Also see if SU2XL (from Extension Warehouse) will do what you need.

http://profilebuilder4sketchup.com/learn/ The video playlist contains all that Dale has done so far

Excellent! I hope you got your bananaranus finished and you can get some sleep.

I agree with Juju: with every component exploded, there should be nothing to list in the component browser and the response should be snappy - unless you are trying to browse a large collection, not the in-model collection. In the latter case it may still be so large as to bog down the browser, or a slow/lagging network connection can affect it.

@tig said: Reread this topic, about using the correct [but oddly named] file http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=537020#p537020 Deleted the "FollowAndRotate_en.rbs" file & no more msg. Thanks TIG.

Hello! i know this is an old thread, but if there any solution for this issue? (when exporting dwg from Rhino and linking it to 3ds max, it works perfect) Thank You

Thanks for the assistance guys. Yes, Dave I do have access to the source. I have requested a STEP file hopefully that will work. Will post the results in the thread.

Already found it. Had to check Vfs on toolbars option.

Wow, want that ! What is teh status at this point in time ?

@tig said: It's not a bug. The 'Make Component' tool actually has a default shortcut preset - G. But before it appears in the Preferences > Shortcuts dialog's filtered list, you must have something[s] preselected that could actually be made into a component, you must make the selection prior to opening that dialog... This occurs in many situations - e.g. if you want to make a shortcut to Reverse faces or to Orient faces, then these will only appear in the filtered list if a face or faces are preselected... Now this is rather awesome! But thanks so much, cause it works. It never occured to me with other shortcuts and I really have many assigned. Sometimes U just have to ask someone who knows! Thanks again.

Cross posted and solved here.

Thank you v much Dave R i will take a look now. Purchasing SU pro on Monday Cheers

Erase the edge and that hidden plane should go away.

A "surface border" is a loop of edges that create a hole from the exterior to the interior of the object. A SketchUp solid must be an air-tight surface enclosing a volume. It can't be air-tight with a hole! Such holes also create a place where the model has an infinitely thin surface exposed, which is a mathematical abstraction that can't exist in reality. The reason Solid Inspector doesn't fix these is that it can't guess your intent. The fix requires somehow closing up the hole, but there are almost always multiple ways to do so. So, click the surface borders part of the SI window to see what it highlights and then draw additional geometry as needed to close the hole. "Internal face edges" means pretty much what it says. There are faces with edges protruding into the interior of the object. SI can often fix these, so try clicking the "fix all" button and see what happens.

What if you use intersect faces with model? Rightclick your model's geometry even at different heights and a plane or surface or any other geometry that intersects it and rightclick on any of the selected and run intersect faces... Depending on your context you can intersect Selected faces with: Current context (if you're inside a group/component you can restrict to that context) Rest of the model (even if you're inside a context and the rest of model is out of that context); Selection (you intersect your selected objects with themselves) What you can also do is use sandbox tools (if you can't find it on toolbars you must activate it under sketchup preferences > extensions): Select the faces you want to project on the ground and hit drape tool.

I'm not sure why you have so much triangulation in that design. Surely the front and back faces are a flat plane? On the face of it, yes, it is far more work than is needed. Can you post the file; and I'll give it a shot. Do you want the in-fill to be coplanar with the front or back face...or halfway through the thickness of the design.

@dan19936 your post is some interesting information: Is there some place where I can read up on this? Is it possible to do this (specify timeline to play( if I am hosting the file? Can I specify both the start and stop frame/time? It would also be interesting if there was a way to do this with the SU viewer on a web page and if the SU Viewer had a link to play an animation without having to got through all of the steps like now >View >Animation> Play. I would like to see just a Play button in the toolbar if there were scenes set up as an animation. Again, it would be really cool if you could use the viewer to play an animation on a web page (perhaps without the viewer not even having to download the viewer - just click a link and have if launch). For now though, my real emphasis is on understanding how to play part/parts of a video file from a web page. I have done entire videos before but honestly was not aware of the ability to specify a starting point and perhaps an ending point. I can really see some use for this especially if I can host the video on a web server.

Haven't reviewed it, but looks start to finish, except maybe not geo ref http://www.martinrinehart.com/models/tutorial/tutorial_toc.html

The technique of entering n/m works only because SketchUp's measurements box accepts fractions, not because it implements a divide operator as such. In a fraction both n and m must be integers. Any other type does not get treated as a numerator or denominator of a fraction.

got it working, thanks. great tool - it will help me a lot with detailing.