Posts made by jeff hammond

you could mess around with the soap skin bubble and drawhelix... the triangulation will still be present but you can get it pretty small..

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twisted.skp.zip

@alan fraser said:

. It was very difficult to force it to go back to clockwise again. I had to bat my eyelids rapidly...like a strobe effect. That helped. Now I can't get it to go anti-clockwise again.

focus only on the foot that she's rotating around.. maybe even scroll down the screen so that only her foot is showing on your monitor. you'll be able to better control which direction you'd like her to spin..

i'm a both..

good call susan... turning off 'use hardware acceleration' in su's opengl preference fixes the problem... (though performance is horrible -- borderline unusable)...

fwiw, the card in that computer is an ati mobility radeon 9600 (64mb)..

here's a few projects i've designed/built... i'm highly dependent on sketchup for certain builds while others don't really require any drawings at all (though i'll usually give them a quick sketch anyway)...

i found some links on youtube for these things so you'll be able to get an idea of these products in use... i get a lot more detailed with my drawings but i can't necessarily share them on the interweb.. these views will do..

1. Indoor bowl - southern california..
   youtube link:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4BBh29Vl7g

2. Pro street contest - north carolina
   youtube link:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8oVGEJeWs4

3. craziness - california
   youtube link:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khHTAPr-1P0

getting pretty close to a final draft here..

actual:

framing example:

4. Indoor vert ramp/bowl - new jersey
   i HEART soap skin bubble and really hope it doesn't disappear.

anyway, i'm new around here so this is sort of an introduction... thanks for looking..
jeff

yeah, definitely weird...

i've duplicated this behavior as well...
@unknownuser said:

Or the item will cut but every other instance will also, even if they aren't touched by the plane

one thing i've noticed is that if you delete any instances in front of the section plane (the part of the model not being cut away), the problems will no longer occur.. (with the mantle example, if you delete the instance on the left side of the jpg that you attached then the horizontal 2x2 will cut as expected)...

the computer is still linking the component instances together while you're trying to cut them.. if there's an uncut instance somewhere in the model, then the one you're trying to cut will remain even though you've run the plane through it..

i'm not too worried about it though because my main computer works just fine..
good luck.

i tried it on two macs.. an intel quad and a g4 powerbook.. no problem on the desktop but the laptop shows the same problem.. i'll look into it more in a few hours... don't forget to share your solution if you come up with one..

it's a weird preference because it doesn't really change much.. it's not as if i had all of these files on my computer without their extensions showing.. everything shows .jpg, .txt, .skp, .zip, etc. regardless of my selection on that preference.. it is turned off by default and there was never an instance prior to this that made change it..
the only other file type that i've found to be affected by this is .webloc..

in that example, it'd be cool if i could select where i want to slice (shown by the vertical flat plane) and then select which half i'd like to delete...

being left with this...

@rv1974 said:

(and I beleive other users)?

yeah, i'd like that one a lot..

hi..

all of these things that the mac users are saying are true.. sort of.

i spent the last hour or two trying to get to the bottom of this and i found out a few things.. one of them being a real solution which i'll get to at the end..

one fix is to use firefox and right click the link to the style.. select "save link as..." and type in the name with the extension .style... the package will download and will work as a style in sketchup.. note that by using this method, the icon for the style package will be a blank white paper looking thing...

all of the other download methods i tried (including the same thing as above except via safari) will bring the package in with various forms of cardboard box looking icons... os x is looking at these styles as a known format (zip) although it shouldn't recognize a .style file...

if you simply change the .zip to .style on these boxes, they will not be recognized by sketchup even though they appear to be named correctly and are in the right location..

my ah ha moment came by accident... i already had one 'RMFF_Pencil.zip' package on my desktop which i renamed to 'RMFF_Pencil.style'... i forgot about that one and downloaded it again.. this time, when i tried to change .zip to .style, i received the following warning ---- The name "RMFF_Pencil.style" with extension ".zip" is already taken. Please choose a different name. ----

so, even though i thought i was changing the extension name, it was still being seen as a .zip.. i (and i suspect a lot of mac users) are really renaming the file to RMFF_Pencil.style.zip because of a finder preference that a lof of us have probably chosen.. go to the finder preferences and select 'advanced'.. click show all file extensions and you'll now see what's going on.. you'll see your .style.zip things..

now when you rename the file to .style without the .zip, a warning will appear --- Are you sure you want to change the extension from ".zip" to ".style"? If you make this change, your document may open in a different application. ----

select "use .style" and you're good to go.. (note - the icon will not change to the blank paper however, a double click on it will not automatically expand it.. os x doesn't know what it is now and you're given the -- there's no default app to deal with this thing -- warning.. you have to manually open it in an expander to see those xml files..

that style looks real nice... good night.
jeff

[EDIT] -- re: the icons..

the one on the left is the blank paper looking thing.. this is how the file will look when brought in thru firefox using the method i described above.. the next two are different looking .zip icons (and will vary depending on which browser is being used) ... the fourth one is how the .styles that are installed with sketchup look...
the zipper type (2nd from left) will in fact change to the blank paper once you've correctly named it as a style... the cardboard box will stay the same even after a correct name change... any of them besides the zipper type will work in sketchup as long as the proper extension is used..