Do anyone have recommendation for a way to display my SketchUp models to clients?
Ideally with these features:

• Nicer light/shadow (Ambient Occlusion, soft shadows etc)
• Full screen display
• 1st person navigation (e.g. WASD/mouse like FPS shooter games)
• Spacemouse compatible flying
• Otherwise compatible with SketchUp files (textures, alpha masks etc)

I work on a city plan with a lot of small buildings, each a sub-group or component.
They all have axes that match world coordinates orientation, but I would like them to have axes that match their own rotation. Entering each group and changing axis based on a corner takes a lot of time, does anyone know of a plugin that does this faster?

Do I understand correctly that this technique lets me transfer SketchUcation plugin store plugins in a single bundle, but not any from the Extension Warehouse? For the latter, I take it I have to install each of my 20 plugins individually when migrating from SketchUp 2020 to SketchUp 2021?

I spend a lot of time making a plane at level 0, multiplying it up X number of times by 1 meter, intersecting then deleting them as soon as the model is altered. A plugin that generates iso lines for any group/component with one or two clicks would be a life saver. Does anyone know of such plugins?

Thank you!

Awesome! Thank you both so much.

Very good tip, thank you! Unfortunately, at least in the SketchUcation plugin store, it says
"Note: Not compatible with SketchUp 2021 or newer". We just upgraded to 2021. Are you using an older version og SketchUp or am I missing something?

I often need to reduce triangulation on meshes selectively, eg. merging two points together. This often works, but as shown in the gif below, it often bugs out and refuses to snap for some reason. Ideally I should be able to click on two points and have them instantly merge together (alternatively by clicking on the vertex connecting them), using as few click as possible as I do this type of cleaning a lot.

https://i.imgur.com/qtZxbPZ.gif

Any plugins or other tricks to recommend?

Does it work real-time (I can move objects in SketchUp and immediately see them move in Enscape) and let me use light sources such as spot lights through SketchUp? If not, it doesn't solve the issue I have with Lumion, which is that I have to use Lumion to place light sources.

I'm currently using Lumion for quick renderings, which is realistic enough but I would prefer to do lighting in SketchUp so I can test various options easily - especially since I've started using VR to place out components (such as light sources) and exporting lights to Lumion is slow.

I understand that LightUp and Kubity both let me do instant real time rendering inside SketchUp. Does anyone have recommendations/experiences with a simple, quick, easy-to-use extensions with somewhat realistic results that can be used e.g. for planning interior and exterior lighting?

I'm trying to UV map bark onto a tre. It is important that the direction of the mark matches the direction of the branch.

Native Sketchup only lets me map straight up/down, with works with a straight trunks but looks ridiculous for branches.

• SketchUV tube map is ideal, but unfortunately only works with quad mesh.
• Cylindrical map works in some situations (B) but is a lot of work and works only with straight branches.
• Turning a branch into a group changing axis direction to match branch works (c) but is tricky to pull off and the correctly applied UV disappears if i explode the branch group.

Any clever ideas to do this more efficiently? (I'm applying bark to many dozens of tree models)