Sounds promising Tomas - what is the cost? It would be great if you charged on a job basis as many designers are only likely to need this occasionally - but when we need a solution, we really need one.

Re QGIS - I'm self-taught in GIS and tend to use it for simple things like converting tiff file data (look like a monochrome image file, but each pixel contains for instance height data) into dxfs and so getting a contour file. Currently am working on using it to produce variable-width setbacks for waterway protection - which IS pretty difficult, but like this place there are great communities to ask questions.

Try this and read it in depth (It's Chris' ColorBySlope tool)
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15%26amp;t=56825%26amp;p=516133%26amp;hilit=+slope+analysis+#p516133

vid howto
http://www.sargeantillustration.com/tutorial-slope-analysis-in-sketchup/

Subdividing your mesh will help produce a better blur effect but dramatically increase processing time.

You will always get some sort of tiling effect (but turning linework OFF will help a lot) but you can always blur/smudge in photoshop/gimp/fotosketcher

QGIS is the other viable approach but if you know nothing about GIS it's a lot to take on board in an afternoon! QGIS will get you there tho
http://www.qgis.org/en/site/

But it's not quick to explain - WELL worth learning tho' for another time.

Just to clarify - at what range would your visualisation be based on? Are the glasses and their frames actual 3D models? How different do they need to look? Seems to me you're drawing at a scale that won't be seen. Just my 2cents worth.

An interesting idea not showing contours. Lovely, rich looking colours.

To get more 'pop' and depth I would at least try adding a little green-blue to the deeper trees and ever-so-slightly redder haze/speckle/noise/colour to the trees nearest the viewer - I don't know if it would work but it should.

No I don't think it needs 3D (even tho' I a huge 3D advocate). Will there be any 3D/perspectives/iso-views used as well?

Yes logo too big - also as subdivision is quite organic/soft shouldn't the logo assume the same shape? After all it is a tree, and the road layout and stream are probably somewhat dendritic (treelike) especially if this only part of a larger whole. Is the logo the clients's or yours for the job? Could the timber of the tree be blue-edged???

I do think the font family is about right, it feels like it needs those feet and tapers.

Is there a plugin that'll do a ragged lines - I do these in vectorworks for simply graphics and it'd be cool to do them in SU, it'd also be another nail in the vectorworks coffin!

I agree with Pixero, no need for a freebie, we simply don't want to be on a leash.

And for every one of us that says 'no way' to a subscription, you can bet your last dollar (and it might be!), that hundreds of potential buyers are just passing you by.....

Great product I'm sure but subscription, no way, I'll accept for thinks like xero and join.me but never for drawing tools

dxf importer http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=22199

for cleaning and working with impotered acada data:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=267856#p267856

cheaper CAD for dxf/dwg:
https://www.bricsys.com/estore/
I use it all the time; it's my workhorse for dwg/dxf and has a great community and many free plugins certainly not that cheap - NZ$770

I've been looking for this for ages - thanks.

Trimble owns SU now

This looks interesting: mouse only plus a program called StrokeIt:

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15%26amp;t=14116%26amp;p=230770%26amp;hilit=gestures#p230770

search on here for gestures

Hi, I like specifying circular-laid tile patterns (see image) has anyone worked out a method for doing these? Real layings often use six or so different tile shapes, or some are cut down to fit.

Hi, It seems to work fine, the first part doesn't seem to change anything (will run again later and check tho'), and the second part does the sequential name/numbering. Amazing.

I ended up using Aerilius' console http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=414816#p414816 as the default doesn't seem to accept multiline paste.

Hi again Sdmitch, How do I run this? (Hoping answer isn't too obvious!)

Great work Faraz, Can't wait to see how it runs

Thanks very much sdmitch but Jim PMed me and sent me a copy. And thanks for the rename tool, I haven't used it yet.

Read this thread:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=45473#p45473

Hi, I'm designing a fence (see image) where each upright (each is a unique component) is a different length. Then I'm using TIG's component reporter++ http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=147658#p147658to export a csv.

Due to drawing process the components are not 'in order' (to make different lengths I used intersect surface, then Christ Fulmer's loose to groups, then ThomThoms groups to components) - I'd like them numbered e.g. from left to right: 1 to n, then when I export I'd have an in order column which would make it easier for the fabricator to make the fence and easily query me about any variant issues.

Has anyone solved something like this?

I'm going to add more info to this later today