@putnik said:

Anssi, exporting as polymesh gives you one exploded mesh, no groups, no components. With ACIS solids export, everything is nicely grouped.

I did my first 3D DWG export try yesterday and it was rather positive. Ok-had no fancy forms, but the minuscule rounded corners someone had put on his window profiles looked quite clean. I used the polymesh option and exported from a parallel projection view. Walls, slabs and roofs became simple surfaces, but family items (windows, doors, curtainwalls etc.) were neatly turned into components.

Anssi

One thing that might be worth a try would be to import the old file as a component in a new, clean file.

Anssi

These illustrations were brought to life in the 1960s by the Czech animator Karel Zeman, who made films mixing animation with live actors.

See for instance:

Anssi

Is there a difference between exporting the model from Revit as a polymesh or ACIS solids? I must try myself, but I am just trying to learn Revit and haven't made anything spectacular to play with yet.

Anssi

I have often wondered if these errors are more frequent with people who use metric dimensions, due to the extra math required, as internally SU is based on inches.

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@keeneanderson said:

I know I have seen multiple files open by one SketchUp program before, so it can be done...

Thanks

You have been looking at the Mac version of SketchUp

Anssi

I am sort of starting to hope that we had a separate Metric version of Sketchup. The present situation is that the majority of users have to cope with a shoddy translation system added to an odd medieval system of measures that bounces on you whenever you turn your back.

Anssi

If you have SU Pro, you can export a 2D plan view DWG, and re-import that

Anssi

Note that camera angles in SU are measured vertically whereas in photography they are measured diagonally, so for all views SketchUp "lenses" have a wider viewing angle than a camera lens with the same focal length/viewing angle.

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@danbig said:

Wow--this is a long topic. I made it through about six pages before I jumped here to ask my question:

What is more important for SketchUp: system RAM, or video RAM?

Does anyone have any suggestions for a notebook computer that will do well with larger sketchup files?

Vram only becomes critical if you use a lot of very large textures. Su is a 32-bit application, so system RAM is not so critical either.

What you should look for in a SU notebook is

• processor speed, number of processor cores is not so important, as SU uses only one
• SU benefits from the TurboBoost feature in the latest Intel multicore processors
• a real graphics card (Nvidia seems still to be more reliable)

A toy and a tool. I prefer the latter.

Anssi

Adobe Acrobat will let you print pages as large as 15,000,000 inches by 15,000,000 inches if you can make it work. I have not found out why my Windows 7-64/Acrobat Pro 9(CS5) combination refuses to print larger than 1 x 1,9 meters - at work with Windows XP and the Standard version I have no such problems, but I seem to remember that XP needed a hotfix to enable large print sizes.

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Gaieus,

Office2007 has PDF export built-in. PDF is ubiquitous, but it is still a format owned by Adobe. I understand Apple is paying Adobe for the benefit of building its UI on Postscript (A PDF file is a compressed and encrypted Postscript file).

Otherwise the best feature of Office2007 is that the horrible tabs can be collapsed.

Anssi

A first quick one with ArtLantis. 20 seconds.

Anssi

The "flatten" command in AutoCad is part of the free Express toolset that ships with the full product and can be installed optionally.

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For objects smaller than about a foot across, the "use model extents" checkbox causes the print to be split on many pages, so the way to print to 1:1 is to zoom in close so that the object to be printed fills the screen. Or then scale the model up by 10 and print to 1:10 scale

Anssi

So I downloaded and looked at the file you linked to, and I didn't see anything odd. I wonder if your graphics card driver is doing tricks for you. Transparent PNG textures have sometimes odd problems with SU. You could try if changing the transparency settings to "Medium" or "Nicer" in Window menu>Styles>Edit>Face settings would help, or then upgrading your driver.

@honoluludesktop said:

My graduate prof. Utzon's entry in the Sydney Opera House was only selected after the jury decided to re-look the rejected projects.

I heard the legend that what happened was that the jury had it all already set up when Eero Saarinen who was the chairman had yet not arrived. He came, went to the rejected pile and picked Utzon's proposal out of there.

I have also gone to some competition exhibitions (in Finland all the proposals for an open competition are presented to the public) and have found that as much as I have disliked the architecture of some winners, they always have IMO been the best solutions to the actual problems of the site and brief, and I have found it hard to disagree with the jury, even when having taken part myself.

Anssi

This is sometimes the doing of renderer export plugins like V-ray or Twilight that tweak the SU camera aspect ratio.

Thomthom posted this fix that you can try in an earlier thread:

Type this into the Ruby Console:

Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.aspect_ratio = 0

Anssi

Rick Wilson's Windowizer can be used even for this, despite the name.

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