Hi Everyone!
I'm sure many know this already that if bounding box is ridiculously huge- zooming in an object would be impossible without ghostings, auto cropping your view as you move closer. I hope we can control the bounding box size and limit of our model, to the point that there will be alert if such limit is breached-and most importantly ID the culprit! AutoCAD block imports are usually notorious in an unexplainable way for creating these unncecessary bounding box. I hope Sketchup developer can deal with it soon. Thanks!

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Hi Everyone!

Is there a plugin to import/export the shade/shadow settings?
Couple of years ago, I purchased the Page EXlm pro by Smustard, amazing and useful little thing for transferring all scenes from old file to new or vice versa.. however limitation is that the host model's shade/shadows settings are not retained.
I appreciate any feedback. Thanks a lot!

Okay finally, after testing the setup for a week, I can say Eureka! Making that "symbolic link was the answer. (MKLINK /D link target.. you can Google this command for more info)**. Now, all my components is loaded on network drive and being shared by 2 different Sketchup PC in our office.

Updating the menu is more efficient now unlike before that I need to copy manually from one PC to another whenever there's changes. The only downside I noticed (this is subjective) is the loading time of thumbnail on your menu- because I have tons of components on the menu (8GB), the thumbnails needs about a second or two to become visible unlike when it is saved locally- you'll see it right away.

So that's it, hope this helps!

**reminder when using MKLINK, first make sure that your "link" folder is non existent before using this- took me a long time of trial and error why its not working, it's because I first created an empty folder of same name- so don't do that, let the command create the link folder by itself.

Answering my own query is a bit weird.. but the nearest direction I found is using windows command prompt and making a symbolic link.. Now there's a problem-I can't make a symbolic link from my local to the network drive.. This is the missing piece. Once I figured this out- I can shoutout "Eureka" Help please. Thanks!

Same here and same goes with my other colleagues using Sketchup 2017- Any fix yet? I feel so frustrated, 2017 runs a bit fast/light compared to older versions but this component creation is just super duper PITA, especially on big project- if not crash/hang, it will make me wait for like 2 hours even if just making a simple shape component . Well, It doesn't crash if you have only Sam on the scene LOL.. But put it in a bigger context and you're doomed. And why the heck the dialogue screen needs to open? Trimble guys-please fix this bug.

Not so with my Pro 2015 version (I still have), I simply right-click a group choose make component on list and done automatically converted to component! I have that in my keyboard shortcut- super quick.

I don't use dialogue box often, not unless if I want to activate Camera face me feature and other uncommon details..blah blah. But in usual workflow, it is more fluid if they will just revert it to bypass component dialogue screen mode.

Thanks!

@juju said:

I'm not sure if CloudUp will do this, may be worth taking a look?

I will check it out, thanks!

Hi guys! I'm presently using 3 PC's in our office, loaded with Sketchup 2017. From time to time, It's a habit of mine to update my components and materials menu in main PC and transfer via file sync program to another PC. However it's a bit laborious to transfter manually from main PC to another.. so I am thinking- How can I program Sketchup to automatically load it's menu (Components, Materials, Styles) from my server or Netrwork as source instead of the default local drive? This idea is very similar to how AutoCAD's "support file search path". Looking forward to hear your advice,
Many Thanks!

@kimi kimi said:

Yeah man, what's up with these material, scenes and layers palletes? We need those better. And we need everything else otb mentioned.

I second that motion! Just want to add extra notes to the following:

1. "Export to 2D" features

-please make scenes tickable /selectable! I have 100++ scenes, there should be a tickable box or better the shift+drag mouse+click scenes that you only wanna export, that would really be handy, just like how you select items in windows/Sketchup environment, you highlight them and drag them, shift click to add/remove, etc.. that kind of gestures. Right now I am just using a paid plugin from Smustard, really helpful but it's one click per scene only, still very manual selection, author hasn't updated it.

2. Scenes

-option to batch rename, reorder, reorganize, group, Shift+Click to select and drag to position you want, shift+click to unselect..etc.. these kind of gestures that's normally used in Windows environment. Just like how a Photoshop layers behave. Our hands are used to this pattern already. Sketchup should catch up.

3. Layers

-similar to CAD or Photoshop, very easy to manage & organize, an idiot proof approach .

I've been using Sketchup since version 7, now there'd been upgrades on features but these panels hasn't received notable updates! Skethup 2018 developers, kindly look at these areas. Thanks!

LOL, I was too lazy to read! I miss that one. I'll charge this to my Duh moments.

Hello! Resurrecting an old issue I am using the latest 2017 version, and still has this problem, although it is selective, only experienced on certain files. Reason is still unknown. I am copying a partial model, about 5MB only and it takes forever to paste it into the host file (not responding).

Hi guys,
Anybody here familiar on using Sketchup for animation? I am new to this feature and I noticed a difference in animation rendering output as follows:

1. Dell Xeon workstation+Quadro 4000 = appeared more accentuated on red/ orange colors, but lacks dynamic overall color range overall (a bit dull pastel-like, my green trees appeared more olive looking, but orange leaf maple tree appeared overly saturated orange). Very smooth animation

2. Dell Alienware+dual GTX 980 = color output as seen on screen. But unstable and bit jumpy in some parts (as if choking, so unexpected from this $$$dollar machine).

Does anyone know how to control the color saturation output? Is it controled by graphics card? I appreciate your comments, thanks!

I have 2015 and 2016, both Pro versions.. thanks I will check it out.

Hi everyone, is there a plugin to show the scenes camera, just like in 3ds max, camera and target? I have a big model, and lots of scenes have been saved already- however I have to move all my model to a new file with all new location as well. If only I can select the scenes cameras as well, just like an object, that would be great, then I don't have to repeat saving the scenes again. Thanks!

Hi everyone, I'm not sure if this is a bug or just my PC Here's the scenario:

1. I adjusted a texure /material's color via the edit tab (slider of RGB/HSL),
2. Saved the file and then send it to a colleague #1 offshore for further tasks.
3. After some time, colleague #1 sends the file back, and when I open it- some of my previously adjusted texture /materials, some of it (not all) reverted back to its original colors. By the way, this is the same native .skp file, there were no exporting/importing that happened.

I wonder why? Any similar experience? I assume that all textures' settings are automatically embedded into the file itself when it is saved, am I right?

Thanks for looking! I appreciate your suggestions.

@onzki said:

Hi, Thanks for sharing this amazing plugins, I installed it via Sketchucation Store (Autoinstall)but how come mine seems lacking? Do I need to uninstall old plugins first? Please see attached screenshot. Thanks!

Funny It's been a year and I have to reply to my own post LOL.. Anyway, for those with similar question like mine here, I finally found where the missing icons are, Euerka! They're under the main menu "HELP->CADFATHER PACK->POWERBARICONS." It took me a year to discover by accident since I don't often scroll down the help menu path.
These are truly amazing plugins, thanks a lot!

Hi, recently I bumped into a wonderful plugin that automatically amends the group/component's name based on it's layer name (Rename by layer- by Renderiza). Now I am thinking a very similar one- is there a plugin that can do the same, but with reference to it's material name?

My rationale:
I have lots of 2D trees & shrubs in Sketchup (always face camera type). However, they are named as component #1, #2, #50 and so on. If only I can amend them all quickly to match the material name- then I will be very happy to have both my source images and components having the same name without laboriously copying and pasting it to component's entity info .
Thanks!!

Thank you guys, I will look into it. Yeah, I guess I got a bit lazy to uninstall those plugins that I don't really use regularly.

Hi everyone, I'm just wondering if there is a way to manage the long list of plugin, maybe sort it or drag it, a search bar or per author? Thanks for the help!

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Amazing amazing plugin, thanks so much! I like how this plugin quickly rename /renumber all my scenes in sequence. By the way, is there a way to rename selected scenes only, in bulk? For example, I select scenes 1-10 and rename them to something else, like "Ground floor scenes_xx"? Thanks!

@pbacot said:

Perhaps you could explode them to segments within ACAD. Even with many segments you will not have the full accuracy or get the correct intersections in SU, but that's the best you are likely to get from SketchUp now or later.

Thanks for the tip, I will try and compare the result.

UPDATE:
I tried exploding in CAD first and it improved. Not that smooth though, but at least not as roughly segmented as before.