Topics created by toddbg

@spadestick said:

Yeah, if you get too concerned about dimensions like these, then you have to account for the size and thicknesses of the blades that will cut them, usually they slice a few millimeters off what is the actual intended and exact dimension.

That sounds like a set up problem. It doesn't have to work that way.

Thoughts? Have a beer. 😄

I honestly don't know but I would try to contact the CutList Plus author. I did a little searching and didn't find much useful info about CutList Plus Express. Is it really releated to CutList Plus?

I expect if you were able to get in touch with someone from CutList Plus (Bridgewood Design?) they might be able to take a look at the file exported from the plugin and see what is missing or what needs to be changed. If it's a change required to the plugin to make the export file usable, we'll have to find someone who can edit the file.

Out of curiosity, will CutList Plus Express accept a CSV file? If so, what happens when you import a CSV file from the plugin?

@toddbg said:

Thanks Jim -
In what way could the axes be better positioned.
I'm mor than happy to clean this up so that it becomes a useful model.

Actually, it looks good. Not sure what I meant at the time... and thanks to you I learned some new tricks playing with this DC.

You can only reference attributes a distance of one component away. Parent -> Child, Child -> Parent, Sibling -> Sibling.

So if you need deeply nested DC's then you need to repeat the attribute at each level.

Hi guys.

Here's my take for a scalable component.

It also would rely on a Outer Shell being run on each stick, but this could be automated easily enough with a script.

This could be used for both the vertical and horizontal pieces I think, but I didn't have time to try.

dc_lattice_part.skp

@slbaumgartner said:

What kind of computer are you on (your profile doesn't say)? I've had situations on my Mac where WebKit stalls for a sometimes very long time displaying a blank white page - not just on the warehouse. I've never figured out what causes this...

Steve

Hi Steve -
I am on a Dell N1040, windows 7 64bit OS

I guess I would take that question directly to SketchUp's customer service instead of asking here.

People claimed to have issues with SketchUp 8 when it came out, too. I've been using SU2013 since it was first release and wouldn't go back to SU8 and especially LO3 for anything. I much prefer SU2013 and LO2013.

For all replacement of Components (randomly or not) try the fabulous Replacement Random Components by Sdmitch!

when you convert a large group to single components you then have a number of components with different names( usually numbered) and if you know all of those are the same use the component browser replace capability to then replace selected.
Nothing new been around for years.

Use the triangulate function in Blender before exporting, this sometimes helps.

Lines2tubes by Didier Bur ?
Precision give the number of segments of the tube's section: 3 to 100)
Here 4
Of course you must simplify before the model following wished 😄
And of course increase size of section!
PS I have used Xline (free) by Rick wilson for transform Construction lines / lines

skull.jpg

I got the edges cleaned up on the face of the letters.
Is it possible to deal with the ones on the edge of the letters? So far every time I remove one (fn click with eraser on WIN) the whole surface is removed.

Thanks again

It's just the first page that crashes my Mac every time, except on "medium". Also crashes on "Print". Other pages seem fine at any quality. Maybe it's the image itself that could be brought into LO in a different format (I assume it is a graphic output of a renderer).

Hi,

A further possibility is the Follow Me tool

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Like to add my $.02 also. Totally agree that Layout needs to have matching accuracy!--AND SOON, PLEASE!

I just ran into the same problem! The model is drawn to 0.001" precision but there's no matching precision in layout. I can't simply convert to metric because Layout's mm precision is limited to 0.1mm. sigh

I did post a reply on the Layout wish list; so, hopefully that will help get it fixed.

regarding the topic of dimensioning & SketchUp for engineering, I thought producing a dimensioned and annotated 3D PDF would be a great & simple way to pass the model along to collaborators and contract manufacturers 😄

unfortunately, it seems the current 3D PDF export pluggins don't work so well for this:

The SimLab 2.4 pluggin exports only 2D plane 3D geometry; it does NOT export points, lines, guides, text, nor dimension entities - which makes it practically impossible to create a fully commented/annotated 3D model in PDF. 😞

However, with Adobe Acrobat, you can enable the 3D PDF for analysis & measurement within the free Acrobat Reader which is pretty cool. ...but measuring is still a pain compared to having the dimensions already called out...

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a400/rigmort/CB.jpg

Back Edges only works with vector lines. It doesn't work with raster lines which is what all the sketchy line styles are. So you're out of luck on that one. You could get different line colors if you apply materials (colors) to different lines but that won't be a style setting so you'll have to do it for each model.