Sketchup for Dummies

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:23 pm

charlese wrote: Okay, Ed, What is a SPLAT?

Google SPLAT charlese. You just might enjoy what you find there.

reible · Post by **reible** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:27 pm

The actual term is "bugsplat" a way of getting system information sent back to sketchup after a crash is the quick and dirty answer.

Ed

charlese wrote: Okay, Ed, What is a SPLAT?

reible · Post by **reible** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:49 am

Must be learning a few things... Presenting a 10" 40 tooth blade, 5/8" bore.

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Radial hey???

Ed

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:29 am

Looking good, Ed.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:19 am

Hey Ed, that is OKAY. It looks really great and you said you just started Sketchup about a week ago. Reading for Dummies must be a good book.

But I have another question or two.

When I save my Sketchup files, they are stored as *.skp.

Yours is e-blade.jpg - how did you do that?

More to the point - how can I view your model in Sketchup?

Even more perplexing. I have version 6.4.112 loaded on my computer.

I saved a copy of a sketchup on my computer and when I try to open it with Sketchup I receive the following:

You have version 5.0.305
You need version 6.4.112

tom_k/mo · Post by **tom_k/mo** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:32 am

Very nice Ed. The more you learn, it's really a pretty productive tool, isn't it. It has it's quirks, but...

On another note, I wish someone would make a decent SketchUp to Second Life converter...

reible · Post by **reible** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:54 am

Hi Dusty,

dusty wrote:Hey Ed, that is OKAY. It looks really great and you said you just started Sketchup about a week ago. Reading for Dummies must be a good book.

I don't remember when I started but I know is been more then a week... and yes the book is helping but then I've used cad/graphic design programs before.

But I have another question or two.

When I save my Sketchup files, they are stored as *.skp.

The sketchup files are stored the same as yours, however you can also go to File, Export, 2D Graphic, and pick the extension .jpg. If you are not into resizing JPG files there is an option to make them into smaller files there too.

Yours is e-blade.jpg - how did you do that?

More to the point - how can I view your model in Sketchup?

At this point I could email you the file, at some point I might share these on line.

Even more perplexing. I have version 6.4.112 loaded on my computer.

I saved a copy of a sketchup on my computer and when I try to open it with Sketchup I receive the following:

You have version 5.0.305
You need version 6.4.112

What that indicates is that you have both the older versions on your computer... seems we may have seen this before on your system. In this case you need to check which version you have up and running when you try to open the saved file. To do this start up sketchup then look under the Help menu and click the About Sketchup, it will tell you what version is running. You may want to get the version 7 in case you want to look at my eblade... you might also what to rid yourself of the oldest version.

BTW the key here was to make one tooth segment then put 39 more together to make the blade... and well hidding some lines.

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Ed

tom_k/mo · Post by **tom_k/mo** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:59 am

reible wrote:BTW the key here was to make one tooth segment then put 39 more together to make the blade... and well hidding some lines.

Ed

Ed, That's the trick with constructing something like that, work smarter, not harder. BTW, you mentioned hiding some lines. You can DELETE those lines instead of hiding them, and it turns the resulting surface into one surface. There are some free plug-ins out there that can perform that task (Delete coplainer lines) automatically which really simplifies your model.

reible · Post by **reible** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:12 pm

Hi,

Yea I like smarter then harder related to all things "work".

Thus far I'm going native mode because I want to learn how this tool was designed to work. I think you or someone was going to post a list of plug-ins that are must haves, did that happen? In the back of the book the author has a list of things he thought would be useful but that list will be dated due to the plublishing date.

I keep working with the fact this is not a solid modeling tool and I miss a lot of the features I have worked with on other 2D systems. Some of the tools are very new to me like the follow me tool... haven't used it a lot yet but from what I have done and seen this is way cool.

Actually the hiding lines was not very hard in this model but since I didn't know about the tool (until I read about it) the model looked like a mess when I first created the other 39 teeth. At least it wasn't bad to go back to the one segment and hide the lines and see it clear up.

After I finish the book I'm looking forward to seeing more of the videos and hope to understand the hows and whys of what they are showing me. When I first started they were loosing me on what they were doing and you can't see a lot of process on the squint video size.

Not sure I will get to much today as several things have piled up on me, one is I'm almost out of hard disk space... got to burn some data DVD's and free some space up then defrag, I can feel it getting slower and slower. In fact I was worried last night when do the blade model, the whole system was slowing down, turned out windows defender was soaking up all the resources.

Ed

tom_k/mo wrote:Ed, That's the trick with constructing something like that, work smarter, not harder. BTW, you mentioned hiding some lines. You can DELETE those lines instead of hiding them, and it turns the resulting surface into one surface. There are some free plug-ins out there that can perform that task (Delete coplainer lines) automatically which really simplifies your model.

curiousgeorge · Post by **curiousgeorge** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:43 pm

dusty wrote:Hey Ed, that is OKAY. It looks really great and you said you just started Sketchup about a week ago. Reading for Dummies must be a good book.

But I have another question or two.

When I save my Sketchup files, they are stored as *.skp.

Yours is e-blade.jpg - how did you do that?

More to the point - how can I view your model in Sketchup?

Even more perplexing. I have version 6.4.112 loaded on my computer.

I saved a copy of a sketchup on my computer and when I try to open it with Sketchup I receive the following:

You have version 5.0.305
You need version 6.4.112

Dusty,
To save the ".skp" model into "jpg"... With the file you want to save opened, you click on File --> Export --> 2D Graphic... and when the Export 2D Graphic window opens you choose where you want to save the file, then type in the File name and in the "Export type" drop down menu select "JPEG image (*.jpg)", then click on Export. You have now saved the .skp file to a jpeg image and it is no longer viewable in SketchUp because it is now a graphics file (picture). Also, to view Ed's model in SketchUp, Ed will have to send you or post the .skp version of the file for you to download and view in SketchUp. Hope this helps.