@sjs66 said: Yes there is. Just wondering if your still using Xfrog or if anyone else is these days? zombie post, almost 6 years

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Glad to help... Make sure to come back and show us when you're done.

Thanks alot Jim! You just saved me from wasting a lot of time. That's exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks Cotty. I did try changing the face styles. The style of the model did change but not for what was already colored. I made a model outside the group and the default colors applied. But I don't understand why I cannot paint the default color back to the colored surfaces. I did it before plenty of times. Sometimes it is necessary when working with the UV plugins. I will try and remember about the monochrome view. Thanks again.

Thanks. That makes sense. If it was anything significant it would be more obvious.

sorry for the late reply, but it looks like you already found your solution... Concerning the banding problem i think this could be related to a TN panel and only 6 bit instead of 8 bit (for the panel) - but the description on the page doesn't say anything about it... But nice to hear that works good for you now.

I was able to locate the toll free number in the email and got someone who resolved our issue. Thanks.

If you turn a rbz into a zip you cant auto install from Preferences > Extensions. If you want to do that, you have to have a rbz file. You just turn it into a zip if you know the folder where the plugins are located and you want to drag the plugin files to the folder. That is not standard practice and you must know what you're doing. So, general rule, don't install plugins from ZIP.

@sellberg said: I also think you have slightly messed things up by when it is no longer possible to copy the old scripts through explorer and just run them. Sure, It is more maneageable on the small scale, but when you wanna install 20+ plugins or so it is not easier to install them one-by-one. You've missed a very important point. You can copy plugins for your old installation to SU2014. It isn't advised because Ruby 1.8 is no longer supported, SU2014 had to switch to Ruby 2.0 and a large number of plugins weren't written to meet the Ruby 2.0 standards. Simply copying from your old installation would have created many problems. It's easy to find examples here of people who did just blindly copy over plugins and then whinge about them not working. Ruby isn't an invention of Trimble nor of the SketchUp team so it isn't proper to lay the blame on them. I for one am happy for the Sketchucation Plugin Store and Extension Warehouse and Install Extension. They have reduced somewhat the number of posts from users who can't figure out how to install plugins or can't get their plugins to work because they installed them incorrectly. There's a number of us who have spent countless hours helping others to get plugins installed correctly. You can go back and look through the Plugins forum and easily find example after example. The problem hasn't been eliminated because there are still people who insist on installing plugins manually and can't manage to do it correctly, but it is fewer than it used to be.

Gareth, it's been talked about a lot around here and migrating your plugins is not a good idea for this incarnation of sketchup. The ruby version has changed and a great many plugins needed to be updated to work with it, some still haven't been updated. Copying your plugins means you are potentially using out of date plugins that will cause you problems. It is best to start again and load them fresh therefore ensuring that you have the most up to date versions, and you can clean out those plugins that you never really use. It is very easy now with the SketchUcation plugin store, auto install what you need as you need it. Or the Extension warehouse. The few plugins from outside these places can be installed in there own way but be aware they may not yet work with 2014.

I think the correct Intel chipset, SATA, PCH, Management Engine and RapidStorage driver should be installed otherwise you could loose performance. And i would just start the installer. I don't think this will be a problem and you will get an entry to remove it.

Hey Rich, Maybe it's just architectural work, or maybe I just need to delve into how Blender inferences. Snaps work just fine in Blender, but it's a pain to navigate because I'm always having to toggle it on and off if I am drawing. Does Blender follow line extensions and not just xyz coordinates? Any good tutorial reference about this you may be able to point to? I'm mildly curious. (I say mildly, as I am crunched for time as it is, and SU just gets me there damn fast. I hesitate to learn anything new currently.) Andy

@mitcorb said: Hi, Mistro: I looked around and found an older thread in this link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sketchupissues/gN4yhIK3tGY Is it indeed your graphic card settings? Thanks mitcorb! It's funny because I found that same thread earlier and remembered I never set my graphic card settings after my last reformat. But still not sure if that is the cause because I reformatted months ago and did many Sketchup projects since with no problem. But then again, I recently did a windows update so maybe something got reset? When I went in the Nvidia control panel it was on "let the 3D application decide". So I set it to high quality instead so applications will use the card settings and Sketchup is running more smoothly. If it happens again, I will report it here.

Thanks for giving me another goal in life Solo. That machine you described will most likely be my personal beast one day. I'm not sure what their budget is but I do know they already purchased the work station machines which are most likely IMacs. Don't think the budget will allow the beast but I will bring it up anyway....who knows right? It doesn't have to be such a beast right now. I think they would rather stay under $1000,00. As long as I can get some decent renders on a machine away from my work station. btw, is there a link to a thread with the Thea beta guy with this "beast"? I would love to check it out.

Mistro I have worked with a Mac on SketchUp, Kerkythea, and Thea for quite some time, and all of that software works flawlessly. I do agree with chedda that you should go over to the Thea site and have a look at the specs, particularly to take advantage of Thea Presto's GPU capabilities. Here is a link to what Giannis, the developer has to say about it.http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=85093#p85093 Thea is fantastic software, and the development pace is exceptional.

@wo3dan said: @krisidious said: Yeah...Trimble decided to screw everyone that uses the free version. I don’t think SketchUp/Trimble (decided to) screw any of the free users. IMO they were most generous when bringing out a new free version. (The 8 hours trial period at startup is awkward and hard to understand, but the program is still available and free) And you can still save as …. version 3. What's different about that? It's always been 8 hours and then to free version hasn't it? Or did you have to reinstall? I agree that Google bought it for Google Earth and that was the intent. And that they gave up on that years ago. But Trimble didn't buy it for SketchUp itself either. They wanted the system for a merge with their systems. I guess the main thing I'm trying to say is people that weren't going to buy, aren't going to buy. They aren't making anymore money than they would have. In fact I would argue by making it Maker Pro they're pushing people out before they would ever realize they needed pro. Now they're competeing with serious programs that are completely free. Blender is getting some of our core users here at SCF and there have been no serious upgrade to our system. I know they rewrote the whole thing on the backside, but I haven't noticed. It still acts the same way and has the same features we had before 13. Don't get me wrong, I own it and I'll continue to use it, and I have spent many a thread defending this software... When 2013 came out I was one of it's loudest supporters. I just really don't like pushing people with little or no money, who are struggling to live in a third world country, to buy something they didn't have to buy for the last decade. And let me say those third world modelers have some serious talent and drive to learn. You can thumb up or down... It won't make me think any less of you. People like me learn to live with the fact that others don't like what I have to say. in fact I got a thumb up for you...

You have a funny Plugin by TIG Split Saussage! Just draw the first segment anywhere between the 2 offsets! Seems you will obtain Quads [image: file.php?id=83045&t=1]

The files are quite big. I got them from https://www.wuala.com/Olson/Photos/Optikz_360_Skies/. I discovered them while searching for HDRI images to enhance my skies in Kerkythea. A nice guy made a post on the Blender Artists site as a gift http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?224065-New-High-resolution-sky-pack-for-Blender. I got 9 out of this list including: brightday cambridge english godrays goodmorning Nevada clearday_1 clearday_2 Sunset The last 3 are png files. I opened them in Photoshop and saved as jpegs just to keep the import list simple. But I don't think there is a problem with any of the image files at all because all of them imported successfully, just not all at the same time. The problem does not seem to be with any particular image, just which ones get imported last. But once an image gets flagged as invalid, I cannot import it anymore no matter how many images I purge from the model. I'm thinking of splitting the library up into 4 skies each since the size seems to be a problem for some reason I think.