@oganocali said:

Tgi3D selection tool supports expanding line/edge selection. The expansion stops at line ends, line branches, or already selected edges/lines. To activate expanding edge selection you need to switch to Tgi3D selection tool (somewhat like a fat version of the default selection icon) and press Ctrl key while left clicking on a seed edge (from which the selection will expand).
Tgi3D training version is free and unlimited for this feature.

exactly this idea. Thank you. now thats $149 but as you say theres that function's built in to the free version. will check it out. cheers.

@EarthMover - cheers, got the Sketchuv tool which is similar to fredos hover over.

thanks for the help.

Thom, do you think this idea is a good one? would you find it helpful in your workflow?
c

yes thats what i was thinking. Although the fact that the 1. and 2. are possible are enough, 3. was really and added idea maybe a step too far ??

so (a bit more explanation)

1. select with mouse the start of you selection
2. use arrow keys - the right arrow would push the selection along the line segments
3. if there was a junction - up arrow would help decide the direction for you to take
4. right arrow key again to take you in that new direction

c

Thanks for taking an interest heres more explanation - the attached picture is a very simple example - I would see it more useful when theres an exploded .dwg and you want to pick out something from within it and theres loads of overlapping lines - clicking along one line using the arrow keys instead of using the mouse where errors happen...
the directional idea is just an additional idea....

is this possible and does it exist?

cheers
c

Hello All
I have wondered if there was a plugin already that selected lines using the arrow keys?

Often I explode curves and then need to weld them back together which is a basic operation. situations become tricky when the camera is up against some thing or there is a mass of geometry on screen. It made me wonder about existing selection plugins if this existed, selecting a line through the arrow keys so you don't have to individually click on each segment of the geometry or move the camera

You would start the selection off with the mouse and the proceed down your connected geometry until you have selected what you want using the arrow keys ( could you then choose a path when you came to a vertex junction maybe - up arrow....)

with more and more organic forms being created with all these amazing plugins i think this could be useful. but is it possible?

Thank you every Plugin maker out there, you have made Sketchup an fantastic tool.

Cheers
C

great to see a video and what amazing work you put into this forum. really well done.

I'm trying this out for the first time and am having some trouble, the problem is that i can put a texture in but then cant change it to a new one

Its basically only works once and you can't map anything else to that shape. or i've missed something. - I'm on a mac

(suggestion - is there a roll over help pop up that can be used that when you leave the curser ove an icon a pop up help describes the function?)

thank you!!!
c

all the dimensions that you see are from SU. I just changed the view in LO from Raster to Hybrid after inserting the model.

Can anyone explain why in hybrid view my Leader text disappears?
cheers
c

Why does my text randomly disappear when i've exported to jpeg??????
c

did anybody get any answers for this?
c

thom thom that was just compression you where changing?

So I'm not going mad.....
what to do though??
Is this a Mac thing? I'm Mac your Mac

Compression doesen't do a thing?

thank you.....

I just had another go with compression all the way down. no file size difference and no difference in quality

repeating this i when through to the window i attached and the slider had gone back to nine

this makes me think it changed bacjk to a previous setting

so since then i've used the sliders to get a different result but still that seems to have no difference on file size and quality it seems to me to be stuck on a certain setting

Am i doing something basically wrong?

do i need to hit something to log the change?

I've been Playing about with the options when exporting a jpeg, trying to get a suitably low size. I have many jpegs to export and a document to make that will become too hefty if they're too high...

the SU window is at its max and I set the jpeg options so its at 72ppi as in the picture

the result i thought was too high 602kb

so i whacked the ppi down to various lower numbers and nothing changed
then i did it higher , nothing changed

any help?

An obvious request and a MUST for LO is Auto Page numbering. I'm adding page after page as i see the benefits of Lo working with sketchup, not having a way to auto page number is ridiculous, the amount of time it takes for a simple task as this.

An extension to this idea, is page titling. a text box on your LO page that would give the title of your page - what ever you've titled each page in the page window appears in a box, change that title in the page window and that automatically changes the text box - and vice verse (maybe)
Add to this, option such as
Date box
Time box
I'll let other people decide what extra boxes they need, my needs are simple for the time being.

cheers
C