Hi All Sketchup Masters,

I’ve been thinking to get an online master’s degree in architectural visualization to combine the sketchup modeling and rendering with virtual reality for example to realize in UE that an animation of building scenes can be experienced by people wearing VR equipment.

Is there any online degree in this field that I could obtain to help in putting my thoughts in practice maybe? I’m grateful for any possible suggestions from any one of you, much appreciated if anyone could help to shine a light please.

Many Thanks,
SJ

Why Flowify wouldn't work on my model of a Voronoi Bridge? I got the three groups and an independent one which is the voronoi skin that's supposed to be projected to my target face but somehow it keeps popping up alerts saying there's hidden geometry in my model that can't be merged with visible geometry. How can I find the hidden geometry as I don't see it on the Outliner...

Thank you for your advice. I should keep my model checked and clean as I go so starting over to do it right not rushing through! Thanks Dave.

The other option is to do the repairs manually... but I guess it's rather easy to re-model than cleaning up the mess... frustrated.

Having the same issues with Nested intances, Short edges and Internal face edges (had quite a few geometry cleaned up last month) though the Cleanup Plug-in by TT just wouldn't work on these detected issues, thought it'd be faster and a lot more efficient to run an auto cleanup. Could anyone help me please? Thanks.

I turned off GI and changed the parameters in GI to be Primary Rays - Irradiance Map and Secondary Rays - None. It worked with one IES for a minute as attached photo but after me putting more IES lights even setting them at different intensity, they all disappear!! How frustrated... Still don't know what went wrong...

Hi All, I've followed all instructions to set up IES lights that I downloaded from the internet, but no matter how big I set the intensity to be, it just wouldn't show on the Frame Buffer...Help please!

Getting a bit overloaded with the render settings for spot light. With cove lighting tubes, it's easy to set up the rectangular lights and select almost all default settings then it appears to be fine but it just doesn't seem to be right with my rendered spot light - same one chosen from Vray lighting (V3.4). It could be the settings that were incorrect:

For example, the Intensity, which unit should I use - the default scalar or the Luminance (lm)? How could I convert 5w LED spot light into lm? Is the Falloff option Linear?

How come it doesn't look normal as it's supposed to be? Why is there a missing section between the spotlight itself which isn't shown on the photo and the shadow? Please help. Thanks.

@d12dozr said:

You can use the Solid tools in Pro to split the model in Sketchup, or probably a simpler method is to download Netfabb where you can create a cutting plane and slice the model instantly.

Netfabb licensing is similar to Sketchup, you download the full version, but it reverts to a free limited (but still very useful for 3D printing!) version that you can use indefinitely. I use it for opening STL files, checking and fixing them for errors, scaling models, and separating models like you need.

Thanks heaps! Downloaded the Netfabb. It's very helpful! Looking forward to my well sliced models...Thanks for your help!

Hi. I'm modeling a house for 3D printing, I've created the floor and walls in different groups so that they can be separatedly printed since my 3D printer is not enough scaled. But my roof is a whole piece, how can I break the roof into pieces to be printed later to enlarge to a satisfactory size? Thanks in advance.

I imported a floor plan for a two-storey house and was drawing lines trying to make faces for push/pull tool to form walls but somehow some lines I drew just were able to make a face! I could use rectangle tool instead but just want to know why...

@box said:

@jsa_sj said:

May I ask how you'd draw the basic geometry in a fast way?

Here's a quick version using linear arrays.
You could manually add the 8 diagonals or use split donut as I have done here.
Then it's up to you how you move the geometry about. You can use Move, Rotate and Scale.
Personally I would use Quad face tools and Vertex tools to manipulate the shape.

I downloaded the Quad face tool and the split tool, just tried them as the photo but I may need to add more triangulates to make the holes look smoother. But I think it'll work to model that building. Very much appreciated.

@box said:

I'd tackle this with SUbD.

May I ask how you'd draw the basic geometry in a fast way?

@sdmitch said:

@jsa_sj said:

I couldn't get it correctly after hitting the 'Triangulated Points' button.

I have some experience using the Voronoi plugin to generate irregular polygons in my FloorGenerator plugin but I don't recall ever seeing a "Triangulated Points" button. As its' name implies, Voronoi_XY is for points on the XY plane only. It requires Delauney3 to do the triangulation.

You're quite right! After posting this yesterday, I thought of one step that I hadn't done, which was click on the view 'top' that'll make all points on XY plane. Thanks for your advice.

@box said:

I'd tackle this with SUbD.

Many Thanks! That looks cool! I'll give that a try.

I just learned to do the voronoi patterns in sketchup using plugins as Voronoi_XY and point tool, when I was trying to draw some points on my imported JPEG of a building that I wanted to model, I couldn't get it correctly after hitting the 'Triangulated Points' button. Where did I go wrong? Or shouldn't I use Voronoi plugin to model this building at all?

Thanks in advance.

@jql said:

If you use a single line as mirror it converts into an axis. What mirror does is that it mirrors the object by rotating it 180º. Therefore one is facing up, the other is facing down.

Do you mean that I could use a point instead so that everything can be mirrored? Including the push/pull actions.

@rich o brien said:

Imagine that you are drawing a mirror and the object is reflected based on the mirror position...

click to play...

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Thanks for your video. I tried lots of clicking on the point, lines that had achieved the mirror function for the curves in my attached photos but when it comes to push/pull, it goes to two different directions that the mirrored object is always on a reversed setting of axis no matter which axis I'm setting to 'mirror' my curves on.

Thanks again for your answer!It looks so much nicer when all the black lines hidden.
Much appreciated!!

In JHS PowerBar plug-in, there's this Mirror button and I'm trying to push up my mirrored component, it's been pushed to the opposite direction, not the same one I expected. How can I fix this? After clicking on mirror, I clicked the two end points and then tried the line on green axis or blue axis then RETURN. None of them works. Appreciated if someone could help.