Posts made by ely862me

Fantastic! Indeed some of these would deserve to be printed and hanged in some industrial based interior designs!

Once you have the desired profile shape you can use follow me. An then intersect geometry to subtract the star shape. But I believe your method is better when working with the cnc. Mill the star afterwards.

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Love them all! The kind of models I started to like! CLEAN !!

Great attention to detail! Glad you pulled this off!

I would like to take a look at the model, do you think you could be sharing it in a private message or here?
I wonder if it could be improved or made lighter!

Cheers!

Also for the never saved files on Windows you can find them in:
C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\SketchUp\SketchUp 2021\SketchUp\working\SKETCHUP\RecoveredFiles

You should try welding the lines with a plugin before exporting: Tig welding, Curvizard and/or whatever you find in the plugin store for welding edges.

Hi ! Welcome !

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Too many loaded plugins? Try to unload some with the SCF pluginstore toolbar.

I think I found out why the surface is faceted. Are these edges smoothed or hidden?

It looks like you hid those edges which you shouldn't. You should always smooth if you want a smooth surface.
I assume you use the Eraser to hide them. Instead of holding Shift, hold Ctrl. That will smooth the lines.

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What Dave said!
I see you are using Curviloft.You should try something like this.
It creates a little depression where the connecting curves are placed but overall looks ok.

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@bryan k said:

I have an 11 year old, i5 laptop with only 500MB (yes, MB) of GPU RAM and 16GB of main RAM.

There are no more hardware or firmware updates available for it.

Ha-ha, are you kidding me! You should be more than fine! I really thought you have a dinosaur!
If you don't have an ssd, buy one. It will boost you up considerably. Otherwise you're good to handle higher poly count models!

The only thing that matters in Sketchup is core speed.
My system is about 10 years old too!

I am not sure this level of modeling will make your computer lag. Just use components wherever you can and go easy on hd textures and you should be fine.
Keep up!

Hey, one working one is enough for me !
My pleasure!
Thank you!

I released the license I reactivated and restarted Sketchup. Seems to be working!

I already did that, it didn't work!

Hey! I don't know what you did but now they seem to work! Yay!

Round corner and FredoCorner works
JPP works
Curviloft works
TOS works

Curvizard and FredoScale I activated today. Also VisuHole and TopoShaper, and they are not working.
Something happened from yesterday to today. What I activated today won't work!

Ah, I saw two seats there, I thought might be because there is RoundCorner and FredoCorner.

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It seems that some servers are down, or something!
We are a few that awaits for the fix!
It happens!
I am thankful for all the prior work they did with all the free stuff so far! Imagine how hard it would have been without the plugins! Now when we need it we realize !

Nasty stuff when we are depending on servers.
I was working hourly and I had to stop the job because I couldn't use it and finish it.
Hope it gets fixed soon!
Thanks to those working under radar!

It looks great. You should add more geometry in order to loose the jagged edge look.
If you want you can send me the model I will give it a try.

Hi!
First thank you for the Fredo6Bundle! It is great. I only saw their importance when I couldn't use them anymore!
I purchased* the bundle and inserted a couple of licenses but today after FredoScale expired I successfully inserted the license yet when I try to use it is says it expired.

I have reinstalled the plugin and it gives this error. It gets installed and looks alright though.
EDIT:
I have uninstalled the other Sketchup versions and removed the FredoScale plugin from the Plugins Folder. Now there is no error at installation. So that error was meaningless regarding the license problem.

*Rich knows

Yes, latest LibFredo installed trough the Extension Store 4.2.5.
The other license extensions are working fine. Actually I just activated Curvizard and it worked once and then it said the same as the scale. They work only once after startup, then the Trial Period Expired window appear.
So it is something that started today. Both of these licenses I inserted today!