thanks a bunch Gai, that fixed the problem

It seems that you are using small, tiling textures BUT quite complex modelling (for GE at least). This is not what Google wants however. What they would like to see is that you take a photo of the whole building (or a side) and apply that photo on a whole side of the building without modelling all the openings etc. As for the model approval line; it should not be more than a week or maximum two.

@unknownuser said: Are ye two related? He's my uncles's only sibling's daughter's only brother. P.S. Is Sall a nickname for Shale?

When you export a 3D model, dimensions DO get exported to DWG as AutoCad dimensions if they are checked in the export options. However, for some weird reasons they are invisible when you open the DWG in Autocad. Doing something to them (you can select them by selecting all objects and then checking Rotated dimensions from the top of the Object Properties dialog), like changing their colour to Bylayer, suddenly makes them visible. Also if you open the Dimension styles dialog and open the Dimension style 1 as if to edit it, click OK and then exit the dialog without actually changing anything, or then import the file into another DWG file and explode it, the dimensions suddenly pop up. I hadn't noticed this, as I usually do all annotation and dimensioning in AutoCad and export only 2D or 3D geometry-and at work we still have v7. Anssi

Glad it works (sometimes it can be tricky)

I was hoping to avoid the overhead of another modeling program if there was a 3D materials editor available that does what max and blender's material editor do and can import/export the model. After spending a few hours on the renderer for the first time, now I understand why to use an existing photo for a texture first. For the 2D normal map software, I'm leaning toward pixplant; make a fake ambient occlusion map in a photo editor from the pixplant's normal map, and combine the 5 maps into 1 texture. I don't know if using the make normal map SU plugin for a 6th map would be overkill or not, considering that it uses the model's geometry instead of a texture to make a normal map.

Or get Cutlist 4.1.1 here.

I think Photogrametry is trying to straighten a face in a photograph of, say the wall of a building, removing perspective & scaling it up to real units to make it the basis for a 2D survey drawing, while Photomatch is what is provided in SketchUP - creates a 3D model based upon the perspective captured within the image. Kubit PhotoPLAN is an example of a Photogrametry package, which works well with AutoCAD.

Hi folks. See this SU file for ideas. I made it with SU 4, when Scenes where named Page as an other tutorial on how to draw an oval or "Ove" in French. This is more egg shape than a circle scaled as an ellipse, although it is possible to make an egg shape by scaling only part of a circle. I just added a few scenes to show a possibility with basic tools. Broken egg.skp

Thom? Although I've recommended your Plugin, I am stumped to now provide an answer! Can you shed any light here, as it's something I need to know as well! Tom

@unknownuser said: Fredo's joint push-pull will allow you to do this: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=6708 thx

Hey Jason! Welcome to SketchUcation. If you are just learning SketchUp, I would recommend watching lots of tutorials. This helped me a lot when I was learning SketchUp. In fact, I still am and benefit a lot from watching tutorials. Check some out on Youtube or the SketchUp website. Also, this thread has a lot of other helpful tips. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=12706 If you have any questions, feel free to drop them in the Noobie forum where you're sure to get a quick response. (The people here are just awesome like that. ) Finally, don't be afraid to post your creations in the Gallery forum so others can see your cool models and where you will get some helpful tips, tricks, and advice to improve your work. You'll probably even teach others a thing or two. Hope you enjoy it here and learn a lot.

What Wodan says. You are probably trying to apply the smoove tool on pre-selected geometry. Note that it is actually a good feature to be able to use the smoove tool on pre-selected geometry (and not be confined to a circle) just you should not forget to deselect before applying if that is not your intention. Edit; I also "guess" this from my own experience as I often make this little mistake myself.

Look for k-tools [in ...crai...] too - which includes 3D surfaces...

Yes. Look in Plugins Index. Go to Board Index page, see red buttons at top of page.

Well hello, and welcome to the site!

In this link I found people worried for the same. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=589b0d27a1c59111&hl=en I've attached a simple plugin to rotate to green +Y default and set solar north to 0. (I need it for my skelion plugin) After rotate the model, you can restore the model if you want export to Google Earth. The plugin only works in SU8 Plugin

I've been trying to use the same plugin, now located at http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rubylibrarydepot/plugin_details.php?id=292 after correcting the spelling mistake calling delaunay2 when the file was called delauney2, it loaded correctly. however, after trying to triangulate points in SU8 Pro the following is printed in the log Error; #<NoMethodError; undefined method `position' for #<Sketchup;;Edge;0xa726168>> C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/points_cloud_triangulation.rb;63;in `points_to_array' C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/points_cloud_triangulation.rb;61;in `each' C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/points_cloud_triangulation.rb;61;in `points_to_array' C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/points_cloud_triangulation.rb;101;in `triangulate_points' C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/points_cloud_triangulation.rb;133 can anyone help? thanks

Thanks again Brodie.....I think we will give a try.

Dwain, that sounds like an excellent project. I do some reverse engineering too and find that SketchUp makes it fairly easy to do. There aren't very many plugins that are "must haves" in order to draw furniture. In fact other than the CutList plugin, you can draw most things with the native tools. For drawing non-circular curves the BZ Spline tools would be handy. The Wudworx suite definitely speeds up drawing joinery. There are some basic plugins like Weld and PurgeAll that are useful for any sort of drawing work. Where are you on the SketchUp learning curve? If you are sort of at the apprentice level, I think it would be wise to learn to handle the native tools well before adding a bunch of plugins.