Thank you Dave! I was able to straighten out the issue yesterday. Also, thank you TIG. I have all the resources downloaded and installed properly. Many thanks for all your input! Jo Ann

His "Click on the File Menu and Crash" reminded me of a similar report we got from Dan Rathbun. Turns out it is the exact same problem. (This is PC only from what we have seen) There are a small amount of users who are crashing when they click on the File Menu. So far the culprit has been the .fbx exporter. The fix is to find your SketchUp installation folder and then go to the Exporters folder. Remove the file called skp2fbx.dll. Then try to use SU again. That should be a temporary fix. If you are an .fbx user, we are working on a more permanent real solution. I supposed you could try to export from a different machine if possible. From what we've seen, this is limited to XP SP3, and it isn't very common even on those machines. But if you see anyone around the forum complaining that SU crashes a lot, and its always when they click on the file menu, this is probably the reason. Thanks Dave for helping troubleshoot this. I'll let everyone know when we get a fix in place. If anyone else is seeing this issue, I'd like to know about it so we can get their system info and see if they can help test any potential fixes. Thanks! Chris

@dave r said: I was in the process of making a graphic example. I'll post it anyway. [attachment=1:3hulq9iz]<!-- ia1 -->Ovoid Perspective.png<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:3hulq9iz] [attachment=0:3hulq9iz]<!-- ia0 -->Ovoid Parallel.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3hulq9iz] As you can see, it would be much easier to select all of the geometry for half of the shape or any other amount in the second view than in the first. Definitely. And I admit, that's part of what was originally giving me trouble when I initially tried this. Much appreciated.

With curviloft, you will most probably get a group which is separated from the contours (and their "fillings") therefore it must have holes at the two ends. Copy/paste (in place) those ends into the "curvilofetd" group. (Or post your model, too, so we can have a look).

@keyaren said: ...however i have come across this name GAIEUS all over the google search results. Ah well, that will be me then - so I feel obliged to answer (or at least try) Check out this plugin: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32289 You can add different co-ordinates (in different systems) then if you wish, you can Position your camera (with a custom camera height - like that of the eye height of a person) and it will immediately turn into the Look around tool with which you can aim at your turbine, maybe create a Scene (to sort of "save" that view) and at the end, export images. For the final image to be shown as a grid of TIN, you can turn on hidden geometry under the View menu and display your model in monochrome (or hidden line) face style. OR unlock thee GE Terrain then unsoften it (so that its grid becomes visible) and delete the GE image (to show it with the default front face colour while the rest of the model can be textured)

Might be your system limiting your file size. I get up to 100 meg files and hear of others getting bigger. but depends on your system. 2013 seems to be more stable and perform better, can't say I've worked on any large models yet.

awesome... make sure to post updates.

@rose123 said: Box -regardless, in version 8 it asked me if i wanted the component downloaded to the model, anyhow, and the choice was given to download it elsewhere. dave says he still gets that screen, so i guess i have to figure out why i'm not. i do appreciate everyone's input, it's a big help! If I implied I get that screen when I'm downloading through the Components browser, I apologize. I don't get that and never have. I only get that option if I have my internet browser open to the 3D Warehouse. when I choose a 3DWH model from the Components browser it comes right into the current SketchUp model. Don't spend anymore time trying to fix something that isn't broken.

yes if facet is not inclined and part of a volume! Else you must copy move it on an empty place Select only the face by clicking on its somewhere on the middle (not the edges! ) Align axes make that describe above "delete the short edge > create tangent arc" and copy move the arc kill the rest For reset axes, right click / reset above one axe [image: AB2I_inclined.jpg]

@unknownuser said: @unknownuser said: Would this Sandbox thing help with that? Better is use the Scale tool for make ovoïd form from a sphere I'll experiment with that. Thanks! So a few updates. I scrapped my original chassis and started over. I think this one is marginally better. At least, I'm getting used to making components and cutting them to fit. Here it is. I've no idea why the closest corner pieces show the blue side. I reversed faces and all kinds of things trying to fix it. Overall, I'm shooting for maximum torsional rigidity through the red axis, while keeping weight down. [image: ChassisWIP-01_zps12c73d73.jpg] Also, I said I'd post the one ship that I used the scale tool on. It seemed to work fairly well, though it's tough to get a good view of it without being able to orbit around a bit. I used it on the front "forks" on either side of the cockpit. [image: StarwindWIP-02_zps1b0630df.jpg]

OMG How could I be so stupid I find now, I find how to do push pin mark too tools / text Thank you so much

3 years and no one replied to you... that's sad. I guess your post got buried. Did you figure out to upgrade your video driver?

I agreement with Adam on that having just had to render in Lightup some light tubes and gone through the process - LEDS at bottom: put emit on that face within tube, translucent tubes, & then interior point lights, with IES props added to them [image: 4etI_lighttubes.jpg]

Ok, I thought it was just that. seems so complicated just. But thanks!

So they're only needed to download plugins? Not for accessing the Warehouse through the browser, or to access the Help page or anything else? I notice, too, that when I access the Warehouse though the components browser, the option to download directly into the model isn't there anymore. Wonder why.

Welcome! Hope you get whatever help you need here. There will be challenges enough with that job.

Thankyou for your suggestion and time TECHDAVE2. I will defenitly give it a try.I hope it work!

I've the same problem here, and try everything... I'll say only that being unable to have a vectorial dxf in houars and getting a 5200pixels' jpg in 5 second means only one thing: something is messed up with the exporter.

Gentlemen, thank you so much for the patience and effort you both went through in explaining this process! I am very much obliged!

Michael, I'm glad you got it sorted out.