Fredo's Curvizard also converts to guides.

That rectangle you see is because the trasparent material applied arround the label is a different color than the transparency of the label. Make them the same and you shouldn't see the edges.

Damn! Outstanding Dave. when you put it like that it makes perfect sense. I like what you did with my chair as well. Thanks again. Mark.

Thanks TT! Will look into the resources, and bother you with some more questions, I am sure

Do you like using SketchUp? I guess I would just export PNGs--you can make quite large ones if needed--and use those.

I have the same problem with Sketchup 2014 but on Windows 8.1? any help?

If you mean Torus by Regular Polygon which you will find here http://regularpolygon.org/plugins/torus.php then it is a .rbs not a .rbz so when you dropped it in the plugin folder it installed, but you didn't restart sketchup, which it clearly tells you to do in the installation instructions, before you looked for it so you didn't think it worked. Then after fiddling about with the permissions you tried to make a .rbs install as if it was a .rbz again which naturally failed but coincidentally you had restarted sketchup so the Torus plugin had finished installing and appeared in the draw menu. Why don't you try installing the Sketchucation plugin store, available from the top of the page, this is a .rbz and once installed it will allow you to auto install many many plugins, including Torus without needing to know what the file type is. Once you get that to work I imagine you will be heading over to the other thread to clear up any misconceptions about the quality of the balls on the lying chickenshits who have been patiently attempting to help you sort things out.

Better yet: this http://www.amazon.com/XK-24-USB-Programmable-Keypad-Windows/dp/B003MB780E I've had the 60-key version directly from P. I. Engineering for a long time and you make your own macros or use your SU shortcuts. VERY handy. Also for use in any other program.

@dave r said: Look at Window>Preferences>Files and check the paths for Components and the other things there. I expect Components is probably pointing at your 2013 Components folder. You can change that and should if you'll be deleting SU2013. Well, interesting to say the least. I had always thought that it was looking in the folders under the programs folder. I see that it is looking at the Users\Me\Documents for subfolders there for the appropriate topics (i.e. materials, styles, components, and etc.) so it was pulling from my Documents subfolder and that is why it found them. Now I need to go and rethink some things because I had a folder named components where I put thinks while I was still working on them. I just need to readjust my thinking a little and rename some working files. I do like this though. Given that, I have another silly question (I know, I am full of them). When I created a style and dragged it to the "default styles folder" in the Styles pane, it is stored in that folder under the programs directory. So, if I want to create multiple styles and save them is a folder under Documents, how/where do they show up in the Styles pane (yes, I could go create one and see for myself but I thought I might as well ask)? I guess, I need to spend a little more time exploring things like this instead of trying to get the work done for my client. JUST KIDDING!! I used to teach some basic programming classes and all of this type of stuff was built into the courses. Yes, there are tutorials out there but a lot of these kind of things are not very well covered. This is why I keep posting most of my stuff through the Newbie forum. I do not feel that I have learned some basic things like this that will help me do a better job of "managing" the tool in addition to "using" the tool. Please be patient with me. I have built a bunch of components for my client but when I went to 3D print them, I found out a bunch of very fundamental things that I had messed up (and the "experienced" person who proceeded me with this client had made a bunch of the same fundamental mistakes). Enough of the whining on my part, just keep educating me

Do you mean you aren't seeing the components inside your nested component when you look in the Components window? If so, did you click on Expand in the Components menu? [image: LwCN_Screenshot-3_2_201411_36_33AM.png] [image: UDwU_Screenshot-3_2_201411_37_36AM.png]

Not sure that you have such SKetchup plugin! Maybe better is export your model and use one of these ?

Ahh OK thanks Solo

Hi Dave, Just to thank you so VERY much for all your help. You've been invaluable in helping me get CutList up and running in SketchUp. All the hours I've spent, and others too, only to have someone such as yourself, an expert, help. It made everything clear and now it's all systems go! I've also sent you an e-mail, with a bit more information in, follow our exchanges. I hope you receive it okay. I owe you one, Dave! Thanks a bunch. Ian :0) PS A big thank-you to SketchUcation too, for having such a portal through which to conduct this kind of problem and solutions. I'm certain I'll be back from time to time as I learn the ropes of both CutList and SketchUp. Pretty amazing tools. So cheers to the team too!

Glad it worked out.

OK! Sorry, sorry. Thank you very much, now I can be happy again with my SU

I suppose with yearly updates less can be expected, but, yes, I didn't see anything that had "wow" or "at last!" (sic) flavor to it. The speed improvements probably make it worth my while to go on from v.8, but I don't want to lose 1001bit tools just yet. The 3d warehouse and webgl are looking good, though that's not something I spend much time with myself. Maybe Ruby 2.0 is a big deal for developers. IDK.

Read this http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=512726#p512726 DO NOT copy Plugins across from v2013 ! Get the newest versions - most major Plugins have been updated behind the scenes over the last few months to ensure they will work in v2014. The PluginStore etc are a great source of many hundreds of RBZ archive format plugins that you can download and then automatically Install [Preferences > Extensions] into the correct Plugins folder, without you having to find it. The SketchUcation PluginStore when run within SketchUp itself will even AutoInstall them for you, without the need to download a RBZ at all. Trimble's ExtensionWarehouse is also a source of several exclusive Extension Plugins. To find your Plugins folder use this in the Ruby Console: Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins') On Windows it'll return something like this C:/Users/USERNAME/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins This new location removes all of the permissions issues PC users have had to endure when trying to install Plugins - it's 'yours' by default... NEVER put your own files into the SketchUp 'Tools' folder - it is exclusively for SketchUp's use... Similarly the 'ShippedExtensions' folder contains just SketchUp files/folders. Remove any of your own additions and restart SketchUp. ALL of your Plugins/Extensions belong in your own 'Plugins' folder. To make it easier to find you can always make a Shortcut to it somewhere convenient - like your Desktop... BUT using the automated installers means you might not need to access that folder very often... To reiterate - don't blindly copy old Plugins from v2013, they might not work. Get the latest versions they will almost certainly be compatible... They will be in RBZ format and easy to auto-Install... If you come across the odd Plugin which you desperately need but which is not yet v2014 compatible let the author/us know, so it can get sorted asap... You need to remove the .rb file from the Plugins folder. Add the Plugins in small batches so any startup errors are easier to track and trace... What were the Plugins you had issues with ??? Help us to help you

If these component instances are simple 'boxes', then they could be Scaled to resize them without recourse to make_unique for the affected instance. BUT if there are details parallel to the direction of Scaling then they'll distort. If the one tread is different it is unique ?? If the straight nosing is a separate nested component instance on the front of the tread, placed within the tread component itself, then having one unique tread that has a different rise will not affected the nested nosing components... Edit any one of those nosing components... and all nosing should change to match across all tread instances. To be realistic the change to two tread components is hardly onerous BUT the approach of nesting some common parts across different componnets, and scaling 'box' shaped parts could cover most bases ?

This would be also very quickly done in Photoshop if the packaging is generic items. There's tons of free product display actions out there.

Thank you! Huge help! I was able to modify one of the components to get it close to what I was looking for.