Topics created by grizzler

@Dave-R It happens on every single model though. If I use the pins to stretch an image to fit a flat surface in Sketchup where it looks fine, I then look at it in a render software (I've had this in 3 renderers so far) and it's a mess, so I found that by making the material unique it resolved the issue in all softwares - that is until I use the new graphics engine.

@grizzler Glad that you got it sorted 🙂

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For info,

The PB4 is fixed by version 4.0.3 https://support.mindsightstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/29660587053971-Fix-for-SketchUp-crashing-shuts-down-on-startup-when-Profile-Builder-4-is-installed.

@grizzler

You should go to the PluginStore and update to the SketchUcation toolset v4.4.0 which has been specially reworked for v2024 compatibility. If deals with the SCF licensing for many extensions.
If you use any of Fredo's extensions, he has also updated them all for v2024 use and don't forget his latest LibFredo too...
After installing these restart SketchUp to sync everything...

@TIG Thanks for your collective wisdom folks, your efforts are appreciated.

For any volumes! 😄
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Ver interesting animation tool. Thanks for sharing Pilou. 👍

@grizzler said:

but I think I need 3 tags for the two items - one for the 3D file, one for the 2D image and a third for the pair as a component.

Your profile says you are using SketchUp 2022. If that's correct you could use a tag folder to contain the tag for the 3D trees and the tag for the 2D circle. Then leave the top level component untagged. Turning off the visibility for the tag folder would hide both the 3D and 2D components or you can hide one or the other by controlling the tag visibility.

Finally! It has taken me 24 hours of disabling and enabling everything I can, numerous restarts, cache clearances etc, and the thing that finally worked was to enable my VPN and set it to a US server, suddenly all my problems were solved! I've no idea why this worked but it did and I'm not going to question it in case I jinx it

LOL!

Seems to me there's Lidar data available of at least most of England but I'm not sure if you can get that in a form that can be imported into SketchUp. I looked once but not very hard. Maybe you'll have to get one of those GPS gadgets and walk around collecting spot elevations. Then you can convert that into a point cloud. I've been wondering about doing that for my own property. Honestly, I expect if you need high res terrain data for single parcels of land, you'll probably need someone on the ground.

I'd say trial them all to find the one that ticks the most boxes.

Quantifier and ProfileBuilder are probably the most cost efficient and customisable. But you do need both to be the most productive.

PlusSpec doesn't have the same parametric abilities that ProfileBuilder does but automates others areas very cleverly. It does alot more than PB3/Q Pro though.

MeDeek I'm not too familar with. He does have a bevvy of tools to pick from.

There's FlexTools too. Its focus is Dynamic Components based responsive modelling so its very non-destructive.

In short, I've not really answered your query...... 😕

Seems to work well with DAE files from SU 😉

https://i.ibb.co/HHdjG5Q/koru-arch.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/kmTrXDm/arch-koru-render.jpg

Excellent, thank you.

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

Wos. A lot of black ink. Haven't seen that before (on a Mac). Could it be Catalina? Must be some setting. Macintosh-- the pioneer of desktop publishing. But now?

Thank you all, you're brilliant 😉

I guess that's why it's called follow-me. You first establish who "me" is then ask the other shape to follow. : )

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

You need the pro version of SketchUp to edit Dynamic Components. They probably have the component set up so you can only choose the standard sizes the manufacturer offers. Perhaps it is setup to be modified from a list in the DC's Component Options window.

Try also this free one : a Sketchup on stéroïds! 💚
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DesignSpark (it has a SKetchup export skp! 🤓

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_kIb-O4mcI

Thank you chaps.