Fredo, thanks for this crucial tool that is missing in Sketchup.

I have a question/request. I'm using SketchUp on Dell XPS 13 laptop (Win 8.1). The problem I'm having is the toolbar is compressed in size making it very difficult to use:

Is there any way to expand the toolbar?

Thanks again

Chris

Rainer,

I just tested this plugin by exporting a model and then importing into SolidWorks 2014. It worked beautifully.

Thanks so much for providing this most useful tool!

Chris

I got SU 6 to work quite nicely and listed a description here:

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=11863#p93588

I've not tried this with SU7.

good luck,

Ok. Thanks. I was afraid of that. Maybe I'll write a ruby to set them with one click.

@eusibius2 said:

Yeah - I agree, nice setup. Is that a phenolic top? And what kind of base plate is that? Looks familiar... Is that the one from Harbor Freight? I only ask 'cuz I'm building my router table now and I'm goin through all these questions. Mine's just a separate RT and TS though.

Thanks!

The top is plywood with Formica I bought from Lowe's. The sheet was damaged and I got it for $5. The router plate is plastic. I picked it up at a woodworking show many years ago so sorry, I don't remember who I bought it from. I do need to support the router top side as it's sagging a bit so the plate is in a hole.

The saw was originally purchased by my grandfather, who was boat builder in New Orleans many years ago. My dad had the saw and never used it, so he gave it to me. In addition to the fence, I put a 1 1/2 hp motor on the saw and a Forrest WWII thin blade.

@eusibius2 said:

nice plan - have you actually made this or is it just a plan? I'm wondering how practical a setup it is?

Yep. I built it about 18 months ago. Works great.

Looky here

Hi there,

I have a settings/preferences question.

1. I have a custom default template with all my preferred fonts etc set.

2. When working document with components, saving those components to a file results in the preferences being set for what I'm guessing is a default state.

Is there a way to override this "default" state and have the saved components use the default template, or even better the settings of the parent document?

I hope so because this is an amazing time consumer. I like to split out the individual components and then dimension them and such and then reimport them. Sometimes changes are necessary and doing a saveas results in having to reset the preferences.

Help!

thanks

I've used Nice PDF Compressor. It's free and did what I wanted it to do.

http://www.nicepdf.com/products.html

take care

Yes,

Have a look at this

I've got a Biesemeyer Home Workshop Fence (which is no longer sold) on it which I shortened because my basement is rather small.

Have fun,

Table Saw Stand.skp

@edson said:

i just stumbled across LightZone a new, easy to learn and cheap image processing app. watching the videos left me quite impressed. there versions for windows mac and linux.

Lightzone has been around for a while. It's a fairly innovating tool and also supports most RAW file format's.

chris