It's good news that at least the Ati FireGL cards can be made to work with SU. Google has been somewhat cautious about all Ati cards lately. Anssi

Hi Gaieus, I just finished to install my rss reader when elgin wrote his post... I wanted to be more present and reactfull on this forum which help me so much.

I have this problem also and it's very frustrating. In some sense my edges must be planer because I can generally break the face into smaller and smaller triangles, all of which become individual faces, until I finally coax the final rectangle to become a face. Then I go back and delete all of the triangle lines except the original outer perimeter and I have a face. It's frustrating because the outer lines are planer or they're not. If SketchUp can finally make a face after I've broken it into many triangles it is planer but for some reason SketchUp doesn't 'know' this until I've gone through this process of breaking it up into smaller and smaller triangles.

Thanx v much Jeff and Modelhead Good explanations and videos I've been off the job but will try this tonight Cheeryble

If you explode the instance in your model, the component will still remain in the file. Go to your component browser (Window menu), navigate to "In model" and purge it from under the popup menu triggered by that little, blue icon next to the search field. OR keep it for later.

An nVidia GeForce 9600 GT (1 Gb memory).

@unknownuser said: reminding myself "group", "group", "group". I think the ease of use of SU lulls you with its simplicity - then suddenly you realise you have created a spiders web of complexity Isn't this why they gave us OUTLINER? Not that I think OL is the end-all beat-all of organizers, but it has helped me in these very conveluted situations once I got Used to using it.

@jim said: And also there is the repair broken lines plugin: http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/repair_broken_lines.rb Should be a standard on everyone's system. Hi Jim, Thank you for your post. The repair broken lines is the ultimate solution. Hope the developer can make it a contextual menu and let it show up as a right click option. Thank you very much. Regards, Paul

omg nice thanks alot guys...now i can create tsunami HAHAHAHAHA

You can always unhide hidden geometry in the View menu and work on it as if it wasn't softened.

@huyvuvn said: Hi all, I have this problem , please help me to solve this. when I add many sections and scenes , when I hide the section in scene 1 , I click "update" in 'scene' docking-window, when I go to scene 3 , and I go to scene 1 again , the section .... auto unhide.... so that I can not export the animation.... (many scene can not hide the section... the scene not clearly) the link for download this file http://www.mediafire.com/?snjbmmg1jzj Many thanks, Not 100% sure of my understanding of your problem but try this and see if it helps. For the scene set the active section, turm off section plane view but leave section cut on. Update your scene and see if that helps @unknownuser said: @unknownuser said: @unknownuser said:

@thebronze13 said: nevermind i actually stumbled upon the solution, select the face and erase Think the extrusion should work unless the two walls are not parallel and make sure you stop at the back face or you'll have a plug. Inference at the back face can help

You could do it manually, with the scale tool.

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@mike lucey said: Welcome gakuto, enjoy the ride Thanks Mike!

Hi Taylor, When you "poked" that shape through the other one, select everything, right click on the selection, and from the context menu, go to Intersect > ...with model (or selected). Now the two shapes will form edges where they meet and you can start carefully deleting unwanted geometry.

Thanks, that helped a lot! Have drawn up half of our house now.

Cool. U(sincerely - I do remember these moments...) Anyway, you could have spared some of thwe work (deleting parts of the circles) by using teh arc tool instead. Moreover, you can always enter values into what's now called the "Measurement box" (in older tutorials you will find reference to a certain "VCB" for this). So in a case of an angular input, just type the angle and hit Enter. Also, to make it easier, scroll down to where uit says about "Radial arrays" on this page. (and when you are at it, also examine Linear arrays here)

OK, here how it should go: Never put "raw" (or "primitive" - i.e. ungrouped) geometry anywhere but always keep it on Layer0. Make a group of what you want to put on any other layer (or make a component if there will be more instances of the same geometry in your model) and only put those onto other layers.

Tool bars are different on the Mac. You can't stretch them at all. Basically, you can dock one or leave it floating. But that's about all you can do! You CAN customize the menu bar up along the top of the window (View/Customize Toolbar). Of course, I hope I'm wrong!