Posts made by Matte

Thanks!
It directed me to the isoaxo ruby. It does the ISO nicely. I assume the Diametric and Trimetric types would be difficult to do since besides 10/40 and 25/45 angles, these have specific "distorted" depth width and heights as viewed. Thanks again and thanks TIG! for writing the ruby.
Matte

Hi All,
For my school design Class we need to present our designs in TRUE Isometric, Diametric, Trimetric, and Obligue angles. I can "eyeball" and rotate my drawing to look pretty close...But is there a Ruby (Or method) to set up a Scene tab that will be an "Exact" correct rotation view?
Thanks for advice
Matte

Maybe if I make the Section plane a Translucient material? But I'm at school and can not check if the actual plane material can be "altered".
Matte

Thanks,
I tried that, but section planes are not"recognized" even when "Invisable" and all you get is a view of the actual plane surface!

Hi All,
I just got Shaderlight for rendering, I am having "trouble", getting a "standing/view" point inside the building and getting the right depth of view settings to get a decent view for outputting an image. Is there any cool plugin that might help with this?
Thanks,
MAtte

From what it looks like from searching the Nvidia website..It looks like the dual GTX 675M is the way to go? if I "understand" the specs well enough? Just not sure if the "gaming" claims have any value in the SU or Shaderlight world?

Hi,
I have an option on a few of the laptops I am looking at.....Primarily for Sketchup and mostly for Shaderlight power.... Would I get any speed improvement switching from a single Nvidia GT 650M (2GB) to a "DUAL" (2GB Nvidia GTX 675M ? It sounds great? But I have no clue if it will make much difference?
Thanks for anyone's advice!
Matte

Thanks,
By the way in addition to the info you have shared...Would I notice any additional speed increase by shifting from (32 bit) Win 7 upgrade to the present offered (64 bit) Win 8?

The main hope is not have a mental melt down. Right now it takes me days to draw something up due to the many minutes wait between commands that should take me a 4-5 hours. And constant freeze due to modle size. And 8 hours for one rendered image (good or bad) is just too long! It's hard to give a client 3-4 images in a day or two! Anamation is still OK as that type of work I would just send out to the cloud if required.
Thanks again for your thoughts!
Matte

Thanks TIG, that was exactly what I was looking for.
Krisidious, I downloaded the file hope to look at it tonight. Does it grab texture sets from web pages too? Or just from SU models? My posts are probably correct? Life has been a bit chaotic the past 6-7 years, and in survival mode I sometimes am off the internet for almost a year at a time before I get things moving again. But things can only get better from here!
Thanks again guys
Matte

Thanks Numerobis,
Thanks for the reality info, I was hoping it was going to be better then that! Oh well, by the time I have enough $ set aside there might be another evolution of speed improvement. Thanks for your evaluation, it was very helpful!
Matte

Hi All,
I was hoping someone could give me a basic opinion on speed increase estimation. I had an old laptop. I had a 5 year old duel AMD processor (HP dv9000) with 2 Meg ram. It passed away. I was going to replace it with another HP 7300 Quad with a Nvidia GT650M graphics card, an I7-3630QM processor and 16 Megs of ram.

Before, it took me about 8 hours to do one single rendering image....could someone guess how much of a time reduction I might be able to expect?
Thanks,
Matte

Hi All,
Is there a way to "extract" multiple materials out of SU at the same time? I combined all the Old Sherwin Williams colors from the warehouse into one SU DWG. I want to select all materials and copy and past them into a universal SW folder so I can just go and grab the color I need without having to insert lots of colors. I almost always have the SW # needed, and just need to go pick it quickly and apply it? Looking on the SW website is such a pain to look that way!
Thanks,
Matte

Thanks Kristoff,
I inserted them and got most of the colors, it just left out most of the 3000 series colors. But it worked well enough for the task at hand.
Matte

Hi All,
I use to use a Sherwin Williams color pallet set that I downloaded and loaded into my paint bucket selection tab. But I can't find it any more? The only link I found was removed. Does anyone still have this set?
Thanks
Matte

Hi TIG,
Thanks for an AWESOME tool! How would I go about taking an ACAD Patt file and make a JPEG out of it so I could add it to your (line image) folder with the useable JPEGS. I noticed there are 15-20 images that comes with your tool.....We have over 100 "pat" files I wold like to also use.
Thanks,
Matte

Both original images look great! the top for more 3D feel and the lower for more of a 2D feel. Great Work!
Matte

ohhhh SSD,
Not familiar with that one, I am now. I only know enough about laptops and the newer hardware to be dangerious! (To making an uninformed decision anyway). "Luckly" for me I have to probably wait another 2-3 months before I can pull this off anyway, maybe newer stuff like solid state hard drives will be the norm by then? Probably not....I envisioned them as soon as I sat the first Jump/Thumb drive years ago, so who knows? But so far this seams to be the best bang for the buck laptop I have found with a 17 inch plus monitor and minimum of 12Gigs of ram (I was told thats a good amount to run Revit with?) My old 6 year old HP stills runs the newer Acad, Sketchup fine, its starting to get into the animation stuff with numerious images is where I figured I would notice dtuff. Thanks again for your input, it is helping me to feel comfortable aqbout whatever choice I am going to make.
Matte

Thanks escape artist for your help as well,
Since I can only get a laptop, I think this might work OK;(Sorry I don't know how to properly add a hyperlink)

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/load_configuration.do?destination=review&config_id=7686168#

This is my "measuring stick" unit for now. It sounds like I will not notice much/any differance between the 2.4Ghx/6Mb and the 2.7Ghz/8Mb. I noticed the price just went up $100 from last week!, I'll have to compare again at the end of the month when finances become available.
Thanks again for your help,
Matte

Thanks Numerobis for your reply,
I need to get a laptop for other reasons, and was just trying to get the "best" options for my price range. I do not often do 2-3 day renderings, but it does happen now and then when it takes hours per image on an old HP dv9000, 2meg ram machine. I just didn't know of these two available options with 16 gigs of ram was much of a difference between them?, (they are the ones that come with "the laptop") I can not get anything for another 2-3 months and I will of course look again at that time as things change so quickly. I figured I would only know the difference on extreem time extended activities. But If I could reduce the price from $1,700 to $1,500 it would really be prefered.
Thanks again for your help.

Yes, I saw his stuff, but haven't had time to play with it yet. I hope to make the leap to try doing a full design and doc set in SU / Layout. But it's hard to let the ACAD meathod go as it is mostly done in "Auto-pilot" mode. I dont have any "real" projects at tne moment, taking the time to make an "imaginary" project just for fun is hard to fit into the time available. Please let us know what you think of the process. I think I might just do one of my own "house" just for practice. Thanks again for your sharing it's a good motivator to get moving!
Matte