Man, Woman, Figure, Person....where Are Figures In The Library, Where Is Anything In The Library?

[zowie123]

Perhaps I have a missing person file, I don't know....

 

I can never find anything useful by searching the library.  In the future, I wish they would allow us to edit library content, or better yet, organize it with names that make sense.  Or better yet, create a program that allowed multiple Sketchup library items to be imported at the same time.  

 

If anyone makes a program like this for Chief, I would buy it, because it's easier to search Sketchup content then find stuff in the Chief Library.

 

Rant, rant, rant.  So many library items, so little time--to search each individual one I might need and add it to my user library under a name I can find later....blah....

 

barry

 

 

 

 

[UMBuilder]

I agree, Just last night, I started creating filters to help find things faster. It is a pain and not a great solution, but at least it helps my wife not have to dig so long for a door or something.

[alwaysdesigning]

i agree, Chief's search function is HORRIBLE.  If the keyword is in all caps, or even 1 letter capitalized it will not be found in the search results.

 

example, if you are searching for "table" and you enter "TABLE", it will not be found.   or even if you enter "Table" it will not be found if the actual item in the library is all lowercase "table"

 

THIS IS STUPID RETARDED.

 

Where do we report these issues? I would imagine that ranting on these threads will do no good..it's like having road rage in your car yelling at the person in the other car.. they can not hear what you are saying ..hahahhah

[Nicinus]

++1 This just has to be fixed, it's such a great library so it is so much more the shame that everything is hidden in it.

 

I also want to get rid of the division between core and bonus, as now I have to look in one first and then the other. Chief will just have to find another way to justify its support subscription. And it seems that whenever I search I get 80% colors to scroll through. The filter is not enough, there has to be better categories and please put an intern for a year on tagging keywords to each item.

[Kiwideziner]

To get around that problem I copy library items to my user location and rename as I like. However I dont use a lot of symbols and I use mostly the same ones each time.

[Joe_Carrick]

To get around that problem I copy library items to my user location and rename as I like. However I dont use a lot of symbols and I use mostly the same ones each time.

Exactly - and that way you can edit the symbol's materials, origin, etc to fix what Chief missed.

[Nicinus]

Maybe it could come a cloud based effort in the future, where people who have applied to be an editor could make changes and update keywords, etc. A bit like wikipedia, which is a too big effort for one company to handle.

[scottharris]

The people figures that are in the 3D Library are "silhouettes" - in the specialty category.  Agreed, the search function needs help - it's on our list

[JLDrafting]

3-D people have been posted on the symbols and content  forum the 29th of August by Joe Carrick.

[OldCKD]

The people figures that are in the 3D Library are "silhouettes" - in the specialty category.  Agreed, the search function needs help - it's on our list

See, there you go - you have to be able to correctly spell 'silhouettes' or you're getting nowhere

 

Another library issue I have run across is items that have different names/terms in different parts of the country (and presumably, the world) so you're endlessly guessing what search term to use...it can be a little frustrating.  I once wasted an inordinate amount of time looking for a symbol for what I call a 'bulkhead'...finally gave up and ended up making my own.