Well as promised, I gave launchup a go. Sadly, I'm no farther ahead as I'm still 'searching' rather than sorting. Thanks again for the suggestion Hopefully someone at Trimble reads this and will tweak their SU interface to accommodate sorting list items with a right-click method.

@massimo said: Just press "shift" key once you get that pink-line to lock the direction. Yes, some more hints in the help about inference locking...

Exactly thomthom.. Sub-division is the right term! which we can modify parametrically without using other tools. These will work well with other organic modelling tools like artisan..

Thanks you TIG.

yes a deleted scene is gone... kind of. You could always quickly, open your autosave file and the scene may be there. or your backup file.

I am looking for the same thing. Even though I have the scene delay set to 0, SketchUp still pauses between the scenes. Kinda like a car coming to a stop sign - slow down, stop, speed up. Are there any plugins that will override this pausing?

I don't necessarily agree with the tone, but I agree with all the sentiments. The issues you're having can be exacerbated by a slow or old computer but the issues you're bringing up are inherent to SU no matter what PC you have to a great or lesser degree. File save times can be slow and to make matters worse file sizes are often larger than they "should" be which compounds the issue. By comparison, 3ds Max can save large amounts of geometry pretty quickly with small file sizes (there's even a "compress on save" option that can reduce file sizes by 75%). There are, of course, ways to quickly bloat your file, but even if you utilize good SU file management, the issue is still far from ideal. I won't go into detail reiterating all of your other points but suffice it to say I fully agree that at this stage better UV mapping, unbroken material management (The inability to save/delete a material in a moderately sized scene, I think, constitutes as broken), etc. -Brodie

Hi, I feel confident about Sketchup but I'm already starting my story with 3ds max. I've opened my .skp file in 3ds max and I'm wondering where I can edit materials that are already imported from sketchup? (I watched couple of tutorials on materials, bought a book and even read a manual about materials in 3ds Max but I have enough of looking for it by myself). Please help me..

I'll keep an eye out and try to help as much as I can!

Only SketchUp can create images of SketchUp models (other software could use SketchUp's SDK to read .skp files, but the rendered images wouldn't have the exact SketchUp style). As far as I know the thumbnailing progras just extract the 128px embedded thumbnail, so no larger. There are plenty of scripts on SketchUcation that can export larger 2d images out of SketchUp.

Yep, I clearly misunderstood, here. I thought I saw google earth instead of google image. So, never mind...

Hooray! I'm so happy someone made this. Thanks

@mitcorb said: Would this be similar to "skins" in some media player console or something? You can "simply" install a window theme for your operating system's included theming engine (examples). Probably the best place to change the appearance and colors is on system level. Of course SketchUp could implement its own theming, but it could easily create ugly visual inconsistency and bloat the software. I like to remind us of this thoughtful post by Jody: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/sketchup/HhjWUcKxnNg/5jjg3SkE_A0J Yes, a rewrite using state-of-the-art technology and 10+ years experience could be a right step. [url=https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/sketchup/XvrSablaXg8/ZEXOWYV4PgsJ:504cgfu4]User Interface (UI) Improvements Should Be a Priority[/url:504cgfu4] @unknownuser said: It also chooses to load certain toolbars by default even though in my previous session I hid the toolbar/plugin. That sounds like a bug in these (many) plugins. Possibly the author didn't use [url=http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/toolbar#get_last_state:504cgfu4] toolbar.show if toolbar.get_last_state == 1[/url:504cgfu4] (contact the author and point to that [url=http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/toolbar#get_last_state:504cgfu4]link[/url:504cgfu4]).

I've tried making multi-hinge chained objects with dynamic tools but they don't work correctly when trying to connect them in a hierarchy, like an arm. At least I haven't found a way to make them work. I thought by doing successive grouping would isolate each section of the chain as it grows, but for some reason that didn't work as you would expect.

If you go to "Window" / "Preferences" / "Extensions"; Check "utilities tools" and then press "OK", when you go to "Tools" / "Utilities" and then "Query Tool": the tip of the pointer will give you the "x, y & z" dimensions from the axis.

FYI Fredo has an update part of his plugins... it checks all the plugin developers that have used it. Mine checks every 15 days.

@cotty said: @gaieus said: Duh. I did not even know that! Thanks, Gerrit! Me too, Thanks! and me....

My wish list is pretty basic: Provide a way to draw circles & polygons starting from an edge instead of from the center (like most 2D vector drawing programs can do). Likewise, provide a way to draw rectangles starting from their centers. Allow the cursor keys to constrain the plane of rotation of the rotate tool along the red, green, or blue axis, similar to how they set constraints for the move tool. Similarly, allow the cursor keys to set the plane for drawing out rectangles, polygons, arc bulges, & so on. Additional selection tools, modeled after the oval, polygon, & selection brushes in Photoshop, plus an option to limit what they select to visible faces and/or edges.

Do not get into the habit of using /2, since SU has a significant bug: appending /2 works SOMETIMES -but only if you are dividing an integer by 2. If you type "1.5/2" you will not get a .75 radius as you expected. There is no warning in SU v.8; in fact this bug has not been fixed as of the 2014 version. It would not be hard to parse the input line, then one could enter 6+5/16 for the mixed fraction since that's what we really mean for 6 5/16. (As we learned in 7th grade algebra, multiplication and division are always done before addition and subtraction -MDAS "My Dear Aunt Sally" rule). It would be nice to be able to specify relative/absolute references, and variables too.

Thank you, Dale! I´ll look up this information about the Idea Center... as far as I´ve researched, i can create a library of objetcs there (which I was also trying to find out how to do... ) but I haven´t managed to import any SU files yet. I´m aware that on version 10 the quality of that import is perfect, but when I find out about that import on V9 I´ll update this post! Thank you so much for the help!