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@pmolson can you send me the .skp file either via email or a PM?

@pmolson said in texture position grips size:

I am switching it to use my graphics card.

Do you mean you tried switching to the new graphics engine in SketchUp's Preferences>Graphics?

Yeah. It's kind of silly that we've never met in person. After we get through this cold spell and my feet warm up, I'll drive up there.

@dave r said:

Do you make different LO files or just change the export quality?

I export 1 pdf from layout and then use adobe acrobat to save a copy as a reduced size pdf.

@glenn at home said:

That's usually the 1st thing I filter out of a dwg before going into SU. Are you using them for a particular reason or just reference?

TIS FOR REFERENCE.
I can look at the cad file separately on one of my screens but I have always wished I could have the text right in the imported cad file on a separate layer so I can switch it off & on rather than turning my head...yeah, I know...lazy.

Thanks TIG,
I figured you probably addressed this 100 or so years ago.

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fixed
re installed su

Good deal!

I guess we get into workflows that work and plug away.

Have a great weekend. Hopefully it's nicer there than it is here.

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I told it I was ok switching the letter G from its hardwired designation when I made the shortcut.

I have always had to manually redo shortcuts on new installs so nothing new there.
it was just odd that the selection function was funky until I undid and redid the shortcut.

all good now though.

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Have you reached out to Lumion staff with your issues? They have been super helpful for me in the past when I ran into hardware issues.

I do not have any special settings that I have done with my GPU. Pretty much the default settings.
if I remember correctly I just asked the lumion forum for advice on specific settings for my gpu and followed their diections to just change one or two setting to either off or on. I was not having any issues when I asked and did not see any changes in performance when I adjusted the settings.

I would Highly recommend reaching out to the Lumion staff.

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Just a stab in the dark: the camera orientation is different in the render vs the su screenshot you posted. If you orbit to align the two, does anything show up in SketchUp?

Whatever and whenever, it is better now.
move and move copy behaves like the old days:)

Thanks.

Lumion looks like a great program but it's out of my price range. I've seen some great flower collections such as those from Vizpark or Xfrog but the skp or component sizes are gigantic and not really workable within SketchUp given the density required for residential flower plantings.

@pmolson said:

Thank you all for the comments.
To answer the questions...
Hornoxx - That new Picture was taken of me when I was a firefighter at Mcmurdo Station, Antarctica while serving in the United States Navy.

GusR - The plants & shrubs are all native Lumion objects. They work out great because one does not have them in the sketchup file so the model does not get bloated with 3d plats and trees.
I do not use a wall plug in. I model them and each wall is an individual group, or component if they repeat.

Bryan K, Mike Amos, JO-KE, nlipovac - Thank you!

Yeah, I had the same thing, wanted to run 2021 in trial mode until I felt comfortable with it, but couldn't (it may be the classic ID10T problem?) so ended up upgrading my 2020 perpetual license to 2021 perpetual, so I guess I'm stuck with 2021 whether I like it or not.

Good deal. You can go to your Trimble Account Manager Portal and remove all users freeing up all the seats if you ever need to do that. Then you just sign in again as needed.

Ahh.... That's all different then.

A couple of other questions, then. Have you upgraded to 2019.2? When you installed SketchUp did you right click on the downloaded installed and choose Run as administrator or did you just double click on it to get it to run?

Maybe update your profile?

Thanks garystran,
I would like to see the rest too. Unfortunately this was the only room illustrated.

@pmolson said:

This is a video made using my sketchup model with the new prowalker IRAY plug in.

Next time I will make it in two parts and change the sun to shine on the front for the first part and the rear on the second part.

https://youtu.be/-a_KKYaJmNQ

Very nice ! And a lake wiew at that. garystan

Thanks for the nice comments all ya all.
Daniel, At the risk of enabling laziness, I will answer your Question...Again...😄
suPodium is my renderer of choice. I have always found it to be a great balance between ease of use with quality. With relatively limited experience one can make some very nice renders, and with some effort and experience some very fine work can be produced.

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