Posts made by Stewy

Thanks Solo,

So I now save the png and use it as a sort of texture/colour to apply to my hedge box sides? or am I being a spanner?

Stew

Thank you guys for your replies, I have played around with 3D boxes and colours (haven't figured out how to add leaf patterns yet!) and I may just use a sort of opaque green rectangle as a hedge.

I do love this program - can't stop playing with it. Great forum, thanks fellas

Stew

Hi Guys,

I now need to draw a neat hedge for a plan and want it to look good, doesn't need to have every leaf! and ideas on a good way to model it?
Thinking about it, being able to model trees would also be good

Thanks,

Stew

Thank you guys, that's really satisfying to do, just looked at your webpages/blogs - when im more confident with SU i'll ask about the whole rendering thing!

thank you for taking the time to respond,

Stew

Hi all,

I have not used the smooth tool to date but would like to know how it functions. I have created a moulding to a building(attached) and would like to smooth the curved elements of it. Any help on how to do this would be appreciated,

great forum, inspiring stuff, thank you all for your assistance to date.

Stew

colonade.skp

Thank you Gaieus, that worked a treat, a happy New Year to you and your family,

Stew

Hi everyone, firstly happy New Year to one and all,

I have a curved roof dormer window intersecting with a pitched roof slope (a single, angled plane) and have used the push/pull tool to drag the cruved roof through the plane of the pitched roof and it looks fine except that I'd like a nice crisp line to define the intersection of the two. I tried using the arc tool but this wouldn't work because the intersection isn't actually an arc.

Is there a tool that I can use to define the intersection and erase the bit of the curved roof on the inside of the pitched roof that I don't need?

Thanks,

Stew

you guys are so quick, thank you very much, perfect, I am really grateful

Stew

Hi all,

I'm trying to form two curved portions of roof in the attached drawing - I can't seem to figure it out and have had a look in the tutorials. I'm sure that its really simple to do, any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks,

Stew

refused country house.skp

thanks Guzman, that makes sense, guess I'll just have to work more accurately!

Stew

Hi all,

thanks for the landscape/topo help, i'm really pleased with the results. My next minor niggle is that sometimes a face doesn't automatically generate and I can't seem to figure out why - I guess that the edges are not co-planar, is there any way to force the face by selecting specific edges?

thanks guys,

Stew

Hi Gaieus,

I had SU4 when I worked in a Planning Consultancy and my brother in law bought me SU5 as a birthday present when i left (I mentioned that I liked it but hadn't got to play with it at all). I might buy SU7 - is it much better - hard to think that it could be

Stew

Hi Chris and Gaieus,

Outstanding! thanks, Chris, the video is really helpful and has inspired me to get it right. I spent many hours yesterday evening playing with the various plugins and searching the archives for guidance - I didn't get it to work but I have learnt a lot more about SU!.

I understand what you mean Gaieus about the crosses needing to be converted to into guide points and will lead the plugins that i haven't already later today. At the moment my wife has plans for me with the hoover and some more christmas decorations!.

I'll let you know how I get on later today - with SU not the hoover!

Thanks again and a merry christmas to you all,

Stew

Hi everyone,

Im Stew a new SU member, Im a town planner in the UK, who also designs buildings and site layouts - a frustrated Architect really and its a useful overlap. I use Caddie for drawing and have watched other SU users over the years and finally decided to play with it now. Its actually really addictive! -Im going to have to ask for some advice about putting too much information into my drawings!

Anyway, thank you so far to Gaieus and Chris for your help on my newbie landscape/topo issues - really appreciated,

"I'll be back" (said in an Arnie kinda way)

Stew

Hi,

Ive attached the file that I have so that you can see what Im seeing, can I work with it in SU?

thanks,

Stew

levels base plan.skp

Hi guys, thanks for the help to date. The imported topo' data is a series of crosses in the horizontal plane and then when I rotate around they are at different heights relative to one another. I did try linking them in a series of triangles and colouring each plane green, which looked great. I was then going to sort of round it all off somehow. However, it occurred to me that depending how I linked the points together I could produce different terrain from the real one - or am I being dim.

I then thought that I could bring the topo crosses over the sandbox and pull up ground to each point and then somehow smooth it all off but Icouldn't work out how to actually do it.

My final thought was "join the Sketchucation forum"!!! and here I am...

As an aside, I am really really pleased with the barns and the product is outstanding and easy to use, I look at the work you do and it is inspiring and makes me want to get better and better.

Any help would be really appreciated,

Thank you for your time,

Stew

Hi everyone, I am a new Sketchup user and have gotten myself into a bit of a fix. I am a town planner and building designer in the UK and use Caddie 9.1 as a tool - quite happily. I have been playing with SU as a way of illustrating building designs in 3D and i just love using it. My current project, and my first real SU job, is to draw a couple of existing barns - I have good survey data and have quite happily elevated them. I now need to create the topogtaphical base and drop them in (sounds easy!!!). I have a 2D spot levels DXF plan which imports fine but without the actual levels text. I also have beens sent by the survey company a 3D level plan, which also imports fine and has each point at the right level relative to one another. However, i can't figure out quite how to take those spot levels and create a 'terrain plan' onto which I can insert the buildings. I am sure that Im just being dim and that there is a simple way of doing this.

Any suggestions or help would be gratefully received, the forum looks great by the way, I can see me being in here often,

Stew Rowe