Ok, I fixed it and did what I wanted to do (more or less), thanks again.

Good to know.Thanks for reply.

DONE! Thank you and may you have a splendid evening, thank you. Cheers!

Open the 3D Warehouse in your browser, sign in if you aren't already signed in, and upload the files using the upload button. [image: 0kH4_Screenshot-3_28_201812_27_40PM.png]

I always liked the weather report from the chopper in Good Morning Vietnam...."It's hot & wet..."

Glad I could brighten your day Kat! If you do any vector-based stuff be sure to check out Affinity Designer, I don't use it though. From what I hear Affinity's working on some other tools to replace some other Adobe graphics-related tools with, I think it is lightroom they have their cross-hairs on but can't tell for sure.

Thanks so much Box, very helpful! This will help me with a bunch of stuff!

Another easy free realtime render : SimLab Composer Lite! (max 1920 * 1080)

Thanks, Rich.

Open a new file, import the component then open the Outliner it should be there as far as it is not raw geometry.

If you are using very large textures these might help: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=281153#p281153 https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=40720

@scruff said: Dave's is the only response that actually deals with the question As you like, isn't one satisfying answer not enough?

@pilou said: Else Work Plane by TIG Thank you for responding. Fortunately my problem was only that I had "view guides" unchecked.

It could be that those shortcuts are hard coded similarly to others like Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, etc.

@rocketfox said: Box that is fantastic, thank you! Would a complex curve follow a similar procedure? Yes and no, it depends on the shape. You can create any shape you want and intersect it with an arch, or you can use various plugins to form complex shapes from complex curves. Here's a quick example of one very useful one on roughly your shape. [image: 4Ohd_Curviloftskin.gif]

@drafter said: @dave r said: You can ignore the message that pops up when SketchUp starts. It's a very small thing and only lasts a few seconds and it doesn't keep you from getting started on your model. And I thought it might be something important....gee wiz... Yeah. I understand. You might check the Extension Manager once in awhile to see if there are any extensions that are important to you to upgrade. Upgrade them. Do the same with the Sketchucation Extension Store tool. Fredo's updated a number of his extensions recently as well as his Lib_Fredo6 support files. If you have them and installed them with the SCF Extension Store tool, it'll show you that there are updates and you can let it update all of them automatically.

First, that is just a SketchUp image export. The style, as was mentioned, is a basic grey background. See here: [image: unsD_01.JPG] A couple of things to take note while exporting images. If you export with screen resolution (view size) your lines will be jaggy and gross. Like this: [image: hOZJ_02.jpg] [image: O0F4_03.jpg] However, if you export at a higher resolution then reduce the size in Photoshop (or another image editor) you will get a cleaner image: [image: 4TzJ_04.jpg] [image: 7d7y_05.jpg]

Hi, thanks a thousand times Box, it works perfectly !

Select the backwards faces and use the "reverse faces: command in the contextual menu and get all the outward facing surfaces to be "front face" Yes, it can cause problems. If you don't see division edges between the reversed coloration, toggle "hidden geometry" in the view menu. Then you can reverse faces that are backwards separate from the adjoining smoothed faces. There are plugin tools to help this process if you have a lot of it, but that's the primary way to fix reversed faces.

@westy49 said: Am surprised that Curviloft is so expensive. It is £55 a year. This is about one-ninth of the cost of buying an open license for SketchUp Pro 18. I would not mind buying a one-off open license but there is no guarantee that I will use the plug-in very much so I am reluctant to pay so much for just one year's use. Can someone design a more cost-effective plug-in to do the same job? Where did you find Curviloft for £55 a year? Here on Sketchucation it's available at no charge. No need to have someone reinvent the wheel.