I'm working at the moment on some very small components and...yes sketchup is not accurate. When I draw some lines, sketchup grabs the lines from different lines,changes lengths,creates some other lines, hides lines.. as it's no able to work with small faces. Beside that, orbiting or zooming in in small components it's a pain- the clipping/ disappearing objects issue makes i even harder . Edited : Sorry guys ! There was a similar thread about accuracy , and i haven't read all the posts above. My post wasn't meant for this thread !

Ah yes... It's coming back to me now, the "Thanks in advance" proverb

I have a laptop with an nvidia gtx 540 card (with 1Gb memory) so some laptops do come with dedicated cards.

@chrisfr1990 said: Then making a group of wall, importing the png, exploding the image Now that is very much possible. Many rendering engines cannot deal with "image entities" so best is to explode them into real geometry with the image applied on it as texture.

@andybot said: @unknownuser said: This is what I have Tig and its still not doing right but thanks! Maybe I still have something set up wrong? It's right there in your screen-grab - bottom left - uncheck the box for "0 inches" Thanks andybot, just didn't realize that was the problem!

Your results are surely more typically accurate but my use at the moment is for a flat 2D sheet view. I will try to remember your idea. I will, but I bet I don't. [image: yLIy_white-1.JPG] [image: cDHF_white-2.JPG] [image: pt3v_white-4.JPG]

It is indeed caused by Joe's plugin. In fact he mentions that in the link you provided. I don't use his tools so that would explain why I never saw the layer before.

Ahhh - I'm there now - thanks for the help, though I'm still a little unclear as to how I managed to get it all working!! The finished results are certainly making it worth the effort of sticking with it, though.....

Hi oganocali I have tried Tgi 3D and it still has problems makeing every unique texture. So i am going to forget about it for now. Thanks to everyone for their help. Cheers

Do you have a sketchup.rb file inside the Plugins folder? That file should only ever be in the Tools folder [at least since v5?], and the latest version is put there automatically by the SUp installer. Having files that should be in the Tools folder duplicated inside Plugins is a recipe for problems... You might have other ill-advised 'duplicates' too... Check these two folders contents and keep just the versions in Tools...

Gaieus beat me to it! Here my go anyway... It reiterates what he's just said... The intersection geometry appears in the 'current context'. So if you have two overlapping groups in the model, you select them and use 'Intersect with selection', then all the new edges are put in the model context. When you then explode a group it merges with this geometry. A much easier way is this... Do the Intersection as above. Select the new geometry [suggest you use a left>right fence to include just it and omit the groups, but if you accidentally pick something else too you can remove it from the selection by holding down Shift+Ctrl and picking it again; conversely you can add missed things to the selection by holding down Ctrl as you pick those]. Now you have all of the intersected geometry selected. Edit>Cut. Edit the group that you want to contain this new geometry [double-click to move into its context] Edit>PasteInPlace. The pasted geometry is now added to the group and merges with the existing geometry as appropriate. Edit the group's contents as desired... and then close its edit session. Another way that is even easier [provided that only the two groups intersect and there are no other overlaps you want to miss out]... is to initially edit the group where the intersecting new geometry is wanted, and use Edit>SelectAll. Now use 'Intersect with model' and the new geometry will form inside the group as it is made, merging as appropriate... Tip: To see what you are doing when editing something like this, use the View>ComponentEdit settings which can temporarily hide the rest of the model and/or similar components [groups and components are treated the same way for this 'toggle'] as you edit. It's useful to see what you are doing, but of course sometimes seeing the rest of the model outside of the edit context is useful as you can still snap to it etc...

@pbacot said: You can do this. Before pasting in the closed shape to the grid, soften the edges in the grid by selecting all of them and clicking soften coplanar in the smooth/soften window. After you paste in the shape, you'll be able to select the outside and erase it. Ahhh.. yes of course, I have seen that before - my brain just didn't want to recognise the solution. @pbacot said: I don't know that you can lock the outside edges in this process. I guess you just have to avoid them. Anyone?... Maybe... and probably not too hard to do but it would be good to know if there is a technique to lock the shoreline in place. Thanks Mick

Since it appears you have the pro version of SketchUp, just use File>Import... and set the file type to "AutoCAD Files".

Unless there's a plugin for turning every face that isn't there into a face after I've imported my .dwgs?

So it's used like a film for tensile structures ? I have choice between this [image: 414hXmlHf0L._SL500_AA300_.jpg] and this [image: eden-63.jpg]

Hi Paul, hi folks. You wrote it correctly when you stated that this takes some time. Now, for someone to make what you want needs that: 1 - The person know this kind of work; 2 - The person take the time to produce the model. This is called professional work and I know of no one that would do that for free. If you just want ideas, this is another game. Some SketchUp user may find some spare time to illustrate it with SketchUp and produce a simple model. Of course, you will not be able to get a construction permit with such a model. Just ideas.

I have tried several virtual "pdf printers" over time and indeed some of them have issues with non-English characters (we have áíűőüöúóé - two of which are particular only to Hungarian). So finally ended up with PDFCreator that can handle anything (and even "print" into image formats and can also "merge" several files of even several file types into a single pdf document).

I'm not having this '/" issue - both work fine Scaling 'upfront' for me... Also the '/" keys are in different places on a USA keyboard so the problem might occur for you differently - e.g. 'backwards'...

Thank you for your reply. I will try the suggestions that you made.

It is official. I hate web design. I am too much of an idiot. First of all thanks for the advise. Much, much appreciated. Unfortunately I am struggling to get the code to do as it is told. I shall prevail though (cough cough, sob sob)