DH. As promised here is a selection of some of the rubies I use most often, there are many, many more. I've lashed up a few quick examples, very basic, but you will get the idea.
Most are very generously donated by the ruby wizards, others are for purchase for very little from Smustard, amongst others. (Those below are all free)
Some come with documentation, others are obvious, and yes it's easy to get swamped with them.
I tend to grab them when I see them and put em in an 'Unplugged rubies' folder. Then load them one at at time and decide if I will find them useful, if not, then back they go to unplugged, cos you never know. (It's often useful to open them in notepad for any documentation.)
As well as these, I find 'Purge', 'Start front face tool' and "copy along path' essential.
I hope you will find this useful, you gotta get into rubies, every time a ruby wiz releases a new ruby its almost like getting a new version of sketchup.

I'm sure others will have a few recomendations too.

baz

dh, what mitcorb said, +1.
Re Rubies, scary, maybe, there are so many, and it can be hard differentiating between versions and working out which can be be useful to ones workflow, but dark, absolutely not.
Its too late in the evening for me now, but let me put a selection of rubies together for you tomorrow which will, I promise, free your sketchupmind and literally save hours of tedium better spent realising the goal.
baz.
(sometimes known as 'Big Bad Baz', you physic or what?)

ps: the seam(ing) problem: how about you post a simple example in su which you have proven in your renderer to be disrespectful, I bet you someone here will work it out.

dh,
could it be this extra bit of geometry from a 'follow me' or similiar, showing thru?
baz

[/quote]
Now, on SU7.1, using the same setup (At a higher resolution):
That's a massive difference!
The message? Get 7.1. NOW.[/quote]

I got the message, wow!
Baz

@juanv.soler said:

Baz,
dont push Durant too much
otherwise his machine can become too much real and
get our eye off, in a second of distraction

cheers both

I quite agree with you juan, but you never really know what it is he's on about. sorry dh to speak of you rather than at you, so... one feels the need to express something, I think he/she is unlikly to be a delicete flower which is 'de rigeuer' for the course. (being an artist, that is),
Is he an artist? or is he someone playing on his office computer, while he's supposed to be selling pork bellies?
Whatever, his intention is art and so it is.
Aesthetic criticism, unlike most real art has to come from non-emotional areas of the brain.
sorry ran out of staem there.

Now that is a happenin thang, Mr.DH. It appeals to my sense of order, whatever that is.
Love the 'hammered metal' and the :dayglow' plastic.

If I may criticise somewhat? I may?, thank you...
...I feel that the shadows need to be darker and possibly crisper without altering the chroma and brightness of the image both which look very good. It would give it a bit more solidity methinks. Also, the background is disapointing, bland might be the word. What about some skulls?, garbage? a gradient?, a window as a light source?, anything really but that grey limbo. And where is the electrickery? A mean looking power supply coiling off to infinity could give us poor mortals some idea of where the real power is coming from.

baz

ps: I'd want to bolt that mother to the floor, tho' it looks like it might fit in a daypack for handy portability. It does pack up? Like to see that.(But now I think of it, you're fond of skids, n'est pas?)
Also you might use better hinges, those look cheap, cheapskate
pps: If this was my artwork, I'd probly tell me to piss off, you can too

Re: Jack Bird, I had'nt really thought about it before but if you replace every instance of 'jack bird' with fer, or f or f***in....?
baz

Hi eliesi,
I downloaded your guitar skp to try this out and it worked perfectly with your model but when I tried it with a different shape I got this...
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Baz

Just came upon this thread, oh woe is me too having to ask for my money!
I've just thought maybe I/we could use what both my hardware supplier and boatchandler use.
To quote:" A settlement discount of 10% can be taken if this account is paid within our trading terms." (Which is 30 days from the end of the month.)
It's clever because its carrot not stick, I know that I try to pay them on time and when I can't I don't have too much guilt over it.
Of course this implies that you can afford the discount or that you increase your rate to cover it, which sounds the go, almost a win-win.

As Jean would say "just ideas"
baz

Wow, I've not thought about being an artist for years, but I remembered I did have a statement of sorts, and for what it's worth this is what I wrote some some 7 years ago, it still holds good for that part of my endeavours.
Now I might have to think of one to suit my present 'artistic' pursuits, to which I have to add SU.

Barry Mills is a designer/maker of functional and aesthetic wooden objects and structures.
Anything from tiny handcarved bowls to sculpted playgrounds, from ceremonial chairs to tillers for ocean going yachts.
Originally trained as a graphic designer in the United Kingdom, he has been producing one-off and limited production runs for corporate and private clients for some 30 years.
His early influences at art college were Art Nouveau, William Morris and Roger Dean (best known for his 'Yes" album covers). Later the design philosophies of Krenov and Prof. David Pye helped him to form an aesthetic which involves respect for the material and fitness of purpose; a sort of 'form follows function follows form' or ' the shortest path between A and B ain't necessarily a straight line'.
During the last few years Barry has become more involved through his love of sailing with boats and boatbuilding having built several small craft and undertaken numerous yacht fitouts and repairs.
" Boatwork seems to me to be almost the ultimate expression of design and skill. Every component on a boat has to be totally functional, it has to have unambiguous structural integrity and of course it has to look good. The hard bit about this is that the interface between these qualities has to be seamless, if it isn't, it'll be obvious...even before it comes off in your hand in Bass Straight."

Baz.
Ps: I notice that I wrote this in the 'third person', (apart from the quote). I must have thought it sounded less pretentious, Ha!

Thanks,
baz

Seeing as nobody else has jumped in, check out this post:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13711&start=0
Im not sure if this is the right way to put a link, if it doesnt work, search for a recent post by Jackson called
[PLUGIN] Remove group materials, leave geometry materials?

It seems there is an issue with su materials annd Vray.

baz

Hi david,
I'd like to look at the tiles, do you know of a free 7z utility that doesnt require selling your soul?

This is an astounding plugin, I've already found myself using it on lots of 'ordinary' tasks where usually I would have had to stuff around for ages with followme, copypaste, etc.
Thank you very much Tig.
Baz

Thanks guys, so simple, sort of.
I will in future have 'warn of style changes' on.

I've done a search on this but no mention to be found. So it probly is'nt a bug but it surely is bugging me, so any advice appreciated.

If, and only if, I save a scene with a sketchy style, then all my other pages show 'endpoints' and 'profiles' etc, but not always together.
It doesnt matter how many times I update the scene with endpoints, etc off, they come back when I return to that page.
Could someone have a look at the skp and see whats going on?
Thanks, Baz

sodding_ endpoints_!.skp

@olishea said:

seriously what the hell are you talking about

Who?

Where are you DH? I think it's high time you shared a skp and let someone like solo have a go at a render.
This forum is, after all, a collaboration, n'est pas?
Also, I'd like to play with one, if ya can't rotate ya cant gestate. (Sorry, best I could do but you know what i mean.)

Re your last post:
The man said that there are only two kinds of people who don't like pornography; Those that don't know what it is and those that don't know what they're missing.

Rings almost true, but there is a third type, typified by my very English ex father in law, the progenitor of three teenage daughters at the time he was accosted in an Egyptian bazzar.

As his wife June tells it, "This person sidled up to Ralph, flashing the lining of his jacket, upon which was pinned numerous salaicious photographs of young women in preposterous poses. 'You wannna to buy the picture?'.

Ralph dismissed the man with the comment, 'Thank you, but no, I get enough of that sort of thing at home.'"

baz

hi Dave, I'm sorry to see the class was cancelled, I presume cos of lack of numbers?
I noticed the thread because I too have a su class beginning in a couple of weeks for our local TAFE.
But its all about bums on seats, so wish me luck.
I must say, its very hard to sell su to the uninitiated. But then I've always found its hard to sell good design or even the reason for good design.
anyway, i dont want to depress myself by going on, so good luck to both of us.
baz.

Theres this one too by Peter Brown, very simple and easy to use.
baz

drawhelix.rb