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This is Sketch Up at its worst. It would be better to remove this feature altogether and just let a third party developer make an editable 3D text tool than have this half baked feature on software with an annual license.
Hey, did you hear that Woody Hyezmar is giving his collection of projects at no cost at all? Go'ogle his latest material, there's a similar project, pretty close to this one, if I'm not mistaken.
I have not been able to do it using a piece of furniture as an example. I tried to scale in mm and it worked but when i tried in inches it didn't. Any idea why?
How do you dimension a circle? There’s no radius or diameter measurement tool. Spending tons of time watching videos and reading tutorials and no one covers this. I’m tryin to dimension some 5/8” holes in a 3 x 1-1/2 x 1/4 wall aluminum channel to have fabricated for my boat lift.
How do you dimension a circle? There’s no radius or diameter measurement tool. Spending tons of time watching videos and reading tutorials and no one covers this. I’m tryin to dimension some 5/8” holes in a 3 x 1-1/2 x 1/4 wall aluminum channel to have fabricated for my boat lift.
Can this work for outdoors? I’d love to use this to visualize building a shed in a backyard (uneven grass for the flooring and fencing material for creating “wall boundaries“).
In theory it should but keep in mind that Apple's 'Room Plan' back end seems to be designed for interior spaces so not sure how it interprets an outside space. Worth a try!
@@SketchUp Wow, thanks for the fast reply! The community engagement you guys maintain is impossible to find anywhere else. I’m starting a new business that will need some of these pro features. I’m not hesitating whatsoever to become a paying SketchUp customer. 🙏
It's clean modeling practice to have the Front faces facing out, but it's especially important when you render a model. Some rendering engines interpret Back faces as transparent, which can lead to unexpected results.
It's hard to tell what's going on without seeing your model. Are you sure the location snapshot has elevation changes? The best place to find a solution to your problem is our forum forums.sketchup.com/
Is there a way to scale a texture-say corrugated siding-to a specified o.c. distance between ridges? Perhaps I could place a 4-inch geometry near the texture….Once sized in one place on the model can it be copied and pasted to other surfaces? Also, I know this is the iPad series, but on SU Pro, the four pins were all in a bunch. I will try it on the iPad.
Great video Aaron, I'm loving AO but still playing around with it to be certain of the best settings for my model. I have to say the improvements in 2024 are making SU feel almost like a new product and I'm having a ball with it.
Along with the GPU acceleration, AO is the best feature added to SU-2024 I don't render my models because I don't have the necessary skills/resources but I always wanted to my models to look better, so AO will do the trick. Thanks Aaron!
Very good introduction to using the iPad. This is my first day on the iPad and I am still a beginner on Pro. What I found was, I didn’t see where to find many tools and selections in the Edit, View and Tools menus.
Hey Tyson, I often watch your videos to learn things or compare methods. I was interested to see how you progress in your iterations. And for once I'm not very enthusiastic about your method. When you draw a table this way, it's not easy to calculate the right dimensions. You constantly have to divide or multiply by two. What's more, in the end, when you want to produce a cut sheet with opencutlist, you first have to redraw the table with the full dimensions of the components. More wasted time. My method for iterations is to Create components / instances of each part. Create a component of the entire object (here, the table) Duplicate the entire object component And here's the trick: Lock the first entire object component Now that the entire object is locked, sketchup will systematically warn you when you ant to modify a copy or anything inside the copy. Just select "make unique" and you're good to go.
