Posts made by Andrash

Thank you, Dave! I completely forgot about Styles window.

What are the differences in Architectural vs Interior and Production Design templates?

I created 3D project of the apartment. The next step is to design kitchen furniture, all the units, boxes and play with the different layouts/measures etc. While rotating and zooming the model other rooms' walls are often getting in the way and distract me from the kitchen. What is the easy way to copy just part of the model that contains only one room (the kitchen) and paste it in a separate file for better focused layout designing?

Or am I probably thinking the hard way and using Sections/Cuts in the same file is more elegant?

Mac OS + SU2015, Clicking on any of CBS icon buttons (red, green, help, info) gives empty windows.
I think it's something with the syntax in scripts such as unneeded spaces somewhere in parameters, but unfortunately I don't know ruby.

I can use Extensions-CBS Tools Menu and choose any of the cabinets from the list, that works fine.
But no help or wedi/wedib windows.

Another newbie question: how did you manage to make section that the floor and the ceiling stay intact?

Thank you Dave! I just though it's more of a geometry task, measuring diagonals etc, but I couldn't figure out what distances to measure

P.S. Your picture is great! It easily explains everything. My problem was that I took the wrong hard way, I was trying to rotate and move the panel in not directly on axes but diagonally to the far corner, which is really hard to Move and Rotate in all 3 dimensions.

In the process of designing cabinets in my wardrobe I stumbled upon one problem: Will I be able to put the wooden panel with needed measures through the door in my room or it will stuck in the way?

How can I solve this task with SU modeling?

fit_or_not.skp

I know it's basics but still I'm stuck.
I create a geometry in Layer0. Let's say it is a rectangle. Triple click it and make a group. Create new layer called floor and assign this group to layer "floor". When I turn this layer on and off my rectangle appears and disappears respectively.
However if I open this group for editing and click any of its entities: Edges, Face, the Entity Info shows that each of them belong to Layer0. Meanwhile the group as a whole belongs to "floor".

Is that the normal behavior or I should change the Layer of any entity in the group from Layer0 manually?

S Shepherd, unfortunately I cannot open your model from SU2014 in my SU 2013.

Here's the room

small_wardrobe.skp

Is it possible to switch the walls transparency on and off?

I'm trying to build up closets and shelves in the small wardrobe room. Room size is approx. 2x1meter, walls height is 2.7m.
It's hard to see furniture location options in such a tiny place with high walls. What is the best way to organize the project?
Should I make the front wall with the entrance door the separate group so I could hide it from the rest of the walls? Or I should keep all the walls as one single group but instead play with sections and field of view?

The goal is to make the model with closets as "viewable" as possible for non-sketchup user, so my girlfriend could decide which type of closets/shelves would be better for her.

Yippie!!
I fixed that!
There was actually a problem in " langdat.txt" file that comes in CBStools/lang/
In that file there was a line-break/new-line/EndOfLine after the " en" text.
Cadbox-ch.rb file contains the following:

` path = File.join(File.dirname(FILE), "CBStool", "lang", "langdat.txt")
la = IO.read(path)
la = la.gsub("\n", "")

require 'CBStool/lang/' + la + '.rb'`

Therefore as I understand that was giving us 'C BStools/lang/en .rb' file path, yes with the unneeded space between "e n" and " .rb" extension. Hence the error message that I was getting over and over regardless of installation method (manual or via RBZ):

" Error Loading File cadbox-ch.rb no such file to load -- CBStool/lang/en .rb"

I deleted the EndOfLine in langdat.txt and now it works as it should.

I deleted CBStool folder and cadbox-ch.rb from Applications Suuport-Sketchup 2013-Plugins.
Opened SU2013, Preferences-Extensions-Install Extension -> CBStool2014.rbz
Relaunched SU2013 and got the same error again:

Error Loading File cadbox-ch.rb
no such file to load -- CBStool/lang/en.rb

I'm Skecthup beginner. Could you please help me with CBS on SU2013. It's not working on my MacOS 10.9.3.
The error message that I get is the following:

Error Loading File cadbox-ch.rb
no such file to load -- CBStool/lang/en.rb

How can I fix that?