@stinkie said:

Does this look like fibrous cardboard?

Looks just like MDF which has been out in the weather

How bout this?

@stinkie said:

Don't forget to give your piece a daft/offensive/creepy title. 'Death To Midgets', 'All Your Vgn*s Are Belong To Us', something along those lines.

Ooh! Gotcha. Will think on it. Trouble is I don't think that way normally. Any further tips on how to be weird:)

Daft: 'How to make Ice cream fudge furniture'
Offensive: 'F--k you, Ikea man'.
Creepy: 'They ain't shadows, they is your death.'
But how 'bout: 'The Last Sideboard' No, too last supper.
Or: 'Abandoned'

Now I am getting seriously weirded out.

But whaddya really think Stinkie?

PS: More than happy to share the SKP if anybody wants to weird it more...

@rich o brien said:

it's one sinister reflection away from Stinkie-esque

That's a good thing, right?

Inspired by Stinkies otherworldly pieces, not a patch on his stuff, but I think it has a kind of creepy presence...
whaddya reckon?

Here are some examples of Stinkies work...

https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=333&t=55255

You need the orbit tool not the pan tool. That will get you towards the view you want. If your point of interest is off the screen, or almost off it, double click it or near it and that will center the view.
You can also use the views tool to orient your model.

@mike amos said:

There is an unfold plugin somewhere.

Flattery?

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Cheers Solo.

Arrange your trays as you wish and 'Save as Template'.
Of course you can save other parameters also.

This morn received notice of a private message from "Komenahassan".
Obviously a scam. I know you can't stop people signing up, I hope this doesn't become a real problem.
This guy only signed up yesterday, I wonder if you can red flag non-posters who private message?

Just in case anyone else has tried everything to get SU to recognize a valid license without success...

From Trimble support:

"The user might be having an issue with the formatting in their email program (like outlook) changing the dash to a "bash" which looks the same but SketchUp doesn't recognize it. Try typing it in vs copy/paste. Also, try pasting the whole license into the Advanced window."

This information does not appear on the Licensing Troubleshooting page, go figure.

In my case the email was fine. However I printed the email as a PDF which must be where the dash turned into a bashtard

FYI:
After my network re-config. I tried to reinstall and authorize SU.
It kept saying invalid licence.

Finally got this from Trimble:

"The user might be having an issue with the formatting in their email program (like outlook) changing the dash to a "bash" which looks the same, (my emphasis,) but SketchUp doesn't recognize it. Try typing it in vs copy/paste. Also, try pasting the whole license into the Advanced window."

Might have saved me a few hours of frustration if this info was to appear on the licensing t/shoot page

@box said:

Baz try re enabling the lan connection. License info/connection can be thrown by that.

DOH! I would have thought of that eventually.
Wait one...

@box said:

As for the other it's a bit of an ongoing saga that I can't go into just now.

C'mon. Gives us a bit of an idea....

@baz said:

@box said:

Baz try re enabling the lan connection. License info/connection can be thrown by that.

DUH! I would have thought of that eventually.
Wait one...

Sorry Box, I meant 'DOH', not 'DUH'.

Thanks Box for activating my brain.
Did a restore and all is well.

Tho' doesn't resolve the issue of getting SU to recognize a new connection on the same Puter .
To be revisited.

Typical, is it not, I can go days without needing CAD, then today had to embarrass myself with 2 clients when I couldn't send em drawings.

PS: How be the glass lam sculpture? All tickety boo?

@baz said:

@baz said:

@box said:

Baz try re enabling the lan connection. License info/connection can be thrown by that.

DUH! I would have thought of that eventually.
Wait one...

no work amigo.
will do a restart...

Restart W7,
LAN PCI Adapter enabled.
Still 'Oops!"

I will try a 'Restore point'

@baz said:

@box said:

Baz try re enabling the lan connection. License info/connection can be thrown by that.

DUH! I would have thought of that eventually.
Wait one...

no work amigo.
will do a restart...

Fired up SU this morn and got this...
"This SketchUp pro licence was created on a different computer and will not work here"
Well of course it was not.

Googled Trimble support, Faq said to remove licence and reapply.

But got this...
"Oops... That didn't look like a valid licence"
It was tho.

Contacted my reseller in OZ, Building point, very helpful and concerned. They consider that my license has been hi-jacked.
Quote: "From what I can tell so far your license is still active somewhere."

One more thing...
Possibly a red herring, but recently acquired NBN and had to install a USB wireless adapter in my office computer. Last night, after several days of connection problems between the adapter and the modem in the house, I disabled the LAN adapter in Device manager, (which was now redundant, but had been enabled up until then.)
This fixed my WAN problem, but could it all be connected somehow?
Did the LAN connection I disabled somehow spoof SU into thinking I was on a different Puter?

Building Point is trying to sort this but I have lost a whole day so far with deadlines whizzing past.

You guys have any ideas?
Baz

@dave r said:

Seamless seems to be more important than realistic.

Not to me.