Posts made by Edson

hey, caddict and jon, could you guys tell us something about cycas?

@gaieus said:

(though obviously he was conversing with someone not even having registered to the new board yet )

i bet he got confused with the fact that the old topics have now recent dates. you could very well be replying to something posted 6 months ago!

@tomsdesk said:

Edson...yeah, sometimes, but I'm thinking I don't have the patience for the learning curve right now (and you guys seem to discuss work-arounds a lot :`)

tom,

the learning curve is really not steep: in a couple of hours you would have understood how the system works. besides, if you do not want to learn macintoshese right away you can run windows for as long as you wish and only later get into mac.

it is a pity mike lucey went into hiding. he made the switch and is very happy with it.

have a look at the animated water reflection freeware available at this site.

well, you will have to apply a material to it. it is very much like painting it with a color. Tools>>Paint Bucket, then you choose a material from Vegetagion, Groundcover and appply to your hedge. you can aldo import an image from an outside source and apply to it.

bravo, gidon. much more precise than the one i posted above.

the same principles explained by gidon in his tut on linear arrays apply to radial ones: just instead of a distance one would enter an angle.

tina, who are you talking to?

and what exactly are you trying to do and cannot do?

hi randall,

what you probably want to do is to create an array in which one single instance can be turned into an arrangement of objects in rows and columns, right? i do not think SU can do it in a single move. first you have to copy the object along a row (horizontally) then you select the entire row and copy it vertically. see the attached "tutorial".

tut_array.skp

foi postado um excelente script para lidar com as camadas no SU. o autor é didier bur, que já nos tem brindado com outros excelentes scripts. e é acompanhado de um pdf que explica o seu uso. imperdível!

ele pode ser baixado daqui.

abraços.

didier,

this is a fantastic script. thanks for your genius and generosity. and the documentation that comes with it is an example to be followed.

i have installed it and have started using it right away.

regards,

ever thought of switching to a mac? now you can even run windows on it. you would have the best of two worlds. just a thought...

jean,

just a word of recognition for your constant helpfulness and resourcefulness, coming to our rescue very often. thanks.

markus and archi rag,

thanks a lot. the two sofas are great and will be employed at once.

bruce,

there are no links to the videos.

edit: the links are in the second post from the top.

in case you do not know them, the best two books on SU are:

The Sketchup Book, by Bonnie Roskes
Google Sketchup for dummies, by Aidan Chopra (videos from the book on you tube). beware of the fancy edition wiley just published: same content, 3x the price.

cheers.

no problem. it is curious that, in some applications, the mac and pc versions differ significantly. microsoft entourage (the mac equivalent to outlook), for one, is quite different from its counterpart.

cheers.

@gaieus said:

Wow, that's interesting! Thanks for posting it! (Edson uses a Mac version though the pro one).

yes, but until april i used a free version, and i remember having no difficulty in setting the location to porto alegre. you sounded so secure when you said there was no location feature for the free versions that i thought i was confusing things. thanks, santiago.

gai,

unless i am very much mistaken, it is in the free version as well.

and, lets_roll, if you do not want to do what tom suggested every time you open a new file, do it once on an empty one and save it as a template. after that go to preferences>>template and choose that one as the default file at opening the app.

perhaps one way of doing it would be to export your scenes (for this you will need the script PageExIm from Smustard), import them into your file and then rename them in inverse order. the first part is fast but the second is essentially manual. SceneRename can help you there.

i would not call myself seasoned, but i have played around with SU for a quite intense while. however, the only thing i did when opening the options box at dwg import was to fix the scale and tell it to preserve drawing origin.

so do not be ashamed about it. i keep asking dumb questions to this board and people have always helped me with my troubles.

which box exactly did you check in order to avoid triangulation? merge coplanar faces, right?