One more for the road.
A small note on the model; you need to cut holes in the surface of the whiskey where the icecubes are, if you are using an physically accurate engine.
On the other hand this is actually a situation that render engines(atleast Maxwell) can´t get physically right. When light first enters from air to ice and then into whiskey, that ray of light will think it is in air, as it passed thru the backface of ice (not thru the frontface of whiskey). Still, the difference is probably very hard to see...

SU+Realflow4+Maxwell

@gaieus said:

Well, maybe they thought you are a sexist macho...

Yes, in the E-onsoftware fantasy world of Hobbits and goblins it is not about how big it is, but about how you use it. But we, who are trapped in the gloomy testosterone dripping real world of architecture, are sadly worried about things like the size.
Actually the SU import would be fine if the import scale factor is corrected. It appears to be independent of export/import units, as it should be. It will be easier to work with a SU file directly without having to use a third file format for transfer.

@solo said:

They do import .skp, if you read the literature is says it works with SU6 and Vue 32 bit.

Yes it odes import SketchUp 6 files, only the scale is totally off, or maybe there is some setting I haven't undestood. So, it sort of partly works, but is usesless.
Can someone else import from SU at the correct scale?

This is the company I wrote to a few years ago asking for them to make it possible to import objects with the right size, and they replied by asking why I am so obsessed with size .

I just upgraded from Vue6 to Vue8 complete, hoping things would have improved with the SU import. Unfortunately it still looks like it hasn’t.
I can’t import SU7 files.
SU6 files come in nicely except for the scale. I get a scaling factor of 3,937 on everything. Why?
Collada comes in the right size, but the materials are all screwed up.
3ds looks pretty good, but I should be able to export in decimetres to get it in right scale to Vue. So, I need to manually rescale all imports in Vue? Also when I updated the scene in SketchUp, and resaved the 3ds, it does update, but it looses its size when updated in Vue.

I’m rather frustrated with e-on. They should not advertise they import SketchUp files!
Sheik

Hi Francois,
I´m on XP, and the plugin for MR2.0 works fine here.
I have seen a few posts about the plugin not working, but I wonder if they are all on OSX? Is the plugin working for anyone on OSX?
Sheik

Here is one more from Maxwell. I was temted to test the background images for lighting, so I didn´t spend much time with the rest of the setup.


Sheik

500 would be about 10% of the price of AutoCad, and half of Rhino. I think it is a fair price.
It is less than an architect would charge for a day, so I tink it is not too big an investment.
But SketchUp free is free, so no cometition there....

Well I have played with Bonzai for a few evenings now. It is too buggy to really start working with it, but that will probably improve soon.
I must say I like it. This is close to what I wished SU7 would have been like, and some more.
Some parts of the UI still feel a bit unintuitive and some stuff could have been streamlined, but on the other hand there is a bunch of stuff I would really like to see in SketchUp. There are things that SketchUp definitely does better, like inferensing, so it is still hard to decide. I think some parts of the UI are still not completed, like the materials editor, so Bonzai will still improve (will SU?).
So far I have not found anything that I would consider to be a dealbreaker, if considering it as replacement for SketchUp. But they need to solve some of the bigger bugs before it is possible to put it to a real test.
Sheik

Thanks Matthew,
I'll try that. The value should be zero at zero, so this should be easy.
Sheik