Hi Dave

Sorry for not responding sooner. Thanks for that, I've taken the plunge and got 2021 set up, but I can't find the Visualiser in Trimble connect. It looks like it's a third party item now, is that your understanding? We have Trimble Connect for business

Hi Dave

Thanks for that, I never would have found it. However it only got me so far. Connected ok and tried to download a model but didn't recognise that I was already signed in to Trimble, and guess what- can't remember my Trimble password. Getting a reset has proved tedious in the past.
Starting my 30 day trial for SU2021 now. Think the cloud access will be useful as I am now working more from home....

Hello
I am running SU2018 which has stopped recognising my internet connection. If I try to access the 3d warehouse through SU, it will let me browse to a model but when I try to download it reports no internet connection. I am logged in to Trimble and everything else works via internet including 3d warehouse web version.
I can't find anywhere within SU I can makes changes to the connection.
Any ideas why it might do this?

Thanks

Nick

Thanks Fredo, I was obviously looking in the wrong place. this doesn't happen with my desktop PC so it might be a quirk of this laptop.

Thanks Box, I seem to have sorted it. Managed to disable all Fredo tools then used extension manager to update Fredo tools and library. Then re-enabled tools and restarted.
The dialogue box was visible but was empty as if it was hanging or struggling to connect, but my internet connection is fine. Not sure if there's a way to disable the Fredo built in update check. Can't see it in the Fredo tools settings

Hello All

I am having an issue with Fredos plugin checking for update locking up my laptop. The 'checking for update' dialog box comes up and the everything freezes. I can't move the mouse outside of the SU window so I'm not able to get a screenshot. I have to invoke Task Manager and shut SU down and when I do so there is a (2) next to SU in the task manager listing. I assume this means SU is running either 2 instances or its Fredos update check running alongside.
Still running SU2018 Pro, now on a Dell Inspiron 7506 2n1 on Windows 10
Anyone had this issue?

Thanks

Nick

Beautiful, I want one.
Maybe a bit of a bump map to the grey texture in the wheel arch and its as good as.

Love it. Well worthy of going on sale in a story book. Hope you can turn things around with it.

Best of luck, keep drawing

Great Thanks, although I still don't know why the error suddenly started. It is possible I accidentally re-enabled Parametric Grid from the plugin manager at the time I was trying out Workplane. That would account for the coincidental timing and me jumping to the wrong conclusion.
Is Parametric.rb still used for anything else? Unless its nested somewhere I don't seem to have it.

Humble apologies TIG
The error only occurred after I had installed Workplane, which was a freaky coincidence. I thought I'd broken it somehow as I know your plugins are usually solid. That also explains why it still works.
Offending .rb now disabled=no more error
Thanks for your time.

Just dug this out of the .rb file though. Seems to be calling up to parametric.rb?
Would this have anything to do with it? Can't understand where the error comes from

Hi
Just tried using the Work Plane plugin for the first time and this error comes up on starting SU.
Plugin seems to still work okay though, unless I'm missing something.
I'm still running SU2018, and I have Notepad++ if you can suggest a fix.

Thanks
Nick

It has happened before, only on 2018 I think. Might be time to bite the bullet on the upgrade then.
I will check driver but I think it is up to date.

Thanks Dave

Yes Dave still on 2018, haven't had enough reasons to upgrade yet.
Graphics card is poor Nvidia GT 610
Mean anything to you?

Thanks

Nick

Anyone have an idea what's going on with the attached screenshot of my layout viewport?
I have some kind of mismatch going on with the style but the page was created as a copy of another page which is fine. This only happens with Hybrid, it is ok with Vector and Raster, but I need hybrid to create a decent looking PDF for my customer

Thanks

Thanks for reminding me, I had actually forgotten that

@unknownuser said:

That render looks nice.

Thanks, just don't zoom in, it only had a few passes to check the glass.

Downloaded 2019 to give it a go, got some detail drawings I want to try out. A bit too busy at the moment for a full blown switch over and re installing plugins etc.

Thanks for your help

Okay Dave thanks a lot,

Off to a good start with the reversed face on the pane but as you say makes no difference in SU, but you've helped me get to a point where I may have a solution.

I was thinking about opacity after I set it to 0, higher value helps see the shelves but not so good with the pane of glass. So I decided to play with the materials for both and came up with a temporary workaround. One material for the pane with low opacity, another for the shelf surface with opacity at 25 or so, and another darker glass for the edge of the shelf with same opacity. The edge lines of the shelves are still not visible but the darker materials are, so depending on camera angle the outline of the shelf is apparent. The shelf only has a top face, no 'thickness', but has edge faces.

This way it still renders quite well and transmits a reasonable amount of light through the shelves and shows up in LO hybrid render to some degree. An acceptable compromise from my point of view as my glass cabinet models are library items and I can set them up with the materials saved.

I tried a bit of viewport stacking in LO2018 with some success, could be useful for showing hidden detail. Never tried it before, is it more capable in 2019?

Yes still in LO2018.
Sent you a PM

Thanks

@unknownuser said:

the glass panel being blue and not transparent made me wonder what is going on in your model.

You had me going for a minute there Dave, but ran some more tests. The panel is definitely glass on both faces but the camera angle would only reveal the back panel of the cabinet and none of the edges or side panels. I attached a shot from a another angle which shows the change in shade where the base and side are visible-but still no shelves.
Thanks for your replies

Yes I'm still on SU 2018 Dave, I usually wait a while before upgrading to see if it's worth it and for bugs to be ironed out.
Maybe it's time I had another look if stacking viewports is now an option, although there seems to be more visibility in just the hybrid view.
Yes the cabinets are blue, thankfully I am past that schoolboy error these days, but a worthy question nonetheless.