@Rich-O-Brien Thanx Dude! I'll check send you an E-Mail!!

Hi Team Sketchucation,

I have purchased quite a few extensions (mostly Fredos…) and am having the following problem.

In theory one can release seats if a computer does not exist any longer and so on. However some of my seats do not have the checkbox. I can't figure out why. I also don't really know what computer these might habe been on. What can I do in a situation like this? This effects quite a few of my licences, see screenshot.

I couldn't find a support-adress so I am trying this forum.

Hi pcmoor,

thanks for the quick reply. I also thought about sorting it in Excel, that's quite easy actually. I was just kind of hoping I could include different life-updating schedules, like door schedules, light schedules, etc. into Layout but for this the report generator needs better and more permanent filters other than "all" and "currently selected". Oh well - here's hoping for Sketchup 2019...

Regarding Layers. What I LOOOVE about Sketchup is how you can intertwine groups and layers. I use groups to logically structure my project (House -> Walls -> Rooms -> Furniture -> Shelve -> Books) and Layers to classify these objects (eg. books belong to layer decoration, shelf belongs into the layer furniture). This has worked quite well so far. Electrical components usually sit in the wall groups but are layered as electrical. Naming and arranging layers exactly the same way as the groups kind of feels redundant. I do make sure to have all main groups set up before starting my scenes because Sketchup fortunately can remember what main groups where visible or invisible when for each scene.

Ok - so I will generate the full report go the Excel route and filter from there and drop that into Layout.

Life updating reports in Layout would be the sweetest though, wouldn't it?

Cheers,

F.

Hi Sketchup-Crowd,

I am currently working on a ship project (see attachment) and am trying to work myself into the reports and advanced attributes of Sketchup. What I want to get is a report that shows me for example all components for a certain build group (like all elektrical componants, all doors, etc.)

As this is a very complex model I am having trouble organizing the model like some tutorials showed - one group for doors, one group for electricity etc. Is there another way - maybe with a plugin - that where I can create a report for all components that start (definition name) with for example "BG7_" (which are all the electrical componants)?

Also - I want to add "weight" and "maker" to the attributes of the components for the report and cannot wrap my head around how to add these fields so that they will show up in the component window...

Cheers,

Napper

Thanks! I did most of the design and construction work myself - it keeps amazing me how much you can do with Sketchup! (Some annoyances aside)... Tiger wrote a weight analysis tool for me a few years back so I can even get the exact weight and weight distribution out of the model for balance-calculation. We built two of these boats plus that "island" in the middle. Seeing these things on the water eventually is why I love my job!

You know - these types of waves (actual photo on our local river). How would one set up the "wave material" to accomplish this?

Hi everybody,

I am working in a small inland shipyard (Germany) and we are building these house-boats. Most of the design is done in Sketchup and lately I have started to dabble a bit in trying to render them with the V-Ray plugin. After A LOT of trying and reading forums and watching youtube videos I kinda sorta got the image I want but I still can't wrap my head around how to really get waves into this pictures. Nice lake-like waves, about 10 to 20 cm high and not this sorta boring still water that I have right now in my rendering.

I've been using the procedural wave preset that the V-RAy plugin brings with it and than basically messed around with it forever before kinda giving up.

Attached the rendered image and a test-water file... Any help would be appreciated.

Napper

Water-Tests

H JQL,

great drawing. Something along the line of what I am doing myself. We have a nifty little company called Kiebitzberg ( http://www.kiebitzberg.de ) and do a lot of interior design With that kind of detailing necessary. I often work on projects that contain 12 or more rooms in one file as they are all connected and I need to present the type of details you are showing in your example for a whole bunch of furniture AS WE DEVELOP it. Meaning, there is the initial draft than we present it to the customer, make changes to the model, update the Layout file, etc. So exporting the Components is only so and so great because I'd constantly would need to reexport in order to get the Layout File updated. So far the best way I found was to create ALOT of Scenes in which only the relevant componant is shown but it is quite a mind-numbing task considering how fluid and logical Sketchup is.

So - I stand by my whishes!

Napper.

For me the most requested features would be Layout-Relevant

1. Make it possible to activate / deactivate layers of a scene from within Layout
2. Make it possible to hide/unhide geometry in a model-view from within Layout
3. (Killer Feature) Make the components of a model browsable from within Layout. Imagine if you could browse your components and you could drag a component onto the Layout-Sheet to generate a "Scene" in which just the component is shown. At the moment I spend so much time simply adding pointless scenes in Sketchup in order to show some detail. This feature alone would blow minds, I feel.
4. Multi-Point Dimension Lines (don't know how to phrase this). Like saying: this is 100mm and after 19 and after 482 and after that 19 and after that 25 in one go and all the measures on that dimension line stick together.

@mitcorb: Thanks for your reply. This is not really about when to use groups/components - I am pretty confident that I understand that concept (Using Sketchup since V5). It's about assigning a group a piece of information (density) that I can use to calculate the weight, e.g. in Excel).

Example: You are drawing a wardrobe. Structure would be pretty basic:

-wardrobe
--plywood side
--plywood side
--plywood top
--plywood bottom
--glas door
--cardboard back

Each of which would be a group (and the wardrobe being either a group or a componant, depending on if you want to reuse it.

Now Plywood has a different density as glas or cardboard. I would not want to make this dependent on the material assigned to it but rather like to assign an attribute "density" that I can manually set for each group. When exporting to CVS I would get the values group-name, density, & volume for each part and hence I could calculate the weight rather quickly.

I think TiGs plugin sort of works that way but it was built for a different purpose so it goes one step further then I need to go.