Is This Quality Possible?
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a - what would be the downside of having end points turned down to 1
The endpoints wouldn't show. My opinion is they shouldn't be turned on when you are modeling. They are more for display. I leave endpoints turned off and don't use them.
b - what would be the downside of having profiles turned down to 1
You won't get the heavier edges in your model. Profiles are mainly for display also.
b - what would be the downside of having extensions turned down to 0
You won't be masking where the edges you're drawing actually end. Again, extensions are for display purposes. They can be annoying when you are modeling. It's much better to have them turned off while you are drawing.
c - does anyone know how to change the Anti-Aliasing settings on a mac
There is a tool that can be used for changing the AA settings on a Mac. Either I'll hunt it up or someone else will be along with the link to it.
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Thank you so much for all of your help Dave.
I found this hack for the Anti Liasing and i now have a perfect display
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Did you experiment with the OpenGL settings in SketchUp? Don't have any problems with jaggies on my MacBook Pro with the default AA settings.
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@pauly7 said:
Thank you so much for all of your help Dave.
I found this hack for the Anti Liasing and i now have a perfect display
Then you're all set.
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Hi Dave, i don't have any settings under OpenGL other than the 4 checkboxes
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Yeah. On Mac that's all you get under OpenGL settings in SketchUp. But did you try making any changes to them to see what you get?
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Dave, I sometimes find endpoints are helpful in modeling to show me endpoints particularly in non welded curves or colinear edges. Profiles are sometimes helpful in showing non planar edges while modeling.
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Peter, that's a good point. I meant to add that endpoints and heavy profiles can be useful in some cases so they shouldn't be forgotten. Setting endpoints to 1, though, probably won't be very useful.
Another thing I intended to add is that you probably don't want to turn Profiles off. Setting them to 1 is likely the better choice. Notice the difference in appearance of the cylinder with Profiles set to 1 and turned off entirely.
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@dave r said:
Notice the difference in appearance of the cylinder with Profiles set to 1 and turned off entirely.
I always have profiles on, and I have a shortcut to toggle endpoints for same reasons as Peter, but I wasn't onto that
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Sometimes I see SketchUp files in which the user has turned off profiles and they are wondering why the round stuff disappears.
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Thanks again for the help guys, much appreciated.
SU should really but an Anti Liasing setting on the Mac version, so users don't have to hack at it in the Ruby Console.
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