@pilou said:

If the terrain is not yet existing seems there is not more elegant method than your...
...except this following is without ruler tool! So a little more speedy! 😉

Thank you very much, it was a great informative video 😄

good point, thanks 😄

Just about anything is possible through Python Scripting in Maxwell -- pyMaxwell is probably one of my favorite new Maxwell features in quite some time (now if I was only better at scripting 😳)

Best,
Jason.

Importing the scene to Maxwell Studio does give better results with the built in semi ortho cameras.

@gaieus said:

Try this:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=12668

Thanks Gaieus 😄

It could be extreme for a much more complex shape but SU should be able to handle that geometry on a relatively small model.

Seeing the result would help understand.

@fuzzion said:

@nickdk said:

I'll take a look at TGI3D, it looks like a great plugin?
I have searched google and tried a few things in Max but it hasn't been successful yet.

The tgi3d upsample feature is what i use as my final plugin before printing. Sometimes it makes the model look odd.
But 95% of the time it works perfectly and is worth the money. Comes with many other plugins then just upsample. Create mesh
being my favourite. Oh and the bend feature is superb too. The UV tool is cool but i got used to artisan.

Tgi3d plugin + Artisan = Must have

Hello Fuzzion,

I bought the Tgi3D plugin and it did produce a visual ok result after upsamling, but it ruined my model while doing so. The model was filled with mesh errors and holes afterwards so I was back to squar eone trying to make it a solid, this is impossible due to the many mesh issues :S?

Thank you for the feedback Jason, I'll experiment with the psd method, I didn't think about saving it as .hdr - it will be interesting to see how it appears inside maxwell 😄

Great! Thanks I'll go try that script right away 😄

@unknownuser said:

Yes ! good idea !!
It's OK with only two components and not so long formula :[attachment=0:175kwns3]<!-- ia0 -->Cube_DD1.skp<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:175kwns3].

NICE!

I have made a few tests where I gradually use the 'outer shell' command to combine chunks of cubes, it works better but the weird 'artifacts' are much higher this way (see new attachment) and I don't think it's a good way to do it :-S

outhershell2.jpg

Thanks for that! ☀

Yes your second method is valuable for this sort of simple "straight object" 👍

But maybe not with more organic object
With this a normal Boolean Difference should be used or your first manual method 😉

http://www.110volts.net/media/catalog/product/cache/6/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/e/c/eclatemoteur.jpg

Hello Jason!
Thank you very much for the detailed information 😄
I'll try to follow the guidelines and try out your RAL version - looks very promising! 👍

Tig, your answer are so amazing, specially the once related with your work (plugins).
I've bookmarked all your post regarding with extrude thing, because is so dificult for us normal mind to follow the use of your plugin. They are so versatiles that we don't know how to use it or when (at lest me), but you are doing a good work "tigging" us your plugins. I barely give my answer but I give you my 👍

@tig said:

Learn to 'select by fence', noting the different results from right>left and left>right corner drags.

I read your post a few times and I get it now 😄 Thank you for helping me 😄

I've never seen anything quite like that before. Could you post the model or a potion of it to see if I can reproduce it?

-Brodie

d.instances[0].definition.name
This line makes little sense. The definition uses an instance of itself to get its definition...

It's equal to d.name. And d.name will avoid the error because Group doesn't have .definition.

On right click context
Make slected component uniquie
Select and resize

I use this alot, toolbar name resizer

mashtab 4

by Sahi
Sections: Edit
Scaling tool for the selected objects, along XYZ axes.
UI Location: Toolbar
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=11677&p=81865&hilit=mashtab#p81865

or
You can also open two sketchup and copy what you selected and paste in place to second sketchup then resize it, then bring it back to your first design.

Brodie, a dae file is a simple text file and cannot contain the image textures (only colour references). You must have overlooked something. Generally the dae file is outside the material folder though (but probably this would depend on the exporter itself).