Where'd the tutorial come from?

Gerry, you might find this and this old thing helpful. If you are saving components for later use, take a moment to think about and adjust where the insertion point should be to make it easy to insert later.

I see the pdf is taken down. I would probably not run up to the same problem, and we'd be back where we started. Posting a file is best. Then show what edge to delete. For m V.8 is best or 2013.

These two might help you out. Artisan http://artisan4sketchup.com/ tgi3d http://www.tgi3d.com/index.php?Page=Amorph%26amp;

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=186621#p186621

One way when you are working on individual components is to drag the edited component from the In Model window to the Collection window and it will overwrite the old version.

Thank you so much... View/tool palette.....

You should read here.

@howling wolf said: Another question I have is regarding a good source for plugin downloads...Is there any one, trustworthy site for downloads? Your profile indicates you're using SketchUp 8. If you upgrade to 2014, you'll get automatic access to a feature called the "Extension Warehouse". As eneroth3 cited, you can use the Extension Warehouse to install plugins directly within SketchUp. That takes all of the guesswork out of it and makes plugin installation dead-simple! Andrew

@olaydigitaldesign said: This is some serious nonsense, am I right ladies and gentlemen? Yes, it was down for a little while on Sunday because the database server backing the warehouse filled up. A monitoring system was supposed to alert us before it caused a problem so we could address it proactively, but the alarms were configured to the wrong threshold and didn't fire. That meant we didn't know about the impending problem until it was an actual problem. We've resized and reindexed the database and fixed the alarm threshold, so all is well again. Sorry for the inconvenience. Andrew

@greg24k said: The problem I'm having is when I select get model, the window opens but its blank except a few lines and a blue line at the bottom, and its not connecting to 3d warehouse. Try clearing your cache and cookies in Internet Explorer. Then try again. If that doesn't work, make sure you can connect directly at http://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com.

@ntxdave said: Well I "cleaned up" both of the SKP files and still have the same problem. It has to be something in the receiving file because I imported into a new file and it worked fine. The "consolidated" file is too big to post to here. It is 9.5Mb and the limit is 4Mb. Wish I could figure this out. For now I just use multiple files in my LayOut document which is OK but I can see in the future that I am going to be doing this many times. I will try to find a combination that fails and is small enough for me to post here. I appreciate the education everyone has given me. How does everyone learn all of this stuff? Well, I have figured out which file is causing the problem but now I have to try to figure out what is causing it. The "base file" (a top view of all of the equipment in the model). I can consolidate all of the other files without a problem. I purged the unused stuff from all of the files and even clicked on the "fix problems" button and no problems were found (in any of the four files I am trying to merge). Guess for now I will have to live with things the way they are

Hi Dave R. Thanks for your answer. 1º - I already try it, but I miss how can I build the inside frame structure for support the dome. Try to think like "Gothic Arch" and its timber frames structures. I need to build some structure for support that shape. And I need to show it in SU model. if you need I post some images of the project, please ask, so you can see for your self better what I pretend to do. http://imageshack.com/a/img812/9311/g4z6.png thanks again.

Right ! Thank you very much...!

I will get back as I have clogged nossel now. thanks

I thought the native OBJ exporter came with Pro only Please explain... There is my clunkier OBJexporter Ruby, BUT that [unlike the Pro version] doesn't have the option to NOT triangulate faces. You need to deal with the triangulation in the receiving app... Can you try another format like DAE ?

thanks, ill be looking into all that right now

Tig's Slicer5 might work for this.

@tig said: If the View settings ought to show faces, then perhaps it's a Graphics Card issue... Preferences > OpenGL Try switching 'Fast Feedback' off [or on] and see if that helps... Or select a lower AntiAlias setting if there's a list... Also check that your GC's driver is up to date... Thank you TIG, Switching fast feedback on seem to have worked. Thanks for taking the time to help me!

The Extension Warehouse has a lot of plugins. At the bottom of the EW window it shows 242. But there's a little overlap between the Plugin Store and EW.