If the Mac can do it (which I now kind of remember),you will need to export your animation as a series of png (or tiff) files which support transparency rather than a *.mov file and use the images in your flash app. Still I'm not sure it could be done with an animation even on the Mac but good luck!

Gaieus,, pbacot,, @unknownuser said: As for printing two scenes on one page; I couldn't advise more than go Pro (if you really intending to) and do it from LayOut since AFAIK it is not possible from SU. So Gaieus,,,,, let me practice on you..... Me to wife: "Yes, I agree with you about combining views on one page of paper, dear. It would really cut down on paper usage and be environmentally helpful. Gaieus from the SU forum says that the PRO version can do this. See, read his post. What do ya think??? Maybe NOW I can upgrade? (Beg, grovel, grovel.)" Yea, that should really do the trick!! Additionally, Gaieus, I read the string about Leopard,,,,,,, I'm going to hold off for a while on the install.... thanks. pbacot,,,,, @unknownuser said: here may be something else happening, by your description. The jagged look of lines in printing is due to their orientation to the view, not their orthographic direction. I think you are correct. Any issues with the jagged lines are when the lines are not on one of the axis'. Like on the taper of a long leg or the slant of seven degrees on the back of a dining room chair. It's tolerable because all my drawings are "build-only" type, not "glam" shots. All the pretty stuff I see and have in my mind when I build from the drawing. Still, for what I do in my meager little world of CAD, SU is still better for me than my TurboCad. Thanks you guys......

Nothing to do with being a moron... These display issues often happen with SU. Try to fiddle around with your OpenGL settings at Window > Preferences and see if unchecking any of the options help.

I don't have access to v7 right now - it's safest to upload v6 or lower... To form volumes the slices need to make edges that form a loop that can face. If you have a box with an open top it will slice in the Z because each cut takes in 4 sides and makes a loop that forms a face. If the slices are done on another axis then you'll only cut through 3 sides and these 3 edges don't make a loop and therefore won't face, and therefore don't make a sliceable volume. To fix it give the box a'lid' and it'll then slice OK on any axis. .

neng83, thnx for the example but i want to do it with a ruby script. i found a short example that suggests to draw a polygon, add it to a group, draw the rectangular hole, add it to the same group, execute the erase_enties command on the group with the hole and then explode the group. that seems to work! that also works if you want to make more than 1 hole in a polygon.

Hi folks. Up to SU 5, selected entities where yellow by default. With SU 6 and 7 they are blue by default. In both case, yhey can be chaged to what you want by going to the Styles window. Select the small house icon to select the style in your model. Then click on the Edit tab and then choose the last icon on the right whose title is "Modeling settings". You will see six settings with small colored squares deside each one. Selected shall have a blue square. Click on it and then change it using whatever mean you like (color wheel, RGB values or whatever). If you use RGB (Red, Green, Blue), use red=255, green=255 and blue=0 to get pure yellow. When done, update the style and, if you want this choice to be more permanent, save the file as a template and point SU to it in the Preferences windows. Don't fear of breaking anything since you can have as many templates as you wish and that you can come back to blue or anything else if you want. I prefer yellow since I cannot confuse it with blue edges if I use edges displayed using axes colors. But this is a personal choice. Just ideas.

Hi Blai, Sang is a simple, 2D, so called "face me" component. If you delete it from your model (and also "Purge" it) and replace it with anything (let it be another face me component or a 3D one - even a car or a bush), you can save this file as a template under the File menu. Then go to Window > Preferences > Templates, you can choose your newly created template to load any time you start SU.

I can't say that I'm a ground/sky fan. Just the axis on for me.

Well,it needed a little cleanup afterwards (as often does - in this case I think also due to the very sharp offset) but here it is. You can select the road face and move it up/down to exactly fit your needs. base_model_test.skp

Actually, both. In the new SU 7 templates they put both in. If you want to get rid of them ultimately, make your style (and any other) setting (you may be interested in the Window > Model info dialog, too) and save it as a custom template under the File menu (new to SU 7). Then go to Window > Preferences > Templates and choose your newly created template for the future.

Thanks, Al. I understand it better now.

Hi cdde! you probably don't need this any more, but I just thought it might be a good idea to share the infor. here is how I do it on my model: see attach Cheers Curve roof with Followme tool.skp

I check it and my FOV was at about 104 degree and I change it back to 30 and it solve the problem. Thanks you James

Hehe... What do you think I am doing herewith my history and archaeology degrees? (Plus, I finished law as well...)

Gaieus was right, I have came across same problem before. I was create a surface and painted it with translucent material and realize that I need to divided them up and create a frame around it. Once I did all that I notice that when I orbit around those surface on the frame I create by drawing a line to divided the original face wasn't look solid. It took me a while to figure it out. Great work guys lot helpful information here. neng83

thats a very good tip to me too. i used to create handrail by just pin point centre lines, create posts(and paste them in order) and then run the follow me to create railings/balustrades...

I saw your answers a bit late. I think that I solved it.. Thank you anyway. /Per

Tnx! So very much helpful! I never imagined how easy this can be!

If you go window->styles then click through the little row of buttons untill you get to one that has a little 'profiles' tick box, turn that off and the lines should appear less prominent. Its a little hard to say looking at the pic, but getting the and holding ctrl while you go over the lines might help as well.

Then there is the 'sandbox' way. Create your basic shape, remove all faces leaving the line work only, then select all and use the 'from contour' option. There will be some cleanup needed, but generally it should work just fine. [flash=500,344:3t06z6lg]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2560419&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1[/flash:3t06z6lg] http://www.vimeo.com/2560419 [image: lehullqe9.jpg]