Hi everyone,

Like probably all of us, I want to be able to preview sketchup thumbnails in my standard windows explorer.

But, for some reason mysticthumbs doesn't work with my Win7 64bit.

Do you guys maybe have any alternatives to this?

Many thanks!

That was it!

Thanks so much.. this one has been bugging me for years literally..

I wish I would have asked this question a long time ago..

Many thanks!

Hi all,

Often, after having heavily edited components, I right-click and "save-as" them, so I can have them ready to insert in my next project.

Yet, when I insert exactly those in a new file, they directly "jump" to their "original" location, essentially the location where I did the save-as mentioned above.

They do so without even letting me move them, so I then have to go and take them from there..

This is completely unlike "normal" components, which usually insert close to your mouse, and they even move with your cursor..

Any idea how I can make my custom saved components behave normally?

Many thanks!

Hi everyone,

I want to do an interior daylight study with Vray for Sketchup.

The idea is to be able to show and compare the light intensity in different times of the day and year (summer, equinox, winter at 9:00, 12:00 and 15:00).

Initially I just set up a physical camera with same settings and render using different shadow settings.

This of course has it's limitations, as the lighting conditions change massively, and therefore it's sometimes either way too dark, or too bright.

Also, I was looking for something more specific and "convincing", as I could easily cheat by "tweaking" the camera settings and therefore showing my room as a lot brighter than it actually is..

I've seen general daylight analysis plugins, but from what I was able to see most of them are designed for exterior studies plus they require different modelling techniques from the ones used by vray, consequently ruling them out. (Ideally I don't want to have to remodel)

Is there maybe a way I could also quantify the different levels of light (with vray), and visually represent this?
Maybe even with something that can measure the Lux of a specific point?

Many Thanks!