@snowy said:

well im learning DC myself atm, but if im correct u need place the colors straight into ur DC.
Like the DC car below they solve it with hidden balls, but u can also make some small squares and give those the textures u want.
Place them into ur component on a place where it's out of sight. (like really small squares 1x1 mm)

like i told im learning it myself so might forget some important info but hope this will help.

Thanks, will try that

Hello,

I'm trying to make a component where I can change the color of it by picking a color in a list. It works when I build it (when I have added the colors to the model), but when I have saved it and then imports the component in to another model the colors aren't attached. The component just gets white.

How do I attache the colors to the dynamic component?

Thanks in advance!

/Marcus

@unknownuser said:

What is the number of points accepted by the file inside Sketchup ?

Hm, I don't know the number...

The problem is that we want to snap to point in the cloud, or even better surfaces, and I didn't manage to do that in Pointtools during the evaluation period. In the tutorial videos it looks like they are building approximate models. We want to be more accurate.

The manual says that it is possible to snap to point with the line snap tool included in the Plugin but for me it didn't work at all.

Somebody with experience?

Thanks.

/Marcus

Hello,

I'm searching for a plugin that manages point clouds in SketchUp. I want to use the cloud to model an industrial building.
Tried Pointtools plugin for SketchUp but i thought it worked poorly. And now the trial time is over so I can't continue testing.

I think I will get the point clouds in .fls format. Pointtools POD creator converts the fls-files to .POD and then the .POD file can be imported to SketchUp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G82hzpOORvY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.pointools.com/

Thanks in advance!

/Marcus

Thanks to all of you!

We are an automation company and we use models of robots and other equipment to make 3D layouts of our concepts. So the quality doesn't need to be that good.

Here is the whole robot in this case:

The mirror method was clever. Rich O'Brien, thanks for your work. Can you tell me your method?

TiG, yes that's probably the most efficient way the make the model lighter. This part became 29 MB, but the other parts of the robot have a size of 300 kb - 2 mb.

Thanks again, now I know how I need to handle this.

/Marcus

@thomthom said:

No model is attached. 29MB is too big for the forum. Can you upload to a third party hosting? Maybe a screenshot in the post as well?

Sorry, fixed [attachment] now!

Hi!

I have for a long time searched for a way to simplify models. I have tried some poly reduce plugins but SketchUp just hangs.
I have tried to export as collada, used mesh lab to reduce polygons but with poor results.

We often convert CAD files to skp and sometimes the geometry is very complex.

Is there anyone who has a good method for reducing polygons and make the models lighter?

Below is a download link to the model I have problems with right now. It is a part to a robot.
I would like to reduce the size from 29 to 7-8 MB.

http://www.speedyshare.com/file/D8tRB/IRB760-450-318-Link3a-CAD-00-v2.zip

Thanks in advance!

/Marcus

Hi!

I am wondering if there is some way to ignore attributes.

For example, I have a component that has a Position Z attribute which always places the component at Z=0. This is what I want 95% of the time, but sometimes I want to place it on another height.

Is there some function that I can use for this? I thought that in the component options I choose whether I want the object to be placed at floor level or optional level.

Thanks in advance.

@anssi said:

I think that your problem is that your subcomponents are trying to reference parameters from their siblings. I understand that parameters can be passed only between grandparent, parent and child. In this case I think the culprit is that the Startstolpe and Endstolpe components are trying to read values from the Panel component.

Anssi

Thanks, will look in to that!

Hi!

We have some dynamic components when we make layouts for production plants.

But when the models becomes large with a lot of items they stops working as intended.

I attach one of these DCs. The problem with this one is that the door doesn't change size ("Dörrbredd" and "Höjd" is it called in the component).

Our components just changes dimensions, we don't use any interaction.

Is there more of you who have run into similar problems?

Thanks in advance!

Staketdörr_dynamiskt_v1108.skp