@airwindsolar said: Is there an easy way to purge all the terrain data, other than manually deleting each tile of it? Since all Google Earth Terrain groups have the same name they can be found and deleted rather easily using this "one liner" that can be copied and executed in the Ruby Console. Sketchup.active_model.entities.grep(Sketchup;;Group).reverse.each{|g| next unless g.name=='Google Earth Terrain';g.locked=false;g.erase!}

Hi in addition to the mentioned forum members and many others as well, a view onto Cotty's works here is worth it (a lot of nice wood textured models ) btw: your postet link is excellent, thanks for sharing

Thanks Pilou and Jim.

Thank you so much Pilou !

No, I'm afraid. Fredo has something in some of his plugins that allows you to quit an operation but on the whole once a plugin needs to start a process you're at the mercy of the time it takes.

I don't see what materials have to do with lights. And you can easily create the impression of multiple lights without out using a rendering application. [url=https://flic.kr/p/cozi9u] [image: 7475383736_f5f806bf1f.jpg]

Right click the line - entity info - then change segments to smooth out the curve I think SU defaults at 24 segments, but if you increase this it will smooth out

@jeff hammond said: try doing this manually: [attachment=0:294p5trl]<!-- ia0 -->screen 2012-04-20 at 9.17.04 PM.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:294p5trl] a random line floating in space (not on any particular axis).. then draw a circle perpendicular to it.. with the rotate tool, you can quickly orient the tool to this way.. with the circle, you can't.. This is exactly the situation I use the perpendicular face tool for daily; when I need a circle (or more often a cylinder) to pass through a plane centered on an exact spot, but not perpendicular to the plane itself. Draw a line where I need the cylinder's access, then create a circle perpendicular to the line and push/pull it through.

@gaieus said: you can imagine that this has been suggested even in better places - to no avail for the time being. Isn't it amazing how responsive the SU team is to customer concerns? I expect we'll have this by roughly the time SU has a direct brain interface driver.

You can do this with a component copy and reverse it, and place it side by side .(Or am I Mr. Obvious?)

Here's a 2D animation done in Sketchup a number of years ago without any plugins. https://youtu.be/Ri2SYzqa-RM One of the cool things about doing 2D animations in SketchUp is you can use the 3D space so some objects can easily pass in front of others.

Perhaps some heavy actions could have backup action joined and then you can end the process without loss of work? Usually I just save my work before something heavy and if the software freezes or crashes I just end the process on task manager and and then continue again ( I use this on many software ).

I try photomatching archive images (dated 1890 or so) of rather large rooms (workshop) in a building. Of course, no idea what was the focal length and/or the parameters of the camera(s) used to take them back then and whether they have been cropped. The nice thing is that I have an architectural drawing of the building with accurate dimensions. I therefore built a 3D model of the rooms and try to match it with the available photos. I encounter several problems (usually that no matter how I carefully orient the model wrt photos with Photo Match), I always end up with scaling errors in at least one dimension. Could it be related to the last post on the subject? As mentioned in the excerpt of SU Help cited in the last post, no cropping is allowed for Photo Match to work reliably. If my understanding of the last post is correct, the original image should be (vertically?) "un-cropped" so that the horizon passes through the vertical center of the (resulting un-cropped) photo. Is this a rule of thumb? And what about lateral un-cropping? Are the assumptions under which SU Photo Match works correctly described somewhere?

Obviously you don't smoke as much as I do. After all day hard work, few hundred restarts of the program and lot of browsing and investigating available scripts - i have done this: MoveTool.rb require 'sketchup.rb' if( not file_loaded? "MoveTool.rb" ) Sketchup.active_model.selection UI.add_context_menu_handler do |menu| menu.add_separator menu.add_item("Move tool"){Sketchup.send_action "selectMoveTool:"} menu.add_item("Select tool"){Sketchup.send_action "selectSelectionTool:"} end file_loaded "MoveTool.rb" end This is my first script and is working for now.

Might look at Curvizard as well.

@onyxx1606 said: @pbacot said: You can't simplify the making of a gluing component much, because it needs the input to know the orientation and location of axes. But once the component(s) are made, you can use Unglue and the plugin "Reglue" and hotkeys for those where you need to. Well i know my way around Sketchup, but i dont know anything about the creation of the software and the complications that are involved in improving/adding features to it. so ill try out your suggestion and sing its praises if it works. but again, the idea simply stemed from a minor inconvenience [at most] i encounter every now and then with sketchup and id assumed it was a nice thing for ,not just me bust a few more people, to have if i could have been implemented natively in sketchup. but if it cant so be it, thanks for your input and ill try it asap I am not speaking of writing software. Just common sense. You have to make specific input for the computer to know what you want, is all I mean. The system to make a gluing component describes what plane is used in the component and how it can align to any other plane in the model. Otherwise how would the computer know what you want? But as I said there are plugins that do place components on faces and might provide an idea for some shortcuts. I just don't happen to be able to dig those up at the moment.

@djh said: @box said: This is a feature request thread from 2007. Was the request granted? No. Alt never did constrain the Orbit tool. In fact, considering what you were asking for in your other thread, Alt is the last thing you want to hold while orbiting. If you can't orbit as you want with a mouse, you should follow the advice given there and get a 3D Connexion device and use it for orbiting.

It works for me. Thanks. I like shortcut plugins which don't need my attention.

@ronhiatt said: "Stretch by Area": Exactly what I need but has a bug when in parallel view (doesn't grab all the end points) Can you show an example of what you describe in parallel view? I don't see that and it looks like stretch by area fits your needs perfectly

I would like..... Pretty please. Produce a proper set of extrusion tools that is not just intended for flash roof building and can act the same as a cad program. Finally get rid of the extra facets and lines. Make a proper method of allowing close up view of components and groups for editing, WITHOUT clipping problems. I understand there are several plugins for the extrusion problem but they are limited. Oh, and 4. Continue to make the program more stable rather than adding extra functions.