THX for the answer.

The Plugin installer/store is a good start. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=51728&hilit=plugin+store

Certainly purge all unused stuff, but if your model is large due to the nature of the model, Chris Fulmer had a great tip regarding using scenes to handle large models. It is a very creative way to deal with this issue. I'm not sure if his models were as large, but I think his methodology might be applied to your situation. Watch the first part of the Basecamp Video, link below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9_F-bSGrKs There are also great tips in the rest of the video, but the first part might be helpful.

@kallen said: Now I am having a big problem turning things into components. I select the objects, then Make Componet but it doesn't seem to take. I've done it several times and I see the component in the component list but its empty! This is maddening. Additionally, I can't delete any empty components from the model components (using components in the tools menu) This is maddening right now. Any hints you might care to share? That's because what you are selecting is attached to unselected geometry. Select what you want in the component, hit G to Create Component and then immediately tick the box for Replace Selection With Component. Then hit Enter. You're the second guy today that I've worked with who has had the exact same issue which stemmed from not making components/groups as they went along.

This is a 'duplicate check' It's straightforward for objects that are instances of the same component with the same insertion point / transformation, in the same context... copy/paste+<enter> this one-liner in the Ruby Console - it works on a selection containing component-instances... m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;a=s.grep(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance);s.clear;d=[];a.each{|i|next unless i.definition.instances[1];t=i.transformation.to_a;(i.definition.instances-[i]).each{|e|(d<<i;s.add(e))if !d.include?(e) && e.transformation.to_a==t && e.parent.entities==m.active_entities;};}; The duplicates are highlighted on completion. If you start with Entity Info open it will show what's selected still etc... Pressing <delete> when the SketchUp window has focus will remove the duplicated item... It gets more tricky when they are 'symmetrical' and perhaps placed overlaid 'handed' - therefore with different insertion points but seemingly occupying the same volume. A matching bounding-box check could work BUT is not foolproof... I think thomthom might have done something like this ? Do a search...

Round all the way up both top and bottom. The foot part at the end will stay mostly flat with maybe a smooth bevel on it.

Kathryn, I'm glad that helped. Here's another one you might find useful. This can make it dead simple to accurately place components in your model. and if you want to exchange one component for another, that can be easy too.

Yep, the "nitwit" [on this occasion at least] is NOT you It is the guy who is ending you the SKB files rather than the SKP files !

12 vray toys?

Take a look @ this thread http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=51788

Use bb.min then

You can make a straight barrel arch and scale one end to get the taper. If instead you have exact arcs already that you wish to use for beginning and end, you could skin between them with Sandbox, but you'll get better geometry with Curviloft plugin-- skin contours. Depends on what you need. If you have to show thickening, as if it is actually made of bricks, probably the best plugin for that is joint push-pull. If it tapers, I don't see how follow-me could work. If you want, upload a picture here.

Click on the "Upload Attachment" tab below the text area in a thread post. If you're going to post a SKP file, please also upload an image, too.

ely862me, I tried the method in the YouTube video above with no luck. I guess the shape was too "complex" for the procedure which I don't understand. Or perhaps it was an error on my behalf which is most likely the case. However, I did manage to find out about Fredo's Tools (Thru Paint in particular), at a moment of desperation last night and it worked GREAT. I was almost about to give up the label entirely. Anyway, I appreciate your response! Thank you very much.

Pilou will be along directly and suggest that you use Shape Bender which you could certainly do but you can also do it manually without problem. Draw a cylinder for the hole, Rotate/Copy to make a radial array of the holes, copy the array up and rotate halfway between to get the staggered holes. Draw a cylinder centered on the the array of holes Intersect the "holes" with the cylinder. Delete the waste. Copy the section up as many times as needed. [image: 8txy_holes.png] If you have the pro version of SketchUp, you could use Solid Tools to create the holes more quickly.

Hi Niclasbladh Can you post the photo?

And for some rotative Grid Plan try Work Plane by tig [image: file.php?id=55844]

@box said: Oddly John, I'm struggling to find the point let alone the helpful part of your post. I was just wondering why he bought software that offers a free trial without actually trialling it first. He claims to be a cheapskate, yet he probably spent $80 on software that he found was of no use to him. He could have taken the free trial and found that out for absolutely nothing.

Thank you. How did I get nine foot long images? Well, I started with nine foot long boards.

Congrats on the retirement.