More exactly it is an NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150. Now I have another idea. If you go to the control panel of the video card, you should be able to set antialiasing and anisotropic filtering thwere. To run SU smoothly, both should be set to application controlled (see attached). But if it doesn't work this way, you can disable them there, in the control panel. Then go to SU (hopefully starts this time), disable it where I suggested above and now you can enable it for other applications in the control panel. [image: a3tb_nVidia.jpg]

You can wrap an image clear around a curved shape...as long as the sides are vertical. In the attached file, an extruded circle has been rotated so that one of its flat sides is facing along an axis (therefore exactly parallel to the imported image). The image is projected onto that face. You then r-click the face, uncheck the Projected attribute of the texture, sample the face with the now unprojected image painted onto it, then paint all the other faces. [image: DYUT_wrapped_thumb.jpg] wrapped.skp

Hi folks. I just checked after drawing a component and rotating it at 45° from the red and green axes and if I flip this component along the component's red or green axis, I get the correct result. Of course the component's axis must be oriented correctly to start with. Normally, for a bathtub, the red and green shall be lying on the ground and the blue shall be pointing up. Just ideas.

Ok i'll give it a try. Thanks

@readingkt6 said: Where is the 3D warehouse? That would be awesome. Also on the File menu. Are you sure a toilet is worth all those bytes? When it comes time to build, you get catalogs and pick what you want. For the model of the house you might want to go with something that looks like a toilet but is low-poly (small cost in edges and faces).

I don't believe that the problem lies with the recording of the screen shot. The video transitions are already choppy when played right from Sketchup or thru the Smooth Animation video. My problem lies somewhere in the basics of the animation programs I am using. I think it is partially that I am trying to use sketchup as an animation tool when there are probably better tools out there for this purpose. I just don't have the skills to use the more advanced animators at this time. But thanks for the heads up on FRAPS, I did check it out and it may come in handy at some point

Hi Greg, Note that if you want a realistic arch, you will need to also texture the vertical faces around the opening with the material somewhat radially positioned. Have a look at this tutorial that shows similar results (with bricks but eventually it's all the same): http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=21847

Hi Jesse, "Maybe..." Have a look at this topic to see if you can get some ideas: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=21914

@dave wood said: Thanks, as well to Xrok1. I'm glad there are so many people smarter than me out there. The 2D Tools plug-in sounds really interesting- I'm not that well-versed in how to find things. TIG, could you please tell me where to find HTM (guide?) I looked in the Extenstions index in SketchUcaction, SMustard, and the Library Depot. Did I miss something? Thanks so much. Too new for these locations - look in the Ruby Forum here. A simple search for '2D Tools' finds it... plugins are using found on the first page of the topic http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=185760#p185760 There are lots of exciting new Rubies arriving every day !!! browse the forum...

@mac1 said: @mac1 said: @matsuo said: @mac1 said: @matsuo said: Is there a good way to divide the shape after using the 'weld' plug-in? I already tried the following: Welding the outline Check the length of the outline Used 'Convert to > Polyline Divider' and divided it (length of outline / no. of segments (i.e. 20) = segment length) Problem is that after I did all those steps, a) the shape is distorted, and b) I end up with a gap that is smaller than a segment What exactly am I doing wrong here? If necessary I will attach a drawing with an example. MATSUO Did same approach and did not have the same problem. I found length. inside, is 10652.680 used 101 segs for a tread width of 105.47208mm. The first time checking the segs I found a short one also so, increased the accuracy of the model units to the max. and did not find same problem. Don't know why that should effect the results Maybe I did something else wrong). Before copy/ rotation of treads suggest you check each seg length via entity info. The attached file is what I have done to date. That's more like it I will try your approach (increasing the accuracy) and post my results! Thanks edit: Well..I tried your approach, without any success I keep ending up with one piece that's too small! I even tried the offset on surface tool, but that didn't help either Any other suggestions? When I call up the polyline divider on my SU7 version it asks for a interval input and not num of segments. I am guessing if you input a interval such that the tread length/tread width is not an integer it just may truncate the one segment. I accurately measured the tread length then used a width close to the hidden widths( at the max curve point) shown in your model then adjusted that until I obtained an integer number. thus the 101 segs. Hope this helps Additional info. Checked the ruby library and found bz_sgementor.rb giving you the capability of dividing polyline by segs vs dimension. Download and install. http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/BZ__Segmentor.rb. This should solve the problem. Quick check with my 101 segs indicates it provides the same solution without length truncation at least for this case. I will look into it! My apologies for the late reaction

Awesome!!! Thanks for your help! Greetings, John

I agree! People here are friendly, informative and patient. Thanks all!

it will certainly run on this machine. it runs on much weaker ones too. however, it always advisable to get more RAM and a more potent graphics card. it seems that the 9400 card shares memory with the system and this is not the best for rendering.

Welcome John and thanks for sharing your interesting background. Mike

Hi Shokan, Have a look at this tutorial I also made for texturing arches: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=21847 Here is an image I made with this technique (the texture has been improved ever since and of courase, this is not Victorian but Ancient Roman but the idea is the same): [image: file.php?id=36098&mode=view]

As long as it is a backup copy, and if all you want is a look, explode the groups, and components, then stretch.

Hi Joe, Check your PM's!

Excellent, thanks very much!

Hi Semih, Use the Stamp tool from the Sandbox toolset for this job. See some references here: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95061 http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115432

Hi Lem, Zoom Window in SU before printing, or export the image as a jpg, then crop and fit to print.