@cotty said: With the attached image, you can do it like in this screencast... See image above) Thanks Cotty, that is exactly what I ment. I didn't have the right transparent png at hand. The texture can be resized to show any grid one needs, even X and Y independently Jim, if you are going to follow Box's suggestion I would advice you to go for limited construction lines, (limited in length) made by a plugin, written by Jim Foltz. See his blog and look for 'Construction Line Tool': http://sketchuptips.blogspot.nl/p/my-plugins.html Thing is that with a few (not even that much, really) infinite guides in your model you might get lost in modeling space when orbiting. Even 'Zoom Extent' would not bring your model back until you delete all infinite guides.

Hi For complex roof plan,first make a face of the common pitching point (fascia line) then offset a given known distance, then select the inner plane and auto-fold the correct height to make all the hips, valleys, then use the methods outlined above this is for a roof with all the same pitch Philip

Try Cubic Bezier from Fredo's BZ_Spline set.

here's a better example (warning: 1.2 MB) example.skp

Export jpg in LayOut 2013 [image: 1531674_10202325762257219_409664464_o.jpg] [image: 1606273_10202325761897210_1587786541_o.jpg] [image: 1548013_10202325762097215_121669054_o.jpg] [image: 1601793_10202325764297270_923339448_o.jpg] [image: 1538016_10202325764417273_1822130764_o.jpg] [image: 893663_10202325763977262_3585494_o.jpg]

No problem ! Just take your time to discover the tools and play with them. I believe you could use the FFD plugin with simple lines and the use the Follow me tool if that is what you want. Happy Sketching !

One way without a plugin would be the follow me tool... [image: ekIO_steeringwheel.jpg]

Thanks so much, you're awesome! That is exactly what I needed!

The images are too small for me to tell anything for sure but they look like they could have been done with a combination of SketchUp and LayOut.

@mikedd said: Thats works Thank you The 'Hide' does make planes invisible one by one. Also when switching between scenes, hide unfortunately isn't consistantly saved like other features/options/properties when the hidden parts (here = section plane) are inside (nested) grouped environment. So you may still have to toggle the icon off. This toggles all planes off and this setting can be saved per scene. See the 'Scene Manager'.

Draw some symbols in Layout and save to a scrapbook. Share it here and get kudos... Others have shared similar scrapbooks...

If simplicity counts and your context menu is not overloaded the Extend11.rb at the bottom of linked thread may fit your needs. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=163150#p163150

How can one create a plugin for something that is not accessible? The main problem is not how to access the models, why the models are not free give-aways: Google licenses them from different commercial content providers or creates them on their own. If we could take them, it would be (unfortunately) pirating. Interesting is that OSM has some efforts to make geospacial data available under free licenses. This is what we need, and it seems governments/administrations are more likely to release data into the open rather to an open organization than under the control of a proprietary company.

thanks, it works perfect. (the textures aren't all in one model, but that doesn't make much difference, shouldn't even take 5 minutes of effort now)

@jean lemire said: Hi Bossismax, hi folks. To close a group or a component, you can do one of the following: and 2) as mentioned above Hit [ESC] once per each level moving up.

I get rid of the malware but my files are still messed up. I can't open them in any operating system tried them all..

I'm on SU 2013. Still the same problem. Only wireframe mode exports 2d accurately, but then, working my exported sections to delete all hidden lines feels like a deal breaker. Any new light on this issue?

I'd imagine that phone support is when you have exhausted the knowledge centre, forum and email support.... http://help.sketchup.com/en/contact/pro-support I do know they will work through issues over the phone but have you explored the other options first?

You might have a look at a plugin called Cloud and then Triangulate Points.

Here is one of the simplest alignment tools. Two clicks and the faces or edges you choose join together. You still need to use groups or components to to make whole piece align as it will just move faces or edges individually. In the very short vid you will see me group your woofer, then align the base of the magnet to the box face, then change that to align the frame of the speaker. You'll find this plugin called s4u_AlignTool by clicking this link http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=53715, or downloadable directly within sketchup via the sketchucation store plugin. [screenr:3jj0w124]KcIH[/screenr:3jj0w124]