A Welcome Message to New SketchUcation Members
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Hi,
My name is John. I've been taking advantage of the current economic down turn, to, amongst other things learn Sketchup. The reason I joined the forum is my interest in Fredo's amazing freescale tool. I'm using a Mac running Leopard and have been unable to install the downloads correctly in my plugins folder. I was wondering if someone could post a screen shot of the folder hierarchy properly installed? I have been following the posts on the Ruby forum and have tried several ways to do the installation, but no joy. All suggestions gratefully accepted.
Thanks John
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Hi John and welcome. Unfortunately I don't know the ins and outs of the Mac but I'm sure someone will be able to give a hand. Did you also post your question in the Runy forum?
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@remus said:
Sounds like sketchup is the programme for you, it's learning curve is relatively shallow
Feel free to start a thread if you need any specific help.
Hi Remus,
Yes I probably will have to ask for lots of help. I guess the first question is where do I start, or how do I start?Cheers
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Hi John,
"Stuck" up to the top of this forum is the "Getting started" topic. There there are links to various resources to video tutorials, the SU manual etc.
They are great places to start at (however back a fe years ago, when I started, I just started with doodling around and only went to the resources when I found out that SU may know more than I can imagine).
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@gaieus said:
Hi John,
"Stuck" up to the top of this forum is the "Getting started" topic. There there are links to various resources to video tutorials, the SU manual etc.
They are great places to start at (however back a fe years ago, when I started, I just started with doodling around and only went to the resources when I found out that SU may know more than I can imagine).
Hi Gai,
Thanks for that, I was just having a quick look around, and now I'm beginning to think if this is really what I'm trying to do. Basically all I want is a plan drawing of a campsite with some trees scattered around, a campfire, a caravan, an outhouse, and an area for 3 4WD vehicles plus a few other bits and pieces added to it all to make it look like a remote campsite. Something that I will be able to print out and present as part of my assignment. I just feel I'm getting over my head for the so little time that I have.
But I will go and have a look at getting started as you suggested and see what I can come up with.
Cheers
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If you only want to "shovel" a couple of items like that together, you may want to ahe a look at the 3D Warehouse, download the necessary models and arrange them around. There are all the trees, campfires, tents, caravans, vehicles there...
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@gaieus said:
If you only want to "shovel" a couple of items like that together, you may want to ahe a look at the 3D Warehouse, download the necessary models and arrange them around. There are all the trees, campfires, tents, caravans, vehicles there...
Thanks Gai, I shall go and have a look straight away, and yes I think you're right, I just want to put a few things together so I can get this assignment going.
Cheers
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Just had a look at 3D Warehouse, also D/L SU7, had a very quick play and also D/L a 3D caravan, but that's where I have got lost, I don't know how to scale it down etc etc,
Cheers
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Why would you want to scale it down? Most probably (unless you are very unlucky),it is to-scale; i.e. 1:1.
Note that this is a virtual world so there's no reason to scale down/up anything (with rare exceptions not worth mentioning here) if you can work "in real world scale". Otherwise we would always find out what the original scale was and need to scale everything all the time.How about zooming out with the scroll wheel instead?
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Select the caravan components->tools->scale then click the corner handles
edit: you beat me to it gai.
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Thanks Remus & Gai for your help. Bottom line for me is I think it's just too much for me to take in and learn up on, I just don't have the time. I know you get nothing for nothing in this world and given another time(or more time)I would be only too happy to listen and learn, but my plate is pretty full at the moment. I will just have to be happy to let my 9yr old draw it freehand for me.
Cheers
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Thanks Gaieus,
I'll repost to ruby. I've got enough learning to get through for now, but as a carpenter I will need to join the woodworking board soon.
Thanks again John
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@jcharltoncarp said:
...as a carpenter I will need to join the woodworking board...
I have add you to that usergroup so you should be able to see it / post in there.
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@remus said:
Hi david. Those physical models sound rather intriguing, howd you go about cutting out the slices after youve cut up the SU model? Is it a case of printing out templates and using them to cut your slices or have you found a more elegant solution?
We have in our shop a 5 axis mill driven off of Surfcam software. I export a .dxf file of the sections into Surfcam and then we cut the sections out of 5mm foam core.
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mmmmm, 5 axis of milling goodness. I imagine theres some fun to be had with a machine like that.
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@remus said:
mmmmm, 5 axis of milling goodness. I imagine theres some fun to be had with a machine like that.
Indeed............
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Hi there
Greetings from Sydney Australia
While not new to SKU, (started with V5) I'm new to this forum and am hoping someone can point me in the right direction because I'm feeling a bit stupid. I downloaded ToolsOnSurface, LibFredo6_31c, Freescale_20c and JointPushPull from the Ruby Forum yesterday. As I'm working on a MacBook Pro, Mac OS X 10.5.2 4GB RAM, I saved the folders into the Library/Application Support/SketchUp7/Plugins folder. Opened SKU and they weren't loaded. OK, open SKU Preferences to add them and they weren't available.
OK, (deep breath) go back to Plugins folder and take the .rb files out of their respective folders so they are now at the same level as all other .rb files. Restart SKU only to be told that "no such file to load -- /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/TOS_Dir_13/LoaderOnSurface.rbError Loading File ZLoader__OnSurface.rb
no such file to load -- /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/TOS_Dir_13/LoaderOnSurface.rb."
What am I doing wrong? Told you I felt a bit stupid!
Cheers from Orchard Collie, Architectural Drafting Teacher, Sydney Institute of Technology. -
Welcome Orchard, I don't use MAC but I'm sure someone can help out.....
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Hi Orchard and welcome.
Me not a Mac user either, am not sure what the issue is but when I unzip on a Windows system, it offers me the possibility to unzip the content under the Plugins folder into a (sub)folder which would have the same name as the zip file.
Now I have to unzip everything straight under the Plugins folder, not into this offered subfolder.If we take an example,I download JointPushPull.zip. Inside (not necessarily with these names but I am just making them up) there is another folder called JointPushPull and an rb file say jointpushpull.rb. Windows offers me to unzip everything into a folder called JointPushPull and within this folder, a subfolder JointPushPull (again) and the rb file. Now this is what's not good because both should go right under the main Plugin directory.
So if you moved the rb file under Plugins and it is already loading,it's good news. Bad news is that i's trying to acces something that's in the folder you haven't moved up one level yet. Move that up,too (and do the same with all the downloaded plugins) and I hope they will work properly.
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