I have a copy of Draftsight and use it on occasion along with AutoCAD. Very similar feel and functions. I can transfer .dwg drawing files both ways and have not found any significant degradation in data. I have found it very useful if someone sends me an Acad file saved in a newer version than mine. What my Acad will not open, Draftsight will. To answer Ands43 I agree with JGA, from experience that you can import and re-use your title blocks from Acad. There is another free 2D program, DoubleCad XT5 which is a product from IMSI. It has two big brothers, TurboCAD LTE 6 and TurboCAD LTE Pro 6 which have a low cost, but function very much like Acad LT. DC has a builtin opening screen with many size drawing templates. Both work well with Sketchup

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@unknownuser said: Maybe some answers here ? I downloaded the trial and I am looking at the tutorials. Thanks for the response.

It's hard to tell if that's the right solution since we still can't see your image but if you're happy with it, that's cool.

Thanks TIG! I will put in a good word for you if I die first.

Member Alvis (Gintas Mikutis) has some tutorials here on the forum and a few books in the store for modeling sofas: http://sketchucation.com/shop/books

En fait non, cela ne marche pas! Quand on replace les volumes obtenus sur la courbe de départ il y a des écarts! Désolé! Il va donc falloir modifier le fichier smustard_PathCopy.rb de Smustard! [image: CYqC_div2.jpg]

Some more info on this subject - http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=57873 KrisM

@dave r said: Try selecting all the geometry and run Intersect Faces>With Model. I have already tried to do intersect Faces>With Selection – but a message "No intersection found between selection and the rest of the model" appeared Only after I posted my problem here in this thread and tried again I realized that the dish like shapes where not selected even I drew a huge selection box over everything which made me think they would be selected but in fact they were not, now I’ve selected each of them individually then it worked

@box said: @keithwins said: AH! If the toolbar dialog is open, it works like you said. If it's closed (which I'd done, since it didn't seem to buy me anything) it works like I said. So I can move tools around without ever opening the toolbar dialog using Alt. Thanks for sticking with me! Out of the mouths of babes and all that, you've stumbled across a handy feature there. Being able to move tools around from bar to bar without opening the toolbar dialog is something I would never have guessed at. +1.......have to try and remember this........and what's in a name... KeithWins C

Upload model to dropbox or box.com and share a link please. See if we can help you out before your deadline. Any "complex" model slows down when shaded. If it's unreasonably slow then you'll have to do something about it. I almost always navigate a complex model in monochrome mode. It's because SU is a total arse and doesn't like anything "complex". How dare you model anything more than a cube?! Upload model and I'll have a look.

Well done Mickael.

You might want to check with the suppliers of Mazaik and see if they've issued an updated version of the plugin. SU2014 uses Ruby 2.0 while SU8 used an older and now unsupported version of Ruby. This required many plugins to be updated to meet the newer Ruby standards. There have been many folks reporting errors on plugins they've copied over from an older version of SketchUp and the standard advice which has been repeated on SCF ad nauseum is to not copy plugins but download fresh versions.

My line was too complicated (too many segments)I drew it again in SU and used Weld and it's ok now. Thank you very much !!!:)

Oh. I guess we'll wait.

@kellenraid said: .......But on one edge, there are these triangles; though small, they kinda ruin the smooth edge. .......Is there a fix for this? ..... Temporarily make hidden geometry (all the edges) visible. Did you try to smooth the triangle's edges by sweeping the 'Eraser' tool over its edges while holding down [Ctrl] This will smooth the triangle's edges and will make one large smooth surface.

Component stringer looks like a reliable tool. thanks

How about making the face to be scaled a component or group. Open that component or group and use the Tape Measure tool to measure the distance between the bottom corner and the top corner directly above it. Make sure to click at both corners. Then type the desired height of the face and hit Enter. Click on Yes in the message box. The face will get scaled uniformly and the height will be what you wish it to be.

mac1: I just posted a couple of my renderings of my projects. Most of the items in these projects I created myself. Other items, I downloaded...and added them. garystan

Making solution difficult, see the tutorial by Gaieus I ref above