A hook on a pulley for some sort of crane or something. Based on dimensions given in an old, undated book from Spain of technical drawing exercises.

This is a heel strap for a wheelchair to prevent the user's feet from sliding off the foot plate. It's designed to install easily with no tools required except scissors to trim the strap to length. The clips with snap on covers are 3D printed to fit off the shelf polyurethane toothed belting.

From the SketchUp model.

Partially assembled.

Temporarily installed on a chair. Ignore the dog hair.

Combined a Vray render with an AO export direct from SU24.

Experimenting with creating a vintage illustration style for my SketchUp models. The flywheel is based on dimensioned drawings in a textbook from 1897.

This one is called Lady Stephanie. I don't know who the real Lady Stephanie was but if she was anything like this engine, I'm guessing she was kind of ornery and hard to please.

After putting her aside I did another engine today. This is a a little crankless engine.

From an old book. SketchUp and Paint DotNet.

A model of what is probably the first micrometer ever made. It's dated England about 1776 and attributed to James Watt although evidence shows it likely wasn't made by him.

A larger version of this image is available here.

All the screws are made and holes threaded. 28 component definitions, all solids.

Funny guys!

And here's another one. A little 4-cylinder oscillating engine. As usual, all base level components are solids.

This is from a model I initially made 11 years ago for shop drawings. I pulled it out recently to do a bit of refining in SU2025.

I was nosy and poked around until I found it. Here is the .json. I hope pasting it into that folder fixes it for you.

json_encoder.zip

@simulat I wonder if the issue is with the SketchUp version, maybe your computer's graphics card, and the excessively large size of some of the textures. There's no benefit to having those large textures since SketchUp will down sample them.

Although I doubt it's involved in your issue with using Thru Paint, It would also be a good thing to fix incorrect tag usage.

Also purge unused stuff.

@panixia said in Convert groups to components:

contextual menu -> group copies -> select all -> contextual menu -> group copies -> convert into components.

This of course requires Selection Toys as Rich advised.

@simulat that is typical of incorrect installation on Windows which prevents SketchUp being able to write the required file that stores the toolbar locations. . Correct installation requires right clicking on the installer and choosing Run as administrator. That's not the same as running SketchUp as administrator.

Are you running a cracked version of SketchUp 2020?

@Loikkanen123 using inferencing as Rich and Box show makes it easy. You need to be grabbing the object by a point that corresponds to the destination point on the other object.

Another thing to consider is modeling objects in the location you need them so you don't have to move them into place.

@Woodarc said in VEIL OVER SCENES:

I had the axes in the wrong place and, in effect, was looking at the scenes from below ground level.

FWIW, the "veil" wasn't due to the location of the axes. Just that the camera was below ground level and the style had ground displayed and Show ground from below turned on.

The location of the the ground plane is fixed in the model space and not tied to the location of the axes. By default the axes are positioned such that red and green lie on the ground plane and cross at the origin. Moving the axes doesn't move the ground plane nor does it move the origin.

Export Options aren't part of the template settings, though.

The Text Position command also shows in the Context menu for a single selected dimension, too.

There's no need for a keyboard shortcut if you're going to change the text position in Entity Info, anyway.

@jamesmeng said in [Plugin Beta] Animator - v4.4a - 01 Jun 25:

your animator is so important for me so please ...

Have you made a donation to Fredo6 for his great work on this free extension?

What version of SketchUp? What operating system?

Share the .skp file.