After a quick test I have the impression the boolean is just a bit too complex for SketchUp. It happens (sometimes) and you have to manually clean it up until its a boolean again. Maybe if you try to split the objects in half and mirror them after the boolean it might work.
To clean it up, I would add a sectionplane (and hide the plane) so you can more easily select interior faces that need to be removed. Just continue until the group 'says' solid again.
@driven said:
why not the lightup player?
Most of my clients don't have powerful / modern computers. If they don't have the proper openGL version, most of the nice effects are gone in the Lightup viewer. That's why I was thinking using a panorama (all the nice effects will be baked into a simple image).
For stand-alone viewing of panorama's I'm testing now http://www.fsoft.it/panorama/FSPViewer.htm
@larv said:
...Sketchup tells me they´re not solid....
To be able to use booleans, they must be solids. So you have some 'leaking' objects, or self-intersecting objects or...
Install ThomThom's Solid Inspector and you will find the problem more easily.
edit: and/or post your Sketchup file and people can have a look at it.
I'm looking for some software to create panorama's (made from LightUp images- can be cubic, panorama, single strip) that my clients can view in a web browser (swf / html5 / whatever). Before I go buy something like http://ggnome.com/pano2vr, anyone has a good suggestion for a program you used recently for this?
@calypsoart said:
...basically Trimble is raising the price of SU $50 for those who have been satisfied and see no need to upgrade every year. Calling it "support" and "enrollment fee" is disingenuous to me. More like a penalty.
By paying $95 a year you continue to be upgraded to the next Sketchup version. A new suit costs $590 so even if you only upgrade every 6 years you still make a profit.
@mk11 said:
... I have a few funky screen issues. .. with Intel Iris 5100, 2560x1440 resolution.
Isn't this sort of the same problem as the people using a retina Mac are facing? The fact the new super duper high resolutions don't translate well into Sketchup's way of handling text / things?!
@utiler said:
Hi guys, each time I open SU 2015, my floating toolbars are not visible.
..Does anyone experience this too? I have a reasonably strong PC [i7 3.2Ghz / 16GB RAM / NVIDA GTX670...]..
It happens with my machine (GTX560ti) sometimes although not regularly and not at the start of every Sketchup Session. Selecting something is what normally fixes it if I remember well.
Turns out there were more resellers in the Netherlands who were having problems. They blame their distributor. After 3 weeks (21 days) I know one reseller that started passing codes. Later that week (25 days) mine came through.
@glro said:
...on my computer...
maybe if you could share some specs about your computer and the kind of sketchup file (statistics) people could help
On a side note: I noticed there are only two aspect ratios available for laptop screens nowadays:
16 : 9 (for instance 1920x1080) and 16 : 10 (for instance 1920x1200). 16:10 almost resembles the golden ratio and gives you more height and less vertical scrolling. Pity it's only used by Apple.
Everybody else has gone for the cheaper 16:9. The argument 'its better for watching movies' is imho not really valid for people who are looking for a (business) laptop. How many people buy laptops for watching movies as the main purpose anyway...
you can achieve this effect by using a 100% transparent png texture with just one single colored pixel in it.
you could also make a group / component with 3 lines spaced at the golden gauge intervals. If you need to divide any other/new surface just move the group/component and scale it to the desired endpoints. The 'middle' line (golden gauge) will be at the correct scaled position.
Maybe share the sketchup file / images of what you already have modeled and elaborate more whats giving you a problem?
For beginners, I recommend watching 'The Sketchup Show' on Youtube. A beginner will learn a lot from these episodes. Start with episode one and work your way through. I think they have more than 70 episodes now.
@mike lucey said:
Have you considered DropBox?
My first idea was to look for an application that I could use both on Mac and Windows to sync with my Synology nas. That one automatically gets synced with a friends nas every night. I rather keep my data only on those two.
Any tips on a good file & folder backup application? For Windows I'm testing PureSync but I prefer a multi-OS application because I intend to use both Windows & Mac.
@dave r said:
I wonder why I don't have any issue on my machine with this.
maybe its due to different gfx cards / gfx card settings / OS versions / ...?
just for testing: have you tried a different pdf-printer like bullzip? Also, the object behind the text wouldn't have opacity applied to it? If so, did you try different opacity settings in the style?
@baz said:
2 days for me, here in Australia, (but, anyway, we now have 30 days before the trial runs out).
Good thing we have a 30 day trial indeed. I'm still waiting...
Edit: last response from my reseller today is:
@unknownuser said:
Trmble hasn't send the new codes to our distributor yet. As soon as they receive them, we will pass them through.
I can't really believe this or is anyone else experiencing this problem?
@Ashscott, any other laptops you're considering? I'm in the same boat so I'm following this thread with much interest.
