I'm kind of interested in knowing what your aversion is to making a group or a component.

Are you using Google SketchUp or SketchUp 2015 as your profile indicates?

Hi pisosse, hi folks. If you use the Help menu from SketchUp, then choose the Knowledge Center and then type printing to scalein the search field and then click on the first hyper link, you shall eventually find this: http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/36227 The 1:50 scale can be set in the dialog window. When printing, select a pdf printer to produce a pdf file. Just ideas.

Draw an arc? [image: hj1V_Screenshot-1_8_20154_20_29AM.png] I don't know if you want them but you can get smoother curves all the way around if you increase the number of sides on the circle and the circle you used to create the half-ellipse. [image: clBB_Screenshot-1_8_20154_27_36AM.png]

Cool!

Geometry drawn in the same context immediately 'merges', so the circles will cut each other. This is useful to do what Pilou shows, but a PIA when you want to Move one circle as drawn over the other. e.g. if you have not initially drawn it in the exact position you desire. To allow that, draw the second circle away from everything else, then select it and use the context-menu to make it into a [temporary] group. Now you can select the temporary group and Move it etc, sliding it over the other circle to adjust the overlapping. When you are ready explode the temporary group. The circles will merge and cut each other as before... Erase the unwanted parts...

Yes if you use Photoshop or Gimp or any other image editor. You have to have skills though. You can also combine simple renders with SU output for faster/non photo realistic/conceptual renders. For instance, if you use any render engine you can render an image just with a/some light source(s) and mix it with SU output. If this light pass render is made only of matte white materials, glass and mirror, no sun, no sky(or black sky) it will be faster to clear than a full material render. You can render multiple passes per view and mix them all in the image editor: Light pass; Specular pass; Diffuse pass; Etc. Search on google for "tutorials render passes"

Thank you.

I do have Fredo scale and I am learning--slowly but steadily, how to understand, let alone use these remarkable plugins. And maybe that old video is no longer important now with the updated tools we have at hand, but I simply thought it worth the question to see if someone might have remembered that particular video and know of a link to it. Again, my thanks for your replies.

I'm glad you got it sorted. Get some sleep, now. Happy New Year to you, too.

I don't believe that for a second. "No brain" can't be your name. It's already taken by someone else. Check your PMs. D

Try also the Bezier Surface by Thomthom above, it's a true task!

Sometimes I exaggerate the move in the axis I want, in order to get the move to offer that axis. For me the shift usually works fine to hold the direction.

Thanks Dave, have sent you an email Mirroring has been done, it was the fin on the side but was for future reference really.

@mtr said: I tried, but it only works with curved line, I have a line is curve, angle and up. Pls see the pic above. Shape bender can do this... [image: IMk9_sb.jpg]

Pop an image up of the sort of thing you want and people will give you a variety of ways to go about it. As roland says, Artisan is a great tool but can be overkill.

Thank you TIG, this was VERY helpful! Cheers

which code the dynamic component should I enter to leave the material texture in fixed size?

Yeah, you're right, I've been getting some really good help so far. Cheers

Two problems I encounter with sketchup and KT relationship. I get a failure notice each time I automatically export a scene from sketchup (I have to import an .xml file to continue work I just can't view my saved renderings and scenes while on KT. Big problem for me because I am in a mess at the moment.