@ntxdave said in Create new or adjust materials:

I need to "smooth" or erase some lines on the heart.

Remove the internal faces between the two flat surfaces. Then you should be able to soften the edges on the surface. Those internal faces will have to go if this is a thing you plan to 3D print, anyway.

@ntxdave said in Create new or adjust materials:

I use the 3D Text editor to create the text. Is this the best way or is there another/better way to place text and an image to the face of the heart?

There's nothing wrong with using the Editable 3D Text extension to create the 3D text although you could also use the native 3D Text tool here, too.. The only benefit to using the extension would be if you want to edit the text after creating it.

What kind of image are you thinking of adding? How are you planning to add it?

I often work with a scale of 1000x. I can treat millmeters as meters that way.

@ntxdave said in Create new or adjust materials:

Would like to be able to set the RGB colors.

You can set the RGB color values if you just change the color picker.

Thank you for whatever you did. It works as expected now.

@Gábor I did send a PM.

Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see the Update All option from earlier versions. Was it removed?

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.

FWIW, Fredo has acknowledged that FredoCorner is not an exact replacement for Round Corner although they generally do the same sort of things. There are some cases in which one works and the other doesn't. I've found it imprtant to have both extensions.

@alexpacio2013 what extensions would you not want to update when the author has made updates?

Legacy materials should be displayed as the old style square swatches if you don't have Automatically Enhance Materials enabled in Preferences Graphics. I leave that turned off and only "enhance" materials when I want them enhanced. This is a custom set I made or got somewhere long ago.

For new materials that show with the cube, you could edit them to remove Metalness and Roughness as well as any other mapping them might have. Then save the changes by dragging the thumbnails back to the collection they came from.

So presumably you are still using the Classic Graphics Engine? At least until you get a capable computer you might as well stick with SketchUp 2025. Then you wouldn't have to do anything to not see the cubes.

@talegend said in [Plugin][$] FredoCorner - v2.7a - 31 Mar 24:

license for round corner doesn't have FredoCorner word and that's why I can't see it

Round Corner and FredoCorner are two different extensions and each requires a different license. Which one did you actually purchase the license for? Install that one.

You could probably edit the code but it's simpler to rotate the object after it's created.

@Nicklaus-Tang said in Image Trimmer Plugin issue:

but everytime I use the plugin, sketchup freezes

That isn't a surprise. You're asking the extension to create many thousands of edges. That will take a long time. You could speed it up some by eliminating the excessive detail with a simpler silhouette.

I see the same long list of material collections. I have nearly twice as many subfolders as can be displayed on screen at one time. This has been relayed to the developers and hopefully they will revert back to the folder-subfolder thing.

Did you change the number of segments in the corners from the model you shared? I used the geometry in your model and didn't make any changes other than fixing the location of the axes and moving the model to the origin. Out of curiosity what are you expecting for the outside diameter of the round part? What are the expected dimensions for the rectangular part?

You say you want the walls to be 1.2 mm thick. If you are selecting 1.2 mm for the offset in your model, the walls will have practically no thickness.

@Rich-O-Brien LOL! One side is flat and the other concave as on the real mirror. I was too lazy to set up to measure the exact curvature bit it's pretty close.

@Leggy said in adding thickness:

I have one little area that is showing through , but ill print it and see how it looks

If the inner surface is showing though the outer one, I wouldn't expect it to print as you want it.

I don't understand what you are doing to end up with a different result than I got.

Amused by simple things before my coffee kicks in. The environment image is inverted in the concave mirror and rights itself when you get inside the focal point just as in reality.

concave.mp4

Maybe it does explain some things.

The plastic block is the receptacle for pugging in an extra razor.

This is a model of a shaving mirror my father made probably 70 or so years ago. I found it in a box of stuff the other day so I decided to give it a go. I should complete the wiring and a few other details, most of which wouldn't ever be seen.