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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.
@MLUY you could select all the geometry and do the same thing. You'll only soften edges in which the angle between face normals is less than or equal to the angle set in the Soften Edges panel.
@ntxdave said in Another Machinist's Model of a Steam Engine.:
@Dave-R Very nice sir!
You said all SketchUp. Did you use any plugins?
Yes, I did use a few extensions. For this latest one TIG's Extrude Edges by Rails, Fredo6's Fredo Corner and Round Corner., and TIG's Tangent Tools, Eneroth Solid Tools, and Bool Tools2 is about all.
By saying "all SketchUp" I meant there was no external rendering done.
And thank you!
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.
I was curious about animating this sort of thing. I created a very simplistic model to set up the animation and got this. Since all the objects are components it would be a simple matter to flesh out the shelves and the structure. I just did a native animation (tags & scenes), though.
Pater Noster Shelf Animation Concept.mp4
You're welcome.
@jgb said in Model for 3D print will not make solid (SU 2015):
I never knew about using "tab" in Solid Inspector 2.
It's a good idea to check out the message line at the lower left of the model window whenver you start a tool.
@jgb said in Model for 3D print will not make solid (SU 2015):
Next model I will try using meters instead of centimetres. Just that 10:1 is easier to work with than 100:1 as I have to visualize the model against a ruler to get some sizing correct.
You misunderstand what I told you. There's no need to deal with 10:1 or 100:1 at all. Set the model units to meters. Read millimeters off your ruler and just enter them without doing any math at all. If you measure 15 millimeters on the ruler enter 15 in SketchUp. It'll go in as meters but you don't need to do anything with that. When you export the .stl export it with Model Units set to meters. When you open it in the slicer it'll be in millimeters and you don't have to do anything as far as the scale goes.
Here's another example. Model in SketchUp with units set to meters. The screws are M6 but the threaded part is modeled at a hair under 6 meters in diameter.
And the 3D printed parts.
The M6 screws fit into the tapped M6 holes just like their commercially made metal counterparts would.
@jgb said in Model for 3D print will not make solid (SU 2015):
Alternatively, just open the group or component and activate the tool. Saves you from jumping in and out of the object while editing.
Doesn't work for me. What am I missing here?
I guess you'd have to ask Thom Thom about that one.
Use Joint Push/Pull for that.
Or you could use Offset on the top and bottom edges of the tapered section. Then use Curviloft to generate the faces for the inner surface. Just work on the tapered section. Once you have the faces on the top and bottom you can extrude them with Push/Pull
BTW, make sure all of your faces are correctly oriented. You have a reversed face on the bottom. Also reset the model axes and move your model to near the origin.
Thank you for whatever you did. It works as expected now.
If you turn off the tags for the parts you don't want and set up a scene to show the object(s) you're interested in, you should be able to export the view. Or use LayOut. It would be better for setting up the view and getting the desired export.
@tuna1957 Thank you. Shapers were fairly common in the late 1800s and early 1900s. There are still some in use today, though.
Where do you want to delete them from? What do you mean by "used components"? If there are instances of them in the model space but you don't want them, go into the In Model Components panel. Right click on the component's thumbnail and choose Delete. That will remove all instances of the component from the model space. If there are no instances of the components in the model space, open the Details menu (black button to the right of the drop down list field) and click on Purge Unused.
There are many examples in which SketchUp files, especially larger ones, have been fatally corrupted when they've been saved directly to an external drive location. In many cases the data winds up being replaced with zeroes. Often all of the data is replaced with zeroes.
The general adice is to work on the file while it is saved directly to an internal drive. If you need the file to be on a server drive or out in the cloud, copy it to that location after a successful save to the internal drive.
Also, you should be regularly purging unused content from your models, keeping material file sizes reasonable, and keeping polygon counts under control.
I don't have a Mac anymore to be able to make a screen shot for you. In the meantime check out the Help files on the topic of formatting text in LayOut. https://help.sketchup.com/en/layout/formatting-text Specifically under Setting paragraph formatting.
Illustrating what TIG described.
@HornOxx I'd have a difficult time making one of those legs out of real wood by hand. Getting four to match? Not likely.
@Aartrace1 that seems normal if you are locking and unlocking viewports. Why are you locking the viewports and the layer they are on? No need to do both. I would only lock the layer(s). Then, when you update the SketchUp reference, the viewports will render automatically if Auto Render is enabled.
Thank you!.
Here's an animation I did as an experiment with scenes, native materials, and Vray.
