To change FOV go to Camera/Field of View
or
Default shortcut F

Thanks guys,

Just one more showing the SU model placed in a photograph of the Proposed site.

Dylan

This is a project I have just finished modelling. Some of you may have seen this building when I posted it on the materials section, although now it has a few more interesting features with the site modelled.

Dylan

Welcome Mike

It really shows how powerful TIG's Ruby is.
Just for the central section of that roof, this script was invaluable, so quick to get a perfect hipped roof.

That still clips Elmer.
What Elmer says though is correct and is normally what may cause this. I just use Zoom Extents to see where the offending extras are.

Another problem is you are so far away from 0,0.

I also noice you have extra lines on your imported drawing which should not be there. It is also not on the ground plane.

I would suggest making sure it is cleaned up corrctly before importing from ACAD.
Try the Flatten command, Overkill, Purge and Audit.

Make sure you import at correct units/scale also.

Go back to acad, get rid of all the extra lines and text etc, place all remaining on 0 and run the commands I mentioned. Hopefully this may improve things.

Hi Tom - lets see your lab then ?)

You enter the required dimension after placing the first point of your rectangle.

Click rectangle, choose first point on screen, type measurement (i.e 12',12') press enter.

Nice lights Ron, thanks.

@unknownuser said:

speaking of that dylan, have you ever wished you could change the square footage manually, by typing in that info box?

I have never actually thought of that, but now you mention it..

Again, nice simple effective tut Gulley, good stuff!

Another way to taper a cylinder similar to Kris's method is to highlite the top edge and in the Entity Info box and change the circle radius.

I havent seen some of those plants Eric. I really like the last image and the blue and yellow plants - very nice.
Are these Tom's?

Hi Doc,

Welcome!

There are not any direct landscaping tutorials as such that I know off, but a few which cover landscaping using the Sandbox Tool.

Check this link out. Videos 18 & 19 should cover some of what you require.

http://sketchup.google.com/gsu5vtvideos.html

Dylan

Hi Susan,

Well I tried this test a little more closely and you are correct, you cannot use 0.
If I use zero, it does work, but to a default of 25mm. On a large drawing you probably would not see this but close up you can.

If I type in 0.001 as you suggested then it will not work, but 0.1 does.
So if I wish to have a zero offset in the future, then 0.1 it will be - a tenth of a millimetre is good enough for me

I can on my machine Susan, zero works perfectly. Not sure why ours differ.
Even if 0 did not work, you could always set 1mm which would not be any real difference.

It is in the VCB (bottom right corner).
When you choose the face to stamp (bottom of the house) then add the desired offset distance in the vcb before choosing the terrain.

It is hard to see from this.
Remember you can adjust the 'Offest' when you stamp. If you adjust it to 0 you may improve things.

Hi Ken,

I don't work in inchs so I shall let someone else answer question 1. but generally I export at 3000 and tend to get pretty good results for larger images.

For you question concerning Layout, you need to create a 24x36 sheet.
Go to File/Document Setup/Paper and input 24"x36" This will give you the size you require.
Go to this thread here where I posted how to change your default Layout page size.
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=453

With interiors you will get a different colour due to light and shadow.
You could try opening shadow settings - Window/Shadows
If you tick the 'Use Sun For Shading' box, you can then play around with the light and dark sliders to hopefully get a closer match.

Dylan

Lou if it's the line where the groups meet which you are talking about then do the following.

Open the group.
Highlight the line, right click, hide.

Then do the same with the group which has the other line showing.

Although it looks like one line, you need to hide the line in each group.

Dylan

Thanks for the info Eric, I didn't have the latest version.