An experiment to create clock hands that will rotate to the correct time based on a typed time.

@hannaconner said in Sketchup 2017 suddenly closes:

I use SU 2017 as a subscription doesn't make sense

You're right. That doesn't make sense since SketchUp 2017 was never available as a subscription. What kind of license do you really have?

@hannaconner said in Sketchup 2017 suddenly closes:

Anytime I try to do a cut and paste or other action that increases or adds to it, it suddenly crashes.

What operating system are you using? What are the specs on your computer? What is the graphics card? Most likely you have exceeded your computer's capability. It's also possible that you have a bad object (component or group) in the model.

You might try purging and otherwise cleaning up the model before trying to add more to it.

You could share the file with us so we can see if it can be fixed. Upload it to DropBox or We Transfer and share the link.

Click on Download to download the file to your computer.

@tuna1957

Thank you, sir!

I've had excellent service from my Logitech keyboards and mice. The only time I've had to replace the keyboard is when I've spilled something sugary into it. As far as mice, I've only had to replace them when I wear the feet off and they get too difficult to push around. The one on the left here is close to that point. I've never had any failures of the buttons or wheel.

Download and install the Sketchucation ExtensionStore and install it. Open it and sign in. Then click on the bell icon at the top and then Bundles. You should then be able to install the bundle of extensions that you installed on your desktop machine. You can download. As for the licenses, you can access the license page via the Sketchucation menu in the Plugins menu. Download your licenses and activate them for each of the purchased extensions.

@Rich-O-Brien no, it's not 100% SketchUp. It's a cobination of exported images over an image of paper with stains. It does use one of my sketchy line styles for the edges. The paper image could be used as a watermark but that is kind of limiting when it comes time to edit the image in the image editor.

@majid thank you. As I showed you on the other forum the hatching was done in Foto Sketcher.

@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.

@Leggy said in Annoying pop up:

so just scale down by 0.001 then export and we should be spot on in mm

No. As I wrote:

said in Annoying pop up:

No need to scale those models down.

And as @Box wrote.

I've shown examples like this before. The SketchUp model:

And the 3D printed object.

No scaling of the model required. The .stl file was exported at Model Units (meters). but the slicer reads the dimensions as millimeters.

@L-i-am if you wanted to make it look less photographic you could use the rendered image as a basis for a hand-shaded sort of look. Combine it with a hidden line export from SketchUp Maybe use a sketchy line style or the straight line styles. Maybe enable extensions for some of the lines

This is just a quickie shaded thing. I'm not sure it's totally right but a start.

For anyone else who comes along:

The new migrator copies the extensions from the previous SketchUp installation. If you haven't stayed on top of keeping extensions updated or if extensions required updates for the new SketchUp version you will still need to go and track those down. And for extensions that have their own installers, most likely you can expect those extensions to fail to load and you'll need to install them correctly.

Even if you use the migrator, the very next step regarding extensions from Sketchucation should be to open the Sketchucation Extension Store tool and install the bundle to make sure you have the latest versions of extensions from here. That will also allow the tool to alert you when there are extensions that need to be updated and it will create a new bundle for later use on other machines or for the next major release.

And don't get lazy about keeping extensions up to date. The authors do their best to keep them updated. The least you can do is take advantage of their updates.

@Leggy said in help with a thread:

where is it?

Slowly putting things together.

Need to model the rest of the chair I guess. Never done that before.

@ximcix said in No context menu fo clothworks.:

but no context menu when I right-click on a bare surface (not a group or a component).

@ximcix said in No context menu fo clothworks.:

Any suggestions?

Read the instructions.

ClothWorks | SketchUcation

3D SketchUp Community for Design and Engineering Professionals.

(sketchucation.com)

You need to have groups or components for the cloth and collider for Clothworks to work on.

There's no reason fo Clothworks to appear in the context menu if you are right clicking on a face since the extension doesn't work on that context.

I've been enjoying SU2026.

@ntxdave sorry. @Rich-O-Brien beat me to it.

If you want to use Vray for editing, the Studio subscription is less than the Pro sub and buying Vray separately.

Did you try installing it correctly using the Sketchucation ExtensionStore tool?

FWIW, did you use the Sketchucation ExtensionStore tool to install your Sketchucation Bundle? If not, you may have issues with some other extensions. The extension migrator for SU2025 only copies the extensions from a previous installation of SketchUp. It doesn't update them like installing the bundle with the ExtensionStore tool does.

Select all of the edges that you want to soften, right click on the selection, choose Soften. If needed, adjust the slider in the Soften Edges panel in the tray.

@tuna1957 thank you. It does seem to be working fine. The original side things on the foot plate were PLA which is brittle and one of them got broken. Easy enough to print new ones. The current ones are PETG and seem to be holding but I got a spool of TPU yesterday and made a new set that are a little flexible. Maybe they won't break. We'll see when I get the opportunity to swap them in.

I don't believe there are any extensions to do that. You could use 3D text and drawn 3D dimension and extension lines to create the geometry. I find it's simper and faster to combine a couple of image exports; the render and a dimensions-only image direct from SketchUp. This is a quick 10 second render to show the idea.

The render:

The dimensions-only image export from SketchUp:

And after combining them in an image editor:

The layer for the dimensions is set to Multiply in the image editor.