Posts made by halroach

When I'm using the native scale tool in sketchup it always snaps the scaling to .01 intervals.

1. Is there a way to get it to snap to smaller intervals?

2. Using Fredo's amazing Fredoscale I can never scale something which is close in it's scaling to the original scaling because it always snaps to the original size when I'm around .05 from the original (when I'm looking to scale .00001 without inputting those numbers). Even if I try to scale once to a scaling which is far from what I want, and then try to rescale (hoping that it won't snap anymore) it still snaps to the original.

• On a general note - Fredo, your scale tools are priceless! though at times, I am completely lost when trying to figure out what the various tools are trying to snap to. They never snap to anything coherent or something useful...
  

I'm trying to figure what are the benefits of working with this layers system are over working without it. It looks nice... but not sure if it's good for me.

In my workflow on a model with various versions of a building, I save various scenes. In each of the scenes I have a set of layers that are on and off accordingly.
(Of course all geometry is on Layer0 while only groups and components are tagged with different layers).

Now if I try to implement this Layers Panel plugin I am basically losing the ability to save scenes with different layer visibilities...? unless I am not understanding something.

The groups are helpful in that I can turn on and off different groups of layers, but the Sketchup scenes do not save that information of what is on or off, right? So I have to manually select each layer or group of layers visibility for each of scene... It kind of defeats it's whole purpose in my opinion, unless again, I am not understanding something.

1. I autoinstalled it through the the sketchucation plugin store 2.0.0 and sketchup immediately crashed. (I sent the crash report)

2. It says my internet Explorer version is outdated when the Microsoft website says it's the latest... hmmmmmm

(using sketchup 8.0.16846 on windows 7. have firefox installed and used as my default browser)

Did you know that when you click on the plugins menu and then tap on a letter on your keyboard it cycles through your plugins starting with that letter?
It's a native Windows feature for keyboard navigation... like when you press Alt in any program.
I just never thought of using it in Sketchup... Something to think about...

There is only one drawback, if you only have one plugin that starts with a certain letter it will be activated before you can say Robinson Crusoe!

Good Luck!

Very nice Renderiza!

1. It would be great to have the ability to choose a bunch/list of components to paint, that alternate randomly or in a cycle - kinda like with the "component spray" plugin.

2. An idea to think about... Having the ability to set a point in space that all blue axis of newly inserted components will align to. Like a magnet point.

3. The ability to rotate objects randomly in all axis. Not only in the XY. Not sure what it would be good for... but it could be nice.

I back button and a forward button would be nice to have -
After doing a search, for instance, and then wanting to go back to the previous results...

@krisidious said:

what is the difference between this and spray paint can?

It looks very similar to Component Spray. So what are the differences?

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=298004#p298004

@halroach said:

Hi,

Sometimes when I'm using this plugin it only converts one selected group to one component leaving all the rest as groups. Not sure what's causing that. ideas?

I copied and pasted all the groups to another sketchup model (outside of the one component they were in, and they were all converted. could it be this plugin doesn't work within a component?

Hi,

Sometimes when I'm using this plugin it only converts one selected group to one component leaving all the rest as groups. Not sure what's causing that. ideas?

Hi, I find that the search forums field has disappeared in the main forums page:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/

• it is very hard to do a search now!
  The search field does appear when I go into specific threads...
  I tried with firefox 23.0.1 and on IE.

@rv1974 said:

Wish it was an universal Extend tool that would respect all variety of 2d: lines, splines, arcs etc.

Or even for 3D like with Smart Push Pull...

Thinking a bit further to the use of such a plugin, it would be nice to have a toggle key, that would enable you to continue the same arc with the same length of segments, but in a different direction - Actually, it should operate exactly like the regular arc tool. It's all about the length of the segments being detected and used as a starting point.
It's gotta have a visual preview, either like the original arc tool, or something like Fredo's join push pull plugin, etc.

Hi,

I'm working on a model that has many arcs and circles involved. I was wondering if there is a way/plugin to take an existing arc which has a certain length of segments and to continue that arc from one of it's edges with the same length segments. It would be a visual plugin where you select an arc and start pulling on one of the edges adding segments as you move your mouse away, or you type how many segments or how long you want it to extend...
Maybe it exists already?

Up till now I either have a full circle with the right amount of segments "in storage" below or above my model which I keep making copies of and cutting up where I need, plus I have the center point (using arc center point plugin), just in case I need to make more...

Or another method would be to select the arc I have and rotate-copy it from it's center point "lengthening it" and multiplying the copies... It works, but not too convenient making that center point and trying to find it later when it's really far away some times.

Thanks Community!

You are correct!
The Animation Works!!! Yay!!!
Maybe you should have it mentioned somewhere that the first scene is rendered twice. Maybe there should be an option to enable or disable that feature?
Why actually do you have that? Is it for better transitions when doing compositing later?

@dkendig said:

no worries, just try it out with a smaller value for fps in our render options, or the transition time between scenes in SU, just to make sure I'm not losing my mind (totally possible). Otherwise you'll have to sit there for a long time to verify what I said was correct.

@dkendig said:

The first scene gets rendered twice. So if you have transitions set to be 1 second, and you have your animation output set to 30fps, you will need to render 30 frames before you will see a change in camera position.

No kidding!
My impatience may have been the problem all this time... I'll check that first thing in the morning!
Thanks!

I just installed the latest Vray 1.60.23412 Beta , and still no go for animations for me.

I set up two different scenes.
under render settings output tab:
I check to "save output" and I specify an output file name and location. C:/temp/1.png

I check on "animation". I checked "include fame number".

No go! I click on render, it goes through the animation quickly in sketchup and starts rendering. But it keeps rendering the same frame again and again, the camera isn't moving at all. What am I doing wrong? are you sure vray 1.6 supports animation!? I've asked about this before and haven't gotten a straight answer.

bump,

This problem is not solved - returning a computer to a previous state does not seam to me a plausible solution. I eventually solved it myself reinstalling plugins from scratch, but that also isn't a satisfactory solution... and now it just happened again on another computer which I really really don't want to reinstall everything... maybe someone has a solution?

Hah,

I've been using a similar mouse configuration for the past 4 years, I was in pain with my index and middle finger orbiting and panning too much. I second that the thumb solution is very very good!

But in my case, I am still using the old style corded mouse with a ball! (I found it in my Dad's basement) and it's just super comfortable! And since it has a PS2 connector (remember those?) I found a USB to PS2 adapter. Works perfectly!

My Logitech Mouseman + Yeahhhh!
http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-M-CW47-Ergonomic-Connection-Compatible/dp/B004XJ4VP4/ref=pd_sim_sbs_e_1

USB to PS2 Adapter:
http://dx.com/p/usb-to-ps-2-cable-adapter-15cm-length-45594

(maybe this topic should be split into "pride in cool hardware configurations"

@unknownuser said:

@chris fullmer said:

I still can't live without a middle button to hold down for orbiting in SU.

get a mouse with a thumb button(s)… thank me later

zoom while orbiting... your index finger is on the left button way more often.. faster/more flow-ey / more comfortable drawing..

suggest uniting the topics:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=322&t=53444

@dave r said:

Since it is in the Context menu, you need to have something selected such that there'd be a Context menu entry for the plugin. Open a component or group within a nest and select an edge or face. It'll then be available for setting the shortcut.

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Right!! thanks!!!
Excellent!!!