Using SketchUp to make a miniature house of an existing real one. Take a few photos of the house; [01-reality] Use SketchUp > Import > New Matched Photo; Export from SketchUp model a few 2D Graphic… Top View, Front/Back View, Left/Right View and an Align View to the roof; [03-sketchup] Print all of this photos and start crafting. :slightly_smiling_face: day view [05-miniature%20day] night view [07-miniature%20night] general top view [09-general%20top%20view] . The real house-hut was made in the mid-ninteenth century by local craftsmen. +1 for JimD (Hey makers! We want you to Show Us Your Shop! - #21 by JimD)

[image] mihai.s: deselect certain edges already selected in nested groups (probably with Shift + Select) 100% possible, no need to ask Gemini, you can just skip to the “do that” prompt and save a few tokens. Native UI-wise, there’s no way to access grouped/nested geometry, but it’s easy to do via API. Just look at what Fredo does with Joint Push Pull or Thrupaint, to name a couple. Adding a modifier key (provided the tool is correctly defined as “Sketchup Tool”) is pretty trivial. From what I’ve experienced so far, with AI it’s actually the other way around: it’s best to SPECIFY whenever you don’t want to modify elements that aren’t in the active editing context. Because AI often doesn’t assume this is basic behavior and tends to modify grouped geometry by default (even when it’s in a different group/component than the active one, or when containers are locked, or if they’re on a hidden layer/tag, and all that “fun” stuff!). As a general rule, I’ve learned the hard way that I need to explicitly specify that we don’t want to interfere with grouped/locked/hidden elements UNLESS asked to do so.

Thanks, I’ll be more explicit in what I’m asking Gemini for. :slight_smile:

Thanks for the discussion today! As I said, it can be helpful and it were. I managed to add with the help of Gemini AI new features and improve the extension ms SESO, the UI and the speed with which it works. :slight_smile: ms SESO v1.2.2 [ms SESO (v1.2.2) extension for SketchUp]

Glad that it helped. :grinning_face: Now time to give Claude a chance, I bet you will not be disappointed (you can also create a “project” defining custom rules and uploading reference files, in order to get more consistent results between different sessions).

Yes, it worked, and now I have a much more useful and better extension. Thanks!

From a post about ‘random panels’ Using geometry nodes in Blender, then exporting it as OBJ to SketchUp. [Random pattern of panels]

Yesterday, with the help of a tutorial I managed to create a geometry nodes in Blender, with which to generate a pattern of panels of different widths, randomly arranged one next to the other. I started from the idea in this post about panels: [image] Repeating Sub Components in a Random Order Dynamic Components Note that the pattern is not truly random but the vertical divisions are placed by the designer to look “random”. A truly random pattern will often look hideous with many continuous or nearly continuous seams spoiling the result. :slight_smile: Today, with the help of Gemini AI I created an extension for SketchUp, ms Panel It, which generates a similar pattern. The extension still requires some corrections to improve the way it works. ms Panel it extension [ms Panel It for SketchUp]

From a post about thatched roof Creating and rendering a thatched roof in SketchUp with V-Ray Fur [Thatched roof in SketchUp with Fur V-Ray]

Hi! Looks like very exiting. How I can test this plugin?

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From this post about cable and wires.
If you need to generate a lot of different cables, you can use an extension (or geometry nodes), export as OBJ and import them into SketchUp.

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