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[quote="plot-paris"]Ken, I hope you are aware of the fact, that you can only import images with maximum resolution of 1024 px. anything above that will be scaled down by SU, although the full file size will be added to the SU-file.
And that is my problem. I import the image close to 1024, however, when you scale uthe up to size, you get large pixels. That is my wish, since PDF is vector, that it would import into Sketchup and scale up without the large pixels.
Thanks for your input.
Ken
@gaieus said:
What print driver are you using? I have PDFCreator and it can print in a series of image formats and I don't have any problem with the quality generally.
Gaieus
Well I haven't used the program for sometime because of the print quality. However, now that I look it is not part of my printer selection list. So somewher, I have deleted the small program in my many attempts to keep Windows working. The program would take any file, and print the file out as an image files, JPG, BMP, or TTF. However, like I said, by the time I scaled the image in Sketchup the image had a lot of destortion.
I have PDF Creator, and can not find any print to file selections.
Gaieus, thanks for the response, I will be looking again to make sure I haven't missed any print out selections.
Again Thanks
Ken
@gaieus said:
Ken, can you not convert your pdf files to other image format?
I have a program that I use to convert some PDF to DFX files. However there are some PDF that won't convert to DFX files. So I have another program, a print driver that will print to a jpg file. However, when I print to a jpg file, in import to Sketchup, the drawing is very fuzzy.
I am just wishing. As I get most of my info from PDF files of old structures.
Thanks
My wish. I would like to be able to import a PDF document into Sketchup like I can a jpg and scale the imported doc. This way, I could import a PDF that I can not convert to a DFX file, and draw over the lines to make a Sketchup drawing.
29 years in the Senate, and this is his answer.
"Here is Biden's answer, in full:
Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that.
And the primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and as vice president, to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there's a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit.
The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. The idea he's part of the Legislative Branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive and look where it has gotten us. It has been very dangerous.
For a man of Biden's experience, this is a surprising series of misstatements. First of all, he gets wrong one of the most basic facts about the Constitution: Article 1 establishes the legislative branch, not, as Biden said, the executive branch. This is not exactly an obscure fact; my 17-year-old daughter pointed it out at the time.
Second, it simply isn't true that the Constitution treats the Vice President only as a member of the executive branch. The Vice President is mentioned in Article II as part of the executive branch, but he is also given legislative powers by Section 3 of Article 1, which establishes the Senate:
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
Vice President Cheney's "bizarre notion" is in keeping with the plain text of the Constitution.
Finally, Biden misstated the Vice President's role in the Senate. It isn't true that he "preside[s] over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there's a tie vote." The Constitution contemplates that the Vice President will be the full-time President of the Senate, replaced by a President pro tempore "in the absence of the Vice President." It's true that the Vice President only gets to vote in case of a tie; but, of course, that's the only time it matters.
If Joe Biden were a high school student taking a test on the Constitution in a government course, he would get a C or a D. Some would say his mistakes were minor, and, as I said, they certainly won't swing any votes. But it is distinctly odd that a man who has been in the Senate for more than three decades doesn't understand the Constitutional role of the Vice President with respect to that body."
Note, copied from another blog. Just found it interesting.
Onto another subject $850,000,000,000, and taxes will not have to be raised. For me, I want all of them out. Hope the Congress get the gonads to vote no again.
I am ducking and weaving now.
Ken
I use TurboCAD 15 Delux, around $140. It will import Sketchup files, and open any ACAD file.
Ken
TIG
Thanks for the quick reply. Not sure where I got the script that is modified. I know I am not capable of modifying the script.
I tried you new code, and still have the same results.
Thanks for your help.
Ken
I have two computers. A laptop with XP Pro, and desktop with Vista. On the laptop when using, “PipeAlongPath.rb”, the context menu works. However, on the Vista machine the context menu does not work.
This is a very usefull script for me, and I wish to express my gratitude to TIG for writing this script. I believe that TIG modified the script for the context menu, however right now I can not find any reference. The context menu is a real time saver for me, so I would like it to work on both machines.
Thanks in advance for any help and expressly to TIG for the script.
Ken
if( not file_loaded?("PipeAlongPath.rb") )###
###if( not file_loaded?("28-PipeAlongPath.rb") )###
UI.menu("Plugins").add_separator###
UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("Pipe Along Path") { pipe_along_path }###
###$submenu2.add_item("Pipe Along Path") { pipe_along_path }###
UI.add_context_menu_handler{|menu|menu.add_separator;menu.add_item("Pipe Along Path"){Sketchup.active_model.select_tool pipe_along_path.new}}
end
midlana42
I first draw all my center lines, adding all the lines to a layer called CL. Then I make each line a pipe with 0” ID using “PipeAlongPath”. Then I add all the piping groups to a layer that make sense in my work, “100’Elevation”, “A Row”. To you maybe a layer called “cockpit” or “engine” would make more sense.
After getting all my center lines turned into the proper tubing, I then copy the whole model and paste next to the original. This new model is the model I make all the intersect with model operations. I have found more than once I needed to move or modify a pipe or centerline it is a lot easier to start with member/tubing that has not had the intersect with model operation.
To remove the unused portion, I usually copy the pipe/tube and then remove the unused portion, than after getting the results I want, I then replace the old pipe/tube with this copy. I do this because sometimes intersect with model does not make a complete cut line. Not sure why, but if I make a copy, and work away from the model, it is a lot easier to see the problem.
After getting everything to my liking, I then lock the original group, move to a safe location and hide. From then on I work on the copy.
If your are working on small tubing, 1” to 4” it may be a benefit to work on a model that is scaled 10x larger, and reduce at the end by scaling to .1x to get back to the correct scale.
I saw the unfold script movie, which is a very good video on how to make templates for coped or rolling offset pipe templates.
Ken
I use SketchUp to make pipe cutting template for welders when they need to make coping cuts to match pipe angles.
In the example, I show how you use intersect with model to get the cut lines, than you remove the excess. Now, the fun part, using the unfold tool, you can layout the pipe flat. Now if you turn on show hidden lines, you will get a line at each of the circle’s segments.
Not sure, but I believe with small tubbing, you may be able to print this out in scale and just using scissors, cut out the template and warp around the tubing to mark the tubing where and how to cut.
Most of my work is with piping from 4” to 50”. So my templates are big, so I just use the measurements.
Hope this helps.
Ok, I spent a good part of yesterday, adding to my rigging components, alignment lines and faces, with a layer called Align-Hide. And I could save and re-open each and every modified file.
Now, this morning, there is only one trace of each modified file, that is a shortcut in my user file under Ken, AppData, Roaming, Google. And that shortcut can’t find the missing files. Even SketchUp does not have the files listed under recent files used. I mean, they just disappeared. Not even in the recycle bin.
So what happen? I have admin rights. Boy do I miss XP.
Thanks
Ken
I believe I just didn't understand how layers were working with components. I have now done more testing and I think I understand how and when layer will stay and leave. So, I guess it was me, just not understanding.
So now I have been adding alignment lines and faces to my rigging components. Most of my rigging components are organic like in construction, no flat faces or easly obtained alignment references. So now I am adding these faces and lines and making them all active with my Align-Hide layer.
So thanks to everyone, I now know how to make the alignment faces and lines stay in compontents and still be on their asigned layer.
Thanks
Ken
Well, I guess that is a yes and no. If I save the model in the component directory, and insert the component from there the layer is retained. However, if I delete the component from the active drawing and the layer, and then insert from components in model, than the layer info is not retained, and I have to make the layer and reset all the components parts to that layer.
So I see my problem and the work around. But still I wonder why the component looses the layer info in the model?
Thanks for the help.
Hope this is the right forum.
My wish is to have components retain layer information. So when I insert components, and I have a layer called Align-Hide, it will show up in the layer menu. And when I turn off the Align-Hide layer, all the components with that layer that have parts with that layer's name will have the parts turned off.
This way, I can have alignment guides, with each component, and as I insert the component, the layer also is inserted, and when I turn the alignment layer off, all the parts in all the components will be turn off.
Or I could have two versions in the same component in the component, simple and complex. Use the simple parts to display while doing other modeling, and have the complex displayed at the end of modeling. Should help in modeling large complex drawings.
Ken
Ken
Question
There is script to draw construction lines. And these line are not visible when show guides is turned off. So is it possible to make a construction face, such that when the show guides is turn off, the face becomes invisible?
Thanks for your time
Ken
I forgot to mention that I did manage to change the Calc program to open up Wordpad.exe. I have forgotten who wrote the calc program to give thanks to. So if you wrote the Calc program, I certainly hope you don’t mind the change, and a big thanks.
I take no credit for the below code, I copied and changed the code to open Wordpad. This is how I now enter notes for each version of a model I am working on.
Some time ago I also requested some help in making a version tracker, note file. I tried to modify the “plugins_help_TIG.rb”, by TIG, however, I never could get the program to open Wordpad with the file name. Wish you luck.
Below my previous request.
“Hello
Would like to requests a script to open up either WordPad or Notepad while in SketchUp. I would like the script to creat a directory in the SketchUp program directory called “NOTES” and in this directory have creat three directories, called “GENERAL”, “CHANGES-MODS” and “VERSION TRACKER” if these directories are not present. I envision that all my projects Notes would be in these directories. This way it would make it easier for me to copy the notes for a project; I wouldn’t have to remember which directory the project has been stored into. On the road, I use different computers, so my projects and not always in the same directory.
After opening the script, I envision a choice of going to the, General, Change-Mods or Version Tracker to look up the notes and info for the open project.
I have an unbelievable amount of small paper notes, with all kinds of info for the project and it seems I never get all the information taken with me as I travel. So if I had one place to copy the Notes for a project I could keep up on the information overload I seem to be in during work.
I got this idea from using the scrip “plugins_help_TIG.rb”, by TIG. TIG thanks for this and all the other scripts you have written.
Thanks in advance. Hope I haven't offended anyone by making this request.
Ken”
I don’t go to the corner bar because of the political BS , truthers and the free energy speeches/conversations; could we please keep the political BS out of the rest of the forum? Or maybe not, since I am breaking the request myself.
@igor said:
and since when is our moronic president a sketchup user? does he use it to design weapons to obliteraite what tiny scraps are left of the iraqi government? or to make plans to tottaly screw over the entire economy and education system?
hopefuly, this is only your user name, and you are not the loony that is our president.
i, however, have no idea how to help you with your converter problem. ask Solo.
I believe I have that problem right now. I installed a script and it had a problem, Followthis 1.rb. Some files missing or not accessible. So I erased the script. I'll be darn, erasing doesn't do the trick. SketchUp is still loading the script, with the same errors, and now I can't seem to find the script, although SketchUp can find it.
Ken
@cphillips said:
I dont know if this your problem or not. But I have had problems with Vistas Virtual Store messing with plugins.
Look at this post for details:
Bottom line is you should delete all the files (if any) in Sketchups Virtual Store location.
I am having the same trouble. If I copy a Ruby Scrip to the SketchUp Plugins folder, SketchUp will not see the program, it gives you the impression that the file has been copied, but when I look I can not find the file. I am thinking it has to do with me trying to copy something into the program folder and my “admin rights”
My work around is to copy the scrip to another drive/temp folder than copy to the Plugin folder, answering the “darn” questions that keep popping up.
No time at the present to explore what is going on.
@daiku said:
I recently upgraded my hardware, and at the same time upgraded(?) to 64-bit vista. I get strange behavior with SU ruby scripts. When I copy or edit scripts in the proper location, sketchup sometimes won't see them. Similarly, when I set new shortcuts keys, they work for the current session, but not the next time I run SU. I'm sure this is part of the new security regime for Vista, but there has to be a fix. Is no one else having this problem? CB.