Posts made by cadmunkey

@rossthompson said:

Hi, I'm afraid not. I wasn't able to find a solution.

Ross

OK thanks for the reply.

@rossthompson said:

Hi,

It has been a while since I posted, so I'm hoping this is the right section.

I work for a company that uses SketchUp for the thermal analysis of buildings. Regulations now require us to evaluate heat lost through junctions between elements.

For example external corners of a building, or where a window joins a wall. The attached PDF shows some useful diagrams.

The current approach is to make a simple sketchup model of the building, then try to motivate a graduate to measure and record all the lengths associated with these junctions. This can takes hours if not days, a frustrating process as the computer already has the inputs!

So this prompts the question, could this be done automatically with a plugin / algorithm?

My coding experience is limited, but it would be great to get an estimate for the number of person-hours the programming work would take.

If anyone is looking for development work, please get in touch. This plugin would be very valuable to our company and many others.

Thanks

Ross

An old topic I know, but did you ever find a plugin for this?

@oheimala said:

Hi. The "Solid volume" is very useful in my job, thanks a lot! A great add to it would be a mass calculator. Just an input for material density and the solid mass would be seen; or a even better if a tiny sheet to save some own densities. I have not found any plugins for easy mass reporting. Cheers!

"SUSolid.com" plugin works great for weights. You can input any materials you like.

@tig said:

My oldie CADup makes the views, then you could export them all as CAD format ?
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=CADup

This is perfect, thankyou so much. Will send you a donation after I hit my deadline for today

On the lookout for a plugin that can export AutoCAD 2D orthographic elevations of sketchup components. I do a lot of stone detailing and being able to select a component and generate 2D views quickly would be a Godsend for me. Anyone any suggestions, happy for it to be a paid app. Cheers guys.

@dave r said:

There is a simple way to do this. In your example you need the scale factor for the new size. So that would be 350/378 which equals 0.9259. So grab a corner of the selected image and start dragging it. let go of the mouse and type 0.9259 and hit Enter.

Hi Dave, I was worried that this was the only solution. I have a large volume of varying sized images and working out the scale factor for all of them will be time consuming. Its a shame that Layout doesnt have a resize option similar to the tape measure in SU.
Cheers anyway!

Hi,
I dont use Layout very often anymore so sometimes I come across little problems that may have easy solutions!
I need to somehow quickly resize jpegs that I bring into layout so that they will have an accurate scale, BUT there doesnt seem to be a properties box when you click a jpeg (which would be super easy!)
Anyway heres an example:
My inserted jpeg is 378 units high, I need it to be 350 units high, is there a quick way to resize the image or do I have to scale it manually with the grips which isnt accurate enough? I am sure I am missing something simple!

@pilou said:

And Twinmotion ?

Too many bugs, and no where near the quality of Lumion unfortunately.

@chumley said:

I've been an avid user of Lumion and appear on their Showcase Page as Chumleys Art. It's a great programme. See what I produce at https://vimeo.com/user45590453.

My issue is that as I use Lumion Version 7, to pay for another upgrade so soon is quite an expense - just below £1000. Unfortunately, SketchUp 2018 models cannot be loaded into Lumion Version 7 now. I have to build in SU2018 and save a copy to the 2017 version.

Will SketchUp address the transfer issue or will I eventually be forced to go to Lumion 8? I think I'm caught between a rock and a hard place....

I missed version 7 out completely as I felt there was nothing in that version worth the upgrade from v6. Now I have finally got around to getting version 8 and so far it is very impressive. Like you say though the upgrade price is expensive so I cannot justify the cost every single year.

@ntxdave said:

Will not accept my license code. How do I get the new one? My maintenance fee was paid in June.

I received my new serial direct from my reseller this afternoon. I suspect you will get the same email at some point over the next 24hrs.

Knew that the aussie page wasnt fake!!!
Time to download and have a look.

@tildee said:

@cadmunkey said:

I have the standard non-pro version of Lumion as it is a bit more affordable. One thing I constantly hope every year is for some of the pro features of previous versions to slowly trickle down into the non-pro version, but unfortunately they never do. With yet another price increase I don't think I will continue with it in the future.

Hyperlight is now available also for non pro-versions

Ah well thats some good news at least, I missed this from all the emails theyve sent me recently. Thanks.

I have the standard non-pro version of Lumion as it is a bit more affordable. One thing I constantly hope every year is for some of the pro features of previous versions to slowly trickle down into the non-pro version, but unfortunately they never do. With yet another price increase I don't think I will continue with it in the future.

@rv1974 said:

How did you came to conclusion its fake?
I guess the page was 100% authentic, they simply posted it too early.

I agree, looked too good to be fake. Why bother faking a site anyway??

Looks like they are improving BIM which is good!

@rich o brien said:

@cadmunkey said:

I raised this during the beta but was ignored. Last time I'll waste my time testing for Abvent.

I'm disappointed to hear this Rich, another example of Sketchup being ignored. A lot of their pre-release videos were ArchiCAD and Autodesk Revit based, I kept having to ask if they were still going to support Sketchup but never got much of a response.

Well I had another play with it. Import errors on models, still crashes after a while, and pretty poor 2d exports means I will give this version a miss. Lumion is still a superior product. Really was hoping for better things with it now it is using Unreal.

To be fair though, neither Twinmotion nor Lumion are really going to be used for 2D images, they are animation creation software. Its cheaper to buy a Vray licence if you want superior 2D images, Twinmotion/Lumion are not trying to compete with them there.

@jql said:

Not the sort of feedback I was expecting...

Actually before it did crash I was quite impressed, the user interface is simple and materials quick to use. Didnt get chance to export images/video but I will give it another try.

@jql said:

@cadmunkey said:

Feedback would be much appreciated

Well it crashed after 45 mins and I lost everything so not a great start