Yep, that's me. Finger on the pulse. Cutting-edge news-breaker.

I'm sure everyone already knows, but I couldn't find a post via the search.

"Imagination Technologies announces the end of development and end of sale of Visualizer for SketchUp, effective March 23, 2015. No further development will be done on the product and no purchases will be accepted. All existing Visualizer customers will continue to be able to use Visualizer freely, their licenses will remain valid."

Visualizer for SketchUp is now available for free to everyone with their latest update 1.3
I have had great fun using it up to now and am a little dissapointed that 1.3 will be the last release.
Interior lighting controls are a great farewell addition.

Thanks to all the team at Visualizer for a fun little tool.

Wondering if there are any tricks to lose the shadows.
When doing an interior render without a ceiling/roof i get the sun/sky shadows and with a ceiling it is pretty dark in there!

cheers
Bob

Thanks Gaieus, works like a charm.

I just thought I would say hello to you all, long time lurker first time poster (well, since my last 2 posts in 2008 ).

I have found myself with tufts of hair missing after trying to make a rectangular handrail for a spiral staircase. Seems that it's not as straight forward as I initially anticipated.

I have done a few searches and have found that there have been some inherent issues with this seemingly simple task, namely the twisting of a face when following a spiral profile.

Is there a way to accomplish this using just SU?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance from Downunder.

Bob

Found it!!
Change it in Window >Model Info> Units

whoo hoo

thanks all

Bob

Thanks John

But no! I have just retried this again . Open his .skp file - change preferences to mm - save as ### - open new file ### - check preferences( yep they are in mm)- use tape measure tool. Still displays distance in feet and inches!

At a loss and don't want to revert to working in Imperial. There surely must be a way around this. There must.

cheers again

bob

Hi

To try and explain a bit more, I'm not brilliant at explaining...

I have no problem with my default template ( untitled ), that opens with mm all good and well.
But when I open a specific template setup (http://www.aboveallhouseplans.com/APV_Template.zip) the one supplied by Krisidious for his tutorial How a Pro Builds a House in Sketchup Part 1, all measurements change back to feet/inches as that is what his template is created and saved as such. In would like to force his template into mm. So I open his template(' & "), import my floor plan as an image (mm) and try to measure up my diagram it then shows lengths as ' &" .!! grrrrr

cheers again

bob

Hi all I was wondering if there is a way to change the scale of measurement from Feet to mm.
I have a skp.template that I have downloaded and it is set to feet and inches, yet the plans I want to import and and the scale I want to work in will be Millimeters!
When I draw a line the length show is as the template setting of ( ' & ") But I need to change that to mm.
Is there away of changing the template measurement? I have changed the "Preferences" to mm but when drawing a line it is still displayed as ' & ".

all help appreciated

Bob

What a pity. Oh well...and thanks for the quick response.

Cheers
Bob