Hi Emy, I'd have to recommend staying away from any ruby scripting until you are familiar with SU. Not many people really ever get into it. As for smooth transitions, that is a little bit tricky sometimes. The main thing to do is try to keep the distance between all scenes approximately the same. And dont have any sudden camera u-turns. You can right click on a scene and choose "play animation" and it will try to play your animation for you. This can help get a beter feel for the animation before you take the time to export it. Also, try exporting it at a low resolution with a low frame rate (15 for example). This helps make a quick render of your movie, that you can check to see if your camera passes through walls, or is too jerky ever. Those are the main things you can really do to help make a slightly smoother movie. Try that and see if you make any progress. Chris

Thanks Patrick, really interesting method.

@jean lemire said: However, I made a test and created a group containing a rectangle with a dimensioned side. When I select the group from the outliner, only the dimension shows. The rectangle stays invisible. This is strange and meybe is a bug. That's the behaviour I tried to describe. We run into the problem all the time, because the group containing a dimension is part of the procedure that we developed for our designs. Have a look at the thread Scaling of distorted ground floor layout and you'll understand how we arrived at seeing these weird dimensions.

Thanks everyone for your replies, they were helpful. I checked this with 'components' box and used a couple of items everything worked as I tested them out. What happened I don't know but its O K now. The second item was a simple mistake. The way I asked the question was wrong, (right click), I didn't use it like I said, sorry for that. But I did have a problem with [num],'x' and [num], '/' they didn't work. but with your help I went backand checked again very carefully and found my mistake. I put the 1st component down them 'movement +', click, copy was printed. With the num + or / I moved the 2nd to a position and clicked ONCE but did not remove the cursor from the second component but just entered the number and + or / then return and it worked. One click too many was my mistake. therefore any questions you answer or tutorials looked at it pays to look at the answer again but with scrutiny, its easy to miss small points. Thank you. John John

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GOT IT NOW. was doing it all wrong, now to make the fabric, fun..

i suspect it was something like a cube on a flat surface, where the bottom face of the cube was a shared face with the surface under it, therefore it couldn't move up. when you group it it separates the geometry from anything else.

hey .. .that works too!

if you can't afford Onenote, there's Evernote ( http://www.evernote.com ) which is a similar excellent tool which can be used for free.

Hm. This is interesting info - thanks for coming back with it. My antivirus software also has "Gaming mode" never known what the heck it is. (However it is turned on as I have now checked.)

Oh! Thanks a lot! It´s easy! But I didn´t know about it. C.

Hi Ginger, hi folks. See this SU file for ideas. Aligning furniture to angled wall.skp

Hi folks. The red axis is the X axis, the green axis is the Y axis and the blue axis is the Z axis. Just ideas.

@masheen said: I have the latest version thanks and after reading the documentation everything made a lot more sense - although i am still unable to tell what change i have made to the size of the component itself - i'm afraid of generating heavy models as i need to make quick changes to the model in front of the client and i cant afford a sluggish model during navigation... masheen Read this it may help http://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/faster

Hi Gaieus, problem solved, weird, but after downloading Fredoscale, shapes, parametric & mesh additions had disappeared from plug ins, I found them in the trash (although I didn't put them there!), when I dragged them back to plugins, lo and behold, I now have shapes in my draw menu! So they will keep me busy for a while.....

Hi Rob and welcome! If you are in this cabinetry business, you ma be interested to join the Woodworkers usergroup so that you can see (and post in) the Woodworking subforum. You can do it in your User Control Panel.

Hi there samuel, i'm mesraem and i'm new to this forum. I've been experiencing this kind of problem sometime ago when i imported .3ds file to sketchup but i have no clues yet on how to resolve it, well anyways i just want to share this site to you http://www.i-urban.net it has lots of free max files and other format that could be imported directly to sketchup like .dwg/.dxf file and .3ds as well.

Take a look here And have fun wood making

@dedonnan said: Can you make parts, then use the parts to make assemblies(mechanical), like you can in other 3d programs? Thank you, Dave you can make components and put as many together as you want similar to an assembly type workflow. its can just be a little harder to align them since there are no mathematical relationships in SU. but by all means you can build libraries of parts.

My interpretation of your question is: You have a series of line segments touching end to end and you want them to be one line segment. If this is correct, you might want to look at the Weld plugin. Why did I think this? Because you said "connect". If this is incorrect, ignore this reply. Best wishes.