@tig said:

This seems to be a known issue - 'solar north' and 'GE north' aren't always quite the same thing... don't worry it's such a small amount so as not to cause significant problems - the sunset/dawn is perhaps a minute or two late/early if 'north' is reset model-north - or just leave it alone !
It's not a 'problem'

hi, Tig

I see, thanks again

hi,

Every time I grab an image (and terrain model) from Google earth, the image always get imported with an angle to Axis (or North). why isn't the image in-line with Axis?

a screen shot attached.

thanks in advance

@unknownuser said:

A bit more info would help and posting this in the plugin's thread might get better exposure to the developer.

Is it this plugin?

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=34232

no, this only triangulate,I tried this one also, and many missed faces.

but the one I was referring to is pnts2mesh.rb V1.3.

thanks for reply.

the points to mesh script does not work, I launched it but nothing happened.

Win7 64bit and SU pro8.

Many thanks

'Change in one of components, the rests all follow.'

Add 'Component Tray' Contain: thumbnails, Schedule Labels alphabetically, drag and drop multiples to paper space.

I think these will help indexing, scheduling, and drawing referencing a lot.

I wish the same.

For some reasons, My SU can load particular plugins only at fresh start of a new model (plugins like SU physics, and a few more). In another word, upon re-open a saved model, these plugins can no longer be loaded.

My specs: Windows 7 ultimate 64bit, SU7.1, Intel i5, Nvidia 8800GTS, 8GB Ram.

Thanks for you time

Max

hi,

How can I get real world GPS coordinates [latitude, longitude] for multiple components’ origins after I have set the whole model’s global position and orientation?

thanks for your time in advance

I can't express my appreciations to you TIG. Thanks

@jim said:

Hi Max,

Scale and Drop (which is basically a Move) are not the same thing. Which do you mean?

If you meant move each Instance so their tops are aligned, you could use the Drop plug-in if you flipped the entire model up-side down and used a temporary target face to drop to.

you know, like piles in marinas holding up all the walk ways, the top of these piles are all at the same level, where the bottoms on the sea bed are not.

plus, I am trying to have all different heights piles as one component,so i think i have to scale them down to the ocean floor?

I need some help, thanks in advance for your time.

I am trying to scale bottoms of 1000 piles (as same component) down onto an uneven surface with top of all piles at the same level. I wonder how I can do this efficiently without scale every pile one by one.

I know plug-in like ‘drop to intersections on nearest Z’ but this plug-in won’t work as I want all piles ‘top at same level.

So, any brilliant ideas?

Hi, TIG

Thanks for your time and advice but I am not very confident to deal with programming stuff. I prefer to edit the data in excel like the way you suggest, while waiting for the next version. I hope it could be more interactive and controllable.

By the way, to delete tilde ~ (along with some other symbols) by Find and Replace function of MS Excel, a ~ must be added in the selection field first, making it ~~, ~*, and etc.

Regards

@tig said:

Here's v1.6.

It sorts out file/folder paths slightly differently, which might avoid the Mac crash. It also corrects the typo in a dialog reported by Didier...

Hi, TIG
I use this reporter a lot, to quantify timber and steel etc. It’s a great tool but I was wondering if numbers or texts(unit, mm) can be fully separated into different spreadsheet cells, So that I can easily get into the numbers? Also, the approximation mark “~”, Can you make that not get exported as well?

Best regards
Max

Thanks guys. that's helpful.

I also find another array tool, called SCF power bar. it does array along path at defined spacing and array on selected nodes.

hi,

The attached screenshot shows multiply (array) options from Archicad. Is there any ruby available to do the similar? (beside key sequence)

thanks

@chris fullmer said:

That sounds like booltools plugin. Search for the one.

Chris

That's right. thanks

Hi, everyone

Is there a sript avaiable to do Solid element operation type of thing? (like Archicad).

in another word, one or even multiple elements get trimed by another element (the operator)?

Thanks

I did this for black and white presentations,and better use of the line style ablility.

it takes a while to do; i hope some sort of vector hatching tool become available.

by the way, this house model has all structural members in it, well except nails. thanks for sketchup, make it possible for me to build virtually.

cheers

@thomthom said:

Why not use a texture?

do you mean all black and white textures? the only thing stop me using textures is the Layout. Funny enough,i use sketchup and layout to do consent plans to the governments. i know most people donot use this program do this kind of thing, but i am a builder so whatever works for me.
so,yeah,the raster image (textures and style) on the view ports of layout do not want to stay for me for some reason. plus, often i have to vectorise the view ports to get one or two forgotten lines on the drawing (or erase), so that the texture goes too.

Anyway,i don't think raster hatchs would work for me.

cheers

Hi everyone,

Is there such sricpt available for filling areas with grouped line patterns?

Thanks