Posts made by Glenn at home

Wow, that sold out fast. That Dell at Amazon will work just fine but for same $$ you can get a 13th gen i7

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/xps-desktop/spd/xps-8960-desktop/usexpsthcto8960rpl07?configurationid=d5a02fe1-92df-426c-a857-abc34a48047d

I'd start here Joe. I wish it had a 1 TB hard drive but it might be good enough with 512 GB.
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/xps-desktop/spd/xps-8960-desktop/usexthbts8960gjzs

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Can you share the DWG file? I am running 2023 on a Windows 11 PC and would be wiling to test it for you. I so far have not had ANY problems with DWG files with my setup.

@ntxdave said:

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Are there any other sources for obtaining models/components?

pCon Planner would give you access to furniture and office objects. Then you could then save them down to any SU version. pCOn can also open ANY SU version as well as save down to any

At work we've used a Shark HD5 for about 8 years. It's still going but we just recently bought a new Shark HD520. Yes, it's more than your budget but they are great machines. They have an HD500 for under $3K that has a 13x25x7 travel. Also comes with a copy of Vcarve Desktop software. Might be worth a look. Good luck

Sharing those prayers to Iran and it's people as well. Peace to you and all brother!

@majid said:

... It broke down the false face of unbeatable mighty man.

Oh, Russia has been shown to be a paper tiger that might have working nukes. FAR less expensive to keep an armored division working that thousands of nukes working in my opinion. I hope and pray for the Russian people.

No idea what version of SimLab you installed but I am using 11.0.46 and it seems to handle current SU files just fine. Here is a test render of a SU object. Inserted into SL, applied 2 materials and hit the render button and 2.5 min later...

So many to choose from. My main 2 are SimLab Composer (a 3rd party stand alone and they have a free version for ANY use) and I also use Ambient Occlusion (a direct SU plugin).

SimLab is pretty nice and will import SU models with ease. Most times you can just import your SU model and click render and you will get a great result. Spent some time learning the software, tweaking materials and lighting and it will be even better.
https://www.simlab-soft.com/3d-products/simlab-composer-main.aspx?locale=en

Ambient Occlusion is not as complicated as SimLab but you can still get some great images out of it.
https://www.fluidinteractive.com/products/sketchup-extensions/ambientocclusion/

A few test images

AO

SimLab

Remember when yearly maintenance was $120+/- and then they went Subscription and it jumped to $299?

@ijkfraser said:

Brand new DEll XPS 8960

Almost what I am using as well, XPS 8950 here. Can't replicate the issue.

I gave it a quick test and it's working for me.
PC specs: 12th i9-12900K, 64 gb ram, 1 tb m.2 and RTX 3080. Win 11 Pro
Screen 1: Dell U3818DW (38" 4K curved wide panel) and Screen 2: Dell S3219D (32" 1440 wide panel)

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@ben98 said:

...for such a limited software like sketchup, an extension as important as this is pretty much an essential. ...

No, SketchUp SHOULD have these tools included in the base program.
Even "Dinosaurs" have these basic 3D tools included.

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@tig said:

Lately gmail and its derivatives have blocked most kinds of 'compressed files'...
So RBZ, Layout, SKM files and possibly others can't be attached to emails [e.g. ZIP].
Even if you use another suffix and tell the recipient to rename it receipt, it gets spotted !
The 'header' is read of every attached file.
Perhaps SKP files are now subject to similar draconian measures ??

Use DropBox or something similar...

Well that's weird as I just sent my yahoo account a zipped skp file. Something else must be going on then.

I use yahoo at home and gmail at work and I have no issues at all in sending files via email to myself. Maybe your friend that has gmail can set up a shared google drive folder for you to share files to each other?

I'd be happy with an included (not plugin) fillet and chamfer tool. Yes, I have the plugins and I also know about the arc trick.

Well said Rich and I completely agree.

Looks good to me. That 13th gen i5 seems to be the "sweet" spot for single threaded and multi-threaded performance. It scores very well for what it is on the Passmark's CPU single thread rating, even better than an M2

Something like an "Xref" in CAD?

@l i am said:

Have a look at this (one click rendering)

https://www.fluidinteractive.com/products/sketchup-extensions/ambientocclusion/#buy

I have this one as well. Super easy to use and great results.