Posts made by jaceguay

Very nice.

Id like to apply diferent styles to earch group or component, or by layer. Could it be only inside Layout.
Also something I think a ruby can handle, to toggle a certain group or component to wire-frame mode or shaded mode, could it be by hiding all faces and not the edges or the other way and hiding all the edges and showing only the faces, also a reset button to show all.
Could it work like this: it displays in wireframe until double click to edit, then it show all elements, and go back to wireframe when finished editing.

I´ve came across this problem some time ago, you could use a program to straighten the vertical lines, hugin it´s a free program and there is a tutorial just for this in their website.
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

edit: this is the tutorial, http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/architectural/en.shtml

Small forked squirell cooker.
http://www.turkeyfootllc.com/Ironwork.html

@jason_maranto said:

External Proxies/Instances are besides the point -- the geometry must be still loaded into the 32-bit SketchUp process in order to be rendered inside SketchUp... so even proxies can put you into a RAM based failure to launch the render.

The reality is that SketchUp cannot adequately support the tools visualizers are using as a host app... and the concept of SketchUp as a platform is a failure because of that.

Every workable solution I've seen requires the user to leave SketchUp -- which by definition means it fails as a host.

I've not seen any other modern software that struggles as badly as SketchUp -- the "real-time" rendering in SketchUp might be part of the problem, and obviously you can also blame the inferencing engine as well to a certain degree. But better packages allow you to disable/enable those features as needed, rather than forcing you to suffer through them because of some philosophically misguided rationale of "simplicity trumps all"... which to me reads more like the developers (Bacus) saying "I know what's better for you than you do".

Best,
Jason.

The real time rendering or viewport performance don´t get any advantage from the jump to 64bits, I think also there is no viewport performance gain in any 3d software from going 64 bits or more CPU cores. On the other hand taking advantage of the GPU its exactly what matters in this case, I´ve been using blender for about two years and before that 3dsmax, In fact the viewport in sketchup are ages in front of these two, as there is a clear and unique hierarchy in the visualization as a whole: lines, hidden lines, smoothed lines, faces and textures.

In other apps to have this control over all the meshes of my scene I´ll usually have to jump in specific view preferences, modifiers preferences, proxy object propriety etc. and still only one at a time.

In fact I can only imagine using any other viewport at all it´s because the modifiers, that enable you to manipulate the high poly meshes or polys, they have some LOD setting and don´t display the complete mesh all the time.
And if I want to produce hi-poly renders I´m happy to work with my model surrounded by low poly avatars of the objects. But really for me the unique feature that make me use sketchup it´s about visualize and explore so this is the completely the other way.

In my opinion you should take a look in another software, I did some years ago when I was needing to produce and control heavy poly models, and at that time I was feeling refreshed for all the new possibilities, still after some time I´ve came back to sketchup and even became a PRO user for what it is.

I´ve got no luck with the blender OBJ importer and smooth groups, with Collada dae files the smooth geometry was correct but with large models I had some problems with geometry misplaced, I had to explode the components and groups in sketchup before export to blender, also it seems a blender specific problem as I could import the same file in MAX and Mesh Lab with no problems, even without exploding anything.
Did you had similar problems?

@krisidious said:

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The ads never bother me either but I can´t change the internet access configuration in my office.
Everything working fine now, thanks Mike, for the reply.

I don´t use any ad-block or firewall software, I guess It is blocked in the network at the IT department, I work at at a large company +1000 employes and can´t talk to the IT department to disable the firewall for my connection. Even If I become a premium user I will be forbidden to download?

I´m not using any addon but my office firewall block everything but the ads at the botton of the page. I guess I´ll have to get used to it.

I don´t have any ad block installed, but get the message to disable add block? Could it be the firewall software used in my workplace? Also I can´t ask the IT to disable whatever software they have there, there is any option?

There is a way to make it work on any components and groups in the model not only the top level ones?

Some chairs I´ve modeled for some recent project. Hope someone find then useful.
Edit: If I save then separately the total size of the two files are smaller than a single file with the two components inserted, strange.
Edit: Another one, Egg Chair: Arne Jacobsen.
Edit: One more for the collection .

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chair01.skp

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chair02.skp

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Cadeira_egg.skp

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cadeira_circ.skp

I think you mean to remake the topology of the model?
As sketchup and many 3d applications that supports B-Mesh, when converted to triangles there is usually a mess, outside sketchup there is some alternatives that feature auto retopo but I don´t believe there is a universal solution, so you may consider manual retopology, modeling with the regular triangles that you want on top of your current model.
I don´t use MAX but try to export your model and import it into blender, use the remesh modifier and under mode choose Smooth, be aware the poly-count will drastically increase, you can use the decimate modifier below the remesh to reduce the polygon count.

Do you have a notebook with optimus? If so try to left click the sketchup.exe and choose execute with high performance video card, also try to open the control panel and the Nvidia Control panel, in Manage 3d settings/program settings/Add, find sketchup.exe and choose the High Performance Nvidia processor.

Autohotkey must be running to make the modification work, the installation don´t make it start automatically with windows, so you can start it yourself every time you want to use sketchup or to make it easier you should put autohotkey as a start up program. After you start Autohotkey to ensure it its running see if you can find a green "H" beside the clock on the taksbar.

Hi, the script follows, it changes the orbit and pan as you describe, to use it just install autohotkey, after you run it for the first time it will create a template script on your documents folder, you can open it with notepad delete what´s there and paste this.
The IfWinActive, SketchUp ensure that it will only be active in the sketchup window.

#SingleInstance force
#NoEnv
#Persistent
#ErrorStdOut
SetTitleMatchMode 2
#IfWinActive, SketchUp
;-------------------------
*MButton;;
SendEvent {Shift Down}{MButton down}
KeyWait MButton
SendEvent {Shift Up}{MButton up}
return
;-------------------------
*!LButton;;
SendEvent {MButton down}
KeyWait LButton
SendEvent {MButton up}
return

I recommend Autohotkey for this type of customization, If you tell me what you are you trying to achieve I´ll help you make a script.

You can enable Anti-Aliased Textures in Window/Model Info/Rendering.

You have to check "Plot Transparency" on the plot window, if you can´t see this option you have to click the small circle with a arrow in the lower right corner.

After some research I think the same, in blender this behavior is build in and the cursor is wrap around the view port, I think it can´t be done in ruby except with the help of some external program maybe. Thank you for your response.