@khai said:
ok. something strange. but I'm seeing Skp thumbnails here in my Windows 7 64bit Home.
I've not done anything special I know of...?
You'll see thumbnails when doing file->open, file->Save as... from within SU because SU is using the 32-bit common dialogs. If you're looking in explorer, its 64-bit.
I created a bug-
2368695 Alt...about center...ignores preserve scale setting for SU model
Thanks for reporting the problem.
Open the styles dialog in SU and see if your style is modified.
If the style is modified in SU, it probably won't render that same in LO.
I think 98% of the problems in LO, where "My LO view doesn't match SU's view",
are caused by a "modified active style".
Is there anyway youcan test on a newer version of OSX, not Tiger.
Tiger has caused us endless problems like this. We currently have
a Tiger export PDF problem.
@jsteacy said:
hybrid
This is a bug that you can't do anything about, other than change the
camera slightly like you have been doing. What version are you using?
You can submit a bug and make sure to send in the example that shows
the problem.
@jorgensen said:
hi jhauswirth
I created the scenes inside SU.
Select the model in LayOut and look in the SU dialog's Styles'
tab. Do you see a style called "Modified Active Style" or a
style with (Modified) in front of it?
(probably the one that's selected)
@jorgensen said:
I add a scene in layout.
Jorgensen
Is the Scene created in SketchUp, or do you mean you just inserted a SU model in LO?
Did you select an SU Scene inside LO from the SU Dialog?
I'm curious. Currently when you're doing your documentation/presentations
outside of LO in a different presentation app, is it lots faster?
For example, lets say you have an SU image in the other app and you
change the SU model. Is it faster for you to-
This is what's happening every time you to change the style and view.
Read this thread and see if it helps-
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=22394&p=188966&hilit=layer+order#p188466
@unknownuser said:
Insert it anywhere or somewhere specific?
Where you put it doesn't matter. Just open the file and you'll see
a bunch of other entries that look like the block of text you need to
insert. If you're using an editor that doesn't format the text so that
you see other blocks of settings like the one you need to insert, try
write.exe. Do Windows Key->r to open the run dialog and type in
write.exe and then open preferences.xml in there.
For example it would look like this after you insert-
<t:dicItem key="read_old_file_version_warning">
<t:variant type="1">0</t:variant>
</t:dicItem>
<t:dicItem key="render_ST">
<t:variant type="1">1</t:variant>
</t:dicItem>
<t:dicItem key="su_render_hybrid_warning">
<t:variant type="1">0</t:variant>
</t:dicItem>
I highly suspect the crashes are from multi-threaded rendering that's happening.
In-
C:\Documents and Settings[YOUR_USER_NAME]\Application Data\Google\Google SketchUp 7\LayOut\preferences.xml
you can add-
<t:dicItem key="render_ST">
<t:variant type="1">1</t:variant>
</t:dicItem>
You can open this file up in a text editor.
Make sure the text editor can display the file
formatted so you can see the pattern of entries
that are in the file. Just insert this block of
text into the rest of the settings.
@jessejames said:
Ah my fellow Python "brother in arms" Martin, who agrees with me, but only half way... I'm royally screwed!
But there may be someone at Google that might agree with you.
http://www.python.org/~guido/
Can you attach a sample LO doc for us to look at?
What do you have your Edit Quality set to in-
File->Document Setup...->Paper
If you set it to Low you will have a smaller file size and
it should speed up editing the document.
LO does use a lot of memory because of all the bitmaps
that can be loaded when viewing pages with large/many
SU models inserted.
Look at this topic-
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17415
Can you describe what is slow? Is it the rendering when you
adjust the SU model in LO? Is it just panning around the page?
Exporting to PDF? Printing? Do you have auto-render on or off?
What is your model edit and output resolution set to?
@unknownuser said:
Hi All,
Not sure if this issue has been high lighted here before but have any of you experienced lines and infill colors disappearing when using vector render option in LO. It has happened to me several times to the point where it is getting frustrating
Stan
The HLR (hidden line removal) code is buggy. My only suggestion is to try hybrid. It may give you what you need, unless you need only vector output. I have seen the most problems from models that aren't real-life models- i.e. if you couldn't build the model because you can't have 2 boards that occupy the same space.
I don't have a guess why the lines are missing. Can you post an example
LO doc showing this issue?
As for text matching between LO and SU. SU has a bug in the
Windows version where the text font is scaled by 72/96.
This bug has been there a long time so it was left there
to not break all the existing SU models. So getting text to
match SU is not possible on Windows. I don't want to hack
LO to match SU because then a 12pt font won't match a native LO
12pt font. I suggest playing with the font properties in SU
to see what works best for you. For instance if you want a constant
point size, pick "Size:" in points. But if you print at many different
scales, choose "Size:" in height, so that when you zoom your model
the fonts will zoom with the model.
@avguy said:
I'm also wondering about this. When printing to .pdf is there a way to print as vector file rather thank dots?
You have to select Hybrid or Vector rendering on each SU model. Anything in LO that's
Vector based is also exported as vector to pdf.
One other thing to watch out for. If the selected
Scene has (Modified) in front of it, the resulting
image will not match SU because some render setting
in LO changed causing it to be different than the
Scene in SU.
