Posts made by zzm

Plugin would open each skp and save the current view. No scene tabs, just open/ close and save a jpg.

I have 400 skp files and need to save a jpg of each one. I was looking for a plugin to open/ close each and save a jpg. It would be nice to adjust the resolution, but screen resolution works.

I remember seeing something out there one time, just can't remember.

I'm not happy with sketchup plugins such as smooth animation. I'd like to make a nice fly around video with zero mico pauses.

I have 100 pages 24x36

I would like to make them all 8.5x11 and shrink everything to fit.

Thanks, I forgot about that plugin. That's a pretty old one. I have it on a hard drive somewhere.

I have seen the simple cost plugin before. I was wondering if there was a better one.

I want to assign cost to the materials and components, then generate a report. It would be great if the report auto updated and I didnt need to click generate report all the time. For example, it would be nice if I could see numbers change on the fly when I deleted and added items.

Just wanted to check the forums to see if anyone know of any good plugins for that. I'll be happy with anything that works.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the ideas. I really wish I knew ruby a little better so I could write it. Here is more detail.

1. Select a folder that has 300 skp files
2. Find all components named "tree1.skp" (for example) would be nice to be able to change the name, but I could always tweak the code
3. Replaces all "tree1.skp" with "tree2.skp" in all files. Open, save, and closes files.

Basically what happen is that I used a tree for 300 files and realize now that I would like it to have a taller trunk. So running a ruby would be faster than opening all the files.

Hi,

I was wondering if any one had a script that would:

1. open a sketchup file
2. replace a component with a different component.

I have 300 skp files that I want to open and replace a tree with a different tree.

Just a random image of a UV map. What I am trying to do is take a Google Earth model and have say 5 textures instead of 50. It would be awesome if all the textures could go to a single canvas and SketchUp would use that 1 canvas for the needed texture.

Does anyone know if there is a plugin for sketchup that puts all your textures onto a single canvas. This would be great for reducing texture count when importing into Unity3D.

This is what I mean by UV Map http://www.cgimagination.com/forum/dora_07.jpg

Thanks everyone for the very fast feedback. I do know about combine textures in sketchup- sucks that it makes things blurry, but it's still cool so I still give them credit.

I thought I saw a plugin one time that took all your textures and put them on a few bigger canvases so you would have say 5 large textures instead of 50 textures. Hope that makes sense

Does anyone know if or where a plugin is that combines SketchUp materials to one canvas. This will help with Unity3D.

Well, I guess you are right. I could have sworn that it didn't work. So I reset all my short cuts and imported it and .... well it worked. I do remember it not working, but your post got me to have faith that it was working again- thanks.

I have been wishing SketchUp would fix the bug that doesn't let you save your shortcuts. I know that you can save a .dat file of your shortcuts, but I can never get it to work when I import it. Has any made a ruby that saves shortcuts? that would be awesome

The balloon is working now

To answer your question. My best guess would be that the balloons get pushed separately from the models and thus can be sometimes delayed. I suspect that since Google is pushing models just about every week now it is hard to keep up with things. I would also suspect that they are aware of this and are working on it. I have seen bubbles like this and know they will eventually appear. I would guess that your bubble would appear around the next push maybe next week.

Thanks for the quick response and tips. small steps for now... I try what you said

I have always wanted to learn Ruby. I started looking at the Ruby Library Depot. I want to make a simple script and was wondering if there were an generous people out there. All the script would do would open a sketchup file and save it as version 6. I have 150 sketchup files I need to save as version 6 and thought this would be a good first script to write, but I have no idea where to start. The script would open all 150 files and save them as version 6 and close them.