I know that some of you knew XnView as one of the famous Viewer for .skp files.
But not everyone knows that there is more to discover.

First of all you can put components or projects directly into Sketchup just with drag and drop. With the organizer structure possibilities a real good management.

Another good thing is to set textures with drag and drop straight into Sketchup. They comes up as images in scaling mode. This is quite good, because you only have to scale the Texture as you like. Then use contextmenu ' use as material ' , delete original texture by keyboard button and you'll have the texture in the material browser available as skm file ( just save ).

If you have a sample of textures all not seamless, you can open your main application for seamless textures out of XnView ( rightclick on image and choose the application path once )Tweak it, save and then you can use the way above and you'll have the new Material as a seamless .skm file into your browser.

For the better workflow I made a XnView toolbarbutton. Just unpack the zip into plugins folder.This means an external image and components viewer (starts directly in Sketchup)
Here you get Xnview http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.html

Note: For running xnview you only need the XnView.exe out of the installation folder.
This .exe file should copie into windows>system32 folder.
Note: If you need a language package or plugins for xnview, put the folders also into
the same directory.
Note: This installation can be done just by copie the .exe file, without loosing an actual Installation of XnView.

Burkhard

XnView.zip

Try " Screensteps"

@gaieus said:

It's a shame you don't have such training programmes in Europe...

I'm ATC Trainer here in Germany, but all is done by the resellers. So people do not have any knowledge of what is possible here. No Fairtrades, no marketing, no services, no POC
coming up from Google...only web advices. Yep, it's a shame.

Is there any special Mac-Software for creating clipmaps?
What do you use?

On his website: Just Pro Version

sure you don`t have, because I try to make my Sketchup portable
The licence and the seperate Net Framwork installation are the main obstacles to do that.

Boulder?

Layout is coupled with Sketchup in reading the licence file.
So if I try to start Layout as seperate Application, Layout tells me `missing file/Sketchup6.lf.
I would like to see Layout as an external application, reading the licence file

Burkhard

1. I would like to see NetFramework as an integrate part in Sketchup ( or Layout )
   No external installation

2. The licence Informations should be read out of Sketchup folder

Get it! solved

Not really MAC, more to take it with me on an USB stick for using it at different situations. ( No installation on a desktop PC ). Thanks for the response.

I`m interested to see a portable version of RPS 3D PDF.
Is it possible?

Burkhard

a bit fresh here . Hope for the old warmer days

Burkhard

coooool

he,he, let him make a command and password remember script to save it in SU

Da ich wieder da bin, wenn auch nur kurzfristig, kann ich auch mal wieder posten.
Ich wünsche allen Forumsmitgliedern einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr.
Möge es mehr Antworten als Fragen geben

Burkhard

About the resolution you're right. I work on a Dell Precision with that resolution and it works very fine for me. But I don't no if the all in onegeneration is a good choice.
It seems very small, not to much upgrading, noise and head are unknown....
But let`s see. Thanks for the response.

Burkhard

Any experience with the iMac?
I like to change to a Mac and find this could be a good start.
Otherwise it has the ATI Radeon card. Is this really a handicap with the sketchup performance?

Burkhard

Wünsche ich Euch auch.

misunderstood, sorry!