@bruce watt said:
I am seeing the black line as I move object up and down. When I move a object up or down and it passes over other groups additional copies of the moved object get copies to the groups being passed over. Is this correct? Please see http://youtu.be/bSfunWgQRUI for a better understanding.
Your assumption is not correct. You´re only getting copies because you ´drop´ the group into a component that has several instances. At that point the other components get instantly updated.
Re-installed win7 x64, SU2013 and gfx drivers 314.22. Problem still exists. Updating the driver to 320.18 is no solution either.
I just noticed in SU V8, when moving something in the outliner, a black arrow would indicate your current position in the stack. In SU 2013 that black arrow is gone and you have to take care (the artifacts don't help) not to move something to the wrong position.
sometimes a pdf doesn't contain real vector lines but an image of vector lines instead. Maybe that's why the conversion generates 2 files and you get the error.
If that's the case you can try some image2xdf programs or trace them by hand.
@thomthom said:
Does it happen if you switch of the Aero theme and use basic theme?
Thanks for the suggestions. Disabling Aero and using basic theme doesn't make a difference.
I just installed SU2013 on this machine and at the same time upgraded the Nvidia drivers. I checked and now I have the same problem in SUv8. Must be a driver issue or something because I've never seen it before.
Rolling back to a previous driver 314.22 doesn't fix it. Tempted to just re-install windows and cross-fingers.... if I only had the spare time...
@dave r said:
What if you turn Hardware Acceleration off?
same problem. Strange because on the same machine in SU8 it works fine.
In SU 2013, moving an object down the hierarchy in the outliner leaves a trail while keeping the mouse pressed. Moving an object up the hierarchy doesn't but sometimes displays artifacts. Once released it's gone.
Using a GTX560 TI, drivers up to date, hardware acceleration ON, fast feedback ON.
Anyone else experiencing this problem?
Sketchup is getting better and better thanks to you guys! 
The new automatic glue option made me wonder.. have you considered, besides of using a solid color, creating the possibility of using the backface material (texture) of the faces ?
Like that the front faces of the walls, window frames, slab floors etc (all solids of course) could have a 'visual' texture on the front faces and the backfaces could use their corresponding hatch textures. Especially with the new glue-option it would be amazing if the section would 'automatically' be texture mapped with all the corresponding hatches.
During the design process I manually texture the section cuts (only for the final documents I manually create real line hatches) and the above would be a great time-saver.
Anyway, just a thought.
Greetings!
Max
@cotty said:
It should work. Can you share that model so that we can search for the problem?
Here you go...
I tried using SketchUV to map the trunk of a tree made with the plugin 3dArcStudioTree. I hoped cylindrical mapping would work. Do I have to go the 'roadkill' way or are there any other options to try?
Greetings, Max
@alan fraser said:
Brilliant plugin, Pascal...and very configurable....
Brilliant indeed!
The plugin is also very good at making 'low' polygon count trees. The picture is a tree made of nearly 3k faces and 6k edges (mostly the trunk and 3d branches), the leaf size is maximum with a branch texture applied to it.
my wishlist:
customizable dimension styles in Sketchup: hide extension lines, maybe components for the leader lines/endpoints -> By dimensioning in Sketchup I can be absolutely sure the dimension points are spot on and not snapped to something 'hidden' like if I would add them in Layout. Nobody can afford mistakes like that in the building industry.
enhanced uv tools would be nice: planar mapping / box mapping / cylindrical / fit selected faces / uv unwrap etc. -> I haven't found any workflow with plugins / external programs that fit me (like in the old days in 3dsMax)
performance enhancements. For instance: you always have to close the Outliner before you run some scripts. If you forgot, the execution of those scripts is really slow.
edit:typo
@ppoublan said:
But the lenght of the brenches in fact are varying based on their position on the tree as you are asking for. This is managed by the "tree shape" parameter (pyramidal, spherical, ...) . See the pdf doc for this parameter.
As always, I did not spend enough time reading the manual. I will read it.
I ran into another small issue: I made my own leaf-component and textured both front and backside of the faces. If I run the tree plugin the mapping coordinates of the backfaces of those leafs get messed up.
It's easy to fix by right clicking on a component and reload the original leaf-file but a bit strange.
Still, compliments on the plugin! Having great fun with it the last couple of hours
Hello Pascal,
Just had a go with the plugin. It works really fine already!
My 2 cts:
if I right-click and adjust any part of a tree it also generates new elements for every other part of the tree. I understand changing the branches should also change the position of the leaves but changing the leaves atm also changes the trunk, not really what you want if you're fine tuning a tree
i might be a nice feature if one could control the size / length of the branches (size decrease or increase by x %) depending on the position on the tree (higher up the tree = make branches less long by 50% etc).
ditto for the leaves - for instance smaller leaves near the end of a branch.
edit: 4. adjusting a tree reloads all materials and textures. If you-re fine-tuning a tree and already edited one of your materials you have to do that again and again.
edit: 5. the textures for the bark must be located in the 3d arcstudio directory. The same for the models of the leaves. Many people have all their content on (shared and backupped) network drives. It would be great if one could make a redirection to external folders for the textures and a different one for the leaf-models.
Greetings,
Max
@ppoublan said:
Dear all,
Just to inform you I made a script to create Sketchup 3D Trees. It's now a beta version,
Yours Pascal
Wonderful - I was messing around last week with Tree[d] but this seems much more to my liking. Will surely test it tomorrow. Again a big
edit: typo
@jolran said:
Point taken, I'll continue development then
Absolutely wonderful. Highly appreciated! The process of hatching 2d sections of buildings would take a fraction of time with a plugin like the one you are developing (doing it by hand at the moment). The screenshot http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=38637&start=270#p365946 you released some time ago already made me drool 
greetings, Max
@penguin2 said:
Toolbars for Plugins missing.
Loaded the following from EW:-
'Selection Toys'
'Edge Tools2'
Had the same problem with the selection toys. After downloading the latest version and manually installing the plugin (copy files to plugin directory) it works.
calculation times in LightUp are much higher in SU2013, times 1.5+ 
edit: typo
@jolran said:
Should I continue development further you think ?
Please do. For me as an architect real hatches in SketchUp are way better than those in LayOut:
Doing the hatches in LayOut is a no-go for me because of nr 3) If I would have to make changes I would have to do them on multiple parts in LayOut which would increase the risks of forgetting something / making errors etc.
Greetings
Max
edit: quote-code went wrong
my 2cts after using SketchUp 2013 for a very short time.
likes:
dislikes:
suggestions:
also:
early conclusion:
at the moment I see no reason to switch to SU 2013. I will keep an eye on the forum to see if I have to reconsiderI have to test more to see if updating makes sense.
edit: updated some fixes
@krisidious said:
you need to replace a java file in your installation. more info here.
Thanks, it worked.