Topics created by Bob_CP

@rv1974
Canceling didn't equate to refund of amount paid, nor did I expect it to. Only to prevent renewal, which ultimately, it did.

Writing script is way above my paygrade, as was your explanation.

Thanks for trying to help. I'm just a bit thicker than that.

@pcmoor said:

Copying groups with attributes creates groups that are connected, you would need to make them unique via a script

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It may be best to make components, then right click make unique, you could experiment with reset scale or scale definition, which ever is best suited for the situation.

@bob_cp said:

"model in place then move to the ground plane" - that just doesn't make a lot of sense, but hey, if it's what works!

It was a simple suggestion to help you understand how the axes need to be placed when you are creating them so that you can see what you need to do when creating them in place. But hey...

@bob_cp said:

Yea, all my models use ridiculous textures. I use shaded at times, but the file sizes are pretty large.

Why do you need such large textures?

I need them for rendering but I use Thea render. It allows us to have a high resolution texture in the material while it is able to generate a low resolution texture for use in the Sketchup material.

I also need them for photogrammetry and terrain data, but I also use Thea to reduce their size.

Thea will use textures stored in disk ,that do not weight on SketchUp model.

Bob,

As you have a Mac, could you tell me if the MouseWheel over the timeline does a scrolling of the time?

Also, if you enough track, would Option + MouseWheel scroll the tracks?

Finally, would Command + MouseWheel (or Ctrl + MouseWheel) scale the timeline?

This is relation with a Mac user who has a problem with MouseWheel.

Many thanks

Fredo

Yea, I'm trying that in several different ways right now.

Thanks for responding!

Bob

@srx said:

They are not so smart 😄
You have to separate surface in several groups which does not break, and than use the tools.

Tip:
I learned this from Nick Sonder video a couple of years back.

You can quickly change scene properties in multiple scenes by selecting the scene with the properties you wish to have updated/changed and by either ctrl/shift click select more scenes and simply de-select and immediately re-select the properties you wish to update.
See Image;

scene properties update/change

It works for me here, in fact its quite annoying in that there's no way in the UI to reset the dialog, except reset workspace but that would reset everything. To turn the dialog back on you need to edit the .json preferences file.

Have a look at this file:
~/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2018/SketchUp/SharedPreferences.json

ShowSectionToolDlg is set false when you click that box, but there's then no way to untick it apart from editing this file (or using defaults in terminal). If it has never been set that line may not be there.

[pre:2srkkumf]"Preferences": {

…

"ShowSectionToolDlg": false,[/pre:2srkkumf]

Edit at your own risk and there's something wrong anyway if SketchUp isn't writing the preference file to disk at least when you quit SketchUp.

I see an extra set of bounding box lines in her screenshot that I don't see in yours. Her blue one is the third one in. Yours is only the second one in.

There's no reason it should be different between Mac and PC.

Currently FlexDoor has a flat panel, though once you set the width and thickness of the door, you could always paste inside the panel component, which ever ‘static’ panel you’d like, making sure it fills the boundaries, and save it aside into the favorites. We plan on making various dynamic door panels in the future, though no date on that yet.

Bob, I did a quick search before hitting the sack (its 2.45am here). Have a read hear, http://www.3dconnexion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33341

@pbacot said:

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Otherwise I just use it as a background reference and delete the import after getting the info from it.

Pretty much the best way imho.