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    • RE: Search the model?

      Thanks Jim, I'd not noticed the filter.

      I guess that's one for the D'oh moment thread!

      posted in Newbie Forum
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    • Search the model?

      Is it possible to search for the name of a component or group, much like you search a spreadsheet?

      A colleague of mine is looking at making a Virtual warehouse. Each pallet or crate would have a Number, not consecutive, they would be the purchase order number, 7 digits long. So if he used components and added those numbers to the entity info is it then possible to type in the number you want and have the individual box highlighted.

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    • RE: Cool plugin idea

      @tig said:

      We're trying to find a 'cross-platform' solution though...

      I understand that Tig, I just mentioned it because I thought perhaps some of the coding from Win 7 might help to make it work.

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    • RE: Cool plugin idea

      Just as a heads up, Win 7 allows a right click in the task bar which gives you the last 10 opened files.

      posted in Plugins
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    • RE: [WIP] Bugatti Brescia Type 13

      Youtube is often a good source for missing details.

      Here is one Vid that you might be able to fine tune your details from, and I'm sure there are plenty more.

      posted in WIP
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    • RE: Visual Puns & Puzzles

      You got it, and just in the nick of time, turning off my computer for a while. Not much connection found in the middle of the North Sea.

      posted in Gallery
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    • RE: Visual Puns & Puzzles

      Tacks is involved.

      And it's kind of a dance, Al Capone is fairly well know for this particular "dance".

      posted in Gallery
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    • RE: Visual Puns & Puzzles

      Love it, but No.

      posted in Gallery
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    • RE: Visual Puns & Puzzles

      Bit long even for me, so no, sorry.

      I guess I should have moved the feet around a bit more so it looked like they were avoiding something.

      posted in Gallery
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    • RE: Animations with Alpha Channel

      That I didn't know, I must try a Mac one day.

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • RE: Animations with Alpha Channel

      No they don't, but most gif programs can find the green and make it transparent.

      My current Avatar has a transparent background.

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • RE: Visual Puns & Puzzles

      Excellent, but not what I had in mind.

      Think financial.

      I'll be at sea from tomorrow night, so might not be able to reply for a while.

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    • RE: Animations with Alpha Channel

      Many gif applications will insert all files in one go, no need to do frame by frame.
      And select the background as transparent.

      And SU certainly exports multiple frames with a few clicks.

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • RE: What's This?

      I know what it is so I won't say.

      But I will date it for you as being from 1956.

      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: Struggling with shape bender

      I found shape bender a little confusing to start with, a bit of reading and watching Tutorials always helps.

      But you need to remember that the straight line on the Red Axis is a separate line and not part of the thing you want to bend.
      And the Arc of the Bend is also it's own line.

      An easy way to see what it is doing,

      Place your cone with the fat part on the green/blue axis so the point is heading along the red axis (the cone needs to be a group or component).

      Draw a straight line along the red axis the same length as your cone.
      Draw an Arc the same length next to but not touching the straight line and pull it up in the blue direction.
      Now select the cone, activate Bender, click on the straight line and then the arc.
      It will show you a preview, which you can alter with the up/down keys, hit enter.

      That is the very basics of it as I see, once you understand that you can go on to more complex bending.
      If that isn't your problem, perhaps this will help someone else.

      posted in Newbie Forum
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    • RE: You know you've had too much sketchup when. . .
      1. When you keep trying to Orbit images, web sites and documents!
      posted in Corner Bar
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    • RE: Trouble with a bend transformation

      I made a handle quite easily using Curviloft, just create the profile at the end of the handle and at the middle, draw the curve you want between those two profiles, then use "create loft following given path and you have half a handle. Make two and join them and add your end bits.

      Yes it makes for a large file size, but it makes a nice handle.

      http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s296/storeben/SU/Handle.jpg

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    • RE: Visual Puns & Puzzles

      A simple one to keep the game moving.

      http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s296/storeben/SU/Puzzle.jpg

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    • RE: The best way to make roads that bend and go up or down?

      And Fredo's Bezier/ Spline tool might help with your curves.

      http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=13563

      Plus you can bend your curves using Fredo scale/Radial bender.

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • RE: An exercise: DRAWING A PARISIAN FENCE

      Happy to help.
      You can use this method for any number of scenes, so the cube can roll over or zoom in and out or even fly off the screen.
      And reducing the number of colours in the gif will bring the file size down, I make a lot of animated avatars for people on another site and the file limit there 19.5 kb, so you learn to get everything out of each pixel.

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