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When working on a project, I often get unwanted diagonal lines littering my drawing. How do I prevent this.
Mountain Cowboy

When working on a project, I often get unwanted diagonal lines littering my drawing. How do I prevent this.
Mountain Cowboy

Solo, after your last comment, I found that SU the new "SketchUp Web Exporter (Beta)". I have installed it, however it does not have any noticeable effect on the materials problem. I think Rich O'Brian has it right in his answers below.

Thank you both for taking the time to address the problem for me.

@solo said:

Do you have the new exporter?

http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=6097

OK Rich, I think I'v got it. When I modify the material in Thea it is not shown in sketchup but it will be visable when I import it into Thea for additional work or final render. Right? That will minimize the problem. Only negative is I won't see the model in SU as it will finaly look.

Thanks for your help. Now if we can just eliminate the initial problem, we will have all of what we want.
@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

However, it is not on my drawing.

Textures in SU are placeholders for textures in Thea

I think I am missing something. True if I do as you say, SketchUp remains open and operating correctly. Also the new material is set in the exporter. However, it is not on my drawing. How do I get it there?
@unknownuser said:

If you close the material editor normal service will resume. This happens on my system too.

So apply material in SU
click exporter
Double click material
Assign Thea material
Close material editor

@solo said:

Do you have the new exporter?

http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=6097

Yes, I expect so. I assume what you are speaking of is an exporter related to Thea. It comes with the SUplugin doesn't it? I downloaded Thea v1.1 and the SUplugin yesterday. I had nothing before that. If your speaking of an SU exporter, I should be up to date on that as well. I loaded a new copy of Pro 8 about 2 weeks ago.

Due to the good things said about it by SOLO (I am a fan of his fine rendering work), I downloaded TheaRender yesterday and activated it today. I also downloaded SUplugin. Both activated with no problems.

I looked at a few videos on youtube then tried to use the new program. However, I am having problems.

After opening SketchUp and then the Thea exporter tool, I click the materials tab then I click on a material on an object I have created to test the system. The material is transferred to the Export Tool. When I click it a second time, the Materials Lab opens and the material opens in the preview as I expected. Unfortunately, when I hover my cursor over sketchUp, the cursor starts spinning indicating that some function is taking place in the background. I wait for it to stop but it does not. When I click the program in an attempt to have it stop spinning, SU freezes and I get an error message indicating “the SketchUp application is not responding” and my only option is to close the program. I uninstalled and reinstalled several times in case there had been a problem there. I tried to use several diff. objects in case that was the problem but no luck there.

I still have the problem. I am a computer novice so I have no idea what to do next, so I turn to all of you.

I am working with SketchUp Pro 8 and the details of the computer I am working on are as follows:

Dell: XPS 17
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional, 64-Bit
Processor: Intel Core i7-2720QM processor 2.20 GHz with TurboBoost 2.0 up to 3.30 GHz
Memory: 8GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 Memory
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 3GB graphics with Optimus
Hard Drive: 1.0TB 500GB 7.2k HDD x 2

Can anyone help me?