I’ve moved here my two videos about how you can extract only a certain area from a larger project (and which may not be well structured), for those interested.
Yeah I saw some videos of people complaining about TOS creating messy geometry, which of course is true if you just try to actually build geometry out of it as it is, but there are tons of “alternative” ways to use it in order to build some clever guidelines and then drive the actual final geometry separately. Also, the QFT wireframe functionality is the most overlooked feature in the tool, even the documentation itself doesn’t clarify that it doesn’t need a stricltly-quad wireframe, but works with any pseudo-quad intersecting structure, I discovered it by mistake and I was like “OMG how can I’ve missed that!” 
As I said, I know that Blender with Retopoflow can do 90% of that functionality and same applies to other packages, like Maya with Quadraw or 3dsMax with FreeformModeling tools (which is the one I actually used before Topogun).
Once you know the general concepts of quad and topology they all work more or less the same and it’s mostly a matter of personal preferences.
What really made me switch to TG is that insanely useful patch tool, I didn’t find an equivalent tool in any of the “competitors” and can speed up the work on complex models a lot.
This looks insanely intersting. I’ll definetely have a deep look at it as soon as I have enough time to properly dig into it and other links that article point to.
I really enjoy this kind of in depth articles rather than basic tutorials in which some random guy just say “do this and that”.
Thanks for sharing it.
For me, Offset Loop from QFT, which I use much more often.
Easy Patch addon resembles.
Each type of tutorial has its importance at a certain point in time, even the simplest of them. Regarding this new, more complex one, it is worth watching how its development evolves.
I use on daily basis (and love) basically all of the functionality in QFT, but this one was the last one I’ve found an use for.
Honestly the only tool I still didn’t find an use for is the “Blender quads”… not sure if that’s still relevant, I believe it was meant to work with older version of Blender, I think that the current QFT obj importer handles Blender quads in a proper way without further conversions.
Didn’t know about that… probably because apparently they relased it just 19 days ago 
Well, it doesn’t just “resemble”, it’s almost a clone the main differences I see from their page is that currently doesn’t support a patch formed by 2 splines, it needs at least 3 of them.
But all in all is quite the same, if I was a blender user, I’d buyed it, looks well worth the money.
Lotcă - Romanian wooden boat
A lotca is a strong wooden sea or river craft, traditionally of wood (more recently of other materials), built and used specifically at the Mouths of the Danube and on the West coast of the Black Sea (wikipedia).
Features:
SketchUp and LayOut ready - low poly modelSketchUp & Blender
I tried sort of the same thing, but it never reached your result. 
Starting from this post about Polyline Segmentor and using Fredo Bezier Spline extension
Dividing 2 edges + an arc into a number of equally sized segments
Starting from this YT tutorial - 3D Site Modeling in @SketchUp : Part 3 - The Excavated Site Model, which is probably created for beginners and shows them step by step how they can use the various SketchUp native tools. For that method, there are at least two points where you can work better to avoid some slips that also appear in the video:
This is a simplified and improved method of the version in that video, using Solid Tools > Split, for automatically obtaining the volume of the excavated terrain.
I made my own tutorial 
The one where I do the same thing with two lines and an exploded arc and nothing happens cause the extension does not work. (On a Mac)
The Bezier Spline extension just doesn’t work for you, for an as yet unknown reason.
The previous video was in SketchUp Make 2017, and this one is in SketchUp Pro 2022, and the extension works normally. Windows 10.
Maybe this window is outside your screen
If you somehow have FredoSpline you can try use it, and maybe will work for you.
thanks. I bought Fredospline, and now all is good. Bezierspline is old, and I guess Fredo will not keep the free versions up and running forever.
Starting from this post about UV unwrapping & UV mapping
Modeling an armchair in SketchUp, UV unwrapping and UV mapping in Blender and importing back in SketchUp as .DAE file
SKP extensions:
Hi @mihai.s
Great work on the blender to sketchup workflow.
I was wondering how big are the models when you bring it back to sketchup from blender?
Also, if we create materials on blender, do they also automatically get brought along with the collada file. Or is there another workflow to bring-in blender materials to vray?
I generally use Skimp or Transmutr for such workflows.
It depends on several things, but in the case of this armchair, with PBR material (DIFF, NORM, ROUGH), I exported it as FBX (with packed textures) and it is 174 KB.
If ‘create materials’ refers to procedural materials, then they must be baked first, replaced with textures and then File > Pack Resources and better exported as FBX (Copy with Embed textures).
With Transmutr you can import V-ray ready assets (PBR materials) - FBX, OBJ.
Thanks!
great thanks @mihai.s
Starting from this post (about Stamp tool)
Thanks @mihai.s - perfectly explained!
