A Welcome Message to New SketchUcation Members
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Just joined, looking forward to learning more about SketchUp!
I guess I'll just thank everyone in advance!
-Monty
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Hi Jeff and welcome!
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Hi All,
...and enormous thanks for all of your help and information! I discovered SU a year ago, while looking for an alternative to my old student version of AutoCAD (for interior design). I've been giddy with delight ever since! I was successfully using the Pro 7 version until a few days ago, when I upgraded to the new Pro 8, and am now having issues with Push/Pull not functioning correctly. (It seems to work for a few operations, and then starts to just move the faces)
I've read that it could be related to my mouse (Logitech LX 3 optical) and wonder if anyone here has encountered the same issue, and hopefully can offer some advice? I unfortunately uninstalled the older program, and am desperate to get "up and running" again. I'm having SU withdrawal symtoms!!!
Any suggestions would be most appreciated!I'm excited to be part of this forum, and looking forward to learning more.
-BarbE
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Hi BarbE (and welcome),
Maybe it's your graphics card/driver. Ty to disable hardware acceleration under Window > Preferences > OpenGL settings. If it "seems" to help, first thing should be to update your video driver.
What video card do you have by the way?
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Thanks for the welcome and the suggestion. I did try that earlier as a solution, but it didn't work. My Graphics card (is that the same as the Video card?...please forgive me if that's a dumb question!) is the NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800M GS 512MB.
Fortunately, I did a System Restore, and have my Pro 7 Version back. I plan to reinstall the 8 version at a later time.
Thanks again for your welcome and prompt response. Also Happy New Year!
-BarbE
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Well, openGL and graphic (or video) card issue was just my first guess. Yet you could still try a driver update. If it used to work with SU 7 and now with SU 8 it has issues, I am still suspicious (the card itself seems to be okay).
I also have a Logitech mouse but I did not install its driver just using it as a plug and play mouse and it works flawlessly.
Anyway, you can install and keep both SU versions at the same time. I have all since version 6 and can even run them together.
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Thanks for the welcome. My name is Rick and I am new to SU and will be learning to use it for woodworking as a hobbyist. Thanks
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Happy and prosperous New Year to all you sketchy characters.
I'm a technical illustrator / patent draftsman. New to SketchUp.
I kicked around in Second Life for several years. I learned a lot about building in 3D and textures there.
Here is one of my first stabs at SketchUp.
It's a scene from an informal story myself and two of my brothers are writing - just for the fun of it.
My goal is to become proficient with SketchUp this year and incorporate it into my day-to-day production stream.
Thanks in advance for the warm welcome,
JicJac
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Hi,
Welcome to SCF. That's a big cog you got!
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@unknownuser said:
Hi,
Welcome to SCF. That's a big cog you got!
When I was into SecondLife, I created many SteamPunk Victorian environments. Scale was almost always out of proportion - intentionally. Dealing with fantasy worlds provides license to mix and match contemporary with rustic (Jules Verne-esque). It's fun and nonrestrictive. Not sure where SketchUp will take me. There seems to be plenty of competent architectural drafters out there. I suppose my creations will run from contemporary mechanical to fanciful SteamPunk Victorian and a few artistic pieces.
Thanks for the comment,
JJ
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Olá amigos!
My name is Manu, I'm an architect and I'm from Portugal.
I use Sketchup since it was a @last software, I've started to use it as a volume sketch/study tool at arch school, than I've begun to understand the hidden capabilities of sketchup and ended up using it for the hole architecting process except licensing, witch use "good" old autocad from exported sections.
As a work tool I need it to be fast, and sketchup is the fastest model maker I've tried until we start bending the geometry in more than one axle, as soon as we do it workflow just drops to the ground.
With this in mind I think I'm limiting my design creativity just to get things done at scheduled.
I have been following this forum unregistered for quite a while, but know I realy need your help to search and understand some plugins witch I think will keep me stick with sketchup.
My thanks since now.
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Hi Manu,
Welcome to SCF!
You'll definitely get good advice here. And you'll get help with finding solutions quickly. Get posting
We also have a Portuguese forum that you can access via your User Control Panel. There's a tab there named User Groups which allows you to access the other languages etc.
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hi guys!
congrats for this friendly place! -
@doppel said:
hi guys!
congrats for this friendly place!Ha! If only you could see Rich when he is paying for the rounds in the pub!
(And if you saw how many people I've banned for the last couple of days!)
This is just since Christmas - so we are not necessarily that friendly...
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Hello,
I am working on an ergonomic ultralight aircraft cabin and I am testing ideas with Sketchup.
I am new to 3D software and have limited drawing capacity (inference helps a lot !).
I am in the process of getting a Phlatprinter III to make actual physical mockup.Cheers,
Laurent
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Hi Laurent,
Welcome to SCF.
Sounds like a cool project. Don't be afraid to post some pics or problems you have!
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hi all
my name luke, i am an architec and urban design...
sketch up is very easy and helpfull in my projectsi hope can lern more about sketch up in this forum
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Hello All,
I am a new member here and would like to introduce myself.
My name is stéphane and i live to france.
Someone can tell me how to see french topic because i don't have permission please ?
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Hi stéphane and welcome!
In your User Control panel you can join different usergroups.
I have added you to the French group now however so you can see/post in that subforum.
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Hi all,
Really glad I found this place. My name's Dylan I'm a freelance illustrator mainly working in comics. I've worked for 2000ad and am currently working on a French graphic novel for delcourt.
I got into sketchup because of its ease of use(being free helped a lot too!) compared with other 3d progs. I assumed it would only be good for very basic modelling and felt it was quite limited. The more I get into it though I'm finding out what a great program it really is and the part I thought was limited was actually me!!
My aim is to build detailed sets for my comic, to free me up in terms of layout. At the moment I still feel pretty limited in my skills but am hoping to improve with practice and help from sites like this.
I keep a blog here http://www.dylansdrawingboard.blogspot.com/ mainly sketchbook stuff but I'll stick up my models soon.
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