Well, that's weird and not good. I'll have to continue this slog.

Thanks for getting back.

I can find no mention of skp support anywhere in the prog or searching 'adobe bridge supported file formats skp sketchup' variants.

You got a super bridge.

@baz said:

Adobe Bridge, part of the CS suite, will preview skp. files.

Doesn't work for me; Vista 64, Bridge CS5 4.0.4.2.

Any particular settings, etc.?

I know you're getting tired of comments rather than votes, but.... these are arguably all kind of essentially, though not exclusively architectural:

@unknownuser said:

• 3D Massing studies
• Architectural Design and Visulization
• Construction Documents
• Construction Illustrations
• Convert 2D drawings to 3D for visualization
• Home Improvement Design
• interior design
• Site planning
• Space planning/ layout
• Store Planning
• Sun and Shadow Studies

Balance among the choices would be helpful, as I'm sure you agree.

Whatever, no body wants a quagmire... perhaps a committee to design your poll, WITH a focus group?

@unknownuser said:

While rotating, if you left click and hold while moving the mouse around,
you can change the color of the protractor to match the axis you want,
then release to orient the protractor that way.

My related post, with pic:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=45044

@unknownuser said:

When trying to manipulate 3d entities whose axes are not coincident with the model's, I often spend quite a bit of time constructing geometry to do the job, especially as regards rotation. It would be nice to have a routine to place a symbol at the axes, the geometry of which would readily allow such manipulation. I understand that that '3d entities' would have to be components as other entities may not have axes. Face size of symbol could default to 1 unit x 1 unit. Am I missing some tricks here?

Oh, yeah? Show me somethin', mister. What I mean to say is, we thrive on awesome, when and if we thrive, so if you have time, please.

My bad: you said the plugin was awesome.

The start point may not matter depending on the Vx setting.

Note the black previews which if I orbit during, causes the whole operation to be discarded.

The first pics show 1,2,3 from the bottom up.

Here from the top down.

Some friendly push-back on the decorative power lines... Amusing images, meant to make one smile. Is the form so different from the original or really of the same general impact with a bit of whimsy, to be paid for dearly? And to become stale? I'd prefer the 'purely' functional, and elegant in its direct simplicity and reductive nature. 'Sleek', minimal, efficient, less expensive, un-staling, engineered beauty. We are admittedly tired of the 'big electric cats', but I don't see big electric fe/male shapes to be any kind of viable alternative.

Please keep it up, and thanks, Dale.

I'm a new 'grow' user and am confronted with immediate splats after after processing. Knowing how diligent TIG is about resolving issues, I don't doubt the problem is a conflict with one of the plugs I've recently installed. Prior to uninstalling them in batches to try to isolate the culprit, I thought I'd ask if there anyone had problems but did not mention them. I get no results searching splats here.

Thanks.

EDIT: Whatever the problem was, it has gone away.

The more specific the question and the more informative the subject line (RE: hello!), the happier the outcome, all things being equal, maybe.

Thank you much, Kirill.

I'm trying to get up to speed. Not being a ruby cooker, I am ignorant of why a straight 'curve' is needed rather than an edge, multi- segmented or not, though you clearly state that a curve path is what is required. I wish error messages could be generated to help users, say if they make selection errors. Or perhaps that the plug be made to work with edge paths, so slow-witted users wouldn't need error messages.... So much.

When I've got the transitions previewed (in black), I find I am unable to orbit to really inspect the thing (like you do, Rich, in your demo tuts). If I try the operation is cancelled. Is there a secret?

All that common area outside and we're pretty much completely cut off from it!

We could be in newyorkcity or some such, I reckon.

Thanks for the sky lights and doors and steps to somewhere, though.

Please post pic/s of model/s as well as the model/s, if possible.

Thanks.

@stefanq said:

@brookefox said:

Is the pendant light fixture (honey server) your own design?

No, I forgot about that, sorry, must be a 3ds model saved in my personal library, but I can share it if you need it tomorrow,when I go to work.

Certainly only if it is convenient and can be imported natively. Thanks for the offer.

So this is to be 'art,' not an electricity producing thing; it is not just a rendering but will be built. I would suggest posting your work so far, at least pics of it as well as specific questions about your problems.

Did you search for product info?

Its tight and so for me the somewhat jumbled, informal look of the media/shelving wall does not work as well as the others. I think if you brought some order and elegance to that wall things would be more relaxed and successful, but that is certainly a view fraught with personal preference...

Is the pendant light fixture (honey server) your own design?

You have the face, presumably it is a component with axes. If not make it one. Align the axes of the component with the face axes in a way that will allow you to manipulate it the way you want to, say with red along 12-6 axis; green along 3-9 axis; blue z up through center. you may need to construct a little set of planes as well along these same axes to further help you. Now you can align the rotate tool to these faces or the clock face. Explore other ways of orienting the rotate tool, also, e.g., by click dragging on an edge.

I don't think so but I'm perhaps not sure what you mean.

sphere geo 20 face-icosahedron-3 of 4 component faces.skp

Odd, this issue has been buzzing me... It looks like you have entities already in place, at the angles you want this new item to be, so I would try something along the lines of adding the new item to the other component definition as a sub component. If the 'angled surfaces' are not components make them so. Do it once, or twice, depending on how many angles... and you are done. My case required two, even though it looks like more.

See:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=40874&p=404847#p404847

Also: [Plugin] Scale and Rotate Multiple