Notareal - Thanks for the 'current view' tip I will give it a try. I think I always set it back to scene 1 instead. Have you got any other tips for rendering animations that may help me as this is only my second one?

Incidentally, I have made two tutorials on components (windows) gluing to faces and cutting holes. A "simple" one: http://sketchucation.com/resources/tutorials/37-beginner/317-window-cut-oopening-on-face and a "more advanced" one: http://sketchucation.com/resources/tutorials/36-intermediate/321-window-cut-hole-thick-wall What TIG says: it's up to the component, more exactly its axes and origin whether it glues and cuts a hole properly. It should be an easy thing to modify your component to glue properly. You could also attach the component so that we can have a look.

I figured it out. It's because the Library folder in Users is hidden by default in Finder. I just have to ShowAllFiles or find it using Terminal. Thanks for your help.

Nothing to purge and no problems found. The textures have been rotated very simply - in this case - about 45 degrees. Some of the issues are with geometry that was rotated as components (and then exploded) but others are not. I don't see a pattern. [image: ohuo_uv-test2-001.jpg]

Hi folks. See this page: https://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/problems/other#TOC-Is-all-or-part-of-the-model-disappearing- Just ideas.

As far as I know, SuSolid is the only plugin that can display you collisions between solid entities from different subgroups/subcomponents. The Solid Intersection tool will make your model looks transparent and will show you intersections in solid green color with solid red edges,so very visible.It also has an intersection counter,so you know if there are some small intersections that maybe you can miss. The plugin will also help you a lot to check and make all your components solid.

That did it, thanks!

Yes the model i'm doing is quite small.. will try your suggestion.. thank you very much..

Wow! That was easy (because you know what you're doing). Thank you so much!

Now I'm confused, is this too many plugins or too many harveys? Following the formula, your next username should be, Harveyone2many.

I posted the same thread in the LightUp-forum and the main developer of LightUp Adam Billyard gave an aswer which at least solved the first issue. http://www.lightup4sketchup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1272&sid=bf3311bb55dba39d75d2f40498140efe

Hi Zain The native SU importer only imports geometry - not any other, annotation entities. Try this plugin to see what else it can import: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23002

Ok, thanks!

in the menue bar of SU under: Tools>LightUp "Simple Rendering" was checked, after I unchecked it and then checked normal rendering and restarting SU Light Up is not running in "Simple Mode" anymore

Today I found some time to try sketchy edges on other systems, and this is the result : On my main system, a desktop with Nvidia Geforce 6150SE videocard I have Sketchup 8.0.16846 and wine 1.5.24: skechy edges does not work. On a Dell latitude D620 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04, sketchup 8.0.16846 and wine 1.5.25 sketchy edges work perfectly. This gave me some hope, so on my desktop, I upgraded wine to 1.5.25 to see what happened.... unfortunately I still have no sketchy edges. As a last test I took a Dell latitude D630 with fedora 18, sketchup 8.0.16846 and wine 1.2.24 : no sketchy edges either, after upgrading to wine 1.5.25 still no sketchy edges... So it seems that the problem is not only related to Sketchup and Wine, both my fedoras, on very different hardware seem to have the problem while ubuntu, on similar hardware as Fedora18 seems to work fine. Anyway, the sketchy edges are not a terrible issue for me, and whenever I need them, I can go back to my ubuntu laptop.... Geert

You did a nice job of getting Curviloft installed correctly however you missed installing the required LibFredo6 files as indicated in the thread where you got Curviloft. [image: f489_cloft.png] Install it as nicely as you did Curviloft and restart SketchUp and you'll be in good shape.

Some of the more recent AutoCAD programs allow a fbx or obj export. That could be a better way of getting a good transition. I could do it for you, if you can't with your version.

I believe he means how many axis the CNC you'll use has. A standard arcade cabinet can be done with a 2 Axis CNC. Dave does some kool work.

Also try exporting entire model by small parts using export 3D > Options > Export Selected Only. Hope this helps!

Just thought I'd show a picture to show foam blocks I have now managed to achieve. Thanks for the help. [image: iSPY_02.jpg]