hi there! You don't see reflections, because the lamp cage is a single surface. Try to give it some thickness and be sure to put positive normal faces facing the bulb

These are good looking renders indeed. Only two things attract my attention:

1 - work on lighting, try to give a color to the light that's coming through the windows. It's a bit too white right now.

2 - Try improving the floor material, it's not very realistic right now

other than that, nice job!!

@dkendig said:

Couldn't get proxies in there (and presentable) in time for Basecamp, but they're on the way.

Hallelujah..

@snowy said:

@unknownuser said:

by HPW » Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:17 pm

Got one more question about this:
The Architecture projects i work on are mostly world orientated so they don't follow the sketchup basic axes.
When i change the axes to follow the direction of the building and i want that view in isometric view. sketchup still shows the isometric view based on the basic axes.
Do i something wrong here? or is that the only restriction that your model has to follow the basic axes.

In this case I imagine that my solution should work, but you would have to try it out

@hpw said:

Lets just say that the metod I showed allows you to do an ISO view in the direction you prefer...

Hm, the Sketchup function let you do this also.
Rotate fairly into the wanted view and choose ISO and it will be aligned exactly into the prefered view.

I did not know that, that's why I came up with my solution

thanks for pointing it out for me..

@hpw said:

Is it not the same as menu:

Camera\Standardviews\Iso

??

wow, now I feel like an idiot.

But yes, you're right. Lets just say that the metod I showed allows you to do an ISO view in the direction you prefer...

@paul russam said:

That's so perfectly simple its almost painful that it never dawned on me before!!

Well done on seeing the obvious and explaining it.

The obvious is only seen when you need it. That's what I always think

Hello everyone, I want to share a quick tip I concocted while doing one of my latest jobs. I had a request for a perfect isometric view and came up with a quick solution.

What is an isometric view? It's a particular Parallel Line view where all 90° angles between lines are deformed to 120° like so:

In this particular mode you get model views like this one:

source: http://www.brynmawr.edu/

To setup this kind of view, you simply have to draw a cube starting from the Axis Origin, and then immediately view it in wireframe mode:

Now draw a line connecting the diagonal that starts from the axis origin to the opposite vertex going up (from vertex 1 to vertex 2 in the image:

And now, make sure you're using Parallel Projection and click on the "Position Camera" command

(You may find it in Camera Menu > Position camera, too)

Now the only tricky part: click on vertex number 2, keep the mouse button pressed, and drag to point number 1. Then release.

If all is well, you will find yourself with this:

(you may need to click on zoom extents to reset the viewing clipping plane)

Note that now vertexes 1 and 2 are overlapped!

Try activating "Back edges" view and you get this:

Pro tip: you can save this scene to get back to it whenever you want. Also, if you save this view as 2D Autocad format, you get a perfect isometric view of your model transformed in 2D lines

Happy isometric views, everyone

@thomthom said:

@penumbra said:

@ ThomThom. Yep. running the 32 bit IE. don't know why that is since i have 64 bit Win7...

Think it's default as browser extensions are mainly available in 32bit... ...just guessing.

you're right!

@penumbra said:

in Windows 7, at least on my machine, if you browse to a folder containing Sketchup files with say, internet explorer, the icons magically reappear.

That IS weird. Normal explorer windows won't show preview. Explorer window from brows in internet explorer? There you go!

Any registry hack we can think of to replicate the behaviour?

check the color slot in GI settings, also make sure you're using vray sky, otherwise you won't have sun shadows in your render

Hi all! Liking the new interface, but a bit overwhelmed by all the new sections... also I don't know if I like this premium membership thing.

Also, where can I inquire how to sell some of my models?

And I have to change my avatar, so it seems... Edited: no I don't

purtroppo, ed è un peccato.

Il problema è che tutte le informazioni buone sono in inglese, e qualcuno dovrebbe mettersi e tradurre... ma è un lavoraccio.

Tu per cosa usi Sketchup?

that's a nice little tweak on a trick I already knew.

Maybe a little step more is that you can turn all your model in a component, and THEN flip the copy. This way if you modify something in the design, that change is immediately present in the copy

hmmm, try looking on youtube for Sketchup and Photoshop, if it's still there...

Hi there! Can you tell me exactly which siding material you are trying to use? I'll have a go to convert it into vismat

I am not so active a participant as I would like to be, but this idea sounds really nice

@unknownuser said:

Found a cool one today.

Copy a line over and type 6" to set the distance. Then type *10 to array it 10 times.

What I already knew was that you can type *8 or *4 or whatever to adjust the number of arrayed items.

However I just found out that if you then type 3" or 10" it will keep your array but adjust the spacing. Pretty sweet!

-Brodie

This, sir, just made my day!

that looks.... healthy!

come across this term in a Tv series I'm following: what are smore's??