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Hi Keith,
I sent you an invite to a Dropbox folder to put your .skp and video files in. Let me know when you have done so via email: [email protected] .
Joe…
Hi Keith,
How large is your .skp file. If it is not too large you might email it to me. Else we could set up a Dropbox for you to put it in.
Joe…
By the way, I like to create a number of styles in my SketchUp models and give them descriptive names. For example:
Perspective – for scenes I want rendered in perspective view and textured.
Normal (or Woodworking) – for scenes rendered in isometric and do not have sections.
Sections (or Plan View) – for scenes with sectionsElevation views might be sectioned or not so you might want two more to cover those cases.
I didn’t mention it in the last reply, but whenever you make a change(s) to a style don’t forget to click the “Update Style with changes” button in the Edit tab. See attached image.
Joe….
Hi Keith,
In the short term use the method Greg has described above. As Greg mentioned I am working on some additional tools that will allow you to start with a tall Standard Base cabinet with no drawers or doors. The, with a few new tools such as Insert Drawer and Insert Door you can place doors, drawers, dividers, shelves, rails and stiles anywhere you wish. The full suite of tools will take a while, but the doors and drawers will be available in the next release, about two weeks away.
Joe….
Hi Keith,
You need to create a different style for the scene where you want the section cuts to show. Go to the Styles dialog box and choose the In Model styles. At the moment you probably have only one. Right click on it and choose “Make a copy”. Now assign one of those styles to all the scenes where you do not want section cuts to show. Assign the other to the scenes where you do want section cuts to show. Modify the style that you don’t want section cuts to show with the Edit tab and the Modeling Settings icon. See the attached image.
Joe….
Hi Guys,
These images are really small and don’t seem to include the entire area of interest. However, if I am looking at this correctly, the finished ends are bearing all the weight of the cabinet. Is that what you intend Les? Could you send me your modified .skp to [email protected]? That would give me a better picture of what you are expecting. Thanks,
Joe…
Hi Cridd,
The models you are referring to, are they CabWriter models? If so, why are you using the Scale tool to scale them verses the Edit Story Stick or Edit Cabinet(s)?
Scaling (with the Scale tool) does not affect the CutList Bridge attributes. You should not be loosing them because scaling only changes instances not components. If you are loosing attributes it is because you are doing something to the components themselves such as using the Entity Info box to rename them or Explode to return them to primitives.
Can you tell me the specific steps you are taking that causes the attributes to be lost? ALso, can you tell me what you are trying to accomplish and I can tell you how to do it. For example, if you wish to change the cabinet number of a cabinet you should use the Re-Number Cabinet icon in the CabWriter toolbar. If you wish to change the name of a component (but not its cabinet number) use the Re-Name Component icon.
Never try to change a CabWriter component name using the Entity Info dialog box. The reason is that when you do this SketchUp fails to copy all the attributes associated with the old component to the new component. This seems like a real shortcoming of SketchUp, but it has been there for as long as I have been using SketchUp and in spite of users pointing it out the SketchUp team has never changed it.
Joe…
Hi Les,
Can you give me a little more info on what types of tips you would like to see. I.e., what questions about corner cabinets do you have. I am going to try and get a video out in the next week.
Joe…
I would need more information on what you are looking for. Extending the stile to the floor is a piece of cake and in fact can be done with normal SketchUp tools. Implementing it in code is easy too. The applied end panels a little more work but doable. But what about the sides and ladder base?
Greg, could you also comment on this?
Joe…
That feature is coming and will definitely be part of the first release toward the end of the year. What styles do you most use?
Joe…
Hi Guys,
One of the students I was teaching SketchUp to last night had this problem. I believe his was related to two windows being open too. But we didn’t take any class time to debug it.This one is new to me too Greg, but I have now heard of it twice in two days.
Joe….
Hi Keith,
There are a number of problems on a Mac when you operate with more than one model open. It has plagued me for years and I can’t seem to get to the bottom of them. I highly suggest that you only work with one window at a time. The problems seem to be between the Mac OS and SketchUp.
Joe….
Hi Keith,
That is a reasonable and useful request. I will add it to the list of feature improvements. I may not get to it real quick because I have higher priority things, such as overlay doors, to get to. But I will implement that request. Thanks,Joe…
Hi John,
You can’t change the file extension from .rbz to .rb. That won’t work. The .rbz files are simply a .zip file with the extension changed to .rbz so that SketchUp knows that they contain a compressed set of .rb files. So what you can do is change the .rbz extension to .zip. Then you can double click on the .zip file and you will see the uncompressed contents. In CabWriter’s case it will be a folder named cabwriter and a file named cabwriter_loader.rb. Now you can simply drag and drop both the folder and the file into your SketchUp Plugins folder.
However, you shouldn’t have to do this. The Window/Preferences (SketchUp/Preferences on Mac) Extension, Install Extension button is the easiest way to install an extension with a .rbz file extension.
Joe…
