I'm quite suprised that no one from the sketchup google team has not commented on this. (So far).
I think I mis/understand the google vision of the warehouse, a worldwide resource etc?, but this smacks of marketing bullying a' la microsoft and all the others who try to ram things down our throats.
When will they all realise that while this sort of marketing might work in the short term, its doomed. Cos we will bite them back - by avoiding it. I would have thought that getting some quality navigation into the warehouse would be the thing to make it a truly valuable resource. (By quality navigation, I guess I mean not having to wade thru reams of crap to find a decent model.)
The growing collections of manufacturers products seems to be the most valuable thing for google and the people who need it, I dont however. Perhaps they could give us an option to opt out on set up, and just stay inside our our own computers?
I HATE the present component browser. If someone, as hinted, could come with something user friendly I would be happy to pay for it.

baz.
ps: I have such a large collection of comps now I often revert to windows explorer thumbnails to find things and then open them in a new su workspace, not an ideal workflow.

I have one just like it! Must be 80 years old.
baz

ditto!!!
baz

@unknownuser said:

Have you looked into Organizer?

Thanks Rick, tho it seems a bit complicated for my poor brain. I can see myself getting in lots of trouble trying to organise subfolders, especially considering the apparent dependency of various rubies on each other.
baz

@thomthom said:

Yea, it's frustrating when a plugin is doing heavy work and you can't tell if it has hung or not.
But mind you, close the Outliner when you run plugins that does heavy operations. That thing really slows things down. You can often see it flicker like mad.

I read somewhere that having the outliner open can be useful, when it stops flickering you know the ruby has finished.
I cant remember which ruby, but I was having constant crashes because I was trying to undo before the operation was complete - being an impatient sob. I tend to forget that I've just asked su to recalculate 10000000000:) faces and edges!
baz

ps: personally, what I really need is a simple way to organise my rubies, for example like 'bookmarks' in 'firefox', most used at the top etc.
As for frustration, compared to windows updates and getting hassled to constantly upgrade by everybody else, I for one am eternally grateful for the fantastic generorsity of the ruby wizards, even the ones who charge. Eg:Sub divide and smooth, 20 bucks, no worries.
(note to self: must donate to fredo for Freescale, wow!)

@ely862me said:

i don t know if u can make a chamfer tool..this will be great and save a lot of work(at last for me)
the only bad thing and decisive is that SU works with triangulation ,and because of this is almost impossible to create chamfer

perhaps 'sketchy bevel' by chris philips would do this for you? It draws chamfers.

baz

Looks great Richard, It would be good to have some aussie natives.
I think the branch shape would probably suit most younger european type trees.
baz

tom, you could contact support, but most likely the first thing they will suggest is do a clean reinstall.
good luck.
baz

Yeah, I did the download/repair thing this afternoon.
As far as I can see, Ive still got the same version as before the download, which is/was 7.0.8657.0
Baz.

Thanks Tom, I think Ive worked it out, Ive been a bit lazy with component axis til now....

Re the fires: we are ok here, but about 50 miles away its horrific, death tool is now 220 and climbing, several small towns have literally ceased to exist, places that I know, I'm having trouble getting my head around it.
I was in the 'Ash Wednesday' fires of '83 where we had a firestorm moving at 68mph, what happened on Sunday was worse, people just did not have time to get away.
And it's not over yet.

baz

The Age newspaper has the full story.
http://www.theage.com.au/

Typical, just after I posted, I realised the problem.....
.... component axis and placement was off in one corner, so of course it rotated around that point... duh!

baz

Has anybody else come across this?
The tree or trees wont stay where i put them.
I know, I know, Im probly doing something stupid.
Can anyone put me straight?
Thanks.
Baz

Great thread guys, Ive been trying to get my head around contours from points and the triangulate points plugin and this thread has done it for me.
hope you all have a great year.
baz

I love you guys, happy holiday.
bazzaar.

hazza, my apologies, I was rude.
baz

I love your current tag:
"Life is like the waistcoat of a summer suit. Short and pointless..."
Sound a bit european tho.

at the risk of going seriously off topic here, i always thought that your avatar was of a strange man looking lecherously at an attractive woman (or man) just off screen.
I never imagined for a moment that that was you, (just kidding)

baz

ok you got me there,
it was just that dave coulnt tell what gender i was.
It has never occurred to me that people wouldnt know.
but it does now.
baz(not gay but I have read robinson crusoe)za
xxx

thanks for your pm dave. im calm now.

gaius, Im not hurt about hazza's comments, Im offended, which is different. (actually its his lack of comment which has my goat!)

hazza knows nothing, on his own admission, about woodworking, and very little about design or modeling judgeing by his warehouse offerings and he also makes disconcerting comments about not being able to take measurements off my model without having to spend time understanding how the project is put together.
I think I understand why he insists on clean models, dont we all, but c,mon, be flexible, how long did it take dave to 3d my dovetails. (21 minutes, I think.)
I am a bit interested in the woodworkers forum in order to exchange ideas. The woodworking collection seems like a good place to start, but........

What about this for comment?
pair of gates I designed and made for the aust embassy in saudi arabia. Interesting project, no representation of living things allowed cos of local culture, had to cope with 40c plus to minus 10c temps. had to be virtually no maintenence, cos nobody would. The design tries to represent the vastness of my country, thats about the spacing of the sticks, and also the sand and mountain forms that we all share, in the height of the verticals. Its 4x 40x20 qld red cedar screwed ogether with inlaid silver let into the timber, 600 of the buggers, handmade hardware to my design by Daniel Jenkyns. Its all still there as far as i know.
happy for anyone to formalize the model and also add the missing diagonal 12mm sterling silver squares to the timber.

I dont unnerstan the collaborative side of the warehouse yet, will take more direction.

baz---

baz

ps I'm six foot 5 inches, weighing 100 kilos. and im not gay. ( although pretending to be has got me into some brilliant parties.)

Riyadh gates.skp

@hazza said:

@dave r said:

@hazza said:

If I wanted to seperate it into 4 pieces so that I could take measurements I could not do so without many many hours of SU work.

Well twenty one minutes, anyway.

Dave Dave Dave...... you may have been able to seperate them in 20 minutes but we are talking about my SU skills and experience aren't we?

I did exagerate on the hours and hours but I think he now understands what is required. The model may be obvious to a woodworker, but I am not. I am a modeler that does woodwork models, that difference in emphasis means it has to be obvious.

ok hazza, you are starting to piss me off, I am not 'he' I am baz or bazza or hey you. I like what you is tryin to do: get collection of good models which can actually be built in the realworld. A fine idea. I am actual, I make these things,
bit of respect please mate.

re the model, which is what it is.
Dave has fixed it I think, how do we upload his to mine as an update? Im a bit new at this warehouse stuff, I will take direction.
baz xx
I started to have a go at separating (sic) the dovetails, hoping to do it faster than Dave but got quite confused, he am da man!

baz.

ps I'm missing durant.

benicebaz

@dave r said:

@hazza said:

If I wanted to seperate it into 4 pieces so that I could take measurements I could not do so without many many hours of SU work.

Well twenty one minutes, anyway.
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Lol.
baz