@thomthom said: @edson said: I am not complaining as I do not really see much I would like to change. Anit-aliasing? On my windows box I can pick which anti-aliasing quality I want SketchUp to use. On my Mac Mini I can't. I miss that. hi thom, one does not miss something one does not know. this is my case with GPU's tweaking.

@pmolson said: Edson. Very neat project...I mean neat as in cool to look at as well as neat in an orderly way. Nice work! paul thanks, paul. I must say I enjoyed doing this competition a lot.

@007 said: Edson, did you flatten the image before saving, as it won't update in SketchUp then? it takes the likes of 007 to solve the riddle. you nailed it! the image needed flattening. thanks.

I came back to this topic as I needed refreshing on LO dimensions only to conclude once more that LO dimensions badly need to be revamped. it is fine to dimension 2D stuff but dimensioning a 3D view is a nightmare, dave's workaround notwithstanding.. let's hope the sketchup people under trimble will take LO ahead.

I was also having crashes when using chris's Shape Bender. after updating HolePunchTool that problem also went away!

@tig said: ...so you would need to make a DXF from the DWG in ... another app first... for example w/ free Teigha File Converter (ex EveryDWG), at least under Windows. hth, Norbert

@daniel said: Nice concept. The big open plaza doesn't look too inviting - maybe some paving patterns, seating, a big sculpure in the middle - something to draw people to the center. thanks, daniel. to remind you of what I stated above: @unknownuser said: just before you start firing away at specific design details or the lack thereof, let me warn you: this is a generic design. what is important is the general conception, not the details per se. lots of things could be different and improved should this become a real project which I doubt.

@gareth said: If you are a Twilight Render user, you can download some skp files of some of the Xfrog trees still waiting for a mac version...

@gaieus said: Edson, Was the texture not applied to a back face (and on the front face inside the wrong one)? That would explain also (and probably explain why your workaround worked). csaba, it surely could. I was using this and other context elements from several older projects thus I do not remember when I modeled that. one of the things I did was to reverse the face before trying the other steps.

@frederik said: @edson said: is there anything like GhostTown for sketchup? ..... I wish we could have something similar. Isn't this what the City Generator is supposed to do...?? yes, as I mentioned above thomas was developing it but he seems to have stopped in may 2009.

Don't do it. Google themselves even say so. Depending on the distance from the origin, and simply speaking, the accuracy of the lines themselves can actually become inaccurate due to the software running out of decimal points from the origin. It's not as bad in SketchUp but all programs suffer this and some tend to be better at it than others. I know that Maya is shocking at this when you have drawings kms away from the origin.

@rvdkruk said: @lapx said: Very nice Edson! Where did you get that grass? I'm curious as well... considering there was little PS involved. I have used one of the grass textures available in the podium browser (it ships with podium v2.4+).

edson, i like the work. regarding this: @tfdesign said: I'm a big fan of Richard Rogers' social housing designs. These are a nice example; [image: PREFAB-FRIDAY-Richard-Rogers-Oxley-Park-Houses-01-707349.jpg] is there a social context to which those shapes / colors / proportions / windows / facades fit into? will those materials age gracefully? are they easy to maintain? will that curtain wall age gracefully and keep water out? when a panel fails - will common, easy to find materials be available to make repairs? is it a norm to not have 'defensible space' in the fronts of houses like this? are the interiors as sterile as the exteriors? will inhabitants be living in some sort of IKEA box? are people comfortable in the front - or do they hang out in the back yard (if there is one behind that fence)? will there be more trees? is this on a street with auto traffic, or pedestrian traffic? is the plaza or street sterile? (looking pretty sterile in its current form). can owners personalize the units? why not integrate lighting into the units? or do the social aspects of this area include living with parking lot style lights above one's head? just some questions. those aren't very warm or inviting. i can see a graffiti'd version of these with broken windows, broken down cars, and broken windows not far into the future. if the owner's don't have a stake, or a say, in how their environment looks / feels / is used / etc... its likely that they will have little respect for their surroundings. this was part of the problem of the housing issues from the 60s on in the states. herd people like cattle into housing that 'the experts' designed and programmed. i'm much more interested in the approach of the rural studio, started by sam mockbee in georgia. i wish i had known about the program before i jumped into a hi-tech, theory based grad program staffed by marquee named architects in a big city...

hi Edson, did you set the model text in Model Info dialog box? john

Guys, The best place for this kind of discussion is the Podium forum, you would have got a definitive answer a long time ago. As a rule, the team don't follow Podium discussions on other forums, I only found this because clay posted a link on our site. This is the long-standing textured components issue that has been plaguing us for some time. We are working on it, but until we get a fix, the solution is to explode the components. Generally you can regroup/recomponentise them afterwards. We do have a V2 trial version

hm... I've not tested Photomatch backgrounds...

What Gai said, and no, you can select all models on a page and change their rendering. But on a huge document, not all pages are necessarily in memory, and we would have to load them and re-render them. This would also be a very, very slow operation. Nevertheless, I agree with you and would like to have this ability. b

@redinhawaii said: I decided to redo specifically the framing plan, with a new, less detailed SU model, i.e no plumbing fixtures etc. So I went in to the document setup and clicked "relink", referenced the new model, and wow, the new framing plan fit in seamlessly. But all hell broke loose when I looked at the elevations, sections,etc.... dang, everything changed... OK, why bother to do a new SU model for this rather than simply adding a new scene in the original model and setting it up to show less detail?

reverse the face and apply texture. your rendering will be fine..