@Rich-O-Brien said in Copy Materials:

Where are you seeing the magnifying glass (search) icon? I am not seeing it on either my laptop or iPad.

@Rich-O-Brien said in Copy Materials:

@ntxdave said in Copy Materials:

Is there a way to search the forum?

Yes, there is a search icon next to the bell.

Neither of the icons next to the bell on my devices provide a "search" capability. The one to the left of the bell says "Mark Unread" and the one to the right of the bell says "Sort By". Thus, I wanted to find the old thread where we discussed the older version of the "named colors" (which actually shows the colors in a solid color and shows the name of the color).

I will look at copying the named colors folder from my older version of SketchUp to the 2026 version though and set something up so I can also use it in future versions though. Thanks for that thought.

Is there a way to copy the “named materials” from an older version of SketchUp to SketchUp 2026?

I think we have had this discussion before but I could not find it.

Is there a way to search the forum? I do not see search option anywhere and think there should be a search option.

@tig Thank a lot sat.

@TIG said in Why Transparency:

If you have accidentally pressed K then back-edges might be 'on'.
Try pressing K again to toggle them 'off' ...

Thanks @tig that solved my problem. What is the K key used for?

I am developing a model and it appears that some surfaces are transparent when I really do not want them to be. I need to understand what I am doing wrong.

As you look at the image, notice that the text at the bottom of the heart as actually on the back side (this is a 3D model) so I should not be able to see that text when viewing from the top. If I look from the other side (bottom) you can see the text that is on the top face.

I have also been having s little bit of a problem placing text on the top and bottom surfaces.

OK, I thought all of my Fredo6 licenses were perpetual but maybe not. I do not think I have used this one so I might just uninstall it.

BTW: When I look at the licenses, I see that they have an old email address that is no longer valid. How do I update the email address associated with my license?

@Dave-R I thought so and have had it installed for a while. If you look at this screen shot you will see that I had it placed on my toolbar.

Also, If you look at the image from the SketchUp Extension Manager, you will see that I had a license.

OK, When I go to the licenses link you provided, I am not seeing the FredoSketch license so I cannot download it.

I keep getting this message

If I go to the Extension Manager here is what I see:

If I go to the SketchUcation Tools here is what I see:

Notice item 13.

NOt sure whatr I need to do to get the license updated.

said in [Plugin Library] LibFredo6 - v15.8e - 15 Feb 26:

I did a quick test on an old Animator file and it looks like we now can use perspective and generate a video.

Well, I also tried to generate a video with the Animator file that has both perspective and parallel and the generation stopped when it switched from parallel to perspective. So, if the file has all scenes with the camera set the same way (either perspective or parallel) it works fine but having both options in the same file will not generate the video.

Just thought I would pass this along but maybe you already knew that.

I did a quick test on an old Animator file and it looks like we now can use perspective and generate a video.

@fredo6 Is there any place where we can find out what the bug fixes are?

OK, I think I have finally generated a multi scene animated presentation with Animator. Here are 2 videos that I hope help you see this.

GIF Version

MP4 Version
Jesus Plaque - Fancy.mp4

Just to let everyone know, I also posted the same videos in the Animator Plugin thread

OK, I think I finally figured some things out so here are my latest videos. I hope you enjoy them and they can be used to see how Animator can be used to generate animated presentationsl

GIF version:

MP4 sersion
Jesus Plaque - Fancy.mp4

I am also posting this in the Scene animation with Animator thread. The main point of that thread was to discuss how Animator can be used in multiple scenes for presentation purpose.

OK, I think I finally figured some things out so here are my latest videos. I hope you enjoy them and they can be used to see how Animator can be used to generate multi scene animated presentations.

GIF version:

MP4 sersion
Jesus Plaque - Fancy.mp4

I also posted them in the Animator thread thread.

OK, I think I finally figured some things out so here are my latest videos. I hope you enjoy them and they can be used to see how Animator can be used to generate animated multi scene presentations

GIF version:

MP4 sersion
Jesus Plaque - Fancy.mp4

I am also posting this in the Scene animation with Animator thread.

OK, I think I finally figured some things out so here are my latest videos. I hope you enjoy them and they can be used to see how Animator can be used to generate animated presentationsl

GIF version:

MP4 sersion
Jesus Plaque - Fancy.mp4

I am also posting this in the Scene animation with Animator thread. The main point of that thread was to discuss how Animator can be used in multiple scenes for presentation purpose.

OK, I do not know if this is the thread where we should be discussing this rather than the Scene animation with Animator thread, but I changed the "introduction" scene to Parallel Project and things are working now the way I wanted (although I did make a couple more edits).

Now for a real DUH on my part. When I was discussing what I thought were FOV issues turned out to be a DUH by me. When I was looking at the clips, if I did not select the same scene as the clip I thought things were not being presented with the correct FOV. When I woke up, I realized that if I had different scene selected than the one I was viewing the clip for, it would show me thing in the FOV of the selected scene and not the one I was viewing the clip of. Again DUH

Here is the latest version of my video (but I plan on maybe making some more "edits" to make some things a little fancier.

@fredo6 I apologize to you and hope I have not take this thread to far off topic.

OK, I need to go back and figure out which file you used because I change all of my scenes to parallel and everything worked fine. However, in the "version" I was working with I got it all to work but I need to make some adjustments (as you will see in my video).

So, bottom line for me, what I have learned ls:

• The camera setting "parallel" vs. "perspective" needs to be the same in every scene.

• The position of the camera needs to be the same in every scene. At least what I have seem is that if I turn on the axis, it needs to be in pretty much the same position for each scene or things will not present correctly. I guess what I was trying to say here is the Field Of View.

• Depending on the type of video/presentation you want to create, you need to evaluate very carefully what you want to achieve with each scene. As you can see in this presentation, I may have to give in and reevaluate if you should use Animator for the full project or do you do the animations with Animator and the other things, like my introduction and thank you scenes with another video generation tool.

However, let me say that I am still a big fan of Animator and want to keep working on the best way to achieve things. I do plan on going back and making some changes in this project and really appreciate the support and feedback I have gotten here.