Thank you very much pololo & numbthumb.. I highly appreciate your reply.

Hi Anthony, At the bottom of the very first post here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=42267

I would recommend making the rectangle a group and draw on it, and as you input the control points make sure that you watch the tool tips for "on face", because the camera can get confused and you will end up with stuff out in B.F. Egypt to clean up.

It worked!! I knew it had to be something simple like that!! Thank you both for your quick help!

Some ideas for the structure Shape Bender by Chris Fullmer is your friend (Take also a look to FredoScale by fredo6 ) Just scale vertically at start, number 2345 for have similar form than your model Select the Group, call the plug Click the straight line Click the curve, that all (maybe click "up arrow key" for have different result) [image: 5z77_egg1.jpg]

thank you. will try it out.

Just set the path as a string path = "C:/Users/Usuario/then_any/valid_path/to a/Folder/MyLovelyPony.skp" If you use / as the file separator the path can be inside '' or "". But if it's \ then use '' ... OR escape the \ as \ inside ""... Loading from a file-path or from a url are handled different as set out in the API docs... Note you can use File methods to find the model's folder or a file's basename or filetype... model_path=File.dirname(model.path) model_name=File.basename(model.path, ".*") model_ext=File.extname(model.path) You can also make new file-paths using output=File.join(model_path, "MyOutputFile.txt") For example this would make a txt file with the model, into which you could write some data...

Thanks for the advice. I probably stated what I want to do wrong, I just finished creating my great room to scale, which is in a "old library" style (it has a zillion trim pieces on the walls and getting them all to fit took me a few months, but I learned a lot. I now want to put our furniture in (I am trying to show my husband that a desk will not fit or look right) but I don't want stick furniture. I want our chairs and sectional to have the correct curves and the cushions to be rounded. So, now what plugins do I need and where can I find them. Thanks again, Sandy Yurk

just clarifying for OP How often does one get a chance ?

have a look at this plugin by thomthom: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=30819 export with no background if you like. (ie. only the model.. everything else will be transparent)

The normal way for paint something [flash=420,315:2jy79htq]http://www.youtube.com/v/OvSP54o_KqY?version[/flash:2jy79htq] [flash=420,315:2jy79htq]http://www.youtube.com/v/AVYYdWYRqrg[/flash:2jy79htq] [flash=420,315:2jy79htq]http://www.youtube.com/v/KEg6tHWNXb4[/flash:2jy79htq] But Use the new Thrupaint by Fredo6 for all Move, resize, rotate etc textures Have fun! [image: lBUi_joc.jpg] Of course this is not the good architectural superimposition [image: Dqqh_joc1.jpg]

Thank you both for providing some more insight into this. The sample I had provided was to merely show on a very basic level the idea I was trying to find an answer to. My model is actually very different than this but Alan I appreciate you spending the time to show the process you would follow to build out a box. I guess I was approaching the model similar to actually building the box in real life. Each side piece front and back piece are their own components as well as the bottom and the top. What I wanted to do from there was cut the box as I would with a band saw to ensure a good seam between the bottom (container) and the top (lid), not thinking at the time that it would be difficult to achieve in SketchUp. I will likely back pedal to my components and adjust at that point to construct the full lid as opposed to the piece of wood placed across the top.

The string 'book' does not occur in Slicer.rb code OR any of its loaded code later. So something that was loaded just before is corrupting the load. What other things are loading ??? [Unless you have edited the Slicer script with a word-processor and formated it, thereby breaking it, it has to be something breaking earlier...]

Yes, the X-Ray tool seems to have done the trick. Thanks for the quick help. Bill

Use a Style that displays Edges 'by Material'. Then apply whatever materials you want to re-selected edges... Here I've done mostly blue, but some other colors too to show that it can be done! These lines are always 'solid' and their thickness is fixed and determined by the Style's settings - unlike using 2dLineStyle trickery which is more flexible... [image: GtpI_Lines_net.PNG] Lines_net.skp

If you have made your various 'parts' as groups or component-instances [i.e. the 'right way' to set up a model] you can then set View > Component Edit toggles, to hide the rest of the model and/or similar components while you edit - in this way clutter can be reduced. Also using Layers for these various parts allows you to 'switch off' objects that are not needed immediately and so open up what can be seen. Having some Scene tabs set that remember a View and its Layer settings lets you quickly go back to the previous state. Also if you want to get inside single objects, then a Section-Plane placed on a main face can give you uncluttered access to the object's insides...

I've split this into its own topic, as it didn't sit well in 'welcome'... You have too many facets for such a small object. It could be a lot simpler with less geometry. The curved elements are modeled inside out and need their faces reversing [they should look 'blue']. There are many inner facets that are never seen and do nothing except bloat the geometry total unnecessarily - there are over 10,000 entities in one group - some entire models have less] Here's how to slice a part off any group... [image: aSyy_Capture.PNG]

it's not bad at all using vanilla tools… for that theater, i think you'd just need to do a few sections then mirror them etc… here's a step_by_step .skp: theater_seating.skp [image: FW6s_theater_seating.jpg] good luck.

Gilles thanks for the tip. TIG thanks for yet another great plug-in - it worked exactly as advertised. In my situation it works as a great cleanup tool. If the smooving is done with appropriate care to get it approximately right, when Drop Vertices is applied, the smooth curves created by smoove aren't disrupted to0 much and it comes out nice. thankyou Mick [image: Jae2_smoove2.jpg]