i surely think it is! doubling your RAM has to have some effect on your machine.

Hi Scott welcome. This is a great place to learn. cheers Alan

Pro cannot export to either of these formats - though you may find a format that can be further imported/exported in another application to fit your needs.

Perfect..thanks again

Eric Sorry I didnt get back to you on the solid, but it worked but not the way I wanted it to. I think something like even a hatch of some sort would be ok, but I dont know how to do it.

Well, I learned my something new for the day. Guess I can take the rest of the day off. I had been saving woodgrain materials in both orientations when I imported them so that I could have the grain running right. Now I've found out I can just spin em around after they've been painted on.

Anssi is absolutely correct. You'll see mention of this in the SketchUp Release Notes as well. ...there's a good reason to read them right there! Here's a link: http://sketchup.google.com/gsu6/relnotes.html Cheers, CraigD

Edson, Also, thanks for the links to the video tutorials. Very good...

Hi jplum, welcome to the forums here. For your specific search for a good laptop, ghave a look at our "Hardware forum" here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewforum.php?f=72 Plenty of thought have been shared there (this - finding a good computer for SU - seems to be the major issue for all the people). Your SU is the latest (just a week "old") release for sure so you need not worry about that. Cheers

If you want to "regain" either a softened of a hidden line, go to View > Hidden geometry and go through the lines you want to unhide/unsoften with the Ctrl+Shift+Eraser tool. CTL+Shift+eraser will unsoften a line, but it will NOT unhide a hidden line. For that you need to select and "unhide". Pity there is no key combo just to unhide a line..

Hi folks. Dont forget that one of SU strength is the possibility of orbiting, zooming, panning, changing scene while in the middle of an operation like drawing, scaling, moving, rotating, etc. Try the following: 1 - With the standard Iso view, start a rectangle by clicking to set the first corner. The rectangle will have a tendency to be drawn on the horizontal plane (red-green axis). 2 - While still in the drawing process, orbit so the red-blue plane is mostly facing you. 3 - Complete the rectangle. You will see that it is now drawn on the vertical red-blue plane. Just ideas.

Great. (Once I had a bunch of them gotten stuck behind my task bar)

There is no publishable date for Google SketchUp Pro 7. The latest and greatest maintenance release for SketchUp 6.0 just came out, so that's the one to get. Mac - SketchUp Pro version 6.0.1145 Win - SketchUp Pro version 6.0.1099 Get it while it's hot! Cheers, CraigD

You can also set up the hide command with a shortcut. I use "H". Select the lines you want hidden and hit H. You can add/modify your shortcuts in: Window / Preferences. Select the Shortcuts category then scroll down to Edit/Hide.

Ah, I got you. It would look bad to have all your people and trees trapped in a glass sheet.

I can ask Clipi and Tomasz what they think. Perhaps Giannis will take a peek, it would be good to get confirmation. I've only used KT since last October. It doesn't take long to become proficient, but then I had several years rendering experience before that (like 10yrs) and I took to KT like a duck in gold water. Try HDR lighting, it's instantaneous, and you'll like it. Check my latest WIP on the KT forum. to see a building with HDR lighting on it. Then I just mask render in the background (there's a tut. for d/l on the KT home page download sections if you don't know how this is done.) keep up the great work!

Can't wait for the new SU2KT, it sounds awesome from what everyone is saying.

Marc, You could use different Materials for each respective color entity (trim, sofit, etc.). So for example, let's say you start with the Material "Color_000" (that's just a standard white). Create a new material from it (see attached) and name it descriptively (i.e. trim). Create a new material like this for each item and name them descriptively. Now when you've completed your model and applied materials to the appropriate faces, you can just go back to your materials palette and make changes to the desired parts. As far as using groups and components, I would recommend putting all of your trim into a group so it's easy to select just the trim if you want to (open the group and "select all"). That way, applying materials will be easy too. [image: create_material.gif]

I'm on Xp and fully up to date on that and catalyst too. Even when everything is turned to let application decide i still only get those two options in the preferences... P: viperit

Here's the details on the upgrade. http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ajg9d7mmp8rt_4gp925h