You are right - and I shall indeed more than likely have to bite the bullet. The other consideration is that I can apply it to my income tax as per my CPA. I am nowhere near an expert in SU - far from it, but am able to do what needs to be done to get my renders looking as I want them. My work is in special events, so not everything requires SU or a render. A lot of my work is involved in preparing vector artwork and if I'm lucky actually getting to design something for printing like a fabric mural for an event. But... SU is important in reeling in the client, so bullet biting it will be. Have a super weekend. Cheers!
Posts made by KathrynG
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RE: SketchUp Failed to Save File
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RE: SketchUp Failed to Save File
The thing is Dave, it's a little more complicated than that. I only work part time, and more like party time. I can go months without doing anything in the event off-season which is historically the summer, and then anything I do is definitely just hobby stuff. It would not be fair to ask my employer (who happens to be my nephew) to pay for SU as he already does way too much for me as it is. My working season is really only from September to maybe February if I am lucky. The rest of the time it's "rake and scrape".
I totally understand that SU is a business, not a charitable organisation. I really do get that, and we all have to live and pay our bills, but we can each only do what we can do. Maybe I can ask for donations for Mother's Day or something and put those in the SU piggy bank. Would be nice too if they had a true subscription service like Photoshop or Illustrator, actually Adobe, which takes the sting out. Although I hate owing money, so I should not talk as I pay both of those in full for the year. Such a contradiction I am. Trust me - don't know how I am going to survive with SU.
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RE: SketchUp Failed to Save File
The saving manually is fine, so I don't know why I am getting that message and again - just started happening yesterday and there is a message - the one I wrote in the subject that says - "Unable to save file", but again, if I hit cmd/s it saves, so it has to be the autosave and of which there are none.
However, this all becomes moot, as my piggy bank will not allow me to purchase Pro, at least not now, and certainly not with that price as a yearly license and sub fee, so I guess SU and I will have to part ways for the time being. I'll miss the little darling, but c'est la vie. Thanks for all of your help over the years Dave. It's been a pleasure.
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SketchUp Failed to Save File
Not sure what's going on here. Googled it and found several people with the same problem but no definite solution that I could see. Hoping for better luck here. Since yesterday I am getting this message (subject of post) while working with SU. I can manually save the files, and therefore my guess is that what it is not saving is the auto-save file?
I am using SketchUp Make - Version 17.2.2. I plan on staying here as I don't want to have to use Make as a web-based application. I prefer to have it installed as I do now. As I understand it you can't use any plug-ins or ruby scripts with SU Make on the web-based app and that just won't work for me, and sure can't afford the price of pro - not now at any rate.
Thank you.
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RE: GRID TOOL ISSUE
@pilou said:
Else Work Plane by TIG
Thank you for responding. Fortunately my problem was only that I had "view guides" unchecked.
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RE: GRID TOOL ISSUE
@box said:
It should work, make sure you have View Guides turned on.
How right you are! Silly me. I had turned them off while working and needing to take a screen shot of the model without the guides and did not turn them back on. Thank you ever so much. Feel a wee bit like some sort of ninny now, but again thank you. The help I get on this forum is quite wonderful.
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GRID TOOL ISSUE
Installed the SU Grid Tool from the Extension Warehouse this evening, but it does not seem to be working? No messages about it not being compatible etc., so I followed the directions and nothing doing. Am I missing something? And if that is a bust, is there another grid tool ruby that anyone can suggest please?
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RE: Using Soap Bubble with a texture
Will do - right now the boss has me working on this and waiting on some changes so will send honeycomb as soon as I am finished. Thank you
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RE: Using Soap Bubble with a texture
Thank you for responding. This is what I am aiming for.
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Using Soap Bubble with a texture
Not exactly a "newbie" but not a pro either, so best place to post a question - here. I would like to know please, why does soap bubble not seem to work with a texture? What am I doing wrong? I have been trying to get these honeycomb textures to bubble outward. No luck. Thank you in advance.
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RE: Can and how can this be done?
The first effort that I actually attached to one of my responses was done with the follow me tool, and I usually add materials by using my own samples and swatches. I work in Special Events and so more often than not have to add the actual material being used to the render not just something close. The clients can be very literal, and expect that what they see is what they get - to the t.
This was a challenge for sure, and I will keep on trying time permitting with various methods until I can come up with something acceptable. The decor for every event seems to become more of a head scratcher and I am not the best SU user. I don't work exclusively in SketchUp so trying to keep up with "continuing education" in the various programmes that I use just never seems to leave enough time to focus on just one.
Have a lovely weekend.
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RE: Can and how can this be done?
Well I see that the challenge was on!! LOL - Thank you both so much. Of course my skills are nowhere of your calibre, I would call myself an intermediate user maybe? No category for that on the forum so I stick with newbie.
Ironically - hmmm..... I received an email shortly after posting this question from Sketchucation re the discount for June for Artisan. I have downloaded the trial and will see if I am up understanding how to use it. A mad dash to YouTube for tuts.
For years I looked for a live class on SketchUp but every time I signed up for one at the Miami Dade college right next door - practically over the fence to the car park, they would cancel it for lack of interest, so YouTube it is! And the help of all the wonderful members of the Sketchucation forum.
Thank you
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RE: Can and how can this be done?
Thanks - will try. Started messing around on my own, but it's not easy, or at least not for me.
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Can and how can this be done?
Just curious and anxious obviously to learn, but this was a head scratcher yesterday? Is it possible to create this shape in SU? I tried the follow me tool, did not work, so had to just end up by compositing the shape after rendering, in Photoshop. Not ideal.
Thanks
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Splitting a sphere
Short question please. How to I select the individual squares in this dome, or in a sphere so that I can delete those that I do not want? Not having much luck.
Thank you
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Help with a cone shape please
Hoping for but not really expecting a solution to this STAT. Not being a solid object so to speak, is there any way or how do I pull up the centre of the circle so that the shape forms somewhat slightly more of a cone? Attached is the final result, but I need to make the lower ring just a little more of a cone rather than be that flat, it that makes any sense?
I can easily do this with a solid object but scratching my head here for a workaround - please and thank you.
And just in case anyone was wondering... all three apps used in this - SketchUp, Illustrator and Photoshop.
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Add icon for Sketchup -MAC
I am currently using v16.0.1. One of my extensions is "Add Icon" which allows me to add a picture of the contents of my file instead of just the generic SU logo to my models.
This feature is paramount for me, as I cannot spend forever searching through .skp file icons to find the exact file that I want. Can anyone please tell me if they also use this extension if it works with the latest version of SketchUp?
I would rather stick with the version that I have if it does not work anymore, it is that important to me.
Thank you.
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Texture > position
Hi,
Please can someone tell me why when I use the Texture > Position option I can scale height, but not width? Has to be something I am doing wrong as it makes no sense why one and not the other. Would save me a lot of time having to redo my textures over and over to get it right.Thank you.
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RE: Problems with extensions.
Thank you pbacot. I installed Libfredo6. I believe that is the most recent version, or at least what I saw when trying to diagnose the problem on my own?
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Problems with extensions.
Hi,
OSX El Capitan - 10.11.6
I currently have the following extensions installed, all directly from the Extension Warehouse, all but one showing enabled in "My Extensions" but I cannot find any of them on SU under Tools or Extensions. Would someone please explain to me why and where do I find them?Thank you.
PS - Onion dome was there before I upgraded to 2016 and now no more.
- Libfredo6 - (Required as per the literature for some of the others) Curviloft already installed and showing up under Extensions._
- Onion Dome
- Path Copy
- Rotate 90
- FredoScale - showing as uninstalled, but selecting open appears to do nothing.