Anssi, that's true but as a general practice in SketchUp, it isn't a good idea to move edges or faces to other layers. Of course you know that and can deal with it for your exports to Revit.

ExtrudeEdgesbyRails or CurviLoft ? Perhaps adding a central curve across the form and making it in two halves...[image: DczX_Capture.PNG]

Hi folks. Same idea without plugins. Sock.skp

Hi folks. See this SU file for ideas. Square to round transition.skp Once this model is done, it can be used as a component and quickly resized to required dimensions using the Scale Tool. Of course, a dynamic component would probably save a few clicks. Just ideas.

The best way for FF is to use the CTRL+F5 combo when the problem page is loaded.

o i c...thx karina i'll try it... btw i'm using vray for sketchup 1.49 thx

If you've cash to spend there's also TGI3D and MoolTools. If you've a king's ransom there's Deep Exploration.

Without seeing the file itself, it's a little difficult to tell. It may be that there is some problem with the relationship between the frame component and its origin, which results in it displacing itself when scaled...but without being able to examine the file, it's hard to say.

Thank you guys. "Cpoint at Camera Eye" is what I'm looking for. Kind regards Alain

There are a number of methods and it depends on what you're doing for the most part and what sorts of changes you're making. No option is great however, so you'll want to avoid, as much as possible, going back and forth. You can import a .skp directly, of course and maintain all of your components and such which can make geometry edits easier but it tends to make later revisions in SU more complicated to integrate. My preferred method currently is to save a temporary version of my file where I explode everything and put everything into a single group. Then import that into Max which creates a single object with a multi/sub material. I'll then replace those with vray or maxwell materials. Having 1 huge material isn't ideal for editing geometry but I don't do any of that in Max so I don't worry about it. When a change comes later on I repeat the process but now I've already got my multi/sub material in Max which has all the correct vray/maxwell materials in it. So all I need to do is apply that to my new object once it's brought in. Note that if you've added/deleted materials from the SU object during the changes it may require a bit of editing to your multi/sub material to make sure it matches up. -Brodie

Now, if that were a highway ramp, you'd need to set the inner radius curb a bit lower than the outer radius curb for the duration of the turn. Just an observation that does not have anything to do directly with the problem at hand.

@jean lemire said: Hi folks. See this SU file for ideas: Thanks a lot Jean! That's very helpful! What a lovely community

lauco59...I'm not sure I can help with the "global attributes", that's why we created the update plugins. But if you want to share one of your Dynamic Components, I would be glad look at our plugin and see why it's not updating your DCs?

@tig said: Very tiny geometry causes problem for Sketchup and OpenGL so you are getting near the limit here... Scale everything up x10 before doing the intersect, scale back down afterwards... Here's a simple step-by-step...[attachment=0:2d9t1ibc]<!-- ia0 -->Capture.PNG<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2d9t1ibc] Thank you so much TIG. The "drawing" wasa great help Best regards from jacktar

Did you try applying the translucent texture/color to both faces? Or, is this not relevant, here?

Last time I checked these plugins install 2 files ( extensions.rb and sketchup.rb) in the Plugins folder which do not belong there. (They go all the way back to SketchUp 5.) These files should already exist in the Tools folder, and if you really want to use these "power" toolbars, you should delete extensions.rb and sketchup.rb from the Plugins folder (but not the Tools folder) unless you are actually using SketchUp 5.

@mdhelmi84 said: how to make dotted-line bounding box bigger than usual? the idea is to highlight the selected component by using edit group feature..without dotted-line bounding box being seen somebody said use ruby console but dont know how to use it If you are the same person who asked in Google SketchUp Help Forum (see: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=5bab09c14b74fa86&hl=en ) that hint I made about using the ruby console is purely speculation. I don't know (as mentioned) if such a command line is possible at all. One of the ruby scripters here might know. What I ment was to (if possible) disable displaying the bounding box by code. It would be like disabling the screen texts Top / Front / etc. for standard views. See/open SU's menu Window > Ruby Console and copy next sentence: Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options["ShowViewName"] = false in the console and [Enter] From now on Top etc. isn't shown on screen. (paste: Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options["ShowViewName"] = true to enable again.) Once again, there might exist something similar for the bounding box. Although I'm far from sure about it. The purely SketchUp solution with fog is a (not so elegant) workaround.

Welcome, zuter: As you may know, you can read a lot of back pages and search by keywords to locate discussions that may be related to a question. If you have questions related to Sketchup, a specific rendering application, or a script/plugin, there are many here who can answer or point you in the right direction. If you have been using Sketchup since version 3, you may have insight for others, so, don't be a stranger.

Got it...thanks for the help, TIG

big thanks