Hello all, I've created a 3D warehouse collection of compatible Bloom Unit scenes. I'll be adding to it over the coming days, at the moment there are only three, but if you want to explore a scene with lighting and materials already applied you can try these. http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=886ddd8b1171375c549aea9f300237 Have fun!

I also think it is an interesting topic I am a structural technician and I have been using Sketchup for over ten years but it is not my primary Cad package this is due I think two reasons in the structural field one is the packages that are available like Revit, Advance steel, autocad and Solidworks these engines are design for engineering based drafting and it is hard for Sketchup to compete. Secondly I think it is down to cost, in the engineering Field there is a definite desire for companies to do the bear minimum when I comes to documentation to the point at some places draftsman are regarded as a necessary evil. Although I believe this is defiantly a false economy when you take into account the RFIs from site there is still the perception of increased profit. It is down to the presentation of the documents and this is were sketchup comes into its own especially details were you can easily build up a library details. If you look at the standard of Nick Sonders documents and Dave Zachary on the engineering side. I also do a lot of presentations on buildability issues of a project where sketchup Is a great at live presentations. I think other things you have to take into account are the job size, BIM and at what level, learning curve of staff, saying that I have use sketchup on some massive projects were it handle very large models as good if not better than some of the aforementioned. I should also mention on some of the larger projects I have worked on there is a perception that sketchup is only a free toy 3D package (until I put them straight)

Tried RPS 3d pdf a while ago and it did an alright job. Currently use SimLab whenever it's necessary and it does a great job. I decided to stick with their old version though because the new "automatic camera mode" didn't seem to be turn-offable in the free version of the new one.

this is really great and original, i like it a lot!

I don't think so. I tried to export images from a model with a draped ortho in it two months ago and they still looked horrible. The Windows clipboard did a better job than SU's exporter.

I tried all three methods (raster,vesctor, hybrid) and none worked. As a note: I set the line weight in the styles panel of LO to 0.1 to have thinner lines (the default 1 was too fat). As I mentioned before, the PDF looks OK in Acrobat Reader (all lines are there), so I am pretty sure it is something in Photoshop, or a change in the PDF format that LO exports... I'll try to Google this specific Photoshop issue and see what it brings up.

Just idea Another method can be use SketchyPhysics Not used for a while but you can make articulations between boxes Use last version for have more options here old version 2.1 (of course you can "hide" joints So your board can fall down on your volume from the top (must dig again inside this crazzy plug because all forgotten Launch animation Save / Exit Reload / erase all you want [image: jcV3_skph.jpg] skph.skp

I'm sure some one could 'fathom' it out...

Is this what you were talking about? http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=80%26amp;t=64302

Chris, great to see you exhibiting again, it's been too long. As always your work is awesome and your textures are superb. I understand the sunlight thing, I had a project for a crowd in Perth that did not like my sunlight infiltration, they cited that the building was a refuge from the sun. Only one observation, the shadows on trees outside do not seem to correspond with the sun direction on the window frames.

Hi Guys, I've watched the vids and am now sure it was the app that Coen is familiar with. I also find that the Viewer is an .exe file so would mean hassle for Mac users having to work via Win Mike

@hpw said: One thing I observed on my DWG Imports, is that Sketchup does make a diffence between front and backside of 3D-faces. So are the faces missing or does they look different, because you look on the default-color of a backside? I had to optimize my 3D-Face-Blocks in autocad to look good in SU. Not sure if a revit-export write a proper face-orieatation to the DWG format. That could be a reason. As I am not a Autocad user (I was always happy to use Vectorworks previously), could you point out where I can find the 3D-Face-Blocks optimise command(s) in Autocad? Thanks. And about Revit in general,I think the trouble with it is that the learning curve is just a bit too high. In our office, this results in people being unhappy using it as they need to focus 70% of their time on the tool, instead of being able to focus on the matter at hand, i.e the design. Only a few people in the office know how to edit families properly...all the rest just paddles around with half ass'ed files. Revit is supposed to make the Cad part of the design easier, but it actually makes the whole workflow chaotic and unproductive. I think Autodesk really needs to try to implement more 'direct editing' into the Revit software. More intuitiveness, the thing what is Sketchup's major strength.

Also: http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/sv_home.php A site dedicated to beginners learning how to use 3DS Max, Maya, etc... Lots of free tutorials and training videos. This site got me into 3d modeling, even though they have nothing on SU.

Getting back topic also because in another discussion I got really good tips when looking for a replacement for old Brick'n tiles software. What are nowadays the good softwares for creating seamless tiling textures? For example there some manufacturers providing quite good sample textures for parguet. For example here: https://www.kahrs.com/en/wood-floors/frosted-oat-strip and I would like to try to make seamless textures out of these sample textures. Is the Pixplant still one of the best softwares to create seamless textures or are there some better ones available nowadays? Pixplant is at least reasonably priced alternative. There were some positive comments about Materialize but somehow I have not been able to get it to work when trying with 2 of my computers. https://www.pixplant.com/index.php https://boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize/

Here's a good clip from some of his old stand-up... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tM&feature=related

Sorry to hear that. Do you have a screen shot of an area of your curtain walls so we can share in your pain.

That is a great find and surprisingly there are some advanced tutorials that are on SCF that are posted there as well. Great site. Scott

Here is another easy way to get the image tiles from Street View: http://jamiethompson.co.uk/web/2010/05/15/google-streetview-static-api/ It looks like it only works in UK though as it needs a Postcode, although I may be too dense to see how its done elsewhere.

Second image is quite nice. You can feel all that heat and haze ...and of course she helps a lot. Good stuff Chris.

sketchupjockey - send me the file in a PM, or I can try to talk you through trying to recover the file. LayOut files are zipped so unzip the file and look inside the pages/ directory. How many pagexxx.xml files are there? That's how many pages actually got zipped up in the file? Are you saving to a file server or was all work local? b