@tig said: This alternative one-liner will process all selected component-instances, making those instances take the material of the first face found within the component's definition. ms=[];mod=Sketchup.active_model;mod.selection.grep(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance).each{|i|d=i.definition;d.entities.grep(Sketchup;;Face).each{|f|ms<<f.material};m=ms.compact[0];i.material=m}; To make a menu item of such simple commands you can try the following. It's not difficult - just take care... Use a plain-text editor, like Notepad++ [or TextWrangler on a MAC], and add a new file into your Plugins folder*** named say 'MyOneLiners.rb' - ensure that its encoding is set to UTF-8. Add this line to the very start of the file to be on the safe side: # encoding: UTF-8 Then add the following line for each 'one-liner'... UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("TITLE"){CODE} Substituting your desired 'name' for your command in place of TITLE [keeping the paired ""], and also copy and paste the full code into where it says CODE [leaving the pair of enclosing {} ] Do a new line for each command you want. Save the RB file, and restart SketchUp to see your new command[s] listed under the SketchUp Extensions menu [previously called Plugins]... ***To open your Plugins folder [which is hidden by default] just copy+paste+enter this one-liner into the Ruby Console: UI.openURL("file;///#{Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')}") You could even add that command to your menu items, as say "OpenMyPluginsFolder" ! Work fine thanks for the help !!

@lurch23 said: Please help, I am an absolute newbie with Sketchup so I really don't have any clue as to what I am doing. I am trying to import an obj file with its mtl file and textures but all it keeps loading is just the obj file without the textures. This is what I am trying to import with,TIG: Import OBJ with Materials v2.2[/b], I have also tried the obj importer from Simlab. You should have two files named **xxx**.OBJ and **xxx**.MTL, and a subfolder of texture image files - named ' **xxx**', or sometimes perhaps ' **xxx**_Textures'. It's usual to have all three with a common name and all located in the same folder... Depending on where you got the OBJ file from, you might need to edit the files with Notepad++ [or equivalent plain-text editor on MAC] and check the format of those files is correct. Some downloaded OBJ's are badly formatted and files/images can be missing ! The OBJ file will have a line near its start, looking for the MTL file: mtllib **xxx.mtl** Ensure it is looking for the correctly named MTL file, in the same location as the OBJ itself. The MTL file will in turn be looking for the necessary image files, so again also ensure that the subfolder's paths in the file are correct, the paths will occur once for each texture's image so you might need to edit several lines - or perhaps rename the images' subfolder to match the MTL text - whichever is the simplest ! Also check that the image files that are listed have the correctly named equivalent files in the subfolder... Typical MTL line example: map_Kd **xxx/**MyLovelyTexture1.jpg After editing the files, save and close, and retry the importing...

Make sure edges are turned on in styles window go to view -edge style, check profiles and edges.

It'a a great plugin and it works.

@noduhduh said: Only other thing I changed was instead of making my cylinder finished height (2"), I made it taller than needed and just intersected it at 2" instead. Come to think of it, that's probably what did it? It's generally easier to do this kind of thing if you add plenty of excess length so it's easier to select and erase the unwanted geometry. And it's not like the excess geometry is costing you anything.

@renandez22 said: Problem: Fredo Corner defaults all chamfers on 3d objects (two surfaces meeting at an edge) to a 45 degree angle. Anyone know how to change this to a 25 degree or what tool can be helpful for 3d objects. For chamfer to work on corners with 3 edges or more (e.g. a true corner), the profile needs to be symmetrical. If this is just to chamfer borders of a shape, then this is more a kind of followMe, and whether with the native tool or with Profile Builder by Whaat, you should make it with no difficulty.

yeah.. the contents of the zip are in there......

It looks like you have the first two scenes working just fine. Scene 1 shows a red cube, scene 2 shows green. I'm not sure what your plan is but you have 12 copies of the green cube on Layer 2. [image: Zm3e_Screenshot-3_20_201911_22_23AM.png] You've also managed to assign edges and faces of the green cubes to layer 2 instead of Layer 0 where they belong. I've fixed the layers problem, removed 11 of the green cubes leaving just one, made a copy of the cube, painted its faces blue and assigned it to Layer 3 and now it all works just fine. Scene 1 [image: iHXT_Screenshot-3_20_201911_32_16AM.png] Scene 2 [image: 5fv5_Screenshot-3_20_201911_32_26AM.png] Scene 3 [image: TuQy_Screenshot-3_20_201911_32_36AM.png] If you want to place copies of the same group in the exact same position but on different layers, try it this way. Original group created on Layer 0. Create the number of layers you need and name them appropriately. Turn off their visibility. Select the group. Hit Ctrl+X to cut it to the clipboard. Hit Edit>Paste in place. A keyboard shortcut is a good idea for this. Immediately change its layer association to the first layer. It'll disappear because that layer's visibility is turned off. Hit Edit>Paste in place again. A new copy of the cube will appear. Assign the next layer in the list to it. Rinse and repeat until you have copies of the component on each of the desired layers. Set up your first scene with the first layer visibility turned on but all the rest turned off. Create the scene. Turn off the first layer, turn on the second. Create the next scene. Repeat until you have all of the scenes created.

Why must you use a remote connection - which, as you have founded, will not work ?

@susteve said: Thank you for the replies. I am in an environment where it is not possible to use extensions so all of the solutions have to be vanilla. Tell Sonder to loosen up a little... Just kidding, he's a real stand-up guy.

Anssi... you are the GOD of non-coplanar fixes. Thank you my friend!

Aah, good. Dale is a knowledgeable and helpful guy. Is this also a new SU installation? What I want to get to is if you installed SU correctly, strange things happen when SU isn't installed correctly. Fortunately installing it correctly is a simple task.

Greetings, I cannot make a smoove tool working on SU 2018. Starting from scratch and editing a grid surface the Ssmoove Tools does not make any interraction with surface. A radius ans any other setting is set correctly. There smoove pointer does not make any vertices selection, etc. I will be thankful for any helpful suggestion. PS Is there any possibility to reinstall a Sandox Plugin perhaps?

After converting all groups to components, you can replace them all by a single one using component replacer plugin, also from thomthom

It worked. Thank you!

Seems funny ones will be free Soap Skin Bubble or Ferrari!

Very nice work indeed! I had to laugh about your Tundra, though.

Attach the model so we can check it rather than guessing.

As stupid as this sounds: I think that might have actually been the issue. I tried it again with a simple small block and the bigger the model gets the worse that optic illusion of unparallelity becomes I have been breaking my brain over this for hours....now I actually put a ruler to my screen and it checks out. Thanks a lot for your help

If you are in the setup mode for Match Photo, moving the origin is really more like moving the image relative to SketchUp's fixed origin. You would set the axes so that the origin aligns with some easily identifiable corner in the image. You might find it easier to set up the Match Photo image in a separate file and then copy the model into that file to place it where you need it. If you share the SKP file of your model and the image you are using, I can give you more specifics.