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.

Can't view your link also - duke Have you triangulated your model? Have you reverse faces or size model right? This may help you Model Verification for 3d printing | http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15%26amp;t=56280 The free ver will tell you if you done it right as a test

drag the weld.rb file into your plugins folder

You can choose the Curviloft menu item "generate the junction edges (no face)" that gives you just the ancillary rails and your original rails. Then modify a rail and run curviloft again. Maybe that will work for you.

Wish they were.

Yes. there is. The layer(s) are probably locked so you need to unlock them first by clicking on the padlock icons in the Layers inspector. Then you can double click on the text box and edit to your heart's content.

It seems like the 3ds file is very small, or more to the point the importer is seeing it very small. I know absolutely nothing about how 3ds files are put together. But I see now that even with the import units set to Kilometers it isn't very big. I suspect it is simply that the tail is too small for the faces to form correctly in SU. Sketchup has problems forming very small faces, they can exist once formed but many times you need to scale things up to create them then down again. Perhaps if you scale the 3ds file up before you try to import it.

thanks a lot appreciate it!

What do you mean by the possibility of hiding the photograph has disappeared. You can certainly do that. Just go to the Edit tab of Styles and click on the blue cube icon. Modify the style to hide what you need to hide.

Perfect, thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for! Cheers

You can use proper animation if you search for a free plugin. Some others are compared here.

There are some possible answers here. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15%26amp;t=50344

Hi Cheem, hi folks. After you change the Guides color in Styles, don't forget to update the style using the icon that looks like two curved arrows chasing each other. Just ideas.

It's a prairie dog but I suppose they're related.

@dave r said: Good luck getting it sorted. Not sure I "got it sorted" but my resolution was to add a scene that duplicated the one that is not showing up and all is fine for the client. As long as they are satisfied, so am I

I made it symmetrical about the Y axis [green] plane so the two halves ARE matching and 'consistent': based on the right-side which I sliced off and copied/mirrored. It may be that you didn't model the right-half exactly axially, so the parts are askew. Certainly the two sides has slight variations, but so slight it looked like sloppy modeling and not a minor variant on one side only... Since no one but you can know what you think it ought to look like, then I suggest you adjust the SKP I have given you to suit your desires. You can easily rotate its geometry so that the right side is say axial on the red X plane, or any way you want it to be. Then draw a large temporary face as a vertical plane on the Y axis [green] and intersect to make the cut line and erase the geometry from unwanted skewed half and the temporary plane/cutter. Then make a copy of the 'good' half [Move+Ctrl], set well off to the left side, and use Scale -1 on it to mirror it as the new left hand part. Snap the left part onto the right part. Now you have a solid object, that's reconfigured so its two symmetrical sides are arranged as YOU wish... You have spent more time discussing this that it would have taken to re-model it from scratch, entirely within SketchUp...

Have you set the permissions for the Plugin folder correctly? That's the most common cause for plugin installation to fail.