Hello,

My name is Frank and I am a relatively new sketchup user. I am designing residential electrical components as symbols that are "smart" dynamic components (i.e., have voltage and current ratings, power consumption, applications, manufacturers, part numbers, etc..). My objective is to generate a parts list and also add up the individual loads on each circuit. When I use the "generate repport" function native to sketchup,I do get all of the attributes that I want, but I get a lot which I don't want -- specifically XYZ dimensions and locations. While I can work with what I have, it involves a lot of spreadsheet drudgery and I was looking for a way to choose only the component attributes that I want. I tried a couple of plug-ins (CutList and ComponentReporter), but either I couldn't figure those out very well, or those two plug-ins don't have the functionality I'm looking for.

Thanks for any help that you can give me!

Frank

Here is a link I discovered that gets down into the details of colors, plus it basically has cross references to all brands and all color names:

http://encycolorpedia.com

The front page is fairly sparse, so you have to type in a search term, or you have to click on the hyperlinks under the search bar.

I found this because I had an existing paint in my home that I wanted to match and I was looking for RGB values (I find the sampling technique a little fussy). So I just make a new material in SU and type in the RGB values. Volia!

This site breaks down your chosen color into 22 "colorspaces" (e.g., RGB, RGBA, RYB, Hex, HSV, and an host of alphabet soup which I don't understand), shows "color wheel" compliments, analogous, split, triad, square, etc..., hues and saturation variants, related colors, color variants, and a complete mapping to all colors to paint schemes from all paint manufactures (I can't count them all) to include home (Behr, Glidden, Sherwin-Williams), designer (Martha Stewart, Ralph Lauren) Automotive (DuPont), Models (Testors, Revell), and even Crayola!

I think if you want a great resource for the real details of color this is it! Plus -- the place isn't plastered with advertising and doesn't ask for registration or a fee. I think I saw one advertising banner inconspicuously placeed somewhere on top.

Let me know what you think!

Frank