re: seat limit and licenses

God day, I am The LEGO companies Sketchup admin and wonder would like to include the latest Fredocorner release to our plugin collection.

The company scripts a SU package with plugins included, Sketchucation should not be part of the basic package as most users won't use the Sketchucation plugins and it adds a level of complexity. Some users might use FredoCorner, most not. (maybe 5 -15 users)

I wonder how to best approach the licensing issue as it will be hard administer individual seats / usage. Would that mean I need to install the SUcation plugin and seat license for the users that actually need Fredo corner? I'm also worried about budget for individual seats run up compared to the SU budget. They might ask me to find an alternative if the setup is too complex/time consuming.

Will there be something like a studio license so I can avoid individual seats or floating licenses?

Feel free to PM me, looking forward to hearing from you

Hi all,

We use specific work flow in e.g. fixture design where use an existing component as base for a new one > make unique, change it, rename the component definition in the Entity Info > save as new component. SketchUp suggests the filename of the original component NOT the current new definition name (even after renaming it as described) has led to a couple of mistakes overwriting the old files in our database.

Discussed this issue in the beta tester board but apparently there is a good reason why definition names and file names don't match. I didn't think make unique- change - save as is such an uncommon workflow but what do I know. I thought it was a bug.

They suggest a plugin could match it - is there anything out there? Otherwise we have to copy paste the name manually every time...

Thanks!

Only works for SU 2017. Is there an update in scope or do you know of a similar plugin to drop stuff at random in a basket for example? Really hope for a 2019 update - such an awesome plugin.

Jackpot! Takes a while to process but does exactly what I require it to do. Great help, appreciated.

Thanks, good but which I am trying out atm. The geometry might be too complex though. Can something be done with selection tools only edges in all nested groups or so?

Is there any smart plugin that hides all edges (not faces) in several components at the same time? I have rather large model made og subgroups with lots of lines. I used to hide in wireframe manually but isn't there a smarter way? There is always on in S

Aparently it's a bug and I'm to use inches only..

Hi,

I'd like to create a component that can't be streched more than 240cm but when I resize jumps to weird sizes instead of just not scaling over 240cm width.

LenX =SMALLEST(CURRENT("LenX"),240)

I followed the formula from Sketchup the chapters straight from SketchUp.

https://help.sketchup.com/en/sketchup/creating-dynamic-component-snaps-specific-size

What's going on? Thanks guys!

scale max 240cm.skp

Thanks Alan - that's exaclty the process I am going through. Just painful to check each texture individually.

Will checkout Goldielocks. Thank you guys!

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a plugin that lets you analyze what a Skp. file is made of and what takes up file size. E.g. I have taken over a huge .skp file and want to check if it's large because the textures were saved in high res without compression.

window > model > statistics let's you only see how many textures/ polygons etc are but not the size.

In a perfect world, I'd find a plugin that reduces all textures to max 1024 pixels and compresses them...

Thanks guys!