@erzane there is no official source for that version but you can find it if you do a Google search for it. Download and install it at your own risk, of course.
Nothing has changed since back in December when you were told the same thing.
You will find it in browsing the web! "sketchup Make 2017" in the research box of any web search engine!
sketchucation (community.sketchucation.com)
@djh said in Why is LayOut so slow in 2024?:
NVIDIA Quadro P2000
Are the drivers up to date? Don't trust Windows to tell you. Go to the Nvidia site and get their latest drivers.
In LO go to Edit>Preferences>Performance. Do you have the experimental graphics engine enabled? Try changing the state of that and see if you get any performance change.
@djh said in Why is LayOut so slow in 2024?:
I had thought that one must work in Hybrid to get Hybrid PDF exports.
Prior to the release of SketchUp/LayOut 2023 you would have to render viewports as Hybrid before exporting to PDF if you wanted the vector linework in addition to the raster textures. Working with Hybrid rendering is more resource intensive so performance tends to suffer. With the release of Lo23 they added the ability to allow you to work with the viewports rendered as Raster to speed things up and then let LO render them as Hybrid during export. This can be useful especially if you have to go back and forth to make frequent edits in the SketchUp model because Raster rendering is very fast. You'll still have the longer render times with Hybrid but at least you would only have the delay once, during export.
I don't know what you're modeling but I'll guess that you could probably do things to improve your model and speed up Hybrid rendering. Earlier today I looked at a LayOut file from someone who was complaining about "impossibly long" Vector render times. The SketchUp file had over 2.2 million edges and an excessively large image as a texture. It was about 10 times larger than SketchUp or LayOut can display and he had hidden the group and wasn't using the image anyway. I reduced the texture size to something reasonable, unhid the object and turned off the tag for it. After sending the file to LayOut I rendered the viewport in Vector and it was finished before I could walk over to the coffee pot to top off my cup and walk back to the computer.
You don't have to be working with the viewports rendered as Hybrid. If you have no textures to display, Vector would be faster than Hybrid and again, you can leave the viewports rendered as Raster until you are ready for export.
How are you using the exported PDF? How large are the pages and how are they being printed that you need 1000 dpi?
Again, I expect there are things you can do to improve the quality output and most likely that's going to start with improving the SketchUp model.
@NIX1995 can you share a screen capture gif showing what happens when you try to do it?
@djh I haven't seen any problems with LayOut 2024 being slow. Share the LO file so we can see what you are working with.
What operating system? What graphics card? Which graphics engine are you using with LO? What is the image file format? How large is the image file?
@Alohaa Box double clicked on the surface of the large hole which selected the surface and its edges. Then he pressed Delete. The hole was automatically filled in.
@Alohaa what are you referring to now? What lid? What rounding?
@pmolson can you send me the .skp file either via email or a PM?
@pmolson said in texture position grips size:
I am switching it to use my graphics card.
Do you mean you tried switching to the new graphics engine in SketchUp's Preferences>Graphics?
@pmolson Hi Paul, I have not seen that. From your screenshot I wonder if it's a graphics driver thing. PC or Mac? What graphics card? Have you updated the drivers? New graphics engine or the classic one?
@hpoly1234 good deal. Since you had some edges that could be deleted, I would suggest running an extension like CleanUp3 to merge coplanar faces to delete any unneeded edges. If the edges aren't required to support faces they are just a liability with no benefit.
@Rich-O-Brien yeah. I also wonder how long they will last. Actually we're replacing all the windows in our house this year so this one doesn't need to last a real long time. A neighbor down the street has the same kind of windows and has a number of broken ones so I'll print some for him, too.
I have no idea but my guess is they were used on another type of window, too.. And maybe in a different way that would make the the curves, notch, and second set of holes required. Those features certainly aren't used in the application on our windows.
I like the new version better, too.
Thanks.
I needed to replace guides for the locking bars on some windows in the house. The OEM parts haven't been available for years so it was SketchUp and my 3D printer to the rescue.
An original that is close to neededing replacement.
My SketchUp model. I couldn't see any practical reason for the curvy bits or the notch so I simplified it which also made it easier to print.
And the replacement installed.
@Alohaa said in Open areas and rounded surface:
@Dave-R
How can I remove the sectioning? I have never used this function (like many others!).
Select the section plane and press Delete.
@Alohaa said in Open areas and rounded surface:
Sorry, but there was only 1 file attached here, from you 2 days ago, and you removed it, I assume, because it is no longer in your post.
I did not remove the file. It is still there immediately under the screenshot. How do you think Box was able to open my file?
I made it more clear in that post.
The file I downloaded, 2 times, hence the number 2 after the name (which also indicates that it is the downloaded file), contains only my drawings, unlike the one shown by @Box in the gif posted earlier. And he (or she) didn't post an SU file!
There was no reason for him to share the file since it's the same as the one in my post.
Am I crazy or am I right?
Sorry. Of those two choices, I'd have to say you're crazy.
@hpoly1234 if you erase the softened edge and the faces on either side disappear then the surface is NOT a flat surface. The native Free Hand tool is designed to draw in one plane. It is not supposed to draw on curved surfaces. You can start and end your free hand curve on the softened edge and then draw another one on the opposite side of the softened edge using the same start and end points.
Alternatively, you could use the Free Hand tool in Fredo6's Tools on Surface which IS designed to do what you are trying to do.
BTW, if you can delete the softened edges and the faces remain, you don't need those edges anyway.
@Alohaa I think @Box has put his finger on it. You must be opening the wrong file. As you can see in his GIF as well as in my screen shots, my version with the section cut and your original model in the background are present.
@hpoly1234 what happens if you first erase those softened edges that you're crossing?
@Alohaa I DID draw everything. I left your original objects in the background. They are missing faces as I showed in the first screenshots in my post from yesterday. The ones I created are centered on the model origin and have all required faces. There is an active section cut which I left so you could see the interior of the objects I modeled. You can turn off the Section Cut though to see the objects in their entirety.
@Alohaa I don't know why it is that you don't have the button but I did get your file.
Looking at sections through the objects it appears to me that you probably started out by drawing all of the features for each object in 2D and then started extruding face upward. This results in missing faces as well as internal faces.
Your objects can be cleaned up but it would probably be easier just to start over modeling it all correctly. If I were modeling these parts I would model them in a way that is very similar to the way filament gets laid down by a 3D printer. Don't model features until you come to them in the height. Don't spend so long thinking in 2D.
There are also a number of stray edges. And what is your intend for the rim of the top piece? Currently you have a zero thickness face between the wall of the box and the surrounding rim. That won't work as it is. Also. What's the story with the text? As it is, that won't print.
Edit to add: I recorded a silent video showing a way to model the bottom part of the enclosure. Note that I did not outline the sides of the box or the raised screw bosses until after the bottom thickness was created. Only the features that would be outlined on the build plate of the 3D printer are modeled before the thing becomes 3D.
https://flic.kr/p/2q2Jwda
Another thing I did and have talked about in previous threads here is set units to Meters and model as if millimeters are meters. This allows the use of more segments for small radius curves.
I finished the box parts as solids.
HERE IS THE SKETCHUP FILE OF MY VERSION OF YOUR MODEL
Kasten fur Manaboard~.skp