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Great postcard-feel image, but whats with these diagonal strokes/hatches?

An anal bleach control tool ?
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Bep

Thanks 👍

Couldn't resist a Marion Mahoney Griffin tree render. In case people don't know she was responsible for most of Frank Lloyd Wrights renderings, and certainly the development of that style.

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mmm... I've had quite a few issues with imported DWG from AutoCAD or other applications. (blocks with origin point far of would make the blocks, converted into components in SU jitter and do all sorts of weirdness.)

My workflow for importing DWG is:
Copy only the required data to a fresh new DWG file.
Then Purge in AutoCAD.
Open a new instance of SketchUp, import the DWG, delete unwanted garbage the import brought along
Purge the SU model
Copy to the working model

That normally get rids of most problems.

Generally the big wite cursor issue is a graphics issue. Try changing the setting within SU to turn off hardware acceleration or something like that. You might also update your drivers if Mac's let you do that kind of stuff.

I wouldnt be surpised, he's a shifty looking fellow.

the eraser tool trick is cool. to be able to select only visible geometry would also be good.

another way is to draw the first face of your new object. then dbl click select it and make it a group or component. then open the group and carry on building inside it without fear of affecting other geometry

frightening! I was really scared of that spider when it didn't stop going after my cursor. probably the best training to overcome arachnophobia...

Absolutely, and thats why wI would love to be able to do all - Cad drawings to model to rendering in SketchUp.
I often wonder why there seems to be some kind of protected turf when it comes to this.

I have to say, Google is so damn decent with their licensing - buying one license and being able to use them on many different machines (only one at a time) and all the other machines automatically switch back to the free version, when the license is in use.

the same with network licenses for an office (so you only have to buy a few pro licenses, because for most modelling it is not necessary).

that is absolutely fantastic. then free educators licenses and really cheap ones for students...

that is absolutely fantastic! 😍

The method David describes is a good that I've used too when I've had lots of animations to make and didn't want to muck up my model.

The idea is to treat the whole model as a component in a blank model. So save your main model and close it. Then open a blank model. File>Import and import your model file. Place it somewhere in the blank model. Now set up your animation scenes.

Now if you make changes to your original model file, they do not get updated automatically in the animation file. But you can reload the model manually. So in the animation file, right click on the model (which is still a single large component) and choose "reload" and then choose your model again. It will load in the newly modified version in the exact same spot.

Then repeat for all animations.

For me it depends what my other animations are though. If I have 4 animations that are identical camera locations but different styles (pure white and shadows with no lines, pure color no lines, pure white with lines and no shadows, inverted fog to act as a z-depth layer). I will set up all camera scenes to only store the camera location and not thet style or shadow info. Then I make 4 scenes that only store style and shadow info. These scenes do not get included in the animation. But it makes it easy to export my animation in a different style over and over until I get all the layers of animation I want.

So for me it always depends on what I am trying to export. Hope that helps,

Chris

@unknownuser said:

Does your above mentioned dxf file arrive as a 3d entity when you use the version 12 export, when exported in plan view? Do you have to export using an isometric view?

Yes, always as a 3d entity, independent of view.

@unknownuser said:

although I first thought that having each wall for instance as an individual component a pain,

Once I have the walls on their own layer, I usaully explode them all and reform them all into one new group, leaving the windows in their own individual groups/components. Same with the entities that form the roof...explode em and reform into a single group

I don't have experince with Kerky, but where is the ligth come from?

Yes, you are right, it certainly wasn't giving Kerkythea a chance, but considering I didn't even know how to tweak the glass when I posted this morning, I'm coming along.

Kerkythea glass tweaked

I thought it was a bit odd, but they did the same thing the first time they published me last year, with that Pavilion for Oblivion thing. I received the impression that the authors of other projects were actually interviewed in some cases.

But I'm not complaining...just remarking on the "surprise." After all, if the webcounter can be trusted on Friday approximately 50,000 AIA members at least opened an issue graphically headlined by one of my projects. I wasn't looking for any publicity when I started working on this "fantasy," but I'm happy enough for the recognition.

Subdivide and smooth is on my computer at work, and I won't be back there till next.
I'll post some screen shots then if thats ok. However from memory I have placed the main folder in the plugins folder, and to clarify there appears to be 2 plugin folders on the mac osx format. One that can be reached by (right)context clicking the SketchUp icon in the Mac HD/Applications/Google Sketchup 6/ heirarchy and clicking on "show package contents". Inside this folder is a file named "Contents" which has a "Plugins" folder in it. I have learned from experience that putting rubies in here doesn't appear to work.
So I placed it in the MacHD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/ Plugins folder. In order to get the dialogue box to appear in my Sketchup Preference/Extensions panel I had to take the "subsmooth_loader.rb" out of the Subsmooth folder and place it just in the general Plugins folder. I thought I would have to do this with the other rb. file (I can't exactly remember it's name but I think it was "subsmooth_load.rb") but when I restart after doing this an error dialouge appears, and I'm sorry Iknow it refers to the suddivide rb. but I can't remember precisely what it says.

Thanks for the Help

Also note that under 70% of opacity, the window will neither cast nor receive shadows so if you want that figurine to cast the shadow onto it, keep it above 70% opacity.

Dale.....

New guy here. To forum anyway. Images look very professional for sure. Care to talk about your work flow?

Any 2D/3D CAD work before importing into SU? I think I saw you are MAC platform? Do you export/import from ArchiCAD? And at what point do you leave SU...... and where do you take it for 2D presentation?

I am outside Philadelphia, PA USA.