It should be relatively easy (with move tool or push pull) to adjust the lengths and relative offset of the pipes after. Changing the pipe diameter, after you've done follow-me, and changing the radiused sections would be harder. Save a copy of your layout lines for follow-me, so in the future you can run follow-me again with different pipe radii if necessary.

You're quite welcome. You might also take a good hard look at shiny metal objects around you. Look at how reflections off their surface work. Let that inform they way you create the objects you place around the model for reflections and shadows.

Give this one a go. http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=nilines2arc

You did nothing wrong. It seems it's sketchup that failed. It happens sometimes. In step 3, right click on the texture and untoggle fixed pins. Try making unique texture again.

There are a few that only work with SketchUp Pro. Most work with both, though.

Actually it is multiplying two transformations and using that product to place the circle.

As I told you on your other forum post, I'll help you as soon as I can get at my computer.

@unknownuser said: Thank you both. Seems I am alone!

The problem is that copying glued components from one face to the other requires you to pick a reference point wich MUST be on the original face. COPY+PASTE uses the point with the minimum Z, X and Y of your component's bounding box as a reference point. Sometimes that point is on the original face plane sometimes it's not. So, when you paste it on the landing plane, sometimes it glues sometimes it doesn't. Either follow what Dave says or simply use MOVE+CTRL to copy with an accurate reference point.

I don't know how I can thank Dave R enough for giving clear, concise, and understandable information. Dave R is THE MASTER

Didn't realize delay in response post approved by admin, sorry a little repetitive. Thanks for any help with this

In the Component Browser > Model Tab Select it and Edit - change its behavior to suit...

Assuming the extensions were installed correctly and they are shown as active in Preferences>Extensions, you should be able to turn on their toolbars in View>Toolbars. I don't use the Smustard Weld extension but just installed it to check that the toolbar shows in SU2016 and it does show up just fine. [image: IGPm_Screenshot-7_16_20168_52_03AM.png] How did you install these extensions and where did you install them? Did you look in the right place in the list of toolbars? Eneroth 3D Rotate shows up as 3D Rotate and Smustard Weld shows up as Smustard.

Nice result!

"paint" it with a likened material / texture and remember to set the opacity

@garystan, I invite you to look at this thread: Challenge In particular, look at the document posted by Pilou in the 2nd post in the thread. I think you will find it is an excellent explanation of what you are trying to accomplish.

It really depends on the surface and texture--and the desired result. Some patterns are fine on a cylinder (for example) just as they are--off the paint bucket, others will need projection, especially for surfaces with irregular faces. Other results are only achievable with plugins to get UV mapping that realistically follows the surface.

@jason_vdb said: Hi anyone, I have a series of surfaces that I have sliced up and I would like to map these to an organized distributed orthagonal 'plan view' so I can get them into CAD to these profiles to a CNC machine. I have only the knowledge to do this manually. It takes a long time and I'd love to know if there are any plugins or scripts people have made to automate this. Attached is an example of the profiles I have in space that I want organised. I know Rhino can do this, and I'm sure other applications can do this and even nest them. Any advice would be great. keywords: automate map to 2D flatten send to working plane 3D to orthographic projection 3D to CNC nest Do you want the profiles moved or copied to the XY plane? How do you want them laid out? Your model doesn't show what you want to happen.

Thanks for that, i had already tried the zip file so must have done something wrong on installation. the RBZ file works fine. Thank you very much. Al

For a beginner, the export option is a bit hidden. Go to your material browser, right click and choose export texture [image: VsLL_export.jpg]