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I think skatter 2 can do this for you already.

It's best to just model it. I would never use displacement in this manner. There are plug-ins that could help with the modeling pretty quickly I bet.

Thank you!

I knew I have seen it somewhere before 😄

Wow! That looks great 😄 But I think it would work only with models that are made with triangles of the same size and shape.

I am working on setup, that (maybe) will be able to triangulate complex organic shapes. I do not know if it will work how I need but I will post a result here.

Never mind. I found the documentation:
http://qgis2threejs.readthedocs.io/en/docs-release/index.html

Could be that the graphic card doesn't handle multiple 3d applications. Can you have multiple SketchUp windows open?
Some users report that they can't have more than a couple, or even just one, SketchUp window - this appear to be related to the graphic card capabilities.
Have you tried temporarily disabling Hardware Acceleration in SU - just to verify it's a graphic card issue.

Thanks. Iĺl try 😄

Neither do I 😄 So I will wait. But the comming of new script is a good news for all SKP/VUE users.

Since version 7 this has been possible by using the slider "Direction from surface" in the ecosystem painter. If set at "perpendicular" you can populate up-side down if you want to.

@cyalumina109 said:

Hey TIG I have the same problem now, it crashes just after opening it

Crashes immediately after opening are typically related to issues with the graphics drivers. With SketchUp 2017 and later, the graphics card must be up to the task of properly supporting OpenGL. What is the graphics card? Try updating the graphics drivers. If the graphics card is not up to the task, you may need to go back to SketchUp 2016 which has the option to dump rendering duties to the CPU.

When you installed SketchUp, did you right click on the installer file and select Run as administrator from the context menu?

coulteri:
Yes, most likely either the dxf or the import process.
I am not the expert here, but what I have learned is that the original dwg or whatever, needs to be cleared of stray z values. This happens when the original drafter unintentionally or otherwise failed to snap vectors to appropriate endpoints, midpoints etc.
There is a thread or two here involving best practices for import dxf's and how to prepare them.

Thanks for posts. I try to make a model of actual vegetation. It means, that I import a photo of terrain into sketchup, project it onto terrain made of contour lines and where I see a "green spot", there is a tree. So I placed a component onto the terrain on these spots and I would like to replace them with trees in Vue. Ii is truth, I could make the same direct in Vue.

Arc: Center and Two Points
Weld
Perpendicular Face Tools
Arc Centerpoint Finder -or- Arc Centerpoint
Invert Selection
Skindigo
Joint Push/Pull
Bend (FredoScale)
BoolTools

(Selection Toys? what's that.. sounds like it could easily be added to this list if it can do what i hope it can 😄 )

I'll look at it. Maybe I will be able to write it in the future. Thanks.

Nobody answered your question XD

Yes. Maybe good idea to do it in another software (like AutoCAD). Thanks.

Coulter already found it, but I thought I'd put a link here for anyone else interested. I have a pretty basic plugin found here:

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17507

which does this. It scales either uniformly or randomly within a specified min/max tolarnce. And the user specifies if the scale should happen from the center of the component, the compnent axis or the world [0,0,0] center. I'm also working on a "component base" option which will be the center of the bottom of the component (for people who do not accurately set the axis of their compnents).

Chris