@DickWolf Try Comps to Grid in JHS Powerbar. I never used it but found it this morning. Seems to work best with the component's axis set at the bottom and the center of mass.
Doesn't work when the face is inside a group
Watch this video too. It's a visual explanation around the middle of the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1dmYAImpg4
Decided to play with a stream topo using Vertex Tools and came up with a composition to experiment with in D5 with various elements.
@Rich-O-Brien Get off my lawn!
The right side bar's text is kind of small for my aging eyes. Can you make the font bigger?
You can do some pretty cool things with this.
As long as Sketchup keeps working in the manner it always has give or take some wonky new icons. Primary being that plugins keeps working. The only AI I use now is minimal in D5 Render. I use Sketchup to draw. Whether it be a house or a locomotive. I could keep using Sketchup Pro 2022 until I go belly up.
Some recent exterior renderings using D5 2.8. Won't be a paying job because of outsourcing. Nothing fancy in the modeling. Using D5's new scatter feature. Windows and doors are Flex Tools except for the front door which I did a few years ago.
@Rich-O-Brien said in Oooops:
@Gus-R you see who downvoted?
No. All I get is that message in the screenshot.
@box said:
If you are wanting to do a lot of that sort of thing you may find SUbD works for you.
That's funny because I'm working on a re-render of a Ferrari GTO wheel where I used exactly that. I was thinking about SubD for this too. Thanks.
@L-i-am Hopefully they'll retain a consistent UI with 2025. I have no interest in the collaborative and AI features. I'll stick with my SU and D5 Render workflow.
The key will be if SU retains its usefulness as a modeling software including the operability of plugins. I'd like to provide them input but I think it would go in one ear and out the other.
I'd be happy if they left SU 2022 Pro alone but they're going to end geo location and 3D Warehouse features for "security reasons." I don't really use those much. Eventually I can see a complete "end of life" for 2022.
If they left SU 2025 pretty much as it is with 2024 and just fixed the icons I'd be content.
@Rich-O-Brien I can soften the shadows but it winds up muddling the foreground tree shadows on the porch walk and sidewalk. If I increase the softening it completely wipes out and tree form. This is D5 Render and not Twinmotion.
Architectural visualization went from mid 20th century depictions utilizing pencil on paper; pencil and watercolor; colored pencil; watercolors; etc. Many of which depicted shadows with hard lines.
Today there's an expectation of total realism and a sort of uniformity in rendering styles. Many would argue that as realism in architectural visualization increased such as photo real renderings, the quality or beauty in architecture has declined. The same is true with music and automation and re-processing in music studios.
Whether it's rendering or drafting, much of architecture involves a lot of tedium.
@Rich-O-Brien said in Oooops:
I get lots of 'notifications' but they never load.
Teething issues while we dial in setting. Can you downvote this please?
Worked that time. 
@rv1974 said:
@gus r said:
Making things more difficult is that I can't find any other instructions on this technique anywhere on the internet. I'm sure Blender could do this in seconds. Just a matter of learning Blender.
Learning chamfering in proper program would take a fraction of time you spent messing in vain in SU and discussing it here.
True and my intent is to learn Blender but it's about the challenge and this is after all a Sketchup forum and not a Blender forum and it's good for those that want to continue to use Sketchup to learn from these things so I don't see it as being in vain.
@L-i-am Thanks guys! I was thinking about motion blur. D5 doesn't have such an option. I tried with Photoshop but it would probably take some work like with masking. I used to do that with old Flight Simulator screen shots. The effects are particals straight out of the box. You have to turn on the dynamic effect under display for them to be visible. You can turn it off after that since the clouds will move along with it and you might not like whatever clouds show up in the background.
@Rich-O-Brien said in NEW Forum Software Issues:
@Gus-R said in NEW Forum Software Issues:
@gullfo Rich, when can we start filling up the suggestion box? I only have two things.
Be gentle Gus. Its been a huge undertaking to get the old content into this newer system.
I'd love if users just poked around for a few days to see how it works and feels.
But if you see or experience a genuine system error or unusable feature let us know.
You can put them here as I subbed to this thread
Everything is working fine but the only changes I would like to see is a dark mode and larger text/font on the right side bar. It's too small for my vision. Larger font there would be more important than a dark mode. Although the stark white is kind of hard on the eyes too.
@Gus-R Worked the second time. Thanks!
@Mike-Amos Jason Bourne is living there for at most a day.
Another update!
Added/created: window wipers; 27 point connectors in front (the red and blue plug covers); window wind screens; window shade (still working on that); new decals in front of hood; fuel cap texture; manufacturer plate; tool box on side finished; door latches at 600 volt access panel; weathering; etc.
Also changed the gray to a lighter gray. I have to add the walk in front with chain and latch; some hoses and a valve for air brakes; etc. Train signal by others and the two figures are from D5 Render. Otherwise I slogged through almost every single piece of this model.
I tried to find reference drawings for most of it including blue prints for the trucks which have to be upgraded to a later model. Some things like the window shade apparatus and the tool box latch I had to do my best guess at the design using some fuzzy images.
For several years I was using Acme Brick's texture program but that required manually creating a seamless texture by changing a few brick modules. I discovered that it's been updated to an online seamless textures generator which works really well almost instantly.
You find that here: Masonry Designer | brick.com
The seamless textures can be generated under Save: Seamless Tile. The rest is self explanatory.
@L-i-am Jason Bourne from the series of movies. He's hiding and on the hunt by the CIA and other sinister characters and often ends up in hiding at a house like. Or in the mind of us Americans, a European house. I suppose it is possible that Bela Lugosi could have lived there too. Bad Bauhaus (Peter Murphy) pun on my end.
@Gus-R More updates. Made that chain. Ended up using Profile Builder since Tax Engineering wasn't working out for me. I'm sure it's much easier in Blender but I don't see the point in going that route. Also some snow and a cliff in the background. I have to make those gladhand connectors and hoses for the air brakes in front as well as the manual brake wheel in the right rear of the locomotive.
Did you know the EMD SD-45 weighs 368,000 pounds? Like most freight locomotives the underframe is massive which I learned from modeling it. Gladhand connectors are like what you see in trucks connecting the air to the trailer.
