Maybe is it silly question, but I do not understand, what are these plus signs and how do remove them? It looks not possible to select or delete them with eraser. Must be something logical and simple
The plus sign, in the Move and Rotate tools, indicates that you are in Copy mode so that the command results in a copy of the original item. It is a toggle and you turn it on and off by clicking the Control key.
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A construction point is an infinitely-small point in 3D space, rendered as a sort of tiny cross, that can be used as a reference for other drawing operations. A simple way to get a construction point is to draw an arc, circle, or polygon, then right-click on the edge and choose Find Center from the pop-up context menu. A construction point will be added to the model at the radial center of the arc or etc. You can then select and move or copy that construction point, if you want to stick some construction points elsewhere.
A related SketchUp object - a guide line - can be created using the Tape Measure tool. Click on an edge, then drag out and either click again where you want the parallel edge to appear or type a distance value and press Enter. In either case a guide line should appear as a dashed entity that can also be used as a reference for future drawing activity.
A sort of hybrid of a construction point and guide line can also be made with the Tape Measure tool, by clicking on an existing end-point of an edge (rather than somewhere along the edge) and then moving and clicking again or moving and then typing a dimension value. In this case a construction point will be created at the terminating position, with a dashed tail extending from the starting position. In the case of this hybrid, the dashed line cannot be used as a reference for inferencing (as I recall), but the visible tail can be handy to indicate the nature or purpose of the construction point at the end of the tail.
What do you mean? P is the shortcut for push pull, maybe you had assigned other command on your previous sketchup Version, the shortcuts and the plug-ins are not kept when you install a new version, you must set sketchup up manually.
If you look at the Status bar, just below the modelling window, after choosing any tool, you will see hints about how to use the tool and what optional features are possible by using the various modifier keys.
Always adjust your mats under lit conditions. Don't just try to match a color in a flat 2d environment. The image you're showing is just demonstrating how light works and how the settings of your material interact with it. In order for you to achieve an exact match, you would need to create the exact lighting conditions of photograph. Just eyeball it inside Enscape and call it a day.
Not that much I want to add to vjaramillo 's response, but yes, you would have to have the exact same lighting conditions plus the time of day has to match since the sun produces a different color (in real life and in Enscape), depending on the set time, weather conditions and so on.
Further, comparing the SketchUp view-port output with Enscape would not make that much sense since SketchUp only makes use of a highly simplified lighting system, and there is no sun-light-color which affects the projects appearance. In that case, you could, just for experimentation, turn the Rendering Quality in the General tab to "Draft" and in the Atmosphere tab set the "Sun Brightness" to 0%, which should give you an output more closely resembling the output of SketchUp.
I would like to pose the question in a different way, if I may. I understand color theory and the physics involved in color reproduction, and I do not disagree with both your observations and recommendations.
That said, as an architect who deals daily with clients of very different levels of sophistication and experience, I find with great frequency perceptual discrepancies between colors selected and specified from manufacturer's catalogs and specifications, and the same color rendition on a digital image or printed material.
From a client's perspective the expectation is that a chosen color from a manufacturer resource should render or reproduce as close as possible to the sample. This is not in itself an unreasonable request.
Technical explanations of lighting conditions and atmospheric effects on color rendition are usually met with the same reply, they do not care and just want their buildings to look like the colors and materials they approved. I understand that is not your problem, but it is mine and I am only looking for practical solutions.
For example, if we compare the bottom two images, the SketchUp view and the Enscape rendering, please notice how similar the stone tile looks on both, and how colors both left and right of the protruding bay in the center look pretty close, yet the "beige" color of the center bay rendered "off white" in Enscape. So this tells me that on the same scene, and given the same lighting and atmospheric conditions, some colors render close to their intended look and others depart significantly. Even colors belonging to the same family.
My approach is to split the 2D color elevations for approvals, and construction coordination from the rendering material, but that does not stop people from wishing that color matching could be more easily accomplished in renderings as well.
My advice would be to only look at SU's materials as a way to get the texture in the correct scale and running in the correct direction. Everything else to get the look of the material you should ignore the SU window and only look at the Enscape result: colour, bump, reflection, transparency, contrast, etc.
Good luck with that...Flat swatches and displayed color will vary from screen display, printed and rendered. You can spend hours color calibrating all your screens and printers, but you will not get an exact WYSIWYG output. Even when you send stuff to clients or show prints in their office. It's not a Enscape issue. It's a untrained eye issue. Get it as close as you can and then educate your clients on how light works in the real world. A paint swatch will look different compared to the paint applied to the building. Time of day, season...etc.
A good summary. Let me add one: The exposure has also an impact, since the transfer from (high dynamic range) lighting unit of your scene to your screen is non-linear which leads to saturation changes across different light scales. TL;DR -> Accurate color reproduction can only be ensured in a comic-like render like the SketchUp viewport. Else, you will not get the albedo color when using the color picker on the output image.
Another positive point from this discussion is that I can use Enscape to "test" selected colors under various atmospheric and lighting conditions. This will help clients better understand color and material choices and I am sure it will promote some lively discussions.
Hello. I am now trying to model a house in SketchUp using open studio and energy plus. When I open a new document in SketchUp it already appears with three thermal zones created without doing anything. I have already tried to uninstall and install again but the problem remains. Does anyone know how to solve this? Sketchup version is 7 and energy plus is 6. Thank you very much.
P.S. - SketchUp v7.0 was released in 2008 long before Windows 10 came around. It was never tested to run under Win 10. If you run into any issues, you may need to run it in Vista compatibility mode. You set this by right-clicking the icon, choosing Properties and switching to the Compatibility panel. Check the box and choose a Windows version from the drop down list.
If you want to double check to see if V2 Plus was installed correctly, look in c:\program files (x86)\google\google SketchUp 8\plugins\. There should be SU_Podium_V2.rbs and SU_Podium_V2 folder. If there is not, you may need to install again.
If you want to double check to see if V2.5 Plus was installed correctly, look in C:\ProgramData\SketchUp\SketchUp 201x\SketchUp\Plugins. There should be SU_Podium_V25.rbs and SU_Podium_V25 folder. If there is not, you may need to install again.
If Sketchup is not in the c:\program files or c:\program files (x86), SU Podium V2.x will not show up in the plugins menu.You may find that for some reason on your Windows computer, SketchUp was not installed in c:\program files or \program files (x86) folder. To check to see where your sketchup.exe file is located, go to your Desktop, right click on the SketchUp icon, choose Properties from the context menu and select Shortcuts to see where sketchup.exe is located.
There are some third party Ruby script organizers that attempt to organize Ruby scripts that are in the SketchUp plugins folder. These should be removed as they most likely will block SU Podium V2.x Plus from launching.
I have now included my extensions for SketchUp on my website. I refer to my extensions as Instant Scripts -- Instant roof, Instant Wall, Instant Road, Instant Door & Window, Instant Fence & Instant Site Grader. A couple more are still in development and will be added soon. While I really enjoyed my cadmonkey days using Autocad and writing lisps on the fly, I have much more fun modeling and writing scripts in SketchUp.
But there is still a place in architecture for 2d. We are 2-dimensional creatures. We move about in a horizontal plane, then relocate to another plane via a stair or elevator. And builders continue to layout buildings in 2d. So for architectural tools, my vote is: SketchUp plus 2d cad.
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