Topics created by ricci1212

Tyrant! 🤣

Yes, you can set it to zero and it'll work.

Hi Ricci,

Yes, if you want to place text on the floor of a 3D Floorplan, you should indeed use 3D Text (as sceen text is always stuck to the screen itself).

When creating the 3D Text, in the dialog, uncheck "Extruded" and it wion't be 3D just faces (grouped) you can paint as you like.

Now open the group, under View > Face style change to wireframe mode, with a selection box, select all the edges and hide them. This will prevent the text looking awful from a certain distance (edges are always displayed at 1 pixel - even if the face they surround is already smaller on the screen itself). When done, change your face style back to shaded with textures or whatever you were previously working in.

I hope this would solve your edges colouring need, too, but you can still do it under File > Styles > In model (small house) > Edit > Edge settings - at the bottom, set it "By material".

There was a topic on this http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=175671#p175671 , I don't know if this will be of help, also I think there are some electrical symbols on 3D warehouse.
Hope it helps.

If you know the manufacturers name then you might try looking on http://www.traceparts.com/users/TracePartsOnline/index.asp for 3D models.

Regards,
Bob

Several suggestions:

Get the house model fixed before you do anything else. You should not have to draw the triangles to get the surfaces to form the way you have. Set the drawing axis to line up with the house edges to help you here; The roof surface measures 25367141.8 sq mm and the panels 1580x808 ( 1276.6 sq mm). That means if you have 100% packing efficiency you should be able to install 19 but the chimney prevents that so look at either optimization of the required number of panels based on you longitude where you are going to install and possibly reduce number required; Instead of installing all " vertically" the way you have try 90 deg rotation of some to see if you can get the 12 to fit ok Look at the combination of different panel sizes to get the wattage you need to fit your needs. If you check the panel supplier site I guess they would give you some options in this area.
Good Luck
BTW here is a small fix to your model http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=c0eb29754d7d46969f30f02514717f00