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Truespace to Sketchup ...... About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Truespace to Sketchup ...... // Roundtable 1  |   Order by default Post by RAYMAN // Aug 17, 2008, 10:18am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 I just made a tutorial on the Moi3d website on exporting to Sketchup and this applies to Truespace as well ! While programs like Truespace and Moi3d are extremely good at rounded shapes including nurbs and subdivision surfaces , Sketchup is excelent at making block typ shaped objects and arraying on top of these. Only few people know that these 2 worlds can be excelently combined together and there is a free version of Sketchup that does all that. You can then render with a few options including reimporting or direct plugs like for indigo or Kerkythea or Vue for detail see the other Sketchup thread here at this forum. Note that Sketchup draws or build upon both flat surfaces and non flat but you want flat surfaces preferably. You build your objects in Truespace with a planar surface (i.e booleans) and export via 3ds. You then delete all the extra lines on a planar surface because they dont work in Sketchup and only break apart a surface. Use the eraser tool andhold the left mousebutton while you scrub away all the lines while you move the mouse. After you have done that you hold the ctrl key and use the same tool and scrub over the lines on rounded surfaces extinguising the lines and softening the rounded shapes. In the end you should only see the outlines. You can now build upon the shapes you made in Truespace with Sketchup using all drawtools as if you had done everything there from start. An example can be a whole shipdeck done in Sketchup on top of the nurbs bottom done in Truespace ( see nurbs tutorial on the truespace courses site....) Post by RAYMAN // Aug 17, 2008, 10:20am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 next steps see text Post by RAYMAN // Aug 17, 2008, 10:23am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 next steps.... It can be as detailed as a Titanic buildup on a Truespace bottom ! Peter

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