Posts made by dedmin

@tig said:

@dedmin said:

@aerilius said:

Sketchup does not make textures itself, but if you import texture images (that should be already tiling), Sketchup repeats them in all directions along the model axes (horizontally or vertically). On slopes, the top side will be upwards (which is reasonable for roofings). The repetition is done according to the distance from the model origin or component origin. That means that the texture placement is in all instances of a component the same, equally if you move it.

If the default texture placement is not how you need it, you can always be modified (right click, texture).

Thanks, but I know this. I mean how SketchUP sets the tiling size - say 254x254 when making texture? Does it reads some metadata from the image, or uses image size or something else? I imported 120 images and I know how want them to be tiled, but Sketchup thinks differently.

Sketchup always makes the imported texture image 11" square (254mm). You can scale the image size if it's imported via Ruby, or do it manually afterwards - you can break the 11" size 'link' if you want a rectangle rather than a square...

Thanks, TIG!
I noticed this as I imported 120 images via "import materials" plugin and all the images had 254x254mm tiling set by SketchUP. If there were way to set tiling size when importing this gonna be a huge time saver - I did this manually after importing.

@aerilius said:

Sketchup does not make textures itself, but if you import texture images (that should be already tiling), Sketchup repeats them in all directions along the model axes (horizontally or vertically). On slopes, the top side will be upwards (which is reasonable for roofings). The repetition is done according to the distance from the model origin or component origin. That means that the texture placement is in all instances of a component the same, equally if you move it.

If the default texture placement is not how you need it, you can always be modified (right click, texture).

Thanks, but I know this. I mean how SketchUP sets the tiling size - say 254x254 when making texture? Does it reads some metadata from the image, or uses image size or something else? I imported 120 images and I know how want them to be tiled, but Sketchup thinks differently.

Does anybody knows how SketchUP sets the tiling when making textures?

When snapping to midpoint and click, the cursor jumps to the midpoint of the resulting segment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IstNF3U73n0

@tig said:

Here's v2.6 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=185760#p185760

Line inferencing and tooltips improved.
Circle VCB messages improved or corrected.
Hatching error/glitch fixed.
Text error with SUp v<7 fixed.

Google, stop trying to compete with TIG!!!

@utiler said:

Be patient I say....

And arcs, and circles...

@utiler said:

Too right. It is a major leap in extending the overall functionality of SU.....

But it's not associative.

I had this too in 7.1!

Can we grab a component at its insertion point after it is inside the SketchUP? A plugin like this will be very handy when we need to reposition a component based on the insertion point.

@gaieus said:

When you save the component only from the model, right? Like right click > Save as...?

True - I can see the same (never thought of this so far) but I think this is how it should work. By saving a component, you only save the component definition into a new file, i.e. what "defines" the component (everything but only that is inside).

Imagine you have a bunch of instances of the same component - some are painted this or that way (from outside), some are scaled or flipped - which one would you "save as..." if you, for instance, do it from the component browser (where there is only one definition of them)?

All in all, whatever we do with a component "from outside", is only part of the model it is used but not part of the component itself.

I was afraid of this! I'm building furniture from melamine faced boards with banded edges and I wanted to make basic panels with default face material and default banding material which I can chance according to the progect. But CutList plugin gives a panel material based on the "from outside" material of the component. So I gonna deal with layers again.

@gaieus said:

A component (or a group) can be painted two ways

• you edit it and paint the individual faces - this will always override what you can do below
• you can paint a component (or group) "from outside" in which case all the faces not yet painted by the way above will "seem" to receive this material (in fact, they don't but they will look like).
  Note however that you can never position the material this way so its use is rather limited - best is with colours and not image based materials as described at the (almost) very bottom of this page in the SU Guide (see the examples with the cars).

I know this, but the component doesn't remember it's "from outside" material when saved.

How to get a component to have material while some faces have different material? I know, i can give it material, but when paste back the component comes with default material.

@ronanr said:

All my models just orbit and zoom so much better.
For me the increase of performance alone makes this release a success...

Agree 200%!!!! Sooo much smooth!!

One point - there is really noticeable performance improvement!

Really, Google and SketchUP users are living in totally different worlds!!!

Strange again!!!

I found a way - just open the component for editing and then draw the guides inside that component, close it and then paste

@newone said:

Thank you very much, dedmin! But there is one more in rop-right. And as I can figure out from icon, it makes faces perpendicular on a line. This one could be very useful for me, because right now I do this in a very hard and time consuming way.

See again

@newone said:

Sorry for off-topic, but would you be so kind and tell me what plugins are those I highlighted with red in the print-screen and if possible to put links for them ?
Thank you!

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=20233&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=align+plugin

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=20949&p=175925&hilit=layer+tools+plugin#p175925

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17396&hilit=plugin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEjDEWEOW7c