@wo3dan said:

@gonashvili said:

.....The cross thingies have different size/scale, but are of the same proportion, ......
Is there a way to do so?
If I get you right, both crosses of the stretched rectangle need to fit nicely over those of the fat rectangle after scaling.

Nope, pardon my lack of explanation skills there, I meant I want to scale down the object on the right, so the crosses would be the same size, or to be more precise, the rectangle they form would fit the on the left.

The crosses mark the size/module of a grid [on which I have drawn some stuff in illustrator]. I have the same grid in SU, but of coursein different scale, so I need to scale the imported 'grid' so it would fit nicely in place [in SU]. Hope that explains it better.

I'll use this simple example to explain my question.

The cross thingies have different size/scale, but are of the same proportion, though they have different 'bounding box', their overall size is of a different proportion.

This means I can't scale one of them so the crosses would fit. If I could change the center of the scaling box so it would touch one cross I could then scale them nicely. Ummm, does that make sense? Basically need to have both cross/pairs (uhh, I bet they have a name in english) the same size, or, I need to fit one set of objects fit another....

Is there a way to do so?

Would like to see textures on entities outside the edit comp mode, is there a way to turn them on?

THANKS

HG

Oh, in that case, I just click on Create new material and apply it to the face/surface

Not really sure whats the correct way of making a JPG, or, if theres a WRONG way at all, but here's a New file in PShop with some stuff in it:

Here's how it looks in SU:

The fact that its not perfectly tiled along each other is another issue, right now I'm concerned about the rendering....

EDIT: Tried it with a different template , now its rendering ok, though Its just jittered somehow. I've messed with so many settings that maybe I turned on jittering?

Wow. So much fun with just a simple image placement

@krisidious said:

you might need to turn on high quality textures in preferences>openGl

Don't have that one in there, only got maximum texture size and use hardware acceleration, which I tried turning on/off

Dave, does it really matter in the case of JPG's?

Any idea whats the most efficient way of importing textures? I rarely get it right, there always seem to be some kind of problem with them.... tried psd, png, jpg

Maybe it will ring a bell, if you see the way its distorting here:

My graphics card is rubbish, but if I CAN get the textures showing at SOME times, it means its just a matter of settings, right?

Preach

lol!

No need to be cheeky here, son

It took maybe 20 years for 3D software to be truly what it should be. This is every creative person's dream come true.

Its has its quirks, but hey, what piece of work doesn't?

Umm ...this is just a shout out to the google/trimble folks... carry on

Peas
HG

Got several symmetries/mirrors goin on and I got this component within a component [within a component], right? I'd like to 'put it aside' (I mean in exact same place, but in a 'hidden' layer) as a sort of initial/base shape, so I can work on it in a different layer, then maybe get back to it if I don't like the solution... Well this is a bit of a nightmare really.... even with TIG's little 'plugin' I spend more time organizing [so the symmetrical component's are acting/'symmetrisizing' right and what not] then working on design...

How are you supposed to duplicate/back up components the right way? Or maybe I'm just used to the photoshop workflow, where working with layers is no biggie/not as complex as in SU....

Thank you so much. I'd buy you a coffee or something if I had any money right now

Cheers, but there seems to be an error with those one liners :

For instance the first one;

{ruby}:

m=Sketchup.active_model;m.start_operation('g');m.selection.grep(Sketchup::Group).each{|g|g.make_unique if g.instances[1];g.entities.each{|e|e.layer=g.layer}};m.commit_operation Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined methodinstances' for #Sketchup::Group:0xf739b78>
(eval):155
(eval):155:in each' (eval):155

Thanks so much for this!

How would I define a key with that one-liner? Tried googling, but the post on RUBY ON WINDOWS gives me such a headache

I know man, its a bit of an overdo, but first of all I wanted to see how it looks, and second of all, its a way of preventing such failures later on when I'll [actually] design, so I know everything works as it should (no dodgy, unprecise geometry etc...).

Without this I wouldn't know SU doesn't like small scale geometry

I've noticed I spent more time tidying up [all my entities into appropriate layers], than actually working on something. Once I'm done tidying up, I forget what actually wanted to do!

This is partially because of the fact that when I move a certain group to a different layer, the entities within the group stay on the initial layer, the one they were on before 'moving'. This slows me down immensely.

Of course, at times, this 'feature' is useful, but is there a way to change the layer for the WHOLE content of the group/component into a new/different layer?

Thank you for your time/reading!

Cheers

H.G.

This one is a bit odd, considering the amazing overall functionality of SU, but I can't snap on lines/guides while scaling??
Or do I need to find a way to scale numerically?

Cheers

Ah ok. I guess I want it to act like Photoshop sometimes (you can do that there)... but you can't have everything, eh...

Its kinda hard to google (or express) this, so..

Right now, when I open or close the 'Edit Component' mode it is undoable, even if there weren't any changes done to the component. Its kind of annoying/distracting, can I turn it off somehow?

Cheerios

@unknownuser said:

sketchup doesn't like dealing with faces under a mm or so.. some of those segments on the curve are .1mm etc..

Ah, didn't realised that, I'm actually trying to model my router bits so I can design/see what I can do with them....

Anyways, cheers for the tip! Think I'll just switch the units to meters, and draw in that scale, while still having the values I'd like.... who cares if there's one or two mm's lol

And yeah I shot the trouble out of my third issue, it was just an unprecise snug