@Alohaa My guess is you have opened the wrong model file.
Pretty clear here that Dave's model contains correct geometry.

There would appear to be an issue with uploading models, as I don't have that button either, and drag and drop tells me 'You don't have enough privileges for this action'.

@sarahjaneboothdesign
The rails need to be a 'curve' a single edge won't work.
You can divide the edge and then weld it and it will work.

Click your avatar, the olive coloured circle with O in it at the top right of your screen, select Edit Profile from the dropdown list, scroll down to the signature box...

@pjalbert
Looks like you are wanting SUbD.

@fredo6
I get the same issue, no vray and nothing showing in the console.

There should be no reason for explode not working. Having said that you don't need to Import .skp files, just open them.
Create new/Open from My device

Now that Clothworks has been updated for 2024 here is a very simple example.

@onzki said in Option to Save as default version (more compatibility to past versions):

That's an arbitrary number to suggest but just trying to say it is sometimes annoying to hear requests from receipients that the file cannot be opened simply because I did an upgrade one step from previous.

In the new format a file saved by a 2024 user can be opened by a current -2 Version. Meaning the new format is not year specific, it is simply a .skp file and can be opened by currently supported versions. So a 2024 save can be opened in 2023 and 2022 and possibly 2021.

The need for Dezmo's extension is in cases where you need to save as back to an earlier unsupported version. This has become necessary only since the release of 2024 which doesn't have the old save as back to year option.

@Salient Clothworks would do it. Note it hasn't been updated for 2024 as yet.

I do love that the new version doesn't ask you several questions for each update you install.

@unearthed Seriously, you think you can quietly edit from 2012 to SU8 and the say you tried the sub version 2020 but it didn't work!
Did you actually have a log on? That would have worked.

Sorry, too many things, too hard to keep quiet.
Happy to fix or help but not when its all hidden away.

I think I actually have this compass, its in one of my draws of stuff that I'm still sorting through.

@Rich-O-Brien Feel free to try but in my experience they will still be incorrect no matter what you do.

It would help if you first confirmed that you are actually using 2012 and not 2022 or some other variant. I barely remember 2012, was that the one with the bloke with glasses as a scale figure.

@pixelcruncher said in A piece from my real job, not really sketchup related.:

I assume this is somewhere in Australia

About an hour north of Sydney at the mouth of the Hawkesbury River.

Now I want to see pictures of the boat as well

I don't have any recent ones, this was it when I bought it 7 years ago. It has changed a lot since then. The workshop is basically from the door on the side to the back. Kitchen between workshop and wheelhouse. Main 'Office' is in the wheelhouse because I can close it off and heat and cool it, I have four monitors in there. The workshop has 3 monitors and a design desk setup.
Upstairs, openable sundeck, which has my treadmill and 3rd workstation, only two monitors up there, I can watch TV and use PC while on the treadmill. All three sets of monitors run off the same PC via hubs so I on the same files wherever I am.
Then double bedroom and full bathroom and finally open back deck.

It is a converted Whitsundays inter island ferry, capable of 40kn+ in its heyday. Still manages mid 30s. Two 400 horse inboard turbo diesels below the waterline.

She's old but so am I and she is home.

I wake up to this.

Nod off to this.

And regularly pull these in with a simple hand line for dinner.

It's a tough life but somebody's got to do it.

@Rich-O-Brien said in A piece from my real job, not really sketchup related.:

How do you price a job? Per m/sq

Each commission is different, you get to know the client and what sort of thing they are after, you check the site and the lighting and the general feel of the place, then most importantly see what sort of car they drive and use the BMW/MERC/AUDI algorithm to pick a figure out of the air.

Are you passing on the skill to an apprentice?

I've had 11 over the years and many students.

The caustics in the 3rd to last image is glorious.

Yeah I love that shot too. The reason it is often called Painting with Light.

Is the sketch yours too or is it someone elses concept?

In this case it is the work of another artist. I do a lot of my own but also freelance for many others. Quite a few artists don't have the skills to produce their own work or the time for that matter. I'm semi retired now, so I pick and choose what I want to work on, This was a nobrainer, too nice not to work on.

Just a bit of showing off really.
This is the charcoal full size cartoon for a full door panel.

Set up on my bench read to start the leading process, and yes my workshop is on a boat.

A detail of the beginning.

The bottom section off the bench and up to the light.

Top in progress.

Nearly there.

Up to the light, late afternoon sun.

And when finally installed.