@thomthom said:

Previous versions had it hard wired.

hard wired?? I don't understand.. I have 1.05.30 will it work or is it exclusively for 1.48.66?? But isn't there any way to delete the ugly purple material from sketchup once and for all??

Hi everyone
I'm using Sketchup 7.1. I'm really annoyed with the default purple/white material. Following are the reasons

1. On rendering with vray.. this damn default white comes out to be the colour of mozarella cheese. That creamy off white colour..
2. Many times on editing geometry, if we delete some lines, then the planes automatically reverse themeseleves, revealing this ugly colour. I'm using thomthom selection toys for replacing the default material to white in my projects but deleting this ugly colour from my system appears to be a better choice.

So is there any trick to just eliminate this default material and make pure white as the default material?? I tried deleting the skm file but it doesn't help. Sketchup automatically creates the default skm on loading.

@xrok1 said:

looks like another vote for my reference plane plugin request!
for now i would recommend making one manually. (make face, group it, use it to inference to)

thanks xrok.. where i can really vote for this?? is there any place here??

@d12dozr said:

TIG's 2D tools lets you snap to the XY plane...

Yeah I know but the free and smooth movement of the line that sketchup enables you to is not there in TIGs 2d tools and it also does not fulfill all my requirements.. It is a good plugin for xy plane. i really need a UCS kinda functionality in sketchup is it possible?? any plugin??

Hi everyone..
Many times we need to work in xy plane only or yz or xz plane only.. is there a way so that the plane can be locked so that the cursor doesn't run away and snap to objects that are far away?? This gets really annoying in sketchup.. AutoCAD has this facility popularly known as UCS... universal coordinate system i think...

@panga said:

As promised this is an example of a job I made with SU and Layout. I just delete some informations relative to the client.

nice work panga.. do you use revit?? I don't know revit but some archicad.. can such drawings be made faster in BIM software as compared to sketchup ?? I mean if a person is proficient in both su and revit..which software eventually wins the time race??

@gaieus said:

It indicates "at" Arjun meaning they are addressing that part to you.

so isn't straightaway writing Arjun a better option??

[quote="Pilou"]@ Arjun : thx for Hindi lesson language /[quote]

My pleasure!! btw why people use @ arjun?? on facebook i also saw this what's the meaning of @ arjun?? and why not Arjun??

 Thanks a lot everyone for solving my problem... thank you very much... i'll try all your ways.. pilou.. i tried your way after closing the i.e. window and it didn't work yesterday.. today i tried this while keeping the IExplorer window open ..switching tween IE and sketchup and was able to make it... i was making the straight line unequal to ramp length that's where i was having the problem.. but now the ramp is looking **ZABARDAST!!!** [Hindi for Extreme, Awesome or Supercool]...!!! :heart_eyes: **Bahut Bahut Dhanyawaad**[Dhanyawaad=Thank you. .. bahut bahut= very very]  :smile:

@unknownuser said:

Probably the DrawHelix Ruby and Follow me and Keep Rb FAK.rb
[i]Holy Guggenheim! How did he do that?!!!

all the sketchup plugin user hotshots!!! please write a step by step tutorial here.. I'm good at SketchUp but not at all expert in using these awesome plugins.. separate practice is required for mastering these out of the world experience things.!!!! And I want to draw ramps taking measurements. How to take accurate measurements in helixing??.. I'm an architecture student man!!

@tig said:

The uniquefied cut component is renamed say #2 while others were #1 before ?
The cuts are made inside the component or group - it is not split in two it simply adds a dividing line and you erase the bits you don't want...

so 2 separate groups aren't formed??

@thomthom said:

So when you experience that VfSU crashes on your due to running out of memory, render to VrImage.

i see.. so how to assemble them?? i mean...on the website it said vrimage to exr convertor.. how to get the jpeg output pal??

@juan974 said:

old school :

please tell me .. juan.. how did you make it?? step by step tutorial please!!

[quote="Pilou"]1001bits video
My eyes really popped out after watching the 1001 bit video ...

it popped out even harder after watching shape bender

but the thing is to make the sloping path.. i.e. the ramp that i'm trying to make is spiral sort of thing with all the measurements.. The perimeter of the straight rectangular ramp should be equal to the bent one.. which exceeds eventually after using shape bender. Still trying to figure out the awesome chris' shape bender method.. i will definitely use shape bender...!!!

@thomthom said:

I removed your double post.

Why?? My query will have greater probability of getting answered yaar!! If anyone suppose doesn't visit su discussions and visits plugins forum..then he may answer here or vice versa!!

Hi everyone.. i'm trying to make a spiral ramp.. I did this using shape bender.. Normally we have to make ramps having slope say 1:10, or whatever.. is there a better way to make this?? i.e. through extrusion tools?? or any other better plugin??

@tig said:

any 'cut' component is made_unique so there should be twp 'halves' with similar names ending in say #1 and #2 ?

i don't get it. Are "groups" formed after slicing because im getting only loose geometry that's withing the group.. the screenshot wil make the thing clearer. I had 2 cuboids. Each one was a group.

Then I regrouped them to get a single set of two cubes.

Then I used zorro

I get the loose geometry in each of the cube. I suppose that I should get only two groups. One the upper half above the diagonal section line and 1 below it. I would get mad if i have to explode the whole model then group the necessary things all over again if the model is of a house or more complex..

So should I get two groups.. each containing sliced up 2 cube sets?? or i'm doing the right way. ... only that the plugin doesn't offer that luxury??

Thanks TIG!! Actually I had zorro 1 installed.. Question..is it possible that for the components after using zorro... 2 different groups are made?? for example if there's a cube and i use zorro to make 1 section cut... then is it possible that 2 separate pieces of it will be formed??

Hi everyone i'm using sketchup 7.1. Recently i downloaded the zorro plugin... It only sections loose geometry unfortunately. If I have a house model that has lots of groups and components .. how can i section that using zorro??

hello everyone... i'm currently having only 9 toolbar buttons in fredoscale whereas there are supposed to be 12 in one video on youtube... and i'm sure there's a setting to get more buttons how can i do that??