[image: wrTW_pataan.jpg] Call it dumb luck, but I came across this post: http://groups.google.com/group/Sketchup-Pro/browse_thread/thread/ca7d0ba921af4611 Then I tried opening ArcScene, selected the tin surface, then added the face elevation with graduated color ramp from the symbology properties, and exported it in 3d vrml (.wrl). I then imported it in Blender 3d and exported it as collada (.dae). I don't know much about Blender 3d and I can't figure out how to display the imported data but just the same, I when I imported it to SketchUp, the surface was there together with the colors. Not as clean as the surveyor's version, but it is almost there. pataan.rar

Ditto. I was going to say my ratings disappeared as well until I was wise enough to see Aerilius' post.

Becca, could you post a screen shot of what you're seeing? Are the components you're importing "Face Me" components? If so and you don't want them to have Face Me behavior, you can select the component from the In Model component library, right click on it and edit the properties to untick the Always face camera box.

MaterialConsolidator is probably the best tool ever to get rid of redundant materials. There are two ways to apply a material, either by using the paint bucket (which changes the UVs) or by selecting the faces and choosing a different material from the entity info. As for my experience this preserves the UVs.

Just did a test on a sphere with 15K faces, rendered in Twilight on High with a porcelain template applied. Rendered by it's self with one sketchup open -- 48 sec. Same sphere copied to a second sketchup and both rendering simultaneously - both finished in 1 min 20 seconds. Twilight showed both sessions using all 8 cores in my machine. Whether rendering one scene or both, cpu was maxed out. Not sure, but on a lower spec'd machine, perhaps turning down the priority setting when trying to render two sessions simultaneously could help prevent a bottleneck in the ram. (My specs are i7 960 CPU, 12 GB of ram, Nvidia GTX 560ti GPU, running on an Asus Rampage III extreme mobo.)

@millzye71 said: Is it possible, and does anyone have an example of how you might call upon a .NET dll from within Google SketchUp Ruby interface? We have a structural engineering package written in .NET. It exposes com interface, and we want to use it from Google sketch. Millzye71 I think that the Ruby API is just for script plugins, not for interfacing from a standalone app. Maybe you could add a Google Sketchup ruby plugin that interfaces with your app? There is a C++ API in addition to the Ruby Script system. Find it here: http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/downloadsdksubmit.html eldo http://net-informations.com

As for the windows, here are some steps I generally put a Gothic window quickly together. Without any further explanation - so if you have questions, refer to the image numbers... Just one note; at the end of the "tutorial", we end up with a window (see also attached) whose outer part is there but if you want to get it to cut both faces of a thick wall, some further steps are needed. Edit: some of the png files are so small (in file size) that this stupid forum software does not even create thumbnails. Please, click on the attachment links. [image: Ewod_01.png] [image: DGAB_02.png] [image: 2FLc_03.png] [image: lXMf_04.png] [image: HcUM_05.png] [image: 6YoG_06.png] [image: 3uge_07.png] [image: XEpH_08.png] [image: 8qL8_09.png] [image: 8uEL_10.png] GothicWindowExample.skp

TIG Once again, thank you very much, you have been a great help.

I have Microsoft documentation on replacing the motherboard and re-installing XP. So far I have done a few conversion things, such as: getting my wireless router back up with a new host MAC addr; Redefining the default printer (temporary) and reading my mail on Yahoo rather than Thunderbird. I am waiting for an answer from NVIDIA regarding how this affects the display drivers, where my HD has an ATI driver and the PC has an NVIDIA card installed.

Sorry I realise that was a bit unlcear. The Pachube link was a community project and despite my asking thr CTO (!) not supported. They do have a Ruby API to pull data from the feed and that is supported I was really hoping that someone might know of a plug in or a project that did something similar, anything took some variables in a Ruby script and applied them to a series of solids in sketchup - to vary height etc proportional to the variable would be very helpful, and we could probably build on that to connect it into Pachube. Any help much appreciated Chris

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=36397&p=321115 Enjoy! Jan

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No. Use preset scene-tabs to quickly flit between views, and Pan/Orbit too...

True, true. And then you don't need to worry about fixing face orientation.

Hi Phil, There may be several problems with 3ds. First of all, make sure that you do not display back faces and all your materials are applied on front faces only. Then also make sure that your material names are no longer than 8 characters (although the exporter may handle this automatically). And of course, there may be other issues as well - I do not use c4d so am not sure.

@unknownuser said: I have an apartment block that is a group. Within that each floor is grouped (or a component if repeated). Within each floor I have a number of components (windows, doors, balconies, or apartment types). Now I name the apartment block Scheme 1. Now I want to do a second scheme (scheme 2) that has larger windows and different balconies. Is it possible to have a script where if I right click on scheme 2 apartment group and make all components unique within it? chaddad, I think this plugin does what you describe. Makes components in the selected group unique

Nice work bro. That should finish the model off nicely.

YOU SAVED ME HUGE AMOUNT OF TIME! One whole hour for lower lip of pharaoh statue! Jesus! TNX MATE!