As I said earlier I'm a complete newbie to kerkythea but try the Metropolis Light Transport render preset, do as many passes as you feel is necessary and then you can get rid of the remaining noise with neat image (http://www.neatimage.com/), that's what has worked for me.

I'd guess it's about 2D (image or animation) export... Markus, have you checked out the export options (bottom right of the export window) before exporting?

Guide lines can also be deleted with Edit>Delete Guides. I use guides frequently enough that I set up a keyboard shortcut to delete them.

Check out this thread: 'Render this: Stained glass' http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=19778&hilit=stained+glass#p163890

Paul, When you save the file from MS Paint, select either the .jpg or .png file-type. I'm guessing the forum does not allow .bmp uploads because they take more band-width than the other formats.

Hi Thomas, The current view matters when printing in SketchUp. If you are trying to print an elevation, select Camera > Parallel, and then either Front, Left, Right, or Back views before opening the Print dialog. You can then adjust the Page Size and Scale of the output in the Print Dialog.

You will need to position the texture on curved surfaces. First, turn on hidden geometry under the view menu. Second, right click on a face where your texture is correctly positioned > Texture > Position... Now do nothing but press Enter. Now select the paint bucket tool and press Alt - the tool will turn into a sampler. Sample this positioned texture from the face and paint the next facet and so on. In about 10 seconds, you can easily position all the textures on a default (12 segment) arch.

IMO the best free application to handle AutoCad files if you don't have AutoCad is the free DWG TrueView from Autodesk. It can open, view and print every DWG or DXF variety, and it can convert them down to older formats, even to version 10 (late 1980s), if I remember right. Anssi http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=6703438&DCMP=ILC-DWG-PUV

Jeff, you could also adjust the material transparency independently. Glad that sorted it.

Thanks, TIG. Worked like a charm.

Thanks Dave that looks a lot better, what you said about the internal faces and softened edges makes sense.

Thanks to all. I got it. Deleted all those original files and zips, then re-downloaded. Win7 does not like to extract from/to the same location so I extracted from "Downloads" to Plugins and everything seems to be working fine...at least no error messages. Now to practice and learn to use. Thanks ScottR

GOT IT! It was a case of fixing up the perimeters and intersect faces with selection. I'm a new sketchup user learning to navigate the software so all the above will be really helpful. Thanks very much!

thanks done ; )

@gaieus said: Hi Ken, Make a group of what you want to resize Enter the group's editing context (short: double click) Use the tape measure tool to resize the content insidethe group Explode the group if needed. Lesson learned; the tape measure tool always resizes the content of the context it is used in. If outside any group/component ("top level" or "model" context), the whole model while only the content of a certain groups/component you are editing. Fantastic. I should have tried that ... it makes sense. Can't wait for the weekend to try it out.

just a quick note to say I've already answered Gaieus in PM... (didn't wanna seem unpolite )

The plugin Fillet Tool does exactly what you want. http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=146

@snowball2007 said: Thanks for answers! I wonder why nobody made a plugin for it yet... And the sandbox tools are already a set of plugins. Plugins often fail more than native SU tools (for some mysterious reasons)

Not sure what you mean, and if you post a screen snapshot of the parts of your model you would like to modify, it will be a big help. I don't think what you want can easily be done, that is to edit the 3d wall's, 2d plan lines, then have the application automatically regenerate the 3d walls. However, if you are looking for a way edit by stretching or shrinking parts of your model, one way to do it is in Camera > Parallel projection view, in one of the standard view that is best suited for the selection of the desired walls (say plan view) that you want to edit. Then select the walls you want to edit, from left to right (not the other way), and stretch or shrink the selection, with the "move tool". You may have unexpected results if part of the selected walls are groups or components, and will have to experiment to find the best way of doing this. If you are adding or deleting new walls, it's easier to do that in "Iso" view. Btw, you can search for and use a "draw walls" plugin that will insert 3d walls in a single go.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! Hopefully... this'll solve my woes. Cheers Honoluludesktop, Woz