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@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.
Computer died. Well apparently it was my ssd's The operating system and another data drive with Thea Render. They're going to try and save my documents data, the Quixel materials and the Thea materials and models. Luckily I have most of my cad dwgs, a lot of Sketchup and D5 models.
That said I have to reinstall and reconfigure a lot of programs including Windows 10 ugly set-up.I'm using my last computer here and I have a lot of stuff from Sketchup 2021. He said it might have been an electrical spike.
It's going to be a real pain in the ass. It's depressing. I find myself leaning over to find my new box.
One moral of the story: get a UPS and a big cloud account for back-up. Another is, "listen to your doctor."
@Rich-O-Brien It says I need a reputation of 20 to downvote.
@majid said in Another House in D5:
Looks nice,
I am interested to know what parts are done inside Sketchuo, Are IVYs part of the Sketchup model?
Thanks Majid. This is the extent of all the Sketchup work. The rest is D5 Render assets. The vines are also from D5 with their recent addition of vine procedurals. The arched brick is done first with Curviloft and I settled on using Quadface Tools for mapping.
I almost finished the proverbial doughnut tutorial by Blender Guru. He also runs poliigon for texture thats I used in SU for either Thea Render or D5 Render. Right now I mostly use it for importing models from Blenderkit which about $10/month into D5 Render. Some of them work and others don't. I imagine it's the same with Twinmotion. It's complicated. I also dabbled with Rhino which has a command entry window like Autocad. So far Blender is a sort of utility combining SU, D5 and Blender from time to time.
They're finished. $550 for diagnosis, replace the two SSD's, save whatever data can be saved, and load Windows 10 Pro. By data I mean the contents of Window's documents folder, Quxel, Thea materials, etc.
So back to the old drawing board. Gotta reload programs like Sketchup 2022 and 2024. My trusted old Autocad 2000. That's going to cost around $120 for the Longbow software to allow its use in Windows 10. Bunch of other programs.
Then there's re-configuring Windows 10 all over again to the way I had it. I have a lot of those tweaks in my saved F: drive which is a Western Digital Black. I also have all of my drawings, Sketchup models, D5 stuff on that as well.
I'll find out on Thursday. $50 to bring it back to me. I guess it's all tax deductible.
I think I sparked it by plugging in some stupid old spot light for the backyard. I killed my BIOS with that a few months ago.
Soon we'll be an ancient breed. Like the draftsmen of old.
@Rich-O-Brien said in Oooops:
@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?
We'll be tweaking as we go so expect improvements. As you can imagine migrating was a big challenge. Keeping historical stuff was important.
So poke around for a bit before piling on the requests
OK. This just happened too: 
Decided to play with a stream topo using Vertex Tools and came up with a composition to experiment with in D5 with various elements.
@TIG It was stuck with my old computer name. I had to get two new ssd's and a new Windows 10 Pro install. I reinstalled SU and everything was almost still there and everything was working fine. I re-associated the directories except for the templates which was stuck with the old name which was no longer present. That meant I kept getting a warning on SU start-up. So I created a dummy user directory with the old name and SU...templates and it took.
All systems go. Ready for Autocad.
Surprised at how much was saved.
@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?
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 New Sketchup 2025 glimpse.:
@nlipovac Its that time of year for major update, late q4 or early q1, so showcasing to paying attendees would be a good strat
Rich,
Everyone could use a good Stratocaster. 
I've been using a Logitech K350 for years now. Still have a new one on backup. Mouse is Logitech Performance MX which I clean every so often. I still have a Logitech MX Master 3 in a box. Not too crazy about it but overall it's OK. I also have a Corsair K100 RGB Optical-Mechanical Gaming Keyboard which is way to jittery and sensitive. Happiest with the K350 and Performance MX combo.
Biggest problem has been dropping liquids on the keyboard once a year. Have to be careful with that. I have gotten replacement feet for the Performance MX mouse if I've opened it up a lot to clean. Have to make sure I'm stocked. I still have a bunch of Allsop "Raindrop" x-large mouse pads which they discontinued. Drives me nuts when they discontinue the good stuff.
@Rich-O-Brien said in Oooops:
@Gus-R you see who downvoted?
No. All I get is that message in the screenshot.
@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.
Almost a month since I brought these crashes up to D5 support and still no answers. There's an obvious memory leak with this program. People should not have to adjust or degrade their operating system to run D5. It's the other way around. D5 Render should operate without users having to adjust any part of their OS, CPU, GPU or BIOS setting to use their software. It's not 1992.
@L-i-am I added some numbers earlier. I can't make this all add up after the loss of freelance work. Moving, place to live, minus several other monthly payments including I'd need to pay around $150/month for storage.
@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. 
@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.