It would be plagiarism as I have read something similar before.

Yes, gluing/cutting components can only cut holes on raw geometry, not on groups/components (but of course, they should be able to cut that holeon the raw geometry inside a group/component) as Shura says. Once a component lost its ability to cut a hole (or has been unglued), it cannot retain this ability any longer with native SU tools however. Now we have a nifty plugin, "Superglue" by Thomthom that will re-glue (and cut) these components. YouTube - Superglue Plugin for SketchUp by ThomThom [flash=480,385:ba83iujs]http://www.youtube.com/v/VS8-tjYTPXM?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:ba83iujs]

Not sure, but this might help you. I think that you may have to rotate your model before slicing, as a quick read is that it slices in the x, z plane.

Try adding the material to both sides of the glass / Face.

Glad that worked. It's unlikely you'd have a problem with a single component but if you start adding a lot of parts to a model that all have a large number of entities, you will probably find the slow down.

pryvit, vyhlyadaye zdorovo Spasybi. Hope I didn't mess that up.

@watkins said: Dear Jez, If you go to your previously referenced link, viz. http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=46003, and try to access the SU model under "click me for sketchup models" in any of the three postings by El Nosbar, then you will see what I mean. Regards, Bob Okay, thanks. I thought you meant my site, not the forums. I've reported it to the mods there, so it will get fixed soon.

What for? It's a common enough question to merit letting the world know about Eric and Daves Cordless Drill thread!

@unknownuser said: Why not just share your solution here? I'm intrigued You are right!I am really sorry, it didn't sound as intended. Well,what "the smack" (ME) did wrong was pushing TAB to see if my geometry was correct and anytime I liked it, I exported the model to dae so that I could import it to SU. What I should have done was push D to subdivide the model, (TAB only gives preview of the subdivided geometry) thats why it kept on delivering the undivided model. Kind of embarrassing actually!!!! The thing now is that the dae file is quite big in MB. For instance the sofa you saw attached is 10.8 MB and without any texture. Guess that my inquiry is not over after all!!!!

@diegob said: they told me that are waiting an apy from sketchup lab. You can tell them that it's been released: http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/utilities.html

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Thanks For the tips guys.... I'll try both plugins... Jeff,the result you showed was just what I need.Much appreciated Thank heaven for all the plugin makers :O)

Thank you for the help. I will try this on my next session.

Thanks all! Earl

je suis d'accord avec Pilou. why would you toil laboriousy thru it in SU when another program could do it with more fluidity and then just import it? Not that I do any of that, but Just an observation.

Yes, everything is about "inferencing" in SketchUp. Here is a list (simple search results) of some tutorials Dave mentioned on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sketchup+inferencing&aq=f This is probably the most powerful feature of SU so you should really get a good grip of it.

I had given up on the idea of showing internal illumination of an LED-TV screen on the shaded side of the building. But I just discovered a glitch that looks like internal illumination. The first image is the normal image with two signboards. The second is what happened while I was playing with the UTC setting for time of day. The rendering would stop with everything dark except the screen facing the sun. Then after a few random clicks, it would render properly. I don't have any idea what's going on here. But maybe someone can figure out how to take advantage of this anomaly to simulate internal lighting for an object in shade. Normal View : [image: LED%20signboard_in%20shadow.jpg] Glitch View : [image: Dark%20wall_bright%20screen.jpg]

Thanks for your warm welcome. I'm moved I hope to learn as much as possible from this wonderful formu made up of outstanding people. Regards Michele

Thanks Mac, I have encorporated your roof into my model. It will be much easier to build. I will post a finished model soon. Bob

Yes, I wish that the default figure as you load up a new copy of SU, was Aidan as opposed to Sang!