You can always set the shortcuts to something you are more familiar with. Window/Preferences/shortcuts.

Thanks Guys, Cotty, you are right. I need I to lay it over a concrete floor so when it is rendered it comes out. The car park is large so the corner details won't show. I have tried the http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=DM_ProfileBuilderFree_v.1.1.0 plugin and that works great, See attached. This is perfect for what I need as the layout keeps changing so I needed a quick way of doing it. Cheers, James [image: mmSN_Temp1.png] [image: iWDb_Temp2.png]

TIG AWESOME! The more I explore the 2D Tools, the more I got to love! The Hatch as a material, especially for "drafting" details, is REALLY awesome! Thanks again for your work and taking the time for instructing us Neanderthals! You rock.

If it is all loose geometry, triple click on it to select everything, right click and select soften/smooth, then adjust the slider to smooth the edges.

http://sketchucation.com/plugin/740-tt-uv-toolkit

You only have to copy it in the plugin folder (and you need full permission for that folder)... (some more infos)

Note the yellow did not detect at all. If this was redone in black and white the results would be much better??. Will try again tomorrow.[image: HLpJ_logo2.jpg]logo_mns2.dxf

Hi again I did a new clean install of sketchup, and that seems to have done the trick I have tried 2 different files, and both came out with the right type of lines. I don't know if it was setting that was wrong, that was reset in the new installation, or something went wrong after the first install. @mitcorb, I tried different styles, and after setting the line type to 1 in some of the styles, the line got thinner, but it was still not the correct linetype in AutoCad, but thank you for your answer @CHARLIE__V, I tried all different line types in the option, but that did'nt help. Thank you for your reply.

This has indeed been covered before but unles you knew what to look for, it would be hard to find. The problem is the components you are making are geo-located. Don't do that and they'll behave correctly.

%(#008000)[ @tig said: However, the bottom [and top] facets of your curved beams must have dividing edges between them to maintain the associated faces which have slightly different 'normals'. you can use the slider to only affect edges between faces up to a certain limit so if it's ~60º solid edges are kept between clearly different angled faces, but those between edges with slight variation in their faces' 'normal-angles' are smoothed... ] Ok, I'll have to pay closer attention when moving the smooth slider, I've just been putting it all the way up and checking every thing. I see that I have very limited understanding of how most of what I do is accomplished, I'm surprised I've even gotten this far! %(#008000)[ @pbacot said: TT cleanup to remove coplanar (unnecessary) edges. Then smooth all with soften-smooth window--adjusting the setting to keep sharp edges sharp. I don't see a problem with texturing etc. What is the purpose of welding at this point? ] I have an issue that's been driving me crazy when rendering, that the faces don't reflect the light how I want bc the faces have hard lines separating them. I want the roof to reflect like a curve, not a faceted diamond. I thought welding would stabalize the structure, allowing me to erase the offending lines. I tried welding the whole roof face, but that caused more problems, as whole squares welded together, not allowing me to select one edge, but a whole window opening on one click- not wjhat I want in this case, but an awesome plugin! Cleanup fixed tons of probs, and cleaned out tons of unused materials, but I think it also purged some mats that were in use on a small scale- this was well worth it to me, as there were so many trash materials that twilight wouldn't even attempt to list them! I've gotten great info from you guys, but I think I've gotten far enough off the original topic for now, I guess it makes more sense to start a new thread relevant to my next question or issue. Thanks for all the helpful replies!

You can use the built in forum bookmarks by clicking the link at the bottom of the topic.

Hi Dave, thanks for responding - I think I have found (part of) my problem, scaling. The original was quite small (about 4cm across), so I scaled up by a factor of 10 and then 100. I then played with the offset parameter in the RoundCorner extension, and by reducing it I seem to avoid deleting faces. Appreciate you taking the time to offer help - I'm sure I'll be back!

@tyronius said: Today has been my first attempt to reach out for help with this program. As with most things I do... trial and error have always been my modus. It sure is easier with the help of everyone here. My Thanks ... again. I tried for hours to make the threaded end of a fitting, but am stuck with this (see attached). Eventually. As Chief Dan George was told by Teddy Roosevelt, "Endeavor to persevere". By the way, thanks for the unique pipe work, Box. I'll try follow me again. :green_heart: Another question, another post. open a new post and I explain better. [image: a7vJ_1.png] [image: 2liX_2.png] [image: NMoq_3.png]

It's pretty simple when you know how but confusing to begin with, rather than me writing it all have a look at this thread which gives instructions. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=35746

cotty: yes in fact I saved only some ko, so nothing big daver: I just wanted to delete inside colors because I thought that colors have significal size, but now it's ok, since I notified that colors aren't really heavy.

Well, for anyone coming across this thread, I'm abandoning this issue. I've searched the vray forums, and followed those to other sites as far as I can, and It seems there is no easy way to reproduce these effects without knowledge of texturing. The files seem to be included so that ppl with skill can load the seperate images into 3dsmax and make their own version from the source files. I've hurt my brain just trying to get that far, I'm not even gonna bother trying to mess with the files. I've gone over to twilight, which seems much easier to get the simple but good results I'm looking for. I'm not trying to take a college course to get this better, and it seems that's the only thing that'll get me the real results I want. Thanks for both of your responses

There was a similar question some days ago, perhaps you can find some hints there...

Command key (⌘) + P does not work in MAC OS webdialog for unknown reason. I will add a button with window.print() to the webdialog.

did you check "include in animation" for all scenes ? (just in case!)

Thank you