Thanks so much guys, great help, especially for a Friday night.

Hi. Maybe this will help for creating a tileable texture in Photoshop - if you have it of course. Load your image. Use the offset tool (filter -> Other -> offset). this will essentially shift your image either horizontally or vertically so that you can see the seam that will occur if you were to tile it. Use the clone stamp tool (along with other tools (skew, warp etc) to "heal" the seam). Some textures, brick especially, will take a lot of time and practice to get right. A simple dirt texture though may not be so bad. Hope it helps.

@alandor said: ........But even though my lines are planar and connected they don't seem to seperate this area from the rest of the face. If I delete and redraw one of the lines between the road and the innermost area I get a surface only on the innermost area and not on the actual roads....... Does anyone recognize this problem and know of a way to solve it?.... Yes, I do recognize the problem. It's a known issue that you can duplicate any time. So even the 'Drape' tool can be fooled by it. What happens is this: Draw a face. Draw another face on top of the first one. The second one has its bounding edges entirely within the larger first one. However, they both share only one vertex. The smaller face and the larger one don't merge/melt into two separate faces. Most likely your draped lines created an inner face connected with only one vertext on the larger face boundary. %(#FF0000)[Remedy(don't retrace any edge!!!): draw a connecting edge between both boundaries. Next delete that edge again.]

Thanks, this is exactly the thing i needed. I will make a sofa, and let you see how it works out

Here: http://www.thomthom.net/software/vertex_tools/ worth every penny.

and what not just click one time and type on the numeric keyboard length wished? Very easy if it's integer meters

I was just curious about this mesh so I had a go. This is what I ended up with. [image: 5145213445_43bab0e7d9.jpg] I used the square section for the wire as suggested by andybot. I made a ring and made it a component. Then I made a single vertical wire component which I copied around the the ring in a radial array. Then I Made a nested component of those components and copied them to make a vertical linear array. The file saves out nice and small. Mesh.skp

That seemed to do it. Thanks a bunch Gai!

Mitcorb, thanks for the fast response and the information about FredoScale and FredoBend. I guess I know what I'm doing for the evening... Thanks also for the wise tip about my subject heading - duh! As my first post to the forum I was more conscience about making a "correct" post - possibly not a good one. Cheers!

@unknownuser said: here the French Tut of Vectorisation's tool inside Inkscape Else link for Inkscape Load an Image then SHIFT + ALT + B (On my old version) you are right. Thats it! Now I have Lines they look much better. But it are still 2 parallel Lines. Why? Because a raster/pixel- Line has a thickness about some pixels. So Inkscape make 2 outline. But I need a middleline. May I feel it will come and work fine. See my pictures please [image: u1iu_vectorize.jpg]

Oh damn, I will definitely look into the mirror more often (although I do not know if it is worth the horror)

Hi Moses, For a search term "King", the warehouse will return some 800 hits! Better to copy/paste the link here!

Hi, I don´t know if the following is even relevant, but since it is a curved surface, to make a hole in it, you´ll have to cut through the geometry - see here - http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=11222 Or you can use this http://www.smustard.com/script/BoolTools Some interesting solutions here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=28931&hilit=lattice

this really opened up a can of worms with the follow me tool and i don't think you can use it at all for making this repeatable segment.. not only does it not make the end profiles correctly, it twists the shape as is extrudes making it impossible for it to match up cleanly with another section.. the easiest way i think this is possible is using 1001bit's extrude tool.. you'll end up with twice as many faces due to the triangulation that needs to occur instead of the quads created by follow-me but at least the shape ends up correct. helix.skp [image: vkPK_helix_.jpg]

Thank you, Jeff! I'll try that out awsell, who knows, it might be faster than the Blender method!

Jeff and Edson, You are right on! I unzipped the files in another location and just brought over the guts to the plugins file. Everything is working great now! This is very encouraging as I have struggled with this for a couple of weeks on my own and haven't found much help on google. Thanks for your time to help out the newbies.

Can you tell us the spec of your PC/Mac? It could be related to the graphics card. Under Windows>Preferences>OpenGL which boxes are checked?

Very good Jean. I don't find the Solid tools all that useful for drawing joinery like that because they break the relationship of the components to the other instances in the model and it ends up creating more work for me. The Solid tools do come in handy for a lot of other things like creating the drawer fronts and the dovetail sockets for the drawer dividers in this bombé chest. [image: 5133746693_48a8c55a09_m.jpg]

Hi JZ, Sorry for the late reply... So just what I thought - the kml filedefines the geometry itself. SketchUp can only read *.dae files that are "archived" inside the kmz file. SU generally puts them into a subfolder called "models". Rename your kmz extension to zip and when opening it, you can see that there's just a single kml file. Is there any other way your program can export to kmz (or dae)?

Hi cornholio, What kind of "objects" are they? Individual components but not the same definition? Groups?