Tried to use a backer on the png and it didn't work. Exported it to a jpeg and now it is working. It must be that pngs don't block out sketchy lines..

I have a related copyright issue, if someone can comment on it. Namely, what if: I download a model from SU's 3d warehouse I curate it, I verify for errors, I verify/put materials I prepare materials for a render process Now, which one of the following scenarios would be safe, in your opinion: (a) I reupload to my own models portal, no fees whatsoever (b) I reupload to a separate collection on 3Dwarehouse (c) I create a SU plugin for accessing from my own server (no from 3d warehouse), no fees whatsoever Reading the TOS of 3d warehouse, tallbridgeguy's works are clearly legally covered by the derivative work clause.

Great, thank you.

Opened it up in GIMP and the tree seemed to be cut out decently well. There were definitely some places that needed trimmed/erased so that is probably why it looked like it did. I started to trim it but it was taking forever so I put the transparency on 'nicer' and it displayed without the outline. Thanks

You are welcome to try my Sub-Divide Faces plugin on my blog.

See the videos of Ely862me on youtube! http://youtu.be/tzjA0GPdQrw

Draw a floor surface for your model to sit on, apply a material you can edit in KT to be reflective. There are plenty of tutorials on the Kerkythea website. Start there.

I recommend the STL Extension by SketchUp, which appears in the File menu: File > Export STL. If you do not have this menu item, then install the SketchUp STL extension from the Extensions Warehouse, and try again.

jerry, if you do a lot of wood textures on curved surfaces you might want to download the Fredo Tools plugin. in the package is ThruPaint it makes orienting wood grain on curves a lot easier than with the native tool. chuck.

Great, thank you

http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/ I found it very helpful.

Hello Pilou, Thank you very much for your reply. The videos gave me some good tips, but did not really include what I was looking for. For instance, I see that they make the golf hole, and in the end I thought they were going to glue the hole to the google earth surface so that it would stick to it and follow the contours while still keeping its face (and not becoming a non-planar surface). Is there anyway to do this? However, in the meantime, I managed to find a way to solve my problem, at least 70%. It is not the perfect solution, but it is good enough. Nevertheless, I thank you very much for your reply, I learned some new, good stuff.

I could make something up. Good luck with it.

Set up the view with the camera set to Parallel Projection. Export as a 3D CAD file instead of 2D.

@solo said: Very hard to say what is going wrong, will need more info, maybe images will help Thanks Solo, i will try to explain... the sketchup model has a lot of textures files, I export to obj but is something wrong with the way I export obj, probably i will have to optimize the textures. The obj files which work with my software have only one or a few texture file. The problem could be the way I edit the modell before export it. My machine only accept .dxf and I don't know how to convert with textures definition. only the block is converted.

Add a sheet material word to the component definition name. i.e. MDF, sheet, plywood, etc. Or add a new sheet material word that your components already use such as 'panel' in the first page of the CutList UI. Remember to save the settings. Or you can add a material to the components which has a sheet material word in its name. You can modify a simple color's name if you don't want to have actual materials applied. Any of those options will get the parts to show up in the Sheet Materials section instead of the solid wood components section.

Window/Preferences/System Preferences/Extensions I disabled all of the extensions except Utilities Tools and it still "splats". [image: 91PX_SKM002.jpg]

I have it here - Win 7 64, Su Pro 2014 - with no issues. Did you use the SketchUcation PluginStore for installing it? The latest version there is 2.0.2

@jhonpayboll said: I´m having some trouble logging in to the sketchucation plugin store. Also I can´t search within the extension manager window. In both cases I press log in/search and nothing happens, any thoughts? thanks! Try going into Internet Explorer and emptying the cache, this might help with the SketchUp launched PluginStore dialog... If you mean the 'Plugin Store' accessed via your web browser, then try the same cache-clear, but in whatever browser you normally use [Chrome, Firefox etc]. By 'Extension Manager' I assume you really mean the 'Extension Warehouse' - which is Trimble's baby ?? For that you need to be pre-logged in with a gmail account... Try doing that beforehand... Also check your system settings and Internet Options to ensure javascript etc is enabled and nothing is overly 'strict' !

Tig, thank you for the workaround in your PM... it worked fine! (I had already poked around in that file with N++, but couldn't see anything obvious. ) Just FYI, this is a work laptop and we have a pretty unusual "website whitelist" security setup that I guess must be blocking the pings. (I can't PM yet or I might send you slightly more info, except it would probably be irrelevant for the next version anyway.) P.s. If you want me to test something relating to this just let me know.