@i5963c I would say it is a bug, although it is likely been this way forever. Check the SketchUp API tracker at GitHub to see if it has been reported yet. The GUI 3D Text tool puts the resultant text geometry within a component context. This way it can be moved around, rotated, etc. The API use of Entities.add_3d_text should also be inserting into a component or group context. This context can also have subgroups. So the workaround is to apply a transitional transform to the "g" subgroup and align it. Unfortunately, the vertical text alignment constants are for drawing text to the view for tools and overlays. So they will not apply to 3D text.

@tuna1957 No way! This is such a disappointment! This was such a great resource.

You're welcome. I found this video from Tutorials Up for some different methods to create a sidewalk on terrain. The last one looks interesting. Haven't tried any of these yet. You'll have to watch it on Youtube since they don't allow any embedding for their channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ5moezcj58

Very best to you and yours, you made a difference.

Works fine for me on those two browsers, and Firefox. Are you sure your password is right ? e.g. caps-lock on ? Try clearing your browsers' caches and retry logging in ??

@box said: Perhaps the 'big boy pants' are more flexible than you think. Nope. Import a hi poly model of a car and SU craps itself.

@pixero said: About the slowness I've read here somewhere before that it is because SU is using the inference engine all the time. I usually hide all edges on imported highres geometry which makes it a bit faster. Exactly. Note that if no drawing tool is selected (only a viewing tool like hand etc.), panning and zooming a complex model already gets MUCH faster. If edges are not shown at all, handling a complex model for me jumps from around 3 jerky fps to a completely smooth ~60fps.

With the variation of hardware and software there is no way any program will have 100% success. There will always be combinations that fail. Add to that different folks making personalisations in any number of settings and I am surprised the results are as good as they are.

I have and use Thru Paint but its not mapped to fire. It is a large project with a bunch of hi-res textures. I disabled SimLab FBX Exporter and OBJ Importer, STL Import Export, Super Drape, Texture Resizer, VRay Tools, VoronoiXYZ, Photo Textures, PlayUp, RpWallmaker, Trimble Connect, and Easy Sketch. My materials and textures were mapping to my AppData location, so it was local but I remapped it to a location where I have all my local libraries. So far, the lag seems fixed but I have no idea which thing resolved it.

I am using this in work and it's working really well without error for many months now. Data prep is more of an issue for more complex models I am bringing in from places like Delatgen and Catia, SketchUp however is the easiest of the bunch. You do need SketchUp Pro to make it work however and I havent' yet tried it on SU2019.

Disabled several plugins and that solved the issue.. now to track down which one was causing it!

@cotty said: I've used CubicPaboOut (http://www.smustard.com/script/CubicPanoOut) in the past for exporting the 6 cube images and $ KRPano (https://krpano.com/) to stitch them together. Example: [attachment=0:1s4508iw]<!-- ia0 -->cotty_cubicpanoout.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1s4508iw] Interactive version: http://cotty.de/cubicpanoout/Image_sphere.html CubicPanout creates gray bars on my exports, which is an issue that has been seen before.

Glad thats its not just me. I will report it to Trimble I guess.

It seems that it was my components window. My history had a network location that was hosted on another machine in my home network so it was taking a killer amount of time loading that... i think. Once I removed it from the component browser history, it starts up in less than 5 seconds.

Oh, I didnt even think of those. I was going to use Smart Drop. http://sketchucation.com/plugin/773-smartdrop

@valerostudio said: It seems that Maxwell already does something similar using Pixar subdivision. Yea - I just noticed they appear to have OpenSubdiv support. (Which is what I'm working on right now - replacing my own subdivision engine with the industry standard.) But yea, as Thomas mentions - we've been talking to some render engines in trying to find a generic way for extensions to be able to provide high-poly replacements for objects in a SketchUp model. A generic system that would allow any extension to declare itself as a proxy provider and then have render engines consume the result without needing to know anything about the other extension.