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Rich

I tried copying the text of one layer, deleted it, then as you said, Paste-in-place.
I then grouped it with some other text (the screws) and made its layer "DOC"

Then I moved the camera, and all the text moved. 😞 😞 😞 😞

So, not really worth spending a lot of time on. I'll just add a Layer specific to each text block, and show it as needed.

Thanks again.

@tig said:

Lately gmail and its derivatives have blocked most kinds of 'compressed files'...
So RBZ, Layout, SKM files and possibly others can't be attached to emails [e.g. ZIP].
Even if you use another suffix and tell the recipient to rename it receipt, it gets spotted !
The 'header' is read of every attached file.
Perhaps SKP files are now subject to similar draconian measures ??

Use DropBox or something similar...

Well that's weird as I just sent my yahoo account a zipped skp file. Something else must be going on then.

https://i.ibb.co/mDC93Mp/Screenshot-1.jpg

You can read the names of the extensions in the paths after SketchUp/Plugins. This is why you were advised to install the extensions fresh from their sources. If you'd done that there'd be no chasing these loading errors.

You were created a few years before that and you appear to still function.
I don't understand what you want to know. The extension works and is compatible with older and newer versions of sketchup.

HUD is kind of a good analogy. The image can be of a 3D object but of course it will be a 2D representation because it's an image.

@jgb said:

Whenever I draw a line that is just slightly off (by design) the red, green or blue global axis, SU snaps the endpoint just off my mark with the "Constrained by..." message, and won't let me move it. ❓

As mentioned in your other thread where you wanted to change the bounding box and component axes to run along the component's geometry, you can take away the disturbing factor by temporarily redrawing the axes. Then snapping to your target shouldn't be a problem.

If this happens a lot, create a scene with only the "odd" drawing axes saved.

p.s. it is important to know that the use of the scene with its saved axes is not restricted to just one context. Open a (nested) group or component and you'll still be able to use the scene!

Yes, Wo3Dan, you do. And thank you.....

I tried that in the past and most times it works. But you sparked a thought that is a solution.

Within the bounds of the component I draw a grouped cube, and align it as I want the components axis to be. Change Axis of the component to the grouped cube works every time! Then I delete the grouped cube. It can be a bit tedious for a lot of off axis components, but it works better and faster than playing with change axis a dozen times.

The primary reason I need accurate axis alignment is I use Move/rotate and Rotate to orient copies of the component in several positions, where the rotation axis is not quite on the global axis, like changing flap angles on a dihedral swept wing. I also use hidden lines to extend the bounding box so that the main rotation axis is dead on the geo-center of the bounding box.

That way I only need the Move/rotate tool to simply pivot the object; instead of the Rotate tool, having to find the center of rotation and its RGB attitude every time I need to change the components attitude.

Now... if only I can remember to do that instead if instinctively just change Axis!!!!

Yes, load comp, (re)name it, save as. If the filename is there already, then replace.
Just did 85 of the important ones.

Ideally, there should be a choice to either - rename the comp same as filename or rename filename same as comp name.

But this works well if renaming just a few.

Thanks again.

Yeah but....
It won't stay where I want it when I restart SU.

I put all my plugins in a common place and then tell sketchup to look there. For me to go from 7 to 8 to 2013 to 2014 to 2015 to t016 is effortless.

Since I am a plugins author and want my plugins to work with all these versions I want all of this to be seamless.

If you are interested in how this works then PM me.

I figured as much. thanks.

Thank you. I can sleep now.

It will maybe run and display as a 2d window (just like the video player in the hololens demo), just like you could bring SketchUp on a smart watch (using an x86 emulator with Windows XP) or on a Google Glass (using an emulator or remote desktop) with gesture/touch input translated to single point 2d mouse events.

It does not make SketchUp fit to new screen sizes or support new kinds of interactions.

It would be interesting to see if (and in what areas) SketchUp takes the chance to innovate again and take up such technologies early (of course it's safer to let the big guys innovate, and follow the latest possible when mainstream has adopted 64bit, multitouch, hidpi, web-technologies). Also I wouldn't expect it to be the hololens, you know they have been working with Project Tango, and Trimble can make things possible…

As I said, it isn't the installation of SketchUp that required the permissions change. At some point under Win7 you had to change the permissions for the Plugins folder to be able to install files to it. That wasn't the case on XP, though.

It shouldn't take so long to get SU2015 set up the way you want it. it isn't meant to be difficult. It should actually be easier. It would probably go faster, though, if you keep up with the version updates. Maybe I should start offering a SketchUp setup service. I could do it with remote access. 😄

SketchUp can pick up shortcuts automatically although I haven't tried that with such a big version jump.

I finally found a texture solution (95% ok) to depicting gear teeth visually, but not in tooth detail. Which is all I need for this model. It is not perfect, especially for bevel gears, but can be made to look reasonable.

This does not mean I don't want to know why the crashes happened, but I'm posting a trial ring with the texture applied, in case anyone needs to depict gears.

This way I can show gears with a bare minimum of lines drawn, and maintain solidity.

As an added bonus, I can make them straight gears or (in this case) helical bevel gears by simply rotating the texture in situ. TIG's "TextureRotate.rb" 👍 👍

Select the material "Gear Teeth" and edit it. By adjusting the aspect ratio you can adjust the gear tooth pitch. Best to break the aspect ratio link to do that.

Visual (Non 3D) depiction of gears by texture.

The T100 was primarily for my wife so she doesn't hog my PC. Putting SU on it was for when we travel and then I can keep my brain and fingers active.

Can't do SU on my Blackberry phone.

As for the T100 small screen, well, my PC is a dual screen (24in primary, 19in secondary).
I keep most dialogs (materials, components and layers) active on #2 and only toolbars and Entity Info on #1. That gives me a huge work area.

Dual screens also allow me to keep an Excel spreadsheet open on #2 when I am doing calculations and other stuff. Sorta gotten used to that so a postcard screen was a shock. I knew it would be small, but did not expect that to be so intrusive on using SU effectively, till I tried it.

I also have a USB 4 port hub attached to the single USB3 port on the T100. To that hub I attach a tiny USB mouse and my USB Thumbdrive for PC <-> T100 files transfer.

The T100 also has a micro HDMI port, which I have yet to try.

Mac1

Interesting read. I too do not buy canned computers, but put the components together myself. That way I get the performance and upgrade path to my liking, not some generalized box. HP, while they make very good computers allow very little non-HP upgrades. Dell is similar.

You said your ISP charges extra for WIFI. 😮 Cut that cord!!! Get a simple cheaper non-WIFI modem from them.
Then buy a WIFI Router and install it between the PC and Modem. That also gives you 4 LAN connections, or 3 free for other devices. Try to get a good high power router, especially if you have a large house or multi story house.

Set it up on WPA and register every WIFI device (friends and relatives too) that will connect to it. You just need to define the devices MAC address to the router, and the password to the device. That way they automatically log in when booted or come in range.

Nobody else can get in, even if they know the password. ISP WIFI Modems usually just need a password, their password, and the modem ID.

I have a Cisco router. You can access the Administrator page from any registered device, or the PC with just its static IP Addr, Admin name and password.
It also has a Guest access for ad-hoc access with a separate Password.