Ah ha! Thanks, I'd seen something about the CTRL button while I was searching but I didn't realize it's a toggle.

So I'm trying to use the feature where you can use the tape measure to measure some distance (in my case, it's the thickness of a piece of wood), SU will say the wood is X and then I type in Y" to change the scale of that component so that now X has become Y".

The issue I'm having is that every time I take a measurement in this component, it creates a guideline and then typing in a measurement will only affect the length or position of the guideline. I often have this issue, but taking a measurement from a different area fixes it. Here, though, I can't get the Tape Measure to just measure without creating a guideline.

Ideas?

The Region Render gets stuck either on or off using Vray NEXT. For example, if I turn it on and render a region, then turn Region Render off again and begin rendering the scene, the region render will turn back on. The only workaround I've found so far it so switch from bucket rendering to progressive.

Has anyone else run into this issue? What's your fix?

v4.00.02

The Auto doesn't seem to really work (at least in the scene I'm working on).

Is the ONLY option to use the color picker? You can't set the white balance based off of a color temperature? You can't select a color from your VFB as the basis of the white balance?

Am I missing anything here?

-Brodie

v4.00.02

I'm jumping back into VfSU after taking a pretty long break. One thing I'm noticing is that my SketchUp model all runs fine until I first open up VfSU. From that point on, the model will start hanging at what seems like random times as well as less random times (sometimes adjusting materials and the like). This also continues if I close all of the VfSU dialog boxes. I have to completely restart SU to return to normal behavior.

Does everyone else experience this as well? Any way to help mitigate this?

At the bottom of the material panel are 5 icons. The second one looks like a folder and the Mouse Over text says "Import .vrmat File". Vismats are now known as .vrmats.

I may have found the answer. I closed my Outliner and that seems to have fixed the save time issue.

Doing a bit more testing, it seems that when I open a file it saves very quickly <5 seconds. Once I open the VfSU GUI the save time jumps to several minutes. Closing the UI doesn't change the save time but if I close and reopen the file the save time goes back to <5 seconds (until I reopen the UI again).

Do other people have issues with long save times? I've been testing Vray for SU 3.60.03 with SU 2018. My test scene is 40mb. Generally that size saves pretty quickly for me but this scene which has vray proxies, materials, etc. saves obnoxiously slow. I haven't timed it but it's probably a few minutes or so, sometimes longer. Do others have this issue or know what it relates to?

edit: did a test and timed it saves in just over 4 minutes

I'm using v3.60.02 and I seem to be running into some bugs with the material creation. Sometimes I'll click on the checkered tile to open a map but nothing will happen. Other times I'll be able to open it up but when I change the map it won't change the material preview. Usually when that happens I then can't change the preview scene.

Is anyone else running into this sort of thing?

-Brodie

It's been awhile since I've used it but just found the same thing as Aces, that it's not working in 2015 with Loose2Groups for some reason. Bummer

This doesn't seem to be working for me with 2015. Is it just me?

SU is notoriously hard to predict when it comes to graphics card performance. It's not rare for an objectively better card to underperform a much cheaper card. Also, as was hinted at before the CPU (or rather a single core of your CPU) is doing most of the work in terms of geometry. As I recall the GPU is handling things like shadows, textures, and (I believe) styles like extended lines.

My advice, if you're only buying a card with SU in mind, is to get a decent nVidia gaming card. I'm a bit out of date on my video card knowledge so I'm afraid I can't offer any specific advice with regards to the models you mentioned.

-Brodie

Hrm...I changed all of my OpenGL settings to no avail.

For the record I'm on Windows 7 64-bit, SU2014, and have an nVidia Quardo 4000

Attaching a quick little screen capture to show what's happening.

-Brodie

back_edges.swf

When I am in a component with "Hide Rest of Model" turned on showing "Back Edges" doesn't work. I wonder if this is working as intended or if I have some sort of graphics card glitch I'm having. I'm on SU2014. Do others get this same behavior?

-Brodie

I used it previously in SU8 and was quite happy with it. I just assumed the whole point of the extension warehouse was to replace it. Out of curiosity, why are your plugins not available there?

-Brodie

Thanks. I probably need to download the plugin store again. I'd thought the integrated extension warehouse would replace it but there seems to be an awful lot that isn't on there (and the search function seems to be quite bad).

-Brodie

Exactly what I needed Box, thanks! I like the simplicity of Didier's plugin a bit better (no dialogs breaking up my flow). With TIG's suggestion on how to get it to work in 2014 everything is right with the world again. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

A link to TIG's post for posterity.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=1523%26amp;start=30

-Brodie

TIG,

Would it be possible to get a slight tweak on this? The extrusion works great but I use it pretty often and the dialogs sort of break up the flow a bit for me. I wonder if it would be a big deal to have a version that doesn't ask you about reversing the faces and automatically explodes the resulting geometry.

-Brodie

Edit: Nevermind. I just found your post on Didier's ExtrudeLineTool thread. With your modification to get it to work in 2014, that's exactly what I needed. Thanks!

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=1523%26amp;start=30

Is there an extrude line plugin that works in 2014? The last couple I've tried to seem to be compatible.

-Brodie