Topics created by dedmin

@dedmin said:

When running ThruPaint and hitting ESC key it acts like Undo.

Yes. This is by design. Ctrl-Z works as well.

@tt_su said:

@notareal said:

Don't recall if Thea for SU had actually crashed SU for me (but I am using a old SU8), still there been reports (at Thea forums) that v-ray for SU and Thea for SU together may result a crash (SU 2013 & OS X). If just Thea for SU where used, everything where fine. Tomasz probably do know better, if there further details on this.

Multiple render engines together has historically been known to increase chance of crashes - usually due to competing observers working at the same time affecting the model.

Sounds feasible. Maybe some more robust method than observers is needed (if not already exist).

I don't see the anti-piracy bit; on the contrary I think they are playing straight into their hands. If hackers can find their way onto commercial servers, adobe being the most recent, what chance have they got to stop or even detect multiple fake or hijacked logins? It is made even harder to detect by virtue of being able to login on any machine from any location. Maybe Autodesk are planning to pay us all back for their arrogance by making the software free that should beat the pirates...

@unknownuser said:

Have you tried to make the same in a special view like "View Top" with Camera Parallel Projection ?

I was made this way - Top/Parallel. The same strange behavior with Polyline Chamfer and Polyline Divider. Drawing on a face helps indeed - thanks mitcorb!

Is this available for download, or is it just for your use?

I have had a lot of problems with components messing around, renaming randomly and not allow me to have the same names for different components.Components are not very convenient when You have huge library with the same components in different hierarchy levels and try to mix them in a single project, make copies and etc.So far groups are working flawlessly except redrawing - so I will continue adding onclick redraw to each group. Thanks.

Thanks TIG. I just discovered this and I'm shocked - this can be what I have been looking for a long time - to put a data in the groups, but without the hassle of the components!

I suspect it's because the 3ds version doesn't save out the soft property of the edges.
Certainly useful to know what formats preserve quads when transferring into SketchUp. Think I'll add a routine into Quad Tools to convert triangulated quads separated by a hidden edge into soft edges. Seems it would be a operation often required if people want to take quad meshes from other applications into SketchUp.

@mitcorb said:

I think the tool is aligning with the nearest segment of the circle that forms the cylinder, since you mentioned that 7.5 degree offset. Again, this is just a guess.

This is correct.
Unfortunately, for symetrical shapes like circles, this may not represent the intuitive orientation. I am afraid there is no magic fix in the general case.

The best is simply to orient the box manually to the desired direction (click on an edge in the model, or using the arrows for aligning on model axes).

Fredo

Also this is super basic... but it's worth mentioning -- when you turn the Shadows on and off in Sketchup you are enabling or disabling the sun in your Maxwell environment... regardless of whether you had it initially turned on in the Maxwell settings.

Best,
Jason.

But if the folders are deleted or renamed the menu doesn't work.

Thanks! 👍 👍

I prefer to just keep the model info window open with a shortcut key:

1.png

Then again, I have a dual monitor desktop so... 😆

Yes, that is what I'm using now even without a spreadsheet - generate report is doing this. But i have a lot of attributes and they differ - so it is hard to find what is needed.

Sadly no.. 😢