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Best posts made by Dave R
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Migrating to a New Version of SketchUp
This seems to come around every year or so and for a lot of people it seems to be a big problem but it doesn't need to be. This is how I do it.
- Open the previous version and make a screen shot to show the toolbar layout.
- Install the new version of SketchUp.If you are installing on Windows, make sure you log in to Windows with your normal user login. Then right click on the downloaded installed and choose Run as administrator.
- Deal with your local collections of components, materials, styles and if you use them, classifications. I keep them in the directory SketchUp creates and by default looks for. On the PC that's User/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp... There is a similar folder on Mac under User/Library/Application Support. In both cases these directories are normally hidden but they can be made visible. I copy the folders from the previous version to the new one. Leave the Plugins folder alone. Don't copy it unless you enjoy chasing load errors.
Alternatively you can leave the components, materials, and styles where they are and change the file paths in Preferences>Files.
- Download the Sketchucation Extension Store and install it using Install Extension in the Extension manager.
- Open the tool, sign in to Sketchucation and click on the gear icon at the top.
- Click on Bundles.
- The extensions you've installed in the previous version of SketchUp using the tool will be listed. You can install the en masse by clicking on the Install Bundle button.
- Install extensions from the Extension Warehouse by going to the EW from the Window menu. There used to be a method for batch installing extensions you installed with the EW previously. It's currently absent after a recent platform change for the Extension Warehouse but hopefully it will return soon. Install fresh copies of other extensions you might have from other sources.
- With extensions installed, quit SketchUp and restart to make sure they all load.
- Import the screen shot you made in step one as an image and zoom in on it. Use it as a guide to place the toolbars in the same relative locations.
As for keyboard shortcuts, they should take care of themselves. The new version looks for the shortcuts in the previous version and installs them automatically.
I know there are some things that seem like they could be easier. If people were AR about keep their extensions up to date and extensions didn't require updates due to changes in Ruby versions, most of them could be copied from the old version. Evidence has shown that most people aren't good about keeping their extensions up to date and from time to time, Ruby changes requiring updates to some extensions so it's best just to install fresh copies instead.
It would also be nice if there was a way to get toolbars set up automatically but alas, there isn't yet. No point agonizing over it. Just get it done.
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RE: Split tool to cut contour lines
You still have to open the group for editing in order to get to the lines. It's a lot like working in SketchUP. When you exploded the viewport you wound up with a scaled drawing group. Also, depending on how the SU file is structured, there may be nested groups--groups inside of a parent group. Double click on the contours until you can select a single contour line.
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RE: Overhead Line Shaft Detail
Thank you sir. Maybe it makes up for my lack of skill with rendering that you have.
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RE: SketchUp native graphic style
There's more to those images than just SketchUp. There's some rendering in something such as Vray and some work in Photshop or similar.
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RE: Transfer my plugins from SU23 to S24
@errror404 You really ought to use the Extension Store tool to find and install extensions. It's easier than downloading the extensions and installing them with Extension Manager. It also means that when extensions get updated you can get an alert and update them quickly, and of course build your bundle to make migrating to a new version of to a new computer easier.
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RE: Import he NCS color system from .ase-file in SU
@gullfo said:
...and there are also online and github converters to get to rgb or hex...
Did you happen to find anything that would convert all of the colors to RGB or HEX in one go? I could only find converters for single colors.
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RE: 2024 Paint Bucket
@rv1974 said in 2024 Paint Bucket:
I hate this new new brief tap behavior
It's been around for three or four years.
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RE: ExtensionStore interface issue
@nickchun glad you got it sorted. I presume you used the previous version of the ExtensionStore tool to update to the current one. Periodically open the UI. It'll check any extensions that it installed for updates, including itself, and let you know if there are updates to install.
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Overhead Line Shaft Detail
Combining parts I've modeled based on a variety of sources from the late 1800s to very early 1900s. Still need the belt shifter if I can find the details.
AO in Kerkythea under a faces only and a sketchy edges hidden line export.
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RE: "Watt" Micrometer
These things seem to find me. I come across various sources for dimensioned drawings of various machines and use them to make these models. I find them a good alternative to the woodworking models I tend to do for clients.
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RE: "Watt" Micrometer
Thank you all.
For those who aren't familiar with reading micrometers, the lead screw which drives the moving anvil has 20 threads per inch. So one full turn of the screw moves the anvil 0.05 in. That moves the pointer on the small dial one division and of course the pointer on the large dial, a full revolution. The major divisions on the large dial indicate 0.001 in. I don't know how precisely the original lead screw's threads were made but a device like this can be quite precise in its measurements.
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RE: "Watt" Micrometer
@HornOxx thank you! Two ceparate lines-only exports from SketchUp combined with the render from Vray.
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RE: Steam Engine Machinist's Model
@Rich-O-Brien
Not a whole lot of difference with AO on this one.
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RE: Steam Engine Machinist's Model
Another little machinist's model. The flywheel on this one is 35mm diameter.