Thanks for the quick reply, i'll give that a go when I get chance.

Wow! Just had a look at this script. The most useful script for workflow I have seen. Great work!

Hi Guys,

I have been playing around with Door/Sill Plugin which is a very useful tool. The thing is you have to select the inner polygons to run the script on. Instead of selecting a polygons, then rotating around the model for the other polygon it would be alot simpler to select the polygon in plan view and then run a quick script (preferably a button or shortcut at least) to de-select the edges to run the Door/Sill sript on the 2 faces.

Hope this makes sense. Basically a tool to de-select the edges of a selection you have made.

Many thanks in advance.

Thanks for the quick repsonse. Shame you cannot manually type a degree for FOV in Layout maybe the next version or update may have this option.

Hi Guys,

Just wondered if it is possible to control the field of view in Layout or Layout 2 when setting up views to achieve similar looks that sketchup can produce.

Many thanks in advance

The outliner is for when we export the model out of sketchup and into Cinema 4D. It is nice to have the model in a well set up hierachy as this is how Cinema 4D works. Layers can be used, but when you have glass which across many buildings it's nice to seperate out each building. So Building 1 has Glass, Window Frame, Brick, etc as do other buildings.

Sorry just had a thought actually. If all my groups are named correctly I can explode the Nest holder,move all individual groups then regroup according to the name in the outliner, should work o.k.

I really like the outliner and hope that in the next release it gets a good overhaul. The problem I have with it is when all your items are grouped out it becomes a bit of a pain should you have amend the model and say move the building in by a metre on one side. This means going into the glass group selecting the appropriate polys and moving them, then going into the next group and so on.... Is there a better workflow while maintaining the us of outliner.

Can this be used commercially?

As the title says, can this really be used in an architectural environment for planning and rights of lights studies?

Many thanks.

Cant seem to find a "Contact us" on there website anywhere. Do you know of any direct links to contact them

Hi guys,

Question 1. At our place of work we use Cinema 4D for modelling and all render output. Since talking our guys around to Sketchup we have all purchased 4 Pro versions in our team. The thing is when we import our model into Cinema 4D, we bring it in as a 3DS file to retained the full heirachy and structure. One of the big downfalls is that we lose the ability to retain components through this procedure. Currently I dont know of any plugins for Sketchup to Cinema 4D retaining this information. Just wondered if anyone knew of any current or future developements to further streamline our process.

Question 2. Totally different. At work we use Sketchup on a Mac platform, whilst at home I use it on a PC. I have noticed on my PC I am able to display materials as a list and different sized thumbnails. On the Mac I cannot see this function anywhere. Anyone know if this is possible on a Mac version. Would also be nice to see both the thumbnail and name like in other app's.

Many thanks in advance.

I have just upgraded my PE Navigator to a SE Navigator for a mulitple CPU lincense. I have been able to use it fine at home on my PC, but cannot get any joy at work on a Mac platform. The toolbar icons appear,the Plugin appears in the plugin folder and it is checked int he plugins/Extensions with sketchup but still no joy?!

Just wondered if anyone had experienced similar problems on multi platforms.

On SU Pro startup. Running Mac 10.4.9

Anyone seen this warning dialoge before?

Cant seem to get the plugin to work.

Many thanks

O.k, I guess thats my only option.

Thanks for your advice.

Yeah working on a Mac. Been prompting me for a while now about the update and have never updated, now I finally have I cant export out!

I have just been prompted to update my sketchup Pro 6 program. After installing this successfully I have gone to export a model out as 3ds but it doesn't allow me to change my options. Any idea's why this is?

Many thanks.

It seems my pages "secnes" from model are locked out. Cant seem to access them? This is from Layout I mean.

Hi Guys,

I am a bit new to Layout but have used sketchup for a little while. I have set up some views of my model in layout. The problem is the shadows look different than in my sketchup model for the same time of day. Just wondering if Layout takes onboard the sun location from the sketchup model or you have to state it's location in Layout.

Many thanks in advance.

That seemed to be the problem. In the Style I was using I have Enable Transparency checked (faster). Unchecked this and seems o.k now.

Many thanks.

Hi Guys,

Bit of a strange one. Trying to do a sun study. I have taken off any perspective and have the model in a top view and shadows are enabled. Examples attached

Any help would be much appreciated.