I am sorry I have no knowledge about coloring scale I have read some where about it but right now I have no understanding. would appreciate if you share some links. yes you are right have to soften them with more exposure its very sharp. my older thread was about IES profiles at that time I didn’t knew how to use them. I have not used IES profiles in this project b/c I have used sphere lights. I didn’t liked results of IES profiles. I have one question why my renders are not photo realistic I have spend time on material where I am wrong ..read more

Is this the sort of thing you are attempting to make? Note. I started with a circle set to 50 segments as that was how many teeth you had ..read more

Am trying to create a ratchet mechanism, but my attempt results in all sorts of weird geometry that you’ll see in the file. I’m a complete beginner and would really appreciate some pointers, thank you! I’ve laid out two models in the project, before and after. pill divider.skp (485.3 KB ..read more

The better option for importing ifc´s is still to not import ifc´s, but put the file in the cloud in Trimble Connect, convert it to .trb, download it, and import that download. You then get tags intact, and a much smaller file. Components/instances are still broken, so SU is still taking some Information out of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) files ..read more

Yes, my recomendation is to install SU2024 as it handles IFC better ..read more

Pun Prison. I almost want to go there. Almost ..read more

Sorry, I’m a little confused ..read more

It seems to be getting worse. I must have accidentally brought up the new Search Function. SketchUp backed up 10 steps and lost a new part that I was about to designate as a component. I was able to rebuild that part and make it a component, but SketchUp froze when I went to paint it. I will be extremely disappointed if it’s a hardware issue. I spent a lot of money on memory and graphics for this barely 2-year old computer. I run the Dell diagnostics at least every week ..read more

I bet you make a great poker chip ..read more

Have you used a color in the kelvin scale? That was the first thing that stood out as being wrong - your light color. Your lights shadows/cones are also too sharp on the walls. Soften them or I would also add an .ies profile to the lights along with changing it to a proper color. I just saw you made an old thread on the enscape forum on ies lights… so not sure why you arent using them… Enscape IES Lights - Enscape hello, I am using SketchUp Pro 2023, and using Enscape 3.3.1, I don't find the option to load IES lights into my Sketchup Model. I have downloaded few IES light from https://ieslibr ..read more