so I will not have time to do it until tomorrow. Thanks for your help. paul

Rich, Thanks for your help. I've got some issues here possibly with very old windows xp. Our tech guy has been a big help, too. Was finally able to subscribe. Am trying Standard per your recommendation. Thanks, again. Dave

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=56004#p508307

I Got it again...it was just the matter of how i upload the DC. Regards, Shaan

@mitcorb said: Hi, Mistro: I looked around and found an older thread in this link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sketchupissues/gN4yhIK3tGY Is it indeed your graphic card settings? Thanks mitcorb! It's funny because I found that same thread earlier and remembered I never set my graphic card settings after my last reformat. But still not sure if that is the cause because I reformatted months ago and did many Sketchup projects since with no problem. But then again, I recently did a windows update so maybe something got reset? When I went in the Nvidia control panel it was on "let the 3D application decide". So I set it to high quality instead so applications will use the card settings and Sketchup is running more smoothly. If it happens again, I will report it here.

That would be one way to do it. I guess I would just Expand the nested components instead. [image: cvYY_Screenshot-1_23_20144_12_54AM.png] That way you'd see both the nested components and the lower level components. [image: JMls_Screenshot-1_23_20144_13_56AM.png]

The import is only bringing in edges but to run Push/Pull you must have faces. If you trace over an edge segment with the line tool and that segment is part of a closed loop, you should get a face. You could try the Make Faces plugin to speed up the process. If the edges don't make truly closed loops, you won't get faces, though.

well the reason "e1_" is part of that's attribute's name is to control where the option appears in the component options window. with the exception of the predefined size attributes (LenX, LenY, & LenZ, which always appear at the top of the component options window), all other attributes, predefined or custom, get ordered alphabetically in the component options window. if i didn't care where the "back type" option showed up on the list of component options, i'd do away w/ the "e1_" prefix in the name. but this still doesn't explain why my B2D's "e1_back_type" attribute name is changing to "back_type" upon importation after having imported another cabinet that actually has an attribute named "back_type"...i mean it does and it doesn't. obviously there's a link here, but it doesn't make any sense to me, and i feel like its happening in error. likewise, the opposite is true - if i were to import the B2D first, i could open the component attribute window and see for myself that there is in fact an attribute named "e1_back_type"...and if i subsequently import a B1D (or any other cabinet with an attribute named "back_type"), all the instances of "back_type" in its formulas will change to "e1_back_type."

Set author filter to -Authors- to list all authors. As for your scrolling issues...try a different mouse maybe?

It is possible to have different textures on the same UV of a component! And you can move, scale, rotate these textures independently on each component/instance. Just use Octane render. TIG helped in the development of exporting plugin and here is my topic on Octane forum how to use instancing and Sketchup. http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31%26amp;t=22581 [image: file.php?id=29033&mode=view]

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Sorry I had this in the wrong Forum. Would have been nice to know it was moved though. Anyways, I (sort of) fixed the problem for anyone else who has this same issue. First I went through all my plugins and compared the numbers beside them. I did this by going right in my C > Programs ...> Sketchup folders. Then I compared those numbers to the numbers of the updated plugins posted in these forums. Example: [image: f8Yg_PluginNumbers.jpg] Since none of those numbers matched, I decided to go through each of those plugin folders to see if what they had inside matched. Since they did, I removed all the lower numbered folders, and decided to remove ALL of the plugins by Fredo and start over fresh, with the latest ones. However, that still wouldn't let me open Sketchup without it crashing. So, I removed all the folders I needed (Plugins, Components...etc) and placed those on my desktop.(Drag and drop) I then uninstalled Sketchup and did a fresh install. I put all the plugins that I use from the plugins folder on my desktop into the new plugins folder I just installed. (Copy / Paste) and did the same with all the components I made and had in the (desktop) components folder. I also checked all the other folders that I had to make sure nothing was missing. Whoola! It worked! I was finally able to open Sketchup without a bugsplat. Only issue I have now is, I can't seem to find my toolbars that go to some of the plugins. I also don't see some of them listed under Plugins, tools, Window and View Toolbars menu. I am wondering if, when I moved them to my desktop, if the .rs and other .r files that I now see in their respective folders, need to be taken out of the folder and just listed under the folders? I also can't load some of them, that I know are in there. So, I missed something somewhere. [image: GREE_ErrorLoading.jpg] Without having to reinstall all those plugins,(that actually still exist in my plugins folder) is there a step I missed? I don't want to mess things up any more than they are, and since I'm not a coder, I don't know what belongs inside the folder, and what should be outside of the folder. I know I copied my original folder contents exactly like they were, so I'm stumped. If I have to, I'll reinstall them, but I'm afraid I might not remove all of what needs to be removed properly. Thanks for any help!

Have a look at Fredo's Thrupaint in fredotools http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=373073#p373073

Please go to the User Control Panel and set the info for your platform, SketchUp version, etc. It is hard to help without thi info, as most plugins that deal with the Ruby Console are platform specific.

Just don't claim the 3dWH stuff is 'yours'...

@pgarmyn said: @masterpaul You have it if the view direction (line between camera and viewpoint) is perpendicular to the sectionplan, with camera switched 'on'. Any face perpendicular to the view direction is represented without (perspective) deformation, and they will have the same scale if they are in the same perpendicular plan (= same distance). Yeah, your right, I I didnt set my model to be aligned to the axes, it was slightly off.

Not that healthy. For US customers, quarter pounder with cheese (pulp fiction). [image: LdSO_big-mac.jpg]