Hi,
My guess is that if you type 1m,1m,1m instead of 1,1,1, this will create a 1 meter cube, as Sketchup will convert the unit suffixes like in all its native tools.
If this doesn't work, this means that the dialog doesn't convert your string input to lengths.

@Glenn:

@unknownuser said:

If only there was a company that gave students and educators FREE copies of ALL of their products

Autodesk is doing that: teachers and students can get a set of more than 60 softwares (Autocad, Revit, 3DS Max, Maya...), all fully functional with minor restrictions, licences expiring after 3 YEARS.

Unreal Engine (TwinMotion), Abvent (Archicad, Artlantis, BIM Office...) do so as well, licences expire yearly.

IMHO these are clever long-term strategies...

And I repeat: I ain't no stingy guy until a software publisher charges me even several bucks to promote (in some way) its product.

@unknownuser said:

Is this "trade policy" or Trimble Policy?

I'd say both.
IMHO it's a "loser-loser" strategy. (in french: "stratégie perdant-perdant")

@pilou:
La compatibilité s'arrêtera à SU2019. J'ai déjà plusieurs rapports de bugs avec 3 ou 4 plugins qui ne marchent plus très bien sous SU2020.
A+

Hello all,

My Educator's free licence of SketchUp 2019 expired on April 24th. A few days earlier, I asked for a new free licence of SU2020.
The local supplier sent me a proposal for 78€, so SketchUp Pro is now payware for everyone, including teachers and students.
Should I pay for training Trimble's future clients ? Should I pay to have the right to develop free plugins ? No.
I've decided to stop teaching SketchUp, and to stop developing and updating my free Ruby extensions. Not a question of price, but of principle(s).
So I'm back to SU Make 2017

Impressionnant
Tout ce que SketchUp devrait comporter comme outils natifs, Fredo le fait...

Impressive
Almost all what SketchUp should encompass natively is developed by Fredo...

Hi Sasha,
I'll look into your issue. Stay tuned

Hi,
There are many ways of computing the "center" of a surface.
First: what kind of surface ? Planar, Nurbs, ruled surface ?
Second: Center point can be the barycenter, centroid, average edges, average vertices, etc.
Third: what kind of output do you want ? 3D coordinates, Lat/Lon coordinates...

Regards

Hi Sonia,

Yes there is a PDF help file.
See the Help button in the lower-right corner of the dialog ? Here it is

Latest version of Compo Spray is available here: https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/213a8e60-208f-4b6d-95ff-ab367c09a959/compo-spray

Hi,
I haven't SU2020 yet, but it works with my SU2019, apparently just a matter of loading policy, as TIG said.

Hi Juju,
I wish I had the time to enhance Windows Builder (and LOD Labels plugin too), but I'm busy on SU/Twinmotion projects for a couple of months now. I'll be back on Ruby coding asap

Hi,

For my personal use, I had to write a little exporter to export SketchUp terrains to TwinMotion.
I share it here, and since this is not a "true" RBZ extension, it will not be published on the EW. Unzip the archive before use.
The pdf explains my experiments with TwinMotion exported that way, and how it works.

Export XYZ.pdf

Hope this helps some of you

export_xyz.zip

Thanks Fredo, Problem solved.

P.S.: pourquoi faire des extensions gratuites qui expirent à une date donnée ?

@unknownuser said:

I'm curious whether there is another program out there that can create accurate models with vertically stacked contours.

MeshLab http://www.meshlab.net/

Hi Yovanygonzalez,
Could you please post a SKP including such a "stick-to-face" window ?
Thx

@RPNZ:
Try my Projections extension, I think it can do it

Here: https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/8f66e284-c0e3-45a9-be6e-e86911a3cf5e/projections-tools

French translation file

fr.zip

Hi,
It works like a charm on SU2018 and SU 2019.
When you encounter error(s), open the ruby console, copy-paste the output and send them to me by PM.
Regards,

Hi,
It seems you're re-doing Compo Spray ?

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