Very nice!

Along with the two posts above mine, I’d be interested in seeing some tips on your workflow. Obviously, start with parallel projection for camera view...

Simply incredible! Now I have to resist the urge to play with this instead of working on my clients’ projects today.

@skalp said:

No this will not work with VRay.

The Skalp Team

Sorry to hear that.

Layout and Skalp allowed me to drop the abomination that is AutoCAD.

@juju said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ2tsjwYFYs

Skalp definitely takes SketchUp to the next level in doing construction documents.

A question - the Thea Render integration is great, but will it work with others (VRay)?

@kevsterman said:

Steve, I could kiss you! I've been wanting to be able to see thumbnails of my SU files since I got my mac 4 years ago. Thank you so much for this tip!

+Eleventy! No idea why SU doesn’t bother to support this. I’ve missed it ever since it was dropped.

@jql said:

It's not free. You have to pay it to use commercially or in education (not if you're a teacher though...)

Ok, I’ve been using SU since before Google, so I wasn’t aware of the non-commercial use under Trimble (just read up on that).

@ontaotto said:

I know where your comments go, yeah to me is pricey too what Trimble asks for SketchUp license, obviously is not the same vein in no single order, both programs are quite different.

I don’t know, I do everything I used to do in AutoCAD for about 10% of the price with SketchUp - and SketchUp does offer the free version if you don’t need layout and such features. No complaints here.

No, that was what was confusing me. I had downloaded a model from the 3DWarehouse, but wanted to modify the materials being used. There were enough that I was looking for an easy way to strip them out rather than right clicking on each and every material and editing them individually - hence doing a search and finding fast_tw.

Playing around with fast_tw and other materials, most of the time someone names the JPG the same name as the material they create. In this case the materials were things like “Material001, Material002, Material003…” while the JPGs were named “4IASae2uulg1, NX054xYNCb63, QtIJ9RU2U1Mj…”

To me, it would seem that would make it very difficult to keep things organized during the creation of the materials, but some people seem to just make things more difficult than they need to be.

Ok, I finally went in and made a copy of one of the SKM files, renamed it to .ZIP, opened it, and looked at the files. The JPG file in there has the alphanumeric filename I’m encountering. Doing the same with some other materials gets a filename based on the material name.

So, in this case, the materials I’m trying to work with just have random alphanumeric filenames for the JPGs they originally created the materials from - so that is all that fast_tw is able to extract. It’s a fault of the materials I’m working with and nothing to do with fast_tw.