Posts made by jpalm32

Nice work!
I like the first best!

Great work as usual.
Weird car!
Visiblity seems really bad.
It seems to me if they reversed the front and back,
they would have had a real breakthrough aero-dynamically

@majid said:

Thank you for fast and accurate answers
have anybody experienced Autocad free style?
seems is more intuitive comparing to KitchenDraw atleast ... (I'ven't tried 20/20).. . but liked AFS very much

AutoCAD Freestyle software is no longer available for purchase

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Freestyle/AutoCAD-Freestyle-no-longer-available-for-purchase/td-p/2901526

A Complaint Is a Gift: Recovering Customer Loyalty When Things Go Wrong

Great book. Anyone in contact with clients should read it!

@thomthom said:

@valerostudio said:

I am shocked that Trimble has not chimed in at all yet.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=52625&view=unread#p477730

More like a "Ding" then a "Chime"

Great work. Great room.
Any other views?

My final input.
What's keeping people with SU is that there is no real competition.
AutoDesSys, Inc. has all the tools but they are not interested.
One good year of aggresive pricing and they would capture a bigger market share.
They haven't updated their newsletter since 2009.
Blog user bitch about it not being 64 bit (Bonzai3D). Sound familiar?
No layout type add-on. Limited Render choices.
Some changes, a few updates & SU price increase, they would win big (IMO).
Also, all the time the talented people here that dedicated all that time & effort to Ruby would find it hard to leave it.

Rearly clear & crisp.
Would prefer the camera back-off a bit.
Sky real nice.

[quote="jason_maranto"]

"The public perception is "Hey Trimble is giving away all this free stuff so the cost of Pro isn't so bad". Just look at the Extension Warehouse with a clear eye -- does it say clearly anywhere that the plugins are not made by Trimble? I can't find that without looking very deep into the website . A user who is not experienced with such things is not going to have a clear understanding that Trimble is not financing these in some way. The implied impression is one that heavily benefits Trimble and the SketchUp team -- whereas the reality is that SketchUcation has done more to support these developers over the years than SketchUp itself has... however we see no mention of that anywhere."

I was amazed at this! They didn't even mention the names.
They have search by name but who's going to do that.
If you know the name, you probably found it here.

Dan,
I noticed happy satisfied people are invading this section.
Instruct them they are off topic please.
Off with their heads.

The brick & stone work really good!

@unknownuser said:

@bob-designer said:

Who should pay to fix basic Shetchup, we should.

• fix the printing.. (and not 'well, use layout for that'.. why?).. the sketchup printing setup is flawed.. bottom line. (for instance, it ignores wether or not a specified printer/paper has borders when doing it's scaling calculations.. it treats everything as if it's a borderless print but then you go to print and it spills out onto multiple sheets even though the sizing/scale are correct for a single page--- amongst a few other things.. too long to list at this point)

OMG! I got slammed for mentioning this by some cult leaders awhile back.
Printing truly sucks in SU. It's like a leap back 30 years.

@thomthom said:

I was working on a plugin that would detect geometric similarities between groups/components and make them use the same definition. Unfortunately I've not gotten around to completing it.

Do you ever sleep??

@box said:

To be honest, that was my answer when I read your post before anyone had replied, but I thought it was too simple and I must have been reading your question wrong so I didn't suggest it.

I use this all the time. I draw a lot of things with many highly detailed components so I "construct" the drawing using simple versions of each. This way nothing slows down because of too much geometry etc, then when I'm ready I just replace the relevant ones. You do know you can "select instances" in the component browser and replace them all in a click. Also if they are all over the place with different names and hard to manually select you can select them via the outliner window then replace them from the component browser. Or if they are all on a separate layer..........I think you get my drift

The more I learn, the more I forget. I guess it's age.
Strange, I can go back to AutoCad, after a while and little by little everything starts coming back.
It seems I never retain much of the some rarely used features for long in SU.
It's always Duh! Duh!

@box said:

Simply select all the ones you want to replace, then in the component browser right click on the one you want to replace them with and select, Replace selected.

If it's that simple I'm going to bang my head on my keyboard.!
I've replaced components before like this.
Going to give it a try.

Bang! Bang! Can't believe I was that stupid.
I can't believe I deleted and copied them all.
There were so many, I guess I went blank.
I was used to replacing one type of component for another (one for one)
Never thought to replace one for many.
Thanks for the help.

@mitcorb said:

Hi, John:
I saw your reply. I could not find anything in the [Plugins]Repository here. I thought TIG had done something along those lines. Seems that a script could be done to reassign a name to make each an instance of the main component.

Thanks for the try.

@mitcorb said:

Do you You imply they are all identical? Or do you mean make all of those components members of one component without converting--as in nested components/groups?

It seems that there is a script for the first question, but I do not have it at hand. As for the second possibility, would that be a matter of selecting all of those pilings, CtrlX, open prime component, Edit>Paste in Place? They are then contained in the "master component".

I may go looking for the name of the first possibility, if it exists.

I mean to convert a bunch of components into instances of one chosen component?

@cadfather said:

Pascal, works fine here - and the trees look great - if you run Thom's 'Cleanup', you can further save yourself 40000 to 60000 polygons. outrageous plugin, this is going to be perfect when 2014 64bit comes out.

this is going to be perfect when 2014 64bit comes out.

I'm going to try to explain.
I imported some largre 3DS or OBJ files.
One had 35 identical light fixtures but all separate components. (all axes identical also)
Another had 100 identical Pier pilings all separate componets.
Is there a way to pick one as a "Master", choose all others and make one component out 1t?
Now I choose one, mark a location on the others with line, delete them..and copy the chosen one to all the locations.

Just asking, seems very complex to do but would reduce work/rendering times.

I can't for the life me figure this out.
I tried bringing file into VUE and other programs and they are small in comparison to SU.
I can see maybe 20% but double.. trible and more.
I'm not qualified uderstand why.
Also, why does take 10X or 100 x longer to convert?