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@tuckejam wrote:

Still new to sketchUp, have been playing with it for about a month now.

(after a miserable day modelling PVC pipe i was thinking about getting something to help)

Are these regulated in some way before they are released? or can anyone just make write some code and make it available?

Of course i understand that not every plug-in will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations in the world and i may experience some issues.

Really my question is, are most extensions quality usable tools, or is it more like the App store for you phone, mostly junk but a few really good investments.

and most important do i need to worry about getting something dangerous?

thanks for the help

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Vray 3.4 preview light not rendered

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@Piemelaar wrote:

Hi guys,

Working with Sketchup 2017 and vray 3.4 but i have a question.

How do i get vray / sketchup to force a preview of the light i place?
And i am not talking about the interactive render...

Grtz.

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Difference between V-ray and Lumion

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@shockwave wrote:

Hi, can anybody tell me difference or when to use V-ray and when to use Lumion? Do I understand that Lumion has much more functions than V-ray? Thanks a lot

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Pipe-line-like extruction with downgrading/offsetting radius? Need that

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@enriqueimmontemar wrote:

I'm trying to do a particular instrument which is similar to a pipeline in some ways but as the figures goes on, the radius gets smaller (even on curves).
At first I didn't find the tool Follow Me on my Sketchup Pro, so then (after a lot of time of struggling by doing it by hand) I decided to use an extension but this extension is to simple and doesn't let me do that in particular.
I may do this by hand if there's no other solution, but this instrument is intended for 3D printing and when I do things by hand the model "breaks" in some places after the STL exportation.

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Panorama 360* uploading and downloading

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@suevicious wrote:

Hey guys,

I hope it's not a silly question. How do you upload and download panoramic renders so that you can have it on your PC and share it to the customer but privately? Most of the websites offering panorama uploading only allow to upload but not to download. And obviously I don't want to share it on Facebook, Twitter etc. I want to be able to move around my panoramic renders but not online. Whenever I try to google the answer all I get is an advice on how to upload 360* photos to Facebook and that's exactly the opposite of what I am looking for! :slight_smile:

Thanks

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Has anybody seen this Skalp error message before?

Extension that shows hotkeys and mouse button pressed?

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@spawn2k99 wrote:

Hi everybody.

I've seen in another 3D design program an addon that lets you show what hotkeys or mouse button you're pressing, I think it helps if you're trying to explain something. Is there any extension that lets you do that on SU?

Thanks in advance.

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Exporting 2d faces for CNC

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@SubparFiddle wrote:

I've been using SketchUp for a while now for designing wood frames for upholstered furniture. One of my biggest problems with my workflow is getting the 2d data I need from my models. Currently, when I finish a model I go through each part, double click to edit, select a face, copy, back out and paste it to the origin plane. Then I export as a 3d model to get a dxf I can import into my CAM software.

Are there any available extensions that can go through selected groups and components and export the 2d faces automatically? Or even just arrange those parts somewhere in the model?

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How to setting auto arrange plugin

Are there any extensions that help 'Fix' volumes out of whack?

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@rlb wrote:

I've been working with an involved (but orthogonal) volume as part of a design. It has some dings, like a flat surface that seems made up of several triangular segments. Is there an extension for Sketchup to 'Fix' small irregularities and literally 'rectify' volumes?

Thanks.

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Eneroth View Memory

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@eneroth3 wrote:

After several requests I've now finally made a plugin that can export and import scenes. The plugin handles camera position, hidden layers, section cuts, style, fog, shadow settings, geo location and axes location (did I miss anything?).

In addition to exporting the data to an external file it can also memorize and later recall any of this information, somewhat similarly to the how memory of a pocket calculator is used.

The use cases varies from re-using a style and fog you really like in new models to compare different design options and create consistent views among numerous models as shown in the video.

There's a 14 day trial so you can test it out without having to buy it first.

Link: http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/eneroth-view-memory

Enjoy!

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Skalp Rear View Projection Possible Issue

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@MichaelSiggers wrote:

Good Evening

So, a really simple model.

Initially I decided to use Skalp's Rear View Projection, to show the roofing layout, on the horizontal section.

Since editing the design, I no longer need this projection, but for the life of me, I can not turn it off. When I disable it in Skalp, it goes. I update the scene. When I click on the Scene again, it's back, despite Skalp showing it not switched on for this scene.

Any thoughts?

I've tried to upload the Sketchup file, but it's 7MB, and it's stating it's too big.

Kind regards

Mike

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Accessing extensions?

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@rlb wrote:

I'm a novice at Sketchup, but with ambitions. I want to use several extensions to help build a rather complex architectural model.

I've followed the process of downloading the extensions I want, including Cleanup3, Solidinspector2, and S4U Mirror. The mirror and the Solidinspector2 extensions have appeared as small, moveable items on the display screen, but I can't find Cleanup3. Is there a standard place where one accesses extensions? From the Extensions Manager? How? The S4U extension is the only one that appears under 'Extensions' in the top Sketchup application bar (to the right of the Apple symbol).

Thanks !!

rlb

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Square aluminium profile with 4 binding sites for 3Skeng

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@axl wrote:

Hi,

I´m looking for a square alu-profile for 3skeng which has got 4 connection sites (unlike the alu-profile that comes with the mount tool, having only 2 binding sites!)

I have surched the whole stealworks database but could not find anything like that! It would be great if someone could help me!

Thanks in advance, Axl!

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Exporting Materials From 3D Warehouse Models

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@Matthewg wrote:

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is a Sketchup question or a V-Ray 3.0 Question.

TL;DR (Is there something that automatically extracts material diffuse maps into a folder for all materials to save doing it manually)

I recently took charge of the IT within our company, I have overseen the upgrade from Vray for sketchup 2.0 to 3.0.

One of the big differences I have seen is the distributed has had a huge upgrade with the Swarm, however it doesn't like it when the materials diffuse maps are linked to an incorrect location. I'm working on getting these guys working to best practices with their models but there's something that is bugging me and I am wondering if there's a quick way to do it.

The easiest way to explain this is by using a blank model with an imported 3D warehouse object.

I'm going to use the model: Tech 3 Mistral 610 Component by Cyrus Khan purely as an example.

If I try and render this model on its own with nothing else in the scene at 4k on medium quality with progressive rendering turned off (I like to see it doing something with the little squares). Connect it to 20 or so swarm controlled machines the render will start and connect to maybe 1 or two swarm nodes but will not load on others. The render will finish FAR before the majority of the swarm have kicked in. Example in the screenshot below.

Now through a lot of trial and error/troubleshooting, I have found that the reason behind this is because the Diffuse maps are linked to Cyrus's D Drive. Now I can go through all of these using a combination of the Vray Asset editor and the Materials section of the default tray. I can select the materials one by one. And click "Edit Texture in external editor" button" it opens it in my Windows 10 photo app and I can save it to a materials folder in the root of the model

Once ive done this to all of the materials. the Swarm will kick in in seconds after it starts rendering on all nodes.

So..

now the background is out of the way. Is there a way to export all of the diffuse maps from materials to a folder?

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Ruby Code Editor plugin doesn't work

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@nnijmeijer wrote:

I used the Ruby Code Editor from alexschreyer for serval months with no problem.
But it doesn't start anymore since today.

The Ruby Console shows the following code:

Error: ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
C:/Users/******/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/as_rubyeditor/as_rubyeditor.rb:225:in split
C:/Users/******/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/as_rubyeditor/as_rubyeditor.rb:225:in initialize
C:/Users/******/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/as_rubyeditor/as_rubyeditor.rb:522:in new
C:/Users/******/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/as_rubyeditor/as_rubyeditor.rb:522:in block in
SketchUp:1:in call

How can I fix this problem?

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Vray Gpu acceleration

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@Shai wrote:

hello
the option in Vray for enable Gpu acceleration, will it make the rendering proccess faster?
i have a geforce 1070 g1 graphics card.

thanks

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Angle precision plugin

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@Xyeicroft wrote:

Is there a plugin that gives angles the same decimal precision as linear measurements?
If there is, I'd like a link, because I really need high precision angles in making mechanical linkages.

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Help RoundCorner - SU8

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@barracuda wrote:

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Where to get laterst RoundCorner for SU8? I checked SketchupUcation plugin store but there is 3.2b certificated for SU 2017. I have 2.3 installed but now I stuck some problem, what could be fixed in later version...

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Can you tell me where is fault? I cannot see. No soft or hidden edges in the selection.

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Curviloft - What does viewport mean?

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@spawn2k99 wrote:

Hi everybody.

I'm doing some tries with curviloft extension and I often gets this window

And I'm not able to exit and return to the standard options viewer

So I wonder why Escape (I guess it's ESC in my keyboard) doesn't work.
And I wonder what viewport means, that way I can try clicking on it to exit as the yellow message says.

Thanks in advance.

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