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Oh well. Must be a glich with the last install I made. Unless anyone else can suggest other. I just reinstalled everything on this laptop and this is the first project I've worked on.
For the time being I can just minimize the sketchup desktop window and drag/drop the jpeg into it. Works ok.
I have sketchup open with a project going. I click on "file" in the upper left, click on "import", and am presented with the following window...
When I click on the drop down menu "files of type" the only option I'm provide with, in addition to SketchUp Files (.skp) is "ACAD files (.dwf *.dxf)"
Seems like before I was given a full list of all file types, including JPEG in that dropdown menu, as "Box" suggested.
What am I doing wrong? I'm using Sketchup Pro 7.
I'm trying to import a jpeg into sketchup. I've done this dozens of times before. I can't figure out what I've forgotten/am doing wrong.
I've got a sketch going... I went to the internet and saved a jpeg image to my desktop as a jpeg.... I went back to my sketchup window and went to "file" and "import" and "browse" and went to my desktop. For some reason the only options that sketchup is allowing me are SKP files or ACAD files (dwg, dxf)
Seems like last time I attempted this I was allowed to browse for "all file types" or "jpeg" specifically. But now Sketchup does not recognize anything for import but the SKP or ACAD files. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
I see. It should have been more obvious to me but the problem appearst to be that the "share model" option in my installation is greyed out for some reason.
I've gone back to the instructions here..
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37939
...and am doing everything properly. Is it a problem with my installed program or am I missing something?
postscript...
I found this on the forum and attempted it. The option is still grayed out.
@unknownuser said:
OK. I've got it working again. In case anyone else has this problem, here's what I did:
- In WinXP, open control Panel and click to Security Center
- Click Internet Options.
- Choose Trusted Sites
- Click on the Sites Button.
- Type in the box "http://sketchup.google.com". The click the Add button.
It worked for me.
Thanks to all,
Tom
First one is probably really easy. Probably having something to do with the choice to "match color of object in model" button but I can't seem to get it to work. Let's say I fill a panel with a specific color. Later I want to use that exact same shade/texture/etc on another item/panel. So far I have been unable to determine how to do this. Is there some method of 'click' on the color/texture identity and 'paste' that to another entity?
Second question... more difficult perhaps....
How do I change all X to Y? If there are 55 items in my file that are colored with shade/texture X, how can I change them all to Y without repainting every indidual panel?
thank you very much. When I googled "sketchup background color" I arrived at this page...
http://download.sketchup.com/OnlineDoc/gsu_mac/F-Model_Settings_and_Managers/Settings-ModelInfo.htm
Apparrantly instructions for MAC. Where should I have searched for this info?
This is a slight departure from the original question. Should I have just started another thread?
The option under File ---> 3D Warehouse ---> Share Model ... is greyed out and non functioning.
This issue is commented on a few times here but never seems to be resolved.
Is there a fix?
disregard the following. it is related to the above.
I've been away for a while. Did this change? I added three models to the library some time back. Just some simple stereo speakers.
I went in to try to edit one of them and was unable. I tried to upload another model of a concrete post fence and was denied. Am I missing something obvious? All the links seem to point to using "building maker for building models for google earth". I did not do this last time.
I just uploaded a sketchup file to the library.
I'm in the "my models" window and signed on. But there don't seem to be any options for uploading anywhere on the page that do not bring you to "building models for google earth".
I'm using vers 7.08 pro. COLOR seems to be missing from my MODEL INFO panel. Is it a glitch in my installation or is there another method of changing the background colors?
Thank you very much. I'll try that. I had in the meanwhile discovered that I could just fill panels one segment at a time but this ought to speed things up a whole lot.
This is probably exceedingly simple. But how do I produce a surface on the following cube with curved sides?
I've got the following attached from the library.
I wanted to change the length to five inches. I chose the measurement tool, scaled the length, entered, 5, and rescaled the entire image.
Now I wanted to maintain the 5 inch length, but make the diameter seven inches. I selected the entire object, and chose the scale tool, but no matter which anchor point I chose to rescale, I kept ending up with something of an oval.
What point to I select in order to rescale the diameter, keeping the length (of the "column") 5 inches, and maintain the circularity of the diameter?
Just curious. I was using a living room from the library to place a piece of furniture I'd drawn and suddenly wondered if, perhaps, the guy who uploaded it might have snuck something inside the couch just for fun. I went inside and looked around. Then I backed off and looked outside of the room. Just a rudimentary shell of a house. Kind of an interesting thought though. I can't help wondering just what sort of spaces there are out there. Has anyone ever found any of the objects to be parts of larger landscapes? Or would the size of the file be unwieldy? Anyone ever found anything fun, like an old beer can inside the couch, closets with actual items inside, or a whole 'nother living space, inside of a kitchen cupboard or anything like that?
I cleaned up a few lines, and then decided to turn off "display edges" and the problem got even worse (see attached)
How do I get rid of the "white bleed" around the center cap of the woofer in this speaker? (attached file)
I even tried going inside of the model and painting the interior black. I tried putting another black disc inside of the model. Apparantly it is not a "see through" problem. The lines describing the dome center cap just won't paint black.
I'm using push/pull and able to succeed with one edge. I'd like to chamfer the four edges on the face of the speaker. The push/pull will not finish the corner since it will not push through a curved surface.
I read all the tutorials last night (well obviously i must have missed one since i'm still struggling here). One described a torturous process of erasing, filling, redrawing radii, etc, in order to cope with that remainder where the two push/pull actions intersect. Another couple of posts suggested plug-ins to deal with filleting, but these seemed adapted to assisting in complex curvatures, and never really addressing the simple convergence at one edge like I've got here.
I'm able to use the follow-me tool in order to construct the dome and cone of the drivers. But I cannot seem to figure out how the same tool is used in rounding over the corners, if indeed that's the tool to use for straightforward edges like these. It seems the follow-me tool is better intended for curved edges.
What am I missing?
Thanks
Also, how do I get rid of the white 'glimmer' around the dome in the center of the bottom speaker (woofer)? I tried softening lines there, but that actually turns them white.
I'd just like to see my file.
Ok, working well into the morning hours on this I've gotten tantalizingly close. I still have very little faith that I could have accomplished this with the basic version. And I only have four more hours on Pro/Layout 2.
But try as I might with the attached version, I cannot get it to print right!!! That template measures 164.2mm. I print it and it's 140. I go back and zoom the image a bit and it's 166. I'm pretty sure that this is not the usual method for getting there. What am I missing now?
Jim, the print setup screen is different when I select print from Setup. There are no "fit to page" or "use model extents" options.
Also, earlier tonight I could have sworn that one of the trays under the 'window' menu in Setup allowed me to set the print ratio. I distincly recall selecting 1:1 from a box along the right hand margin of the screen and I was able to print one perfectly scaled sheet. I can't find my way back to it. Perhaps I'm really losing my mind now.
TIG, thank you very much for those. And I'm really sorry about losing my temper yesterday. Thank you in fact for not simply booting me out. I promise to behave.
I've read each of those tutorials, and sincerely a dozen or more as well, on remedying this. In fact in my first post in this thread I quoted in full the entirety of the first link you refer to.
I also indicated that I'm working with Pro/Layout 2 just above your post. (although I'd mistakenly referred to "Layout" as "Setup")
@unknownuser said:
Ok, working well into the morning hours on this I've gotten tantalizingly close. I still have very little faith that I could have accomplished this with the basic version. And I only have four more hours on Pro/Layout 2.
But now I'm starting to sound irritable again.
I'm so at my wits end that I'm willing to stoop to extortion and threat. If Jim will kindly take the following attachment and scale it like he did previously and reattach it as a PDF, I'll just take my toys and go home for a while 
The template in the upper right measures 164.2mm across.
That will give me room to calm my nerves and start in on the learning curve again, and give you guys a rest. 
Thanks so much.
This printing to scale business is very, very, important to the type of work I expect to do in sketchup.
Can someone please comment on the following exchange, which is one of dozens of similar I've come across while searching for answers this evening? I'm not being antagonistic. I sincerely want to get rational advice as to whether I should apply my efforts elsewhere to learn a design program. Working this hard to learn sketchup may just be waste of time for me.
@unknownuser said:
6 Responses to “Printing To Scale In SketchUp”
7:53 pm, 26 August, 2009 р.
kendall says:i read all of this and did what you said,i have paper that 11 inches hight and 8.5 inches wide. your standard paper. when i selected a scale of 1:1 it change setting i had put for page size, and vis versa. help me please. my cube is 6 inches. so i know it will fit on the paper. thanks
9:13 pm, 26 August, 2009 р.
Joe says:Hi Kendall,
Did you uncheck “Fit to page” and “Use model extents”? Did you shrink down the white space in the SketchUp window so that there was minimal space on either side of your cube. And is your printer margins set to something like 0.5″ or less? If you are still having problems send me your .skp file and I will look at it to see what the problem is. My email address is jpz@srww.com .
Joe……
8:39 am, 11 November, 2009 р.
John Parslow says:I tried everything (I thought) prior to reading your blog and searched sketchup help could not find how to print model parts. Your blog is thorough and clear and I was then able to figure out how to print on various size papers more easily.
Thank-you for taking the time to write this , it was very helpful and well writen.
9:37 am, 11 November, 2009 р.
Joe says:John,
Thanks for the kind words. Actually it is on my to do list to update it for SketchUp 7. If you have any suggestions please pass them along. Thanks again.
Joe…..
2:08 pm, 26 February, 2010 р.
Tom says:You are awesome…this is certainly a glitch, window size should not have to be altered to print a scaled drawing. Thank you thank you thank you.
2:40 pm, 26 February, 2010 р.
Joe says:Tom,
You are welcome. It is clearly a design flaw and it has been in SketchUp for some time. Don’t know why they haven’t fixed it yet.
Joe…..
Jim, thank you for responding. I've only got a few hairs left on my head and I'm t h i s far from running out and buying my first pack of cigarettes in three years. After a dozen tutorials on printing to scale you are the first to direct my attention to the "in the printout" and "in sketchup" windows in the print dialogue. Why isn't that in the "official" sketchup tutorial? I filled the boxes as shown. Still no help. I don't know how the heck you were able to accomplsh the attachment you posted above. Are you using pro version? Why is it converted to PDF? Is that part of my problem? My laptop screen resolution is 1680 x 1050.
Is there a way to set the borders of the screen space you are working within to correspond to an 8.5 X 11 sheet of paper? Not even necessarily to scale at that point. It could be the size of a postage stamp. I only mean that if I could work in that space from the very beginning I would not run into so many scaling problems.
What I'm trying to do is get those images to scale on a sheet and write text around them so that I can fit it all on one page. I attached the original file.
I'd like to put the images on the page far right and reduce the block of text in order to fit to the left. Nothing seems intuitive. I finally downloaded the trial version of pro and was able to eventually get my file to print in scale by opening it in Layout 2 and selecting 1:1 in the right menu on that screen. Simple. Why is it such a nightmare for me in basic edition (and others evidently as shown by the quote I posted above and dozens of others online)?
Please, please, walk me through the steps you took to turn the file I attached into the file you corrected and attached. And again, must it be converted to PDF? I'd prefer to send it to others in an skp format so that they can make changes as needed.
Id like also to reduce that text to fit on the same page, but if that's a whole 'nother tutorial, I'll wait on that part.
Thanks again so much... and for suffering my hystrionics.