Do you order 3D prints or print yourself?

Are the units you install custom made to suit tight spaces?

I've a tiny clothes airing room at home and I can never source storage solutions to fit. Anytime I see your stuff I always wonder where you source the units/cabinets

I merged that extra thread to here. Creating separate threads pointing to other threads is not helping you.

As you have proven, many times already, that if you persevere when you encounter issues you'll figure it out.

That bar you are pointing is a scrollbar. Not an element related to the animation. You have Clips starting at 24secs in your timeline than go to 33secs.

Regarding your issue Purging. You haven't explained the issue so I can only guess.

If you click Purge Unused then Animator will indicate, in Pink, all the unused elements in your file. Then if you click Save Changes and Exit Tool it will remove the Unused Elements.

It will not remove elements while you still have the tool active.

Lots of these issues you encounter are resolved by A/B testing yourself. If it is not doing what you expect then try a different approach to understand how it is expected to work.

So here's a task for you. Get the clips that are way down the timeline to be at the start.

See if you can find a way to do it without having to drag the elements individual.

HINT: Right click on your timeline.

If you intend to have some type of text based elements in your video its probably better suited to another software.

You could do it in Animator but I'd offload the non-3D stuff to something else.

@L-i-am said in Having a bad day?:

temporally on a med that completely stifles creativity

Heal up soon

Stay safe @majid

You could try this:
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=universal_importer

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It works with simple stuff

But the best way I fould to go from Blender to SU is to use the DAE export in Blender.

Why is the green section under my custom toolbars no longer visible in the Lord of the Toolbar menu?

Do you use several monitors. The latest version of LibFredo did not do anything for that. Possibly, Open the Ruby Console copy/paste the following command T...

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This?

@FlorinAp said in [Plugin] FredoSection - v1.3b - 27 Dec 25:

Fredo Section is the most advanced and complete tool for sections in SketchUp, but... it is almost unusable at this time - one time works (barely), and 3 times doesn't work... at all...
It still needs a lot of work.!

I'd be more specific with regards 'doesn't work at all'?

@ntxdave said in Scene animation with Animator:

What are Kinematic objects and how are they used in SketchUp and Animator?

@ntxdave said in Scene animation with Animator:

What are Trajections and how are they used in Animator?

The buttons you are pointing at are the include/exclude in animation toggles.

That is difficult for us to test because we don't have a iMac Pro 2017 to replicate the issue on.

Maybe @tig or @gábor have more ideas?

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Please hover these UI buttons:

These allow you to position the UI

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2

AI is not good source for a solution. You could be going down a rabbithole to nowhere.

A better option would be to upgrade SketchUp if that's in your budget.

@ntxdave said in Scene animation with Animator:

try using Rayscaper to produce a rendered version of the final product.

Rayscaper does not support Animator.

@hellnbak said in "False Maria" robot from 1927 silent film "Metropolis":

If it's not too much trouble I'd appreciate it if you could change it back

I'll do it next year

Go to Tools > Fredo Collection > Animator > Video... menu for guides

@ntxdave said in Scene animation with Animator:

there is a transition that takes place early (about 1:40)

The object is moved through the plane to fake the appearance of a Spiral getting revealed.

You can set playback on YouTube to be 0.25x speed if following along in real-time is difficult.

@ntxdave said in Scene animation with Animator:

How did you get to the option in your post?

Double clip a strip in your timeline to edit that strip's properties.

For it to work the input needs to be correct.

The projection plane is either an empty rectangular face or a flat custom made quad grid with the same topology as the target surface.
The target surface is a rectangular quad grid - rectangular means that the grid needs to have four distinct corners.
Connection edges (or construction lines in case the lines intersect each other) connect two adjacent corners on the projection plane with two adjacent corners on the target surface.

There are tons of working examples here: https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1517999