Have you tried. . . View > Toolbars > Shadows? That keeps the toolbar open. Is that what you mean? d

@arcaterra said: Hi Thanks for the explanations. However in my experimentation with the answers, unsticking the line seemed to work with this process: Selected the line > selected the move/copy tool > selected the end point of the line with it > then pressed the control key to move/copy. Pressing the move/copy tool while pressing control key only kept the stickiness. I have version 7.1 Does this process seem correct? Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Select the Line and then Move press Ctrl [don't hold it down], you should get an extra "+" sign on the cursor [press Ctrl again the + goes...] - this shows it's in Copy mode. Pick a point and the copy of the line is moved to where you next pick. If desired Erase the original Line. Alternatively Select the Line and Group it, Move if [no copying this time] and put it where you want - You need to Explode its Group when you're finished... You can 'Move' several things at once using these techniques...

Hi Gentle_Devil, hi folks. I would suggest going to this address: http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/training/videos.html Try spending a few minutes watching at least the basic video tutorials to grasp how SketchUp (SU) works and what it can do. Investing a few more minutes or hours to watch the whole serie is not a bad idea either. Searching YouTube for more SU tutorials is another possibility. By the way, it is very easy to access this page and many others from the Help menu of SU. It is probably the most overlooked menu item of this software. If, after that, you are still puzzled on how to draw a bed, post back here and I am pretty sure that someone will make a short tutorial to get you started. Just ideas.

I was curious to see how things worked out for Yatu. he sent me the attached pics showing the work-flow and end image which he then was able to use for his project. Mike [image: R5N2_01-sketch-normal.jpg] [image: 8Xuk_02-shadows-with-lines.jpg] [image: F2Mt_03-workaround-just-shadows.jpg]

Ok, cheers guys. It's just hard to know what to do for the best, when the GE images obviously aren't perfect and I want to produce the best model possible.

@imabzeous said: Hello can any body help me creating a window in curve wall Assuming you want to use a rectangular window (or windows) in a curved wall. Begin with a backing surface on which you draw a window-sized rectangle. Rectangle on the ground in front of the wall. Use Rotate tool to align your rectangle to the angle you want for the window. Pushpull rectangle up to over wall height. Tape out guides the size you want left, right, top and bottom of window. (Measure twice, cut once.) 4.5) Orbit to be sure your guides are flat against the backing surface. Fix as needed. Triple-click/Delete the backing surface. Rectangle between the guides. Pushpull the rectangle through the wall behind it. Edit/Intersect/With Model. Eraser to clean up the bits that stick out from the wall.

Hi Take, If you really want to modelthe rope, you will easily find yourself with an extremely large model that is (almost) impossible to work with. Would a solution to do it with only the rope texturebe okay?

Hi Dick and welcome! Now do this to draw a line with 3' 8" (that's just my example - you can certainly use any other value): click somewhere where you want to draw your line. start drawing the line (pulling it out as a rubber band) towards the direction you want to draw it (for this, the best to align your drawing to the axes as your line will become red, green or blue while drawing, letting you know that you are along your chosen direction) now comes the tricky part: type 3'8" on your keyboard and hit Enter. In the meanwhile, you can see these values in the Measurement box at the bottom right of your SU window but note that you never have to click in there (more exactly never click in there to enter the values because it will not work - just type and enter) Also, if you are annoyed by the length snapping of SU, go to your Window menu > Model info dialog > Units and disable length snapping. Now save an empty file with these (and any other, custom) settings under File > "Save as template" and choose this template for SU to load with every time you open it under Window > Preferences > Templates.

Out the squares Click the wall : hide Click the wall : hide you will see that the squares are not drawn on the same level some are transparent some are reversed somme are full ...! It's the mess if you want move someone just group them & move that you must make from the beginning draw one :group it, copy move with snap (or make component if you want an elaborate model with possibility of change) At the end group all et voilà Name group is a good thing for use after the Menu Window/Outliner for an easy selection

Many plugins install just a wee bit of code in the Plugins directory and install the main code in a subdirectory. Uninstall everything, then use your .zip utility to extract to the Plugins directory. You'll get a Plugins/webconsole directory populated correctly.

Hi sscott, There was no problem at all setting the image as wallpaper. There IS a subtle seam but not what you could see. I have no idea what went wrong with your student's model (if you can attach a template with it, we can have a look) [image: oP9j_Untitled.png] Note however that this image (for a tiling background) is extremely large and unnecessarily heavy in file size, too. 850x850 pixels is not needed for such a tiling background - you can downsample it to its fractions without any visual quality loss. I do not know if this caused any display issue on your computer. Untitled.skp

@greensaints said: ... This is the section I noticed which didn't look like it had any elevation. Attached is the .DWG I imported. I noticed the text didn't turn up either? You should either Explode such 'grouped/blocked' things in the CAD drawing beforehand, OR after it imports into SUp as a component, BUT before you make any surfaces... SUp doesn't import Text [or Dims or Hatching etc]... Since what SUP imports is limited it's best to strip down the CAD file to just what you need and purge/audit it before the SUp import - it'll import much faster and produce far fewer unwanted things in SUp that you'll need to Purge [Model INfo > Statistics] - there might still be some unused layers, components etc [e.g. the block 'arch_tick' if there were any dims] that get imported - you need to Purge the SUp Model of these to keep it 'trim'...

Thanks, I updated my control panel to include my name. p

Frontface.rb is useful too. Chris

Hi Tom and welcome, This is where you can join any public usergroups (including woodworkers): http://forums.sketchucation.com/ucp.php?i=167 but I have added you now in the admin panel.

@escapeartist said: I thought I'd give this a try and see what happens. Unfortunately, it leaves a more complex model full of missing faces and materials, not quite as badly as the obj exporter.rb that has been floating around or a while (I can't get it to work at all). What still works best is to extract the .dae from a .kmz and import that to Blender, and you can export from there into the .ase or whatever other format with a plugin; though I must say it imports quite a mess of triangulated faces, and if you want quads you're out of luck. From my experience on importing Sketchup models to CE2 via collada, the problem with glitches on the models come from exporting an untextured model. This can be solved simply by applying a texture to every visible face of the model, easily done if all its faces are connected, you press shift + LMP while applying a texture and all the faces will be textured. After that there should be no problems.

If you have some Groups with weird origins then use the Outliner to highlight them in turn and the Explode and immediately Group the them highlighted contents. Sketchup will put the new Group's origin at the limit of its geometry not where it was... Step through Groups in the Outliner until all are done - quickest if you assign shortcut keys to Explode and Group...

I found it! Thank you so much for the help. I'll install it and start playing tomorrow. Tas

It faces 'inside out'. Edit it and 'reverse' one or two faces, then select one face and 'orient' as they are all facing out... Fixed.

Thank you so very much TIG. I tried it the way you explained here and............now it works!!!!!!!!! I don't know why it didn't before but now all is good. Jim