An example http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20239/20239-h/29239-h.htm

The 5 year old thread is alive!. I was taunted for going the sketchup path some 8 years ago. Totally abandoned my Max workflow but that took me to a new level in my designing career. I know, Im far from the best in the “rendering” area but Im able to make the decent renders that convince clients. Now I end up using both though 90 percent of what I do revolved around SU. I rarely touch Max,only when I need some high quality renders, or when I need to pass a task to some Max user colleauge and finally when I face SU’s limitations in poly count and other things. Finally some of the best stills and animation renders in the Architectural industry are done in Max. I say we cant do away with Max until our plugins or SU itself has "all" those capabilities. Gone are the days that were given a week to produce a nice decent render.Were literally given hours to produce something convincing. This is the edge of SU over Max.

How about India??? because sketchup usage hasn't been at peak here as compared to other countries...Moreover there are no training centres for the same to the best of my knowledge

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When I first saw this topic come up I thought It said. .. "Way to Kick out the Ugly People/ White DeFault Material" I like it here at the SCF forum. . .so yeah. . . I took a little Umbrage at that.

i made a request here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=27682

@unknownuser said: We go to the moon but we can't know why these tools are named "french curve"! That is strange bizarre The only Frenchman in the discussion is the one who has names like Parrot and Pistol for the different shapes. I think that answers the question. I suspect that in 19th Century architecture they were indispensable for designing French-styled embellishments.

@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: Bean of light going through smoke? Unfortunately there is no atmospheric system in VfSU - so you have to fake it.But if the beam of light is solid you could use an emissive material.You have an example reference photo of the effect you want to achieve? There's a video on youtube of Pink Floyd's concert... these guys are known for breathtaking lighting in their concerts.. here's the link...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww7UecA3pac

It scales 'up' only [there's also a scaledown2face too]... It's a simple script - but to scale to any face and adjust all vertices etc, like 'trim wall to roof' tools in some packages is v_e_r_y complex...

The method in the QuarrIT pdf is the best way to remember your toolbars and restore them BUT if there's a version update or you have several new installed then running it can give unexpected results, you need to make regular backups of your registry so that when it does fail you know where you'll 'restore' back to...

Well, no speed limit in this case!

@arjunmax09 said: @earthmover said: so my model size is frequently 60-100MB. I keep my models running quickly by constantly purging, doing layer management and keeping shadows turned off. 60-100 mb???!!!! eeee!!! my highest till date is 28 mb.. lot of contours and trees.. the sketchup started to cry inspite of hidden geometry, layer management and groups and components what's your pc config?? Got a number of 100-200+ models at work. but they are usually due to large textures or scene watermarks. Earlier I used to embed high res textures in my models, now I use the linking trick I described earlier. Keeps the model more responsive, saves disk space, increases the save/load speed of the model. But I do find that my co-workers often use a 10megapixel photo as a texture, but only utilising small portion of the actual photo. I cringe every time I see that. It's worth noting that a model of 10-20MB can be much slower than a 100MB model. The reason is that the file size is not a direct reflection of the amount of geometry - which is the biggest slow down factor. If you have a model with lots of components that can have smaller file size but more geometry than a model using less components. The most accurate indication of the size of a model - in terms of complexity and how performance hungry - is the model statistic. Number of edges, faces, groups and components.

Started playing in my early 20's on acoustic. No formal training in rendering - the guys here on this (and the rendering engine) forums will do all they can to help you (if you want help). There is an answer to be found as everyone goes through the learning curves and they all know that they had to start somewhere and are brilliant at giving advice to anyone who asks. So my advice is - ASK PLENTY OF QUESTIONS!!

arjunmax09 - Please contact the appropriate support channel so you can actually have your issue resolved. This is not the ASGvis forums, nor an official support channel. You are experiencing an issue that can not be resolved by anyone other than ASGvis.

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Hi, I only use SU in order to model this work. And I don't know Revit so can't tell you if it's better or not than SU. And I Think that for equivalent skills whatever the software...I think the difference comes when you want to use your model after for other goals than 3D presentation. SU is only for 3D modelling and presentation, I think that Revit can do a lot more. Regards

will surely upload my model......no i didn't check the messages .. the grass material was itself already in the sketchup material library.. it wasn't loaded from anywhere else... i mean any external jpeg images..has anyone experienced a problem where the alpha channels for transparency load into sketchup but don't show in the renders?? this file maybe got corrupt because the flowers showed up in render when i copy pasted them into a new untitled file

Can you share a test scene?

You're using parallel perspective. VfSU doesn't work well with that. At least not with physical camera. I remember people talking about various ways to do this, but I don't know what they did. I never had to use parallel projections. The ASGVis forum should have a few posts on this.