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      santiagom
      last edited by

      about edson´s post, the mac free version does have the ability to change location and solar orientation info.

      http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/sas/Newbie/Location.png

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        Gaieus
        last edited by

        Wow, that's interesting! Thanks for posting it! (Edson uses a Mac version though the pro one).

        Gai...

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          Edson
          last edited by

          @gaieus said:

          Wow, that's interesting! Thanks for posting it! (Edson uses a Mac version though the pro one).

          yes, but until april i used a free version, and i remember having no difficulty in setting the location to porto alegre. you sounded so secure when you said there was no location feature for the free versions that i thought i was confusing things. thanks, santiago.

          edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre • brasil
          http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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            Gaieus
            last edited by

            Well, as you can see in the attached picture by me that in the windows version there is really no such setting (in my office I only installed the free version for I don't want to hassle with the system there and install the net 1.1 framework and thiongs like that).
            I could not imagine that they give out so different versions for Mac and Win.

            So sorry Edson! 😄

            Gai...

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              Edson
              last edited by

              no problem. it is curious that, in some applications, the mac and pc versions differ significantly. microsoft entourage (the mac equivalent to outlook), for one, is quite different from its counterpart.

              cheers.

              edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre • brasil
              http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                blahman
                last edited by

                Good to see some kiwi's on the forum

                Just starting learning the program with the aim of eventually using it for work (Detailing houses for precut)

                Has anyone read the Dennis Fukai's book on construction for sketchup. I wonder how relavent it would be to our metric wood based construction system down here.

                P: blahman

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                  Edson
                  last edited by

                  in case you do not know them, the best two books on SU are:

                  The Sketchup Book, by Bonnie Roskes
                  Google Sketchup for dummies, by Aidan Chopra (videos from the book on you tube). beware of the fancy edition wiley just published: same content, 3x the price.

                  cheers.

                  edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre • brasil
                  http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                    idraft
                    last edited by

                    Yes another Kiwi here form WELLINGTON...

                    I use SUPro6, happy to send you a model which you can down load if you give me the co ordinates you want , then just save as template...I use the shadowing a bit now for Res Consent applications.

                    Cheers Jeff
                    jeff.rae@xtra.co.nz

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                      Jim
                      last edited by

                      Ack, that's an old link. Here's the latest:

                      Link Preview Image
                      Plugin: Model Location

                      * This plug-in was made for SketchUp version 6 Free because it lacked the dialog (which Pro had) to change these settings. This has become ...

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                      (sketchuptips.blogspot.com)

                      @gaieus said:

                      There is however a nifty little ruby by Jim Foltz: "latlong.rb" which works from the free version, too. He deposited it into his "uncertain" scripts (written for SU5 and haven't been confirmed to work without bugs in SU6 yet) here:
                      http://jim.foltz.googlepages.com/plugins_index.html

                      And this is the dialogue it gives in SU6 (I have just downloaded it and installed to SU6 with no problem).

                      Hi

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                        Gaieus
                        last edited by

                        Thanks Jim, I know already that you have the new place - I have just not been able to go through every post of mine to update the links. 😉

                        Gai...

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                          idraft
                          last edited by

                          Hi Gai..

                          You could try this for any dead links? Youve probably sorted this by now! 👍

                          Link Preview Image
                          AM-DeadLink - Freeware tool to detect broken (website) links

                          AM-DeadLink - Freeware tool to detect dead links and redirections. Supports many file formats: website including links, tab-delimited files, CSV files, HTML files and browser bookmarks.

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                          (www.aignes.com)

                          cheers Jeff

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