that last video is great...
will have to investigate that for sure.

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

Setting the screenshot to a fixed ratio would be nice, with a timestamp/watermark

yeah.. i agree.. the popup alerting you to take a screenshot then the selection window is getting annoying..

i think i'm going to set it up as a square ratio (height of window determines how wide to make it.. (i.e.- the same thing as choosing medium format 6x6 in advanced camera tools)

probably won't do the timestamp.. osx makes it easy to view/sort by pretty much anything that could be associated with a file…

(i will say, this service, while definitely helpful for me, is nowhere as neat/integrated as what's possible to do with osx itself.. i might upload an example of how saving works in Rhino (which is tied into osxVersions).. it's great.. it does take a bit of getting used to at first because typical 'save' 'save as' etc is so ingrained in us now and versions changes that (i.e.- you never save )..

i'm sure it will come to windows soon..

i so need to get on board with the saving stuff in OSX. still dating each file nearly every other day and having a hard time getting used to where to find stuff when i need a particular file. 'date modified' was my favorite sort in windows... that seems hit and miss in OSX.

this is good stuff. thanks for sharing.

nice... thanks much.
i have similar issues as your stringer with compound roof components.
pretty sure i can combine your method here with what i've started to work out in a compound timber valley / hip DC.

here's a video of the DC i started on awhile ago but abandoned due to its complexity turning it into something like a solid or single component:

@unknownuser said:

@bmike said:

Jeff,

Very much hope you do a thread on how to use services in Mac. I've moved back to Mac after a too long trip through various PCs and am very curious about Services, AppleScript, and Automator. Anything you put together for Services in SketchUp would be appreciated.

I'm going to do a thread today on it.
I think I'll keep it super basic at first then the thread can evolve from there into the other possibilities.

Great!
I'll keep an eye out for it!

Jeff,

Very much hope you do a thread on how to use services in Mac. I've moved back to Mac after a too long trip through various PCs and am very curious about Services, AppleScript, and Automator. Anything you put together for Services in SketchUp would be appreciated.

@artsnot said:

I am new to this forum and seem to be experiencing a Sketchup crash every time I try to use section cut face. I am using Sketchup Pro 8 on a MacBook Pro i7 2.0 GHz with 8 MB RAM. I am not sure what the problem is. Has anyone else experience this?

Running fine on mine:

Can you fix the widow size with a ruby script? Might be an advantage to force this to open in 1200x800 or 800x600 and do its thing. Then there might be some baselines that start to make sense.

Otherwise, I have no idea why mine jumps up to 50+ with shadows on full screen, but plods along at 20something when I do a reboot and only open SketchUp and that file.

Odd.

@daiku said:

Not sure why, but If I move the big display to the secondary port on the secondary card, it runs really well. Over 45 fps, at 2560x1600. That's the x4 slot, shared with another monitor. Go figure.

I don't think this test is the most accurate...

Results are all over the place for me. 17" MacBook Pro.
21(ish) frames per second on running from opening.

54 after I turn shadows on!

I suspect it may have to do with the dual graphics card switching over.
Ran at full screen and in a small window as well.

wow, sonder, really nice details and electrical plan!
i'll have to mess around with fog... nice effect.

-mike

Your copy is working fine directly placed in my Plugins folder... so, Thanks!

Thanks Tig!

Here's what I get when I pated them both into TextEdit on the Mac:

TIG;

require 'Sketchup'
if not file_loaded?(File.basename(__FILE__))
    UI.menu('Plugins').add_item('Name Stripper') { Component_Name_Stripper.doit }
    file_loaded(File.basename(__FILE__))
end
module Component_Name_Stripper
    def self.doit
        Sketchup.active_model.entities.each{|e| e.name='' if e.is_a?(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance)}
    end
end


Original;

#
require 'Sketchup'
#
if not file_loaded?(File.basename(__FILE__))
  UI.menu('Plugins').add_item('Name Stripper') { Component_Name_Stripper.doit }
  file_loaded(File.basename(__FILE__))
end
#
module Component_Name_Stripper
  def self.doit
    Sketchup.active_model.entities.each{|e| e.name='' if e.is_a?(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance)}
  end
end

Hmm. Pasted it into TextEdit on the Mac. Will try something else.

Did that, and this is what I get:

Error Loading File namestripper.rb
undefined method ` ' for main;Object

Thank you!

I'll give it a go. Was just thinking about taking apart another .rb so I could tinker with it.

@sdmitch said:

bmike, no plugin needed just a single statement entered in the Ruby Console will do the trick.

Sketchup.active_model.entities.each{|e| e.name='' if e.is_a?(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance)}
> 

Will remove any Name assigned to a component instance. The Definition Name can be changed but not erased.

Thanks, will give it a go!
I don't want to mess with the definition name - but I get into trouble when someone sends me a drawing with 100 'Posts' in it, an 80 of them are different from each other. Exports out to materials lists wrong.

Is there a way to 'plugin'ize this so that I can pull it down from a menu, as opposed to keeping a bit of text handy?

@ashscott said:

Wow, this is a very useful thread, some of the drawings posted are truly inspiring.

I am halfway through an engineering project and have been creating working drawings directly in SU (many, many layers), exporting as .jpg (I can get a high enough resolution that way), and then compiling the .jpgs into a .pdf

However, reading this thread has shown me I can do a much better job with layout if I will just take the time to learn it. I initially turned away from Layout as it seemed so unintuitive. Hopefully this will save me a heap of the re-working I am having to do when someone objects to something in a working drawing.

By the way, you all keep referring to working in raster mode in LO but I can't seem to get dimensions accurate enough in raster mode - I have to switch to vector to ensure the dimension is snapping to the point I think it is snapping to - has anyone else experienced this?

i work in vector for the most part. hybrid to show section cuts and various materials and 'sketchy' styles as needed.
i did a few projects in SketchUp with layers and views - a PITA compared to the control you'll have in LayOut.
yes, there are some un-intuitive bits to it - but once you settle in on a process, you will get faster with it.

I've been doing some testing with Collada (DAE) export - and everything that comes out of SketchUp is tipped on its side. I have to re-orient my model prior to export.

Is this a common bug?
I'm placing the exported files directly into iBooks Author. Happy to push through another program (free, if possible) - to correct or adjust the export.

Looking for a plugin that strips components of their 'Names'.
These names can often be the same (when the definition is unique), and when working with other people's files I often have to clean up before I export to various materials lists.

I tried TT Cleanup - but it didn't change anything.
I ended up opening the drawing on my old laptop and was able to window all components and do a space bar / delete in the 'Name' field in the entity information window. Oddly, this works on PC, but doesn't seem to work on Mac...

copied out what i needed and pasted into a new drawing and this strange behavior disappeared.
so, very likely something with the CAD import... but i brought over 3-4 groups of CAD lines.

thanks for the help.