Posts made by srkorson

Hmm, not sure, but ReGlue always tells me I must select ONE component and ONE face if I have anything more selected.

Great, thanks. That worked; although I had to individually do it to each copy of the component, it's still much easier/faster than having to manually position each one from the Components browser. And after I re-glued each copy of it using the plugin, additional copies I made from those using the Move tool cut the opening properly.

%(#008000)[Hello,

I have always had an issue with placing copies of components that have the "cut opening" option set. The problem is that while the initially created component cuts the opening just fine, any copies of it made with the Move tool do not. I just found out that if I place the additional copies of the component through the Components browser window, they will cut the opening. I guess I just thought it was pretty standard practice to make copies of a component with the Move tool; shouldn't the copies be cutting the opening as well? It's really quite inconvenient for me to have to place each copy of this component individually—I want several copies with regular spacing between them, so it is much, much easier to make a linear array of them using the Move tool. I don't know of any other way to make all the regularly-spaced copies of the component; is there some other way to do this? Or, am I doing something wrong with the component and how it is set up, causing the cutting functionality to fail when using the Move tool?

Thanks in advance for any help.]

Thanks for the response; I did what you suggested to find the scale by measuring a line in the image and scaling it to that size. Still, parts of the model didn't match up, but it was just one driveway, which I modified to fit with everything properly. Now it's all correctly geolocated and the model is in my Google Earth layer, which is what I wanted.

Hello. I'm at my wit's end trying to geolocate my model for Google Earth. Before I started making the model in Sketchup, I took a screenshot of Google Maps on my browser to model it from. The reason why I did this is because if I added a location with Sketchup, the red and green axes in the model wouldn't match up with the streets in the satellite photo, and it would be much more difficult to model it that way without being able to snap to those axes. Now that I'm done with the model, however, I want to put it into Google Earth as part of a layer I'll share with my boss.

The first problem I ran into was that when I tried to add a location to the model in Sketchup, after I clicked the "Grab" button, the window with the area I selected disappeared and the satellite imagery did not even appear in my model anywhere. To try and circumvent this, I selected the area it should be located at in a new model, and imported the existing model into that new one. This worked alright, except my lines are no longer colored like they should be and some images are missing from the model.

The main problem I'm running into now is that I just can't seem to match up the model I've made with the satellite photo. When I first imported the finished model into the one with geolocation data, it was too small and of course it wasn't rotated right, so I rotated it properly and tried to scale it up correctly. Now I think that literally every move or scale action I do to match up part of the model to the photo messes up two more parts it. I guess this sounds stupid but whenever I have one driveway or building matched between the satellite photo and the model, I look at another part of it and something's completely misaligned somewhere else. I was wondering if anyone has some general advice as to what I should do to make it work right. I'm hoping that there might be some script to do the scaling and moving automatically based on the ground imagery I already have in the model, as I feel like I could sit here all day and do this and still it wouldn't match up.