Posts made by mrossk

make sure that the correct face style is selected. If you're in "monochrome" stlye, materials won't appear even if they are technically applied to the surface.

very nice,sounds like Colin Farrell from "In Bruges"

if I place the ".plugin" file inside the "LibFredo" subfolder it works. So thanks for that,
Michael

Has anyone else successfully tried this? I just installed it, overwrote the exisitng files, and get the same error messages. Thank you,
Michael

Thanks guys. Usually things like this are me doing something dumb

Hi- When I opened up Sketch-Up tonight there was the familiar "check for update" icon for the various Fredo plugins. I clicked the icon to check and recieved the following error messages:

I've used this functionality many times without a problem. Any suggestions?

Thank you,
Michael

Thanks for the reply Dave. I get the curves drawn, but even when changing the sampling to "2", I still get many curved lines. I've only been able to get it to work by using the "loft" function.
At least I get a result...

Don't mean to hijack the thread- I tried this and when I run curviloft I don't get the same screen shown as the OP. I don't have the options for type of spline curve, nor for the number of segments. I've downloaded the most recent version of Curviloft as well as the Lib fredo directory. Does one also need the bezier curve plugin or something else. I apologize if I'm missing something obvious, thanks,
Michael

Edit: I think I discovered that the OP's screen shot is of the "Loft" function, not the "Skinning" function. Sorry to bother.

Fredo6's Vector push pull will allow you to select the vector (direction) of the extrusion (in this case the ground plane). You will have to do an Intersect to allign the final face with the other leg however...

I think I got geek all over me

Thanks Dave. I won't see her again till Monday and I'll check about the driver.

Hmm, I don't know, I'll check with her and report back. Thanks.

I'm a lifelong PC user, but I'm trying to teach Sketchup to a friend with a MAC. She had to buy a 3 button mouse, and when we try to Orbit or Pan by depressing the scroll wheel, some funky thing happens. It switches to another program. Simply rolling the scroll wheel zooms as expected. Does any MAC user have a suggestion as to how to assign the scroll wheel the appropriate Sketchup function? (btw, it's a Logitech wireless mouse)
Thanks,
Michael

if I understand your question, then Curviloft's "Loft by Spline" is what you want.

Is this something you will build yourself? I beleive that here in the States "freijo blonde" is "teak" wood. Very expensive around here, but beautiful. Nice.

how about the trick of replacing poly heavy objects like plants with a temporary spacer, like a stick, and then replacing those components at the end when needed?

I think the problem is the scale of your model. Sketchup doesn't like tiny faces. Try scaling up by 10 or even 100x ,extrude, then scale it back.

Of course I learned it from Dave and his great blog/tutorials

you have to open the component for editing and paint on individual faces to be able to adjust them. You won't have that option if you apply textures to the "closed" component.

If I'm not mistaken, to print to scale, the "camera" has to be set to parallel projection.