Sheet music cabinet:
Sorry, but criteria 4 is "No overlapping solids".

Have a look at the "side slats" component, it overlaps the side rail, the side slat and the post. Same thing with the shelves and the back.

Media Center:
Meets the model criteria, although I have a woodworking type question about the bottom rails. They seem to be mortise and mortise not mortise and tenon joints. Is that a mistake or do you put in a seperate piece of wood to fill both holes?

Dresser:
It's a complex model with many pieces but what I looked at looked all good.

Youth desk:
Same issues as the music cabinet, in the same locations too, side rail, side slat and legs.

Night Stand:
At first the orbiting was weird, then I figured out you had the camera in parallel projection. There are gaps in the woodworking like between the bottom stetcher and the shelf but it meets the criteria.

Queens size bed:
The foot board and head board overlap both the rails. It does not stop it being in the collection but I thought you would like to know some of the components don't have material on all faces, for example the ends and bottom of the side rails.

I will have a look at these tomorrow.

Try reading this.

The last 4 links take you to the same model.

What is a kmz file? What program did you use to create it?

3D warehouse only lets you upload SketchUp models.

@msm said:

Hi everyone, I am an architecture student. I like to use Sketchup for my designs, but find the graphic quality of a rendered Sketchup model is not overly appealing.

Are you using the built in renderer or an external one? I have seen renders, like this one using programs such as Kerkythea.

@dave r said:

And you won't have an SKB file generated at all so when something happens to cause a crash or otherwise give an unexpected stop in the program, you'll have to redo what you've done back to when you last manually saved the file.

I have autosave set to 5 minutes, I don't mind redoing 5 minutes of work.

I just had a light bulb moment:

1. Go to "Window / Preferences"
2. Click General
3. Untick "Create Backup"
   I just tested it and you will no longer have SKB files created when you save.

I just did a search and found this page:

@unknownuser said:

The .SKB file is an exact copy and backup of the .SKP file. .....

.... making it a waste of space.

What are the SKB files for anyway? If they are not important I will create a batch/script to delete them.

@double espresso said:

The architectural guys certainly bring a lot of practical knowledge to the table, however, what I do is quite far outside that box.

hmmmmm.... I don't think you are as far outside the box as you think..... you design a set and show it to a director, architects design a building and show it to a client.

Maybe you should not exclude advice from architects so quickly. Do you really think that don't want to show clients a 3D walkthrough?

High on my wishlist is that someone would take the open source Quake 3 engine and create a free 3D SU walkthrough exporter. It would create a single EXE that clients could walkthrough the model using the AWSD keys and look around using the mouse. The spacebar would toggle to the flying no-clip mode that allowed you to go through walls.

The server crash and restore has wiped out how I achieved this using a combination of MojoPac and ThinApp:

1. Install MojoPac, this gives you a "clean" Windows install
2. Within the MojoPac environment install ThinApp
3. Start the ThinApp creation process
4. Install SU7
5. Configure SU7 with plugins and toolbar preferences etc
6. Continue the ThinApp creation process
7. Shutdown MojoPac
8. Copy the created ThinApp to the external HDD
9. Enjoy using SU7 no matter where you go
10. Curse Microsoft for making everyones life so much harder and more complicated than it should be

...well the last one is optional but it is an option I exercise at every oppurtunity.

I am hoping that the 60 day trial licence for ThinApp only applies to the creation process and does not apply to the application created. I guess I will find out in 55 days.

My third little find is only a small tweak but makes the visual clues much easier to read.

The new "end point" and "on the line/intersection" indicators, you know the big green circle and the red cross thingy. They are bigger and clearer, love em.

@unknownuser said:

Hazza, see this topic: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=100394

Not really what I wanted, but if that's what I have to do then that is what I have to do.

@unknownuser said:

If Autodesk had been able to bought sketchup at least nowdays we would have

..... never had a free version.

@alan fraser said:

I had problems with this during the beta. I guess that many more people are now on Vista than 2 years ago, so you may also find problems in re-installing some of the Plugins. I did, until I wrestled control of the Plugins folder back off my darned OS....even with admin priviliges.

2 years on and people are still struggling to wrest control of their "experience" with Vista

@dave r said:

How are you dealing with the Registry files that SU7 would be looking for? Are you just expecting SU7 to read the SU6 Registry files?

I expected SU7 to do the same automagical thing that SU6 did. I did nothing to the registry when I first run SU6 from the portable HDD.

I know I could probably save the files as SU6 files while working in SU7 but that takes the fun out of it, I want to be able to run SU7 at work too.

It's like when you first get a scroll mouse, you think "the enhancements are nice but pffft..... I would not miss them"... at a later date you get to a computer without a scroll mouse... which you promptly throw in the bin on the way to the supply cupboard to get one...

Ahh no.... To simply the understanding of the process and the problem I am having:

1. Install SU on laptop
2. Copy the entire SU directory from Program Files to external HDD
3. Run SU from HDD on laptop, works fine
4. Plug HDD into work PC
5. Run SU

Doing those steps with SU6 works fine, the shortcuts and toolbar settings are not carried over but the program works fine. Doing the same steps with SU7 gives the error message.

I started a model in SU6, finished it with SU7 last night on the laptop. Now I can't upload it using the work PC because it won't open with SU6 and I can't open SU7.

I hope I don't have to wait until I get home next week before I can upload my new SU7 models

My situation, I have my own laptop, an external USB hard drive and a computer at work. I install SU on the laptop, copy the folder to the HDD, take the HDD to work, run SU fromthe external HDD. With SU6 this worked flawlessly, SU7 gives me the following error:

@unknownuser said:

This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

I don't have enough rights to install anything onthe work computer but I am permitted (permission wise and corporate policy wise) to run applications fom the external HDD.

I am thinking that the configuration is either in the registry that only gets created during installation or stored in a file.

Can any body help?

My second is that you can claim credit for the model.

My first is that you can now set a location in the free version of SU.