What happened to the Sketchucation Link Database? I had a link to it on my model links page and when I click on it, I get a "Page Not Found."

Here is the old link that I had.

410 Gone

(www.sketchucation.com)

Please advise as to it's status.

Geez Eric, you REALLY do change your avatar constantly! Is it now once a day, or once an hour?

What happened to the Calvin and Hobbes? That one was pretty cool.

If anyone is interested, I have updated the Laboratory Casework collection that is on my website.

http://www.chrispicciano.com/3dmodels.htm

The set now contains 241 pieces of various types of casework for the laboratory furniture industry.

I just uploaded a bunch of materials in the .skm file format to the Sketchucation Attachment Server (SAS). I found these online during my occasional searches.

301 Moved Permanently

(www.sketchucation.com)

After you download and unzip this file, you can copy each folder to your SketchUp Materials main folder.

Also, in the "Wood" folder, the file suffixes of "Hor" and "Ver" pertain to the grain direction of the wood (Horizontal and Vertical, respectively).

This is the first time I have uploaded to the SAS, so if I did something wrong, please let me know.

Hello All:

I recently came across a very helpful and informative website that offers FREE video tutorials. It is located at http://www.aidanchopra.com. Mr. Chopra has written a Dummies book on SketchUp and the videos link to the YouTube website.

There are 62 in all. You can either visit these links and watch the videos online, or download them to your computer and use a .FLV (Flash Video) freebie program to view them at your leisure. In order to download them, you will need a program like "UltraGet Video Downloader" (http://www.ultraget.com/) or one of the many .FLV download programs that are out there.

There are also some other SketchUp video tutorials on YouTube. They can be found here:

That is SO COOL!!

You guys must have a lot of patience to do that. That is awesome.

Kristoff:

You must be in good athletic shape. I fear that I would keel over and drop dead before I reached the 50 yard line. Therefore, I will leave that chore to my beloved Philadelphia Eagles.

E-A-G-L-E-S GO EAGLES!!
(Sorry, I had to sneak that one in there. I'm getting primed for the new season.)

I finished the football field I was working on.

Although they don't look real, the rendered versions look so much better than the SU version.

Here is the link for the SketchUp and AutoCAD files:

http://www.chrispicciano.com/forum-pics/FOOTBALL_FIELD.zip

Thanks for the compliments.

I rendered it in Kerkythea, but it doesn't look very real to me. I need to learn more about lighting.

I had posted this dining table a while ago and finally got around to making some chairs for it.

If anyone needs the AutoCAD version, go to my Models page (link is below.)

http://www.chrispicciano.com/models-su/dining_table_su.zip

Thank you kindly........

I must not have been using the correct search terms. I'm usually very good at finding out info.

Thanks again.

Does anyone know what the dimensions are for a NFL football goal post (the U-Shaped one?)

I went online and still can't find anything. I'm building a football field (which I already have) and just need to add the goal posts.

I like reading your stuff. It helps me more and more to learn SketchUp. If I can learn as much about SU as I know about AutoCAD, I'll be doing pretty well.

Also, there's nothing bad about being long-winded. I like when people go into detail. It's most helpful for the learning process.

You are da man!

Okay, I see that "img" button in the editor. I didn't even think of that.

Kristoff:
How on earth do you have over 1000 posts on this forum, especially since you've only been a member for a few months? Is monitoring these forums your full time job? It would take me a lifetime to reach those numbers.....

Attached is a link to a workbench that I had built many, many years ago. I call it "quick and easy" because it consists of 2 by material and 3/4" plywood. You can't tell by the picture (once you click on it), but it can be broken down quite easily (without an axe) should you decide to move it.

In order to preserve Coen's server, I am linking it back to my website. Let me know how that works for everyone.
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I realize that this is a SketchUp Forum, but if there is anyone out there that uses AutoCAD (like I do), I have now included the AutoCAD .DWG counterparts of the SketchUp models that are currently on my website.

The link is:

http://www.chrispicciano.com/3dmodels.htm

Your table is awesome.

I rendered it in Kerkythea and it looks great.

If you are referring to the slideshow software, that would be ProShow Gold by Photodex. I believe the URL is http://www.photodex.com.

It's a nice little program. I actually understand how to use it. You can create completed shows in many different formats. Web shows can be created in their proprietary format and either shown via their website or your own. You can also output to .FLV.

I think they offer a 15 day Trial Version if you'd like to give it a whirl.

Attached is a Student Lab Center that I made. Also shown is a rendered version as well as the SketchUp image.

I want to make some more of these items since that is in my line of work. There is additional laboratory products on my web site.

Hope someone can use this stuff.
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I hope I am posting this in the right area.

Question:

Does importing an AutoCAD model into SketchUp deal with faces in a different way than models created in SketchUp? Here is what I have done:

I imported an AutoCAD model into SketchUp and the entire model had the color (blue) that reversed faces normally take on (and I did confirm that the faces were indeed reversed). However, I was able to add materials to this model (without reversing the faces) and then render it in Kerkythea and it turned out very nice.

When you try the same scenario with a SketchUp-created model, it doesn't work. I made a small model in SketchUp, reversed one of the faces, and then added a material. I then brought it into Kerkythea and tried to render it. The face that was reversed would not render; it merely appeared "white" in the rendered output.

Therefore, my question is, how come an AutoCAD model that comes in with all faces reversed, can have materials applied and be rendered successfully, whereas the same scenario with a SketchUp model does not fly?

Does SketchUp deal with non-SketchUp imported geometry in a different way? This is blowing my mind.