Hello fine folks of the forum. Can anyone point me in the direction of a way to allow clients to view rendered ineractive 3D versions of product models please? I regularly use panoramas to present landscaping projects, but this time I've been asked for something that would work for smaller models such as furniture, and I'd like the model to rotate around a fixed point in space so they can view any side of it and they won't get lost when viewing.

Thanks in advance.

Excellent, thank you.

I've never encountered that issue before in my 8 or so years of using Sketchup!

I've still no idea where the select function has gone, it was part of the large toolset but now I just have a dead, empty space.

There was a Windows update immediately prior to things going wonky, but I've just updated all my drivers and the problems persist.

Stuff it, I'll worry about it next week, time for a beer.

Hi.

Firstly my select arrow button has vanished, it has been gone for several days now and endured multiple pc restarts - it's not a major problem on its own, but if any of the other icons start disappearing then that will be an issue. Also, I'm noticing things are taking longer generally and more miscellaneous errors cropping up. The cynic in me is thinking that it's a sneaky attempt to encourage me to move onto annual subscription

Thanks Dave, you nailed it. I just printed it from a PC instead of a Mac and it was fine.

Hello.

A new problem that has never happened to me before has just occurred today, I've printed out an A1 layout of a landscaping project and the background to the SU model appeared as solid black rather than white as it is in SU, layout and on the pdf. Another little quirk is that a .png logo image that I have used before also appeared with a black background where it is normally transparent. I'm probably missing something simple here, would you mind pointing it out please so I can be ambarassed for a few moments and then move on with my day

Thank you all, you're brilliant

@tig said:

What is it that you want to measure ?
Areas, linear or items ?
There are several possible solutions, depending on what you need...

I primarily need to list areas (sq/mtr) per material so I can calculate the associated costs, plus I'll also need volumes (cubic mtr) in some cases too. I've not had to do this before so I was hoping there might be people here involved in landscaping who have and can save me a bit of time/heartache

@juju said:

which have you tried?

I think they were named Open Cut List, 3Skeng and Wisext. I've used O.C.L in metalwork projects before, but it's just not suitable for Landscaping, and the other two seemed like a bit of a jumbled mess. There must be a simple solution.

Could someone with landscaping experience advise of the best Bill of Materials extension that exports to excel. I've tried 3 today and none of them were suitable for Landscaping projects, they seemed to be designed for metal/woodwork projects.

Thank you.

Hello.

I've tried multiple times to create a simple shape using "follow me" in both 2017pro and 2018make, and it comes out bizarre every time. I'm only trying to create a shape like a paper cup, ie a circle with a larger circle directly above, certainly nothing I've ever had an issue with before.

[mod=:1jmh9vda]Moved from SketchUp Bugs because this isn't a Sketchup bug.[/mod:1jmh9vda]

I too found it odd that going into 2017 version and into "updates" doesn't bring up the 2018 version, but it's available using the link in the email named "where do I get started?".

Following on from this, how do I recreate the same settings from 2017 in 2018? I hoped it would import all of this stuff automatically, but it's in it's most basic mode when I go into it. I don't want to have to set it all up again from scratch, so surely there's a more efficient way.

Alternatively, could you share a .dae file that you know to be fine with me please?

How about this instead as 7-zip was taking too long. https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5to8cecwnevkkm/ECO2%20-%20DAE%20Model%20File%20%282017-09-29%2008-34-01%29.dae?dl=0

Hi Dave. I've tried it with several files from here http://efcembim-specifi.com/login?p=des and it's the same with them all. I'm also struggling to upload it to here too as it says the "dae extension is not allowed"

I've searched the forum for answers to this, but everyone else seems to be struggling with additional software and more technical issues than mine. I simply wish to import a collada file into sketchup Pro 2017, but it just says "Import Failed" every time - I've nothing to go on other than that, so I don't know what is going wrong. I've tried every configuration of the options (merging coplanar faces on/off and validate dae file) but it makes no difference.

I'm running the latest version of sketchup and following the simple steps listed here https://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000168, so I don't know what's going wrong. Can you help me please?

@dave r said:

That sounds like the behavior of a dynamic component with constrained scale parameters to me. Could you share the component that is acting weird?

It's a component from the warehouse named "Out-Swing French Door - Tuscany Series". It is a dynamic component, but I couldn't see where I could alter any constraints on the scale parameters, so I just exploded it a bunch of times and re saved it as a component which seems to have done the trick.

Thank you for helping.

Sorry if this has been covered already, but I did a quick search and couldn't find it.

As of this morning I've moved from SU8 to the latest 2015 version, but within minutes I encountered a problem when I tried to scale a component. I grabbed the relevant point as usual and dragged it to the size I wanted (aligning with another point), but when I let go it just snapped straight back to its original size. I've tried it several times now, but I'm assuming the error is somehow with me rather than SU as everyone would be going nuts about it otherwise

I'm afraid that anything with a "steep learning curve" will be avoided as I'm just too busy to give them the time they deserve to get the best out of them. Often while I'm creating one model I have the next two or three jobs waiting for me already, so I seek efficiency rather than perfection when it comes to rendering and post processing - automated settings corrections are my best friend .