Dear micione, muddpuddle and the rest of the SketchUcation community,

Let me start by apologizing for obvious flop on our part of not responding to your concerns earlier. I have not been active on Sketchucation for a while and missed this thread, and I will certainly check into our support system for issues with unanswered support questions which is not acceptable at all.

In terms of compatibility with SketchUp 2014. Please rest assured that we are currently working on it. As you know there were some major changes in SketchUp 2014 and we want to make sure that we are thorough with our development and consequent testing efforts for compatibility. In the meantime please continue using our products on earlier versions of SketchUp. We hope to be able to have a release soon.

Regards,
Gulcan Ocali

We've got puppies!!!

Here is Karamel, proud first time mama to 6 "tiny dogs", just shy of one day old.

This is one of the few lucky shots we got, before she tucked her pups away under some thick bush in our garden where no one can get to, or even see them...

Hmm.. Karamel ate our door frame a while back

In her defense though, apparently there was some kind of wood grub or something inside, making this constant ticking noise and eating away the wood. She just couldn't stand it! So she might have actually saved our house from an infestation.

Couldn't resist This a great thread.

Here is our beloved "Karamel". She is a two year old Golden Retriever. She is very active and higly intelligent (figured out how to open the door by tugging on the handle by herself ).

She had a boyfriend over a couple of days ago. So hopefully we will have puppies soon.

Karamel's first morning with us:

Karamel now

Hi All,

Someone posted a request on our facebook page for 3D car models. We suggested he post his request here as well. I am not sure if he means SketchUp models but I just wanted to let you know just in case. Below is his post.

I am ready to buy 120 3d cars , I need uncollapsed models (not converted, with turbosmoth)
Here is list of cars that i need , if you will have car from my list please send me price and example to hayarm[at]yahoo.com

MAKE | MODEL | YEAR |

Audi A4 2012
Audi A6 2012
Audi A8 2012
Audi A7 2012

BMW 3 Series 2012
BMW 5 Series 2012
BMW 7 Series 2012
BMW 1 Series 2012
BMW X3 2012

CHEVY Aveo 2012
CHEVY Laetti 2012
CHEVY Cruze 2012
CHEVY Camaro 2012
CHEVY Corvette 2012

CHRAYSLER 300 2012

CITROEN C4 2012
CITROEN C5 2012

DAEWOO Nexia 2012

FORD Focus 2012
FORD Mondeo 2012

LADA Gazel 2012

GMC Yukon Denali 2012

HONDA Accord 2012
HONDA Civic Sedan 2012
HONDA Civic 5 Door 2012
HONDA CR-V 2012

HYUNDAI Sonata 2012
HYUNDAI Genesis 2012
HYUNDAI Santa - Fe 2012
HYUNDAI Accent 2012

INFINITI G Sedan 2012
INFINITI M Sedan 2012
INFINITI FX 2012

MITUBISHI Outlander 2012
MITUBISHI Pajero 4 Door 2012

NISANN Note 2012
NISANN Tida 2012
NISANN Almera 2012
NISANN Juke 2012
NISANN Qashqai 2012
NISANN Teana 2012
NISANN X-Trial 2012
NISANN Murano 2012
NISANN Pathfinder 2012

OPEL Insignia 2012

PEUGEOT 107 2012
PEUGEOT 206 2012
PEUGEOT 207 2012
PEUGEOT 308 2012

PORSCHE CAYENNE 2012
PORSCHE PANAMERA 2012

SUBARU Forester 2012

SUZUKI Grand Vitara 2012

TOYOTA Auris 2012
TOYOTA Corolla 2012
TOYOTA Prius 2012
TOYOTA Avensis 2012
TOYOTA Camry 2012
TOYOTA Rav 4 2007
TOYOTA Rav 4 2012

VW Touareg 2012
VW CC 2012
VW Passat 2012
VW Golf 6 2012
VW Golf 5 2008
VW Scirocco 2012
VW Beetle 2012
VW Jetta 2012
VW Tiguan 2012
VW Passat 2008

JAGUAR FX 2012
JAGUAR XJ 2012
JAGUAR XK 2012

JEEP Patriot 2012
JEEP Wrangler 2012
JEEP Cherokee 2012
JEEP Grand Cherokee 2012

KIA Rio 2012
KIA Cee'd 2012
KIA Cerato 2012
KIA Sportage 2012

LADA Granta 2012

RANGE ROVER Freelander 2012
RANGE ROVER Evooue 2012
RANGE ROVER Discovery 2012
RANGE ROVER Defender 2012

LEXUS LX 2012
LEXUS IS 2012
LEXUS ES 2012
LEXUS GS 2009
LEXUS GS 2012
LEXUS LS
LEXUS RX 2012
LEXUS GX 2012

MERCEDES CLS 2007
MERCEDES CLS 2012
MERCEDES CL 2012
MERCEDES GLK 2012
MERCEDES M 2012
MERCEDES GL 2012
MERCEDES C 2012
MERCEDES E 2012

MAZDA 6 2012
MAZDA CX-7 2012

VOLVO C30 2012
VOLVO S40 2012
VOLVO S60 2012
VOLVO V70 2012
VOLVO S80 2012
VOLVO XC60 2012
VOLVO XC70 2012
VOLVO XC90 2012

Hi All,

It's been more than a year since we launched our plugins for Google SketchUp. Since the beginning, we have positioned ourselves as a dynamic and innovative company. As such, we continually introduced many new features to our plugins almost every couple months. This meant however that some of our 30-day trial users did not get a chance to check out the later, improved, and exciting new features.

Now you can do just that! We have reset all the 30-Day Trial versions of Tgi3D SU Amorph and Tgi3D SU PhotoScan that have expired by December 31st, 2011. Even if you have tried Tgi3D plugins before, you can try them again now.

Here are a few of the later introduced features that you may have missed the chance to try out:

Tgi3D SU PhotoScan – Image Based Surface Modeler

[flash=600,465:27i3yzqk]http://www.youtube.com/v/740XUrYJAgM?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:27i3yzqk]

Tgi3D SU Amorph and PhotoScan – Warper Tool

[flash=600,465:27i3yzqk]http://www.youtube.com/v/w9zLtiExlys?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:27i3yzqk]

[flash=600,465:27i3yzqk]http://www.youtube.com/v/LsLUfpfoC9Y?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:27i3yzqk]

[flash=600,465:27i3yzqk]http://www.youtube.com/v/dodRTudzEJw?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:27i3yzqk]
Tgi3D SU Amorph and PhotoScan – Terrain Tools

[flash=600,465:27i3yzqk]http://www.youtube.com/v/UviJRlu_00w?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:27i3yzqk]

Enjoy!

Hi Walt,

@mwm5053 said:

I downloaded TGI3d Photoscan for Mac and In an attept to unpack the file it said I didn't have SU 7 or 8 on my computer, funny will contact support

We will be addressing this issue in the upcoming releases. In the mean time you can create symbolic links from bash prompt for "/Library/Application Support/Google Sketchup 8" directory as in the example below:

sudo ln -s /Volumes/ExternalVolume/Library/Application\ Support/Google\ Sketchup\ 8 /Library/Application\ Support/Google\ Sketchup\ 8

Please do not hesitate to contact us from the Support page on our website as well. You'll find that we are in general very quick to respond to support inquiries from our website.

Regards,

Hi utiler,

You can take a look at the latest release of Tgi3D SU Amorph with the new "terrain tools" utility (in this thread), it would be a perfect fit for your problem, I think. Try it with the 30-Day trial version of Tgi3D SU Amorph for full functionality.

[flash=800,620:2ffhf149]http://www.youtube.com/v/UviJRlu_00w?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:2ffhf149]

@jonorman said:

My 30 days trial are used, my wallet says no, not yet.. That sure is a nice program though

Incidently, we have been thinking of renewing previously expired 30 Day Trials for another 30-days. We have introduced many interesting features since the initial release of Tgi3D SU Amorph and PhotoScan, therefore we would like the folks, who showed an interest in our products earlier, to have another chance to take a look at Tgi3D SU plugins with the new and improved features. It should not be too long before we announce this.

Hi jonorman,

You can also use Tgi3D SU Amorph's "Create Mesh" command. Simply select the border of the hole, very easy with Tgi3D's Select Tool; with just one [Ctrl+left mouse] click the entire border is selected. Then run "create mesh" command. Voila!

Hello All,

I would like to announce the release of new versions (v1.26) of Tgi3D plugins for SketchUp. We added new tools to Tgi3D SU Amorph and PhotoScan's arsenal along with some minor updates and fixes.

The following new tools have been added:

Map to terrain: This utility applies a warping function that transforms the xy-plane to a given target, typically terrain data from Google Earth. It has different options regarding component instances for mapping to terrain; none, translate, rigid (translate and rotate), affine, and full.

Channel extrude: This tool is somewhat similar to TIG's “extrude edge along a path” except it keeps the profile rotation restricted to the z axis. Thus a horizontal edge remains horizontal throughout the extrusion. This is useful to create roads, landfill skirts (where the skirting angle is specified), or hedges etc. This tool is included unrestricted in the free Training version of Tgi3D SU Amorph.

Resample path: This utility takes regular samples along given path(s). Along with Chris Fulmer's “component stringer” this is handy when placing lamp posts, lane separators etc. along a curving, rising, etc. road at regular intervals. This tool is included unrestricted in the free Training version of Tgi3D SU Amorph.

Here is a quick video that shows Map to terrain and Channel extrude tools in action.

Enjoy!

[flash=800,620:1ci6ck35]http://www.youtube.com/v/UviJRlu_00w?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:1ci6ck35]

Hi Mike,

Very nice to hear you are a fan of Tgi3D SU AMorph. Yes you can upgrade to the latest version on your current license, and as Rich had already answered (Thanks Rich!) you simply login to your account and download the latest version and install.

Go to the Downloads page (the link in Rich's post) on Tgi3D website, click on the "updates" link at the bottom where it says

@unknownuser said:

For latest versions of Tgi3D SU Amorph and Tgi3D SU Photoscan, please visit the updates page.

I am not sure if we can be as fast as Rich here (wow!) , but you can always contact us through the support page on our website as well.

Thanks guys

@bjornkn said:

That auto edge-flip tool is very useful too

Yes, it actually is. Making the edges fallow sharp discontinuities in the picture helps to reduce the size of the mesh, since you can capture more detail with less number of faces. You could achieve this manually by drawing around clear discontinuities or use Sandbox's flip tool on each edge, but now the work is made even simpler for the user.

@solo said:

I like how y'all keep adding features.

Yeah, we try to position ourselves as a dynamic and innovative bunch

Hi All,

I would like to announce the release of the new versions (v1.25) of Tgi3D SU Amorph and Tgi3D SU PhotoScan. The new version introduces the latest Warp tool (previewed here when in beta before). And yes, we finally decided on a name and called it the Warp Tool or Warper for short. There were other really nice/funny/cool suggestions too (BTW thanks to all who suggested a name), but in the end we decided to use “Warper” as it seemed that it best described what the tool does.

Warper helps modelers deform/reshape the selected surfaces including the ones inside the selected groups and components. Using the warper tool consists of three basic steps:
--1. Create a warper, which is basically a bounding box of your selection placed in a new group
--2. Edit and modify the bounding box inside the group. All your edits including scale, rotate, translate etc. done inside the component will be reflected to the output. If you use Tgi3D tools in modification a preview of the deformation result is displayed instantly during your edit. You can turn preview off for very large meshes if it slows down editing.
--3. Finally issue the Warp command to apply the transformation of the Warper on the corresponding object.

As with all other Tgi3D tools, if the object that is being warped has a texture on it, the texture is modified automatically according to the deformation performed by the Warper without requiring “safeguard texture” and “restore texture” commands before and after the use of Warper Tool.

Warper has six different “Child component transformation type” options that determine the type of transformation to be applied on the selected components and groups.
-- Full: The given transformation is applied to the whole hierarchy as if the whole
selection were flat. In the process it may have to uniquify instances with more
than one instance. The instances are left intact, enabling smooth edits on large designs despite SketchUp performance issue. You can easily warp large designs where you can not even hope to explode and flatten the whole thing. For the other options the hierarchy is preserved.
-- Nothing: The component (group) instances in the selection are ignored, they are
left untouched.
-- Translation: The instances are translated only with an average amount (as
determined from the transformation on the warper)
-- Rigid: Rotation and translation only (the amounts are approximated to be
optimally matching the transformation)
-- Similarity: Rotation, Translation, and uniform scaling.
-- Affine: Rotation, Translation, arbitrary scaling, and shear. (this is equivalent to the
SketchUp instance transformation matrix)

The following videos demonstrate how the Warper tool is used to reshape the objects.

[flash=600,481:2boun3bu]http://www.youtube.com/v/w9zLtiExlys?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:2boun3bu]

[flash=600,481:2boun3bu]http://www.youtube.com/v/LsLUfpfoC9Y?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:2boun3bu]

[flash=600,481:2boun3bu]http://www.youtube.com/v/dodRTudzEJw?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:2boun3bu]

The new Warper Tool is included both in Tgi3D SU Amorph and Tgi3D SU PhotoScan.

We have also introduced a new “Flip if necessary” command within the “Image based Surface Modeler” Tool of Tgi3D SU PhotoScan. This command changes the topology of the mesh to capture sharp discontinuities in the surface. The edges are flipped as in the “Flip Edge” tool of the Sandbox Plugin based on the image matching quality.

The following video shows the new flip command in Image Based Surface Modeler

[flash=600,481:2boun3bu]http://www.youtube.com/v/N8saEgCURFM?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:2boun3bu]

Enjoy!

Hi Zootsuit,

You could also use Tgi3D SU Amorph's cross section tool as shown in the following thread.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=39008

It would be a bit more involved then the one in that thread as you need to get the basic shape first with top and bottom having different geometries, but it should be doable.

Hi david57,

This would be very easy to do with Tgi3D SU Amorph's cross section tool. Take a look at the videos below, you can use your outline the same way we use the picture of the glass in the first video or just create the shape as desired without the outline as in the second video.

BTW, the cross section tool is included and unlimited in the free Training Edition You can download it here

[flash=600,492:3okxv9mf]http://www.youtube.com/v/DFMbyZIonwQ?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:3okxv9mf]

[flash=600,492:3okxv9mf]http://www.youtube.com/v/11mhfNJlduE?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:3okxv9mf]

Hi jorge2011,

@jorge2011 said:

Is possible to modify two bezier curves symmetrically?

No, currently it is not possible to modify two bezier curves simultaneously,

@jorge2011 said:

or modify two or three Bezier curves simultaneously?

No, it is not possible modify multiple bezier curves simultaneously either. If you move the common endpoint of multiple bezier curves, they change simultaneously but I don't think that is what you are asking, right?

@jorge2011 said:

Is possible add inferences?

Inferencing works with regular SketchUp edit tools, that is, you can snap points in and out of hierarchy by using regular SketchUp edit tools to edit the control box. However we can display the preview only under Tgi3D tools.

@jorge2011 said:

Is possible add support for the tools?
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Yes, good point, we can improve about utilizing the status bar for tool support.

Thanks.

Hi Bertier,

@bertier said:

how many poly does the plugin handle at the same time ?

if I want to polyreduce a 65K model do I have to split it into sub-objects ?

If you are going to do a significant reduction, it may be able to handle 65K but in general it would be a good idea to limit to around 25K-35K polygons. The bottleneck is really the number of polygons after reduction.

Thanks for the suggestions

As of now, yes inferencing works, you can snap points in and out of hierarchy by using regular SketchUp edit tools to edit the control box. We can display the preview only under Tgi3D tools though. Snapping two endpoints together creates a singularity, we are not explicitly handling that.

Thank you all for your kind words.

This is actually just one tool with tons of options for components, and yes it will be integrated into the free version (with some limit). For the option (affine) in the first video we had things like snake/fish scales in mind. The full option uniqufies the instances in the selection but still much faster than fully exploding all the hierarchy. Looks like we fixed most of the issues, still testing...

BTW, any votes/suggestions for the name are welcome, we still cannot decide what to call it "warp", "remorph", "mould" or ?? tool.

cheers