The OpenGL version of the "GeForce 7300 GT / PCIe / SSE2" graphics card is 2.1. SketchUp requires a graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.0 or higher.

After an exhausting research on the net, I discovered that there are libraries able to "emulate" the version 3 of OpenGL: it is MESA. They are used by those who intend to make an old video game work on very recent PCs: practically, it allows these users to "go back", instead for me it proved to be a help to "go forward"!

http://mesa.fdossena.com

You just need to download the library, unzip the compressed file and save it in the same folder where the sketchup executable is located. Now launching Shetchup, the latter will convince itself to run on a card with OpenGl 3.1. That's all....

I hope I have been useful to you!

The architect has supplied a PDF of her CAD drawings only. I have opened in Illustrator , saved as a .dwg 

(and .dxf) and then imported into Sketchup Pro.

In both Illustrator and in Sketchup the drawing is broken up into Blocks. I cannot edit any of it. How can I get it to import as an editable file??

Upstairs floorplan edits_p14.dwg

Here we have supposed comparison of 2 PDFs, one from AutoCAD and the other from SketchUp (using Layout I imagine). I took a look as I use both and I think I might have found some BS. They have posted 2 jpgs of the plans as well as PDFs. I decided to look closer at the PDFs and see with out matched what I see from my own PDF files from AutoCAD. Low and behold when I open the supposed PDF from AutoCAD it is a raster PDF with very low pixel quality. That is SO weird as AutoCAD PDFs are vector output and suffer NO pixelation what so ever. I honestly think I have uncovered some flat out fabrication by the blog author.

Download the current version of SketchUp Make 2017 while you can and you might want to save the install file somewhere as a backup

Perhaps AutoDesk will buy SketchUp after Trimble runs it into the ground.

Edit: Download link

https://help.sketchup.com/en/article/60107

The number of ways to convert to SKP seem limited. As far as i can see the most serious ones are..

- Buy Sketchup (Pro?), import DWG and save

- Automapki mesher seems to do a fair job.

http://www.automapki.com/products/automesher-application.html

What other ways to convert these do i miss here?

Why .skp..?

This picture shows some results from IFC conversion.

Is BricsCAD better at IFC conversion than AutoCAD (that can match SKP)?

Right now all I have is AutoCAD 2006 and I can't seem to figure out how to do anything with that. I don't really want to go through the trouble of downloading the free trial of AutoCAD unless I know for sure that it will be a fairly smooth conversion.

Thanks!

I have just completed a rendering in Sketchup after applying materials mostly white color, translucent (for glazing) and a few red here and there. I am very unhappy about the output. I am unable to add Tiles which is also white (600x600), and through the cupboard is white, there is still some yellow appearing and the translucent glass is now opaque. Furthermore I have difficulties importing clothes, mannequin, toys from the warehouse. My drawing is in mm. It seemed they have different units.

Impressive place (CADTutor and this forum). I look forward to sticking around here for quite some time. Thanks for having me!

Sid

Sketchup Make 2016.

I simply need to move the origin point, as when working with perspective match the origin on the model must match the origin in the photo. Currently the only way I know how is to use the axis tool but after clicking where the origin should be it expects me to indicate the new red axis then the green axis and the new location hasnt such linear features to do this to. One needs a resite origin point only.

Where is this ?

DBenz

Thx

B

Do you know of a way to do this? Thanx, in advance.

need some help! How do I convert Sketchup files into Autocad files??

As much detail as possible please.

Many Thanks

RR Architectural Consultancy

I'm really new in 3D scanning. I'm using the TRIMBLE TX8 and the post-processing software TRIMBLE REALWORKS 9.0.

My current aim is to modelize a building

As the modeling module of TRW is not so performant, I rather use the the TRIMBLE SCAN EXPLORER module of TRW to transfert edges and some geometrical primitives from TRW to SketchUp in order to use them as guide for my modelization in SketchUp.

The problem now is that:

- the edges extraction is not so sweet as in the youtube vidéos (few number of edges and bad extraction);

- When you succeed to transfer any edge or any geometry, it is not so precise as on the scan image.

- some functionalities of Scan Explorer are not permanent, they change depending you open it directly from TRW or if you do it from SketchUp.

So I'm looking for advises.

thanks !

How are you?

I have a condominium entry file from sketchup and I like to add a outdoor.

I'm begginner in sketchup and I need some help.

Thank in advance.

Fabricio

I made it in sketchup because cad is still hard and frustrating to me atm.

This is in order to ask for 3D printing prices.

I wanted to check the item in Cad and then I have been dragged to Mesh and Solid things; I dont understand these yet.

I dont know if my item must be meshed or solidified in order to allow the printers to build it properly, it looks like I must do that.

I m in the discovering process.

When I try to Tools > Solid Tools > Intersect (or other ones) my item in sketchup, it tells me "One or more of the selected objects is either not a solid or is locked"

I cant find how to make it solid. And as I told I don't know if I have to do that for the 3D printers. But the online printing services dosnt accept my files (dwg, 3ds, obj).

When meshing it in Cad, it s like.. an abstract artwork..

I would really appreciate some help

here is my sketchup item : boxup.skp

Any ideas out there?

Cheers.

In sketch up 8 there is a "BG color" icon in environment roll like this:

but in "sketch up 2015" there is no "BG color":

so where can I find it? Please help

When I export a 3D model to dwg, and I open it with autocad, I notice that sketchup (or acad) have created an attribut for every group in the model. So I can see little text everywhere saying GROUP #345, GROUP#267.. etc.

Doesn't seems to do it with component, only with groups.

This is a bit annoying. Mostly when you have a lot of blocs, into blocs, into blocs... I struggled in cad to find a LISP able to delete all nested attribut. I found a few. Mostly by using ATTOUT and ATTIN command but so far... no success. Most of LISP (like attdel.lsp) give me error message. And when I try removing the attribut in the bloc. Cad can't find it... even with QSEL. The only tric I found is to rename the attribut with a space, so nothing is shown in the drawing. But this is only a bandaid... not a real fix!

Any idea!

I have this problem with this drawing only.

I can't figure out what seems to the problem.