@unknownuser said:
See attached PDF of a screen shot. It will give a thumbnail view of almost any type of file and on the largest setting, they are quite legible, but, not large enough for really detailed examination.
Jim, your pdf image shows a directory of pdfs rather than skps.
frascati, I read but without diligence this thread, reason being I've had the same problem and found the same 'solutions.' (EDIT: comment: I didn't mean to be rude or insensitive, even is I was.)
But I came out in the sunshine: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=24113
Hope it works for you. It is relatively fast and supports batch operation.
@unknownuser said:
I have come to a method which works fairly effectively around the gaping holes (for me) in the native SUfree print-to-scale functions:
Working method:
- zoom extents to page border (after creating same to match desired paper size at chosen scale)
- set printer as PDFCreator or similar; set paper size to arch E or other as appropriate to get it all on one page, in spite of SU
- perform print preview at desired scale; use draft quality for quick check proper paging
- if correct, repeat but set to HDR quality; print to (create) PDF
- trim white excess surround in result with PDFCropper or similar
- resulting PDF can be hard printed by Acrobat or other PDF program and is what SUfree should offer or clearly disclaim: print to scale on a chosen paper size
Thanks, Jean.
3 kites sounds like a lot of fun for the stimulus-needy; with a bigger bird, just one, something similar is called kite sailing. I'd like to see you manage three in a stiff breeze. A sunny day...
Exiting and reloading had no effect.
My last guess is that they are permanently sized at the max until they are all deleted (exit and reload before rebuilding), and then perhaps when created anew they may be right sized.
That's a drag.
Oops, I just noticed that section plane way at the top of the page. It was maybe used for an animation and can readily be deleted.
Yes, that helped a lot. So it seems that the location of any section plane may determine the size of all section planes, in that they are sized to include all others!
Now I'm not so optimistic. I'll try another exit. For now, the section plane limits act oblivious to the model extents. See screen shots; hidden geometry displayed, all layers on.
I see that though that 'show component axes' is a model info setting it is saved individually with scenes and so must be specifically updated with them if desired. I guess there's a spot for that in the scene dialogs. Another part, perhaps, of the scene machinery which I don't readily flow with, so to speak.
Very good. It was unchecked.
Yes, thanks, Jean. I presumed cutting planes within group or component contexts only worked within those contexts, and thus not what I'm hoping for.
(What are those things flying in your avatar? Kites, jets, alien ships, virtual batplanes?)
@unknownuser said:
I assume you did the purging in Window> Model Info> Statistics> Purge Unused?
Yes, I purge there.
@unknownuser said:
If it is, then close and save and reopen..
I did. Extents are changed appropriately but section planes remain vast.
@unknownuser said:
If you have a component/group with an unexpected big bounding box edit it and select all. now deselect everything you want to keep [hold down Shift+Ctrl whilst making a fenced selection] - Entity Info should report what's still selected if anything -hit Delete.
I do this whenever I find it but may have missed some as the model is large-ish.
@unknownuser said:
The other likely problem is that an imported component has its origin set miles away from its geometry and thereby it has a disproportionately big bounding box - you can highlight an the component and right-click and pick 'Change Axes' and move the axes nearer/onto the geometry - this will shrink the component's bounds and thereby reduce the model's bounds [or perhaps the enclosing compo/group's] and thereby reduce the size of the section-plane to reflect that ???
A pretty likely culprit, given my inattentive (sloppy) component creation habits (my sloppiness in cases like this would be to accept the defaults offered). May be too many components to examine each one; I will try. Otherwise, I might have to live with this one.
@unknownuser said:
Model Info > Statistics > Fix Problems... ?
I'll also try this.
Thanks very much for your help, m & T.
I had assumed that section planes were sized by the extents of all entities of the context, but having just deleted and purged some expansive topos which I thought were causing section planes to be over-sized and unwieldy for working on the relatively small building, I'm finding them about as big as before. Exiting and restarting, reloading model had no discernible effect.
Just curious, as it would be so useful to be able to have more. Too useful for humanoid hands?
@unknownuser said:
There are many commands that are only available in 'certain circumstances'...
For example to shortcut 'Reverse Face' - if nothing were selected then there's nothing for Preferences > Shortcuts... even with a Filter for 'Reverse'...
But, if you first Select a Face, then do Preferences > Shortcuts > Filter 'Reverse' will give you the command [hooray] - set it to say Shift+Q...
While you are at it why not set 'Orient' to Alt+Q ?
So... if there are commands you'd like to shortcut to then first ensure that the 'context' is set properly before activating Preferences to attempt the Shortcutting...
I did think I had the basic context thing in mind. I'm still not with the filter, but will try o keep it in mind.
And I will now go in search of prefab shortcut selections, as I know folks with good experience have put them together, acknowledging that one size won't fit all, and that whatever is implemented must be remembered to be a short cut.
@unknownuser said:
you do realize you can just doubleclick a group to edit it?
Yes, thanks. Sometimes, though, as you know, SU seems to shift the pick in the course of double clicking (if there may be some ambiguity owing perhaps to entities being in stacked (e.g., groups in front of a face). And the shortcut will hopefully be faster when having to drill in to perform multiple group edits (my present concerns are dims acting as text, or maybe TIGs 2DText (? I forget).
Thanks much. The filter was the key. I wonder why the choice is not available without the filter, which I thought would be limiting rather than extending the selection set. Perhaps my glasses are still fogged.
I understand that I need to select a group to be able to create a shortcut to edit same but I can't seem to do it even so. Search results here seem to say otherwise.
Well, I can't get the 2DT text or hatch, for instance, to work on any other that the orig x-y (even on a tilted plane), though I can get SU to 'material' hatch or text a tilted plane. Indeed, once one has the non-standard flat plane created by whatever means, usually antithetical to strict model based-work (e.g., by making an vertical plane intersection with a model to produce a section), then SUf can handle drawing, texting etc., on it (even if the text is of the floating variety), and 3d text may be used for flat text. The charm of a 2D text able to be placed without the plane having been explicitly drawn, via the Z set, is the grail in my eyes.
Back to thomthom's earlier inquiry, and some others perhaps: it is not possible to set Z on any axis other than the default world blue (?), so one cannot, for instance, set the 2D Z in order to draw flat on a vertical section plane (which has not been copy-rotated flat)? I tried changing the blue axis (Z, vertical) to the original red as would allow me to do what I want here but the 2D Z did not follow.
Thanks, TIG. Ideally, for me, one could specify which 2Ds the 2DTools operate in, but I suspect that you would have implemented such were it feasible.
I have come to a method which works fairly effectively around the gaping holes (for me) in the native SUfree print-to-scale functions:
Working method: