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    IntelCoreDuo

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    • What's your "best practice" when working on large, complex terrain surfaces? (e.g. as architect/LA)

      To me the seemingly obvious way to work with terrain is to start with contour lines then modify this with tools such as stamp for planar surfaces, artisan for organic surfaces and drape to separate into different materials etc.

      However, while this works to model fast and increase level of detail, the model becomes increasingly difficult to alter, especially elements like a curved sloping road/retaining wall needs to be moved. Triangulation becomes increasingly messy and uneven.

      When significant changes occur:
      solution 1 is to delete the entire surface and re-model. This is often the fastest option for me, but still annoying.

      solution 2 is to split the model into sub-regions that can be re-created spearately, but the region boundaries tend to change all the time, besides recreating seams between these sub-regions is time-consuming.

      Solution 3 (the Vectorworks-method) is to continuously keep a 3D "skeleton" on a layer which keeps tracks of heights, and a 2D drape line layer (or Autocad) which keeps track of sub-surfaces, and update these rather than the surface itself to quickly re-create the entire surface correctly when needed. I personally find it difficult to manage the 3D skeleton layer since I can't easily change line/points (absolute) Z-value, and it keeps me from editing surface directly with artisan.

      Are there different ways of working entirely? What do you find works best?

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • Plugin to mark height above datum/sea level on a surface?

      I tried TIG's "Height above datum", which is great, but the text box added is always semi-submerged below the surface and hard to read. I can move/rescale the leader for the text to be visible, but new datums added are submerged again, which is not practical.

      posted in Extensions & Applications Discussions
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    • App/plugin to display .skp file with nicer light/navigation?

      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)
      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • Plugin to quickly align axes inside a group?

      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?


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      posted in Plugins
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    • RE: Migrating to a New Version of SketchUp

      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?

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • Plugin that shows/generates contour lines?

      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!

      posted in SketchUp Discussions sketchup
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    • RE: Toposurface/mesh: Any plugin that merges 2 points into 1?

      Awesome! Thank you both so much.

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • RE: Toposurface/mesh: Any plugin that merges 2 points into 1?

      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?

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • Toposurface/mesh: Any plugin that merges 2 points into 1?

      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.

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      Any plugins or other tricks to recommend?

      posted in SketchUp Discussions sketchup
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    • RE: What's a good extension for lighting design/realtime render?

      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.

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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