It is covered somewhere... But I can't find it offhand... So here's a precis... The Sets work in a similar way for Plugins and Extensions. I'll explain it for Extensions... The use of 'Sets' is to allow you to set up and use collections [aka "sets"] of Extensions and easily witch between them. So if you do several different kinds of SketchUp modeling, rendering etc, then you can make various Sets of Extensions to suit you needs for each task, and swap between then in a few clicks... Click on the 'Sets' [blue] button and another 'Sets' dialog opens. This has several options... The top one is 'Add' - type in a new Sets name and Add it to the list. All current Extensions' statuses are remembered. If there are Sets available the second list shows them, select an item and 'Apply' becomes available. Click that and the statuses of all Sets are changed to match that named-set. You will need to restart SketchUp for any Disabled Extensions to be 'unloaded'. The Revert button swaps back to the last used Set. The Update button updates the selected named-set to match the current Extensions' statuses. The Delete button removes the selected named-set from the system. The Export button lets you save the 'set' file externally so you can then Import it on another Computer using that button. The Export All button exports a folder of ALL sets which can be Imported using the Import All button on another Computer. The Import/Import All button uses the Exported file[s], allowing you to sync your Sets between Computers... If an Extension is included in a Set, but it is not installed on a Computer, then it is ignored. The Plugins Sets are similar but allow you to choose Plugins which might not have been made as Extensions...

You should be controlling layer visibility with scenes in SketchUp and using those scenes for viewports in LayOut. Then you don't need to control SketchUp's layer visibility in LayOut. What do you have for render settings in LayOut? Very likely the edit render setting is set to less than High so imported images won't look very sharp. Export render quality can be set higher and the image will probably look good. Try importing your image and making a PDF export at high or even medium quality.

Thanks again, TIG. It worked, and it was fun : )

You might want to address that question directly to the author.

Disney has a long history of documenting the process of making dreams come true. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2ORkIrHUbg

you could try zipping it first...

Copy+Paste+Enter this one-liner into the Ruby Console - it will open your Plugins folder: UI.openURL("file:///#{Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')}") Restart SketchUp to load any newly added files...

@jql said: You install through sketchucation plugin store or through trimble´s extension warehouse. http://sketchucation.com/resources/plugin-store-download Thanks very much, thanks to everyone aswell for letting me know that the Joint Push Pull plugin is what I'm after! Cheers

Dear All I have the same issue ( I want a single picture as texture ) which I cannot do SU texture editor. I want to understand the UVW mapping for Vray cause Im not understand this placement options. thnx all

@leeban said: ...Could you possibly explain what you mean by "partially paste" is that a different thing from normal paste. I see how my choice of words may have confused you. I just meant "paste the center part of the image of the screenshot", only the part that shows the correct building(s) without perspective, i.e. in and near the center. For all the other buildings not close to the center also do show unwanted perspective over their footprints.

cotty, that didn't even occur to me to do it that way.

ah, good. You beat me to it. Well, good you got the answer. You might contact the author to see if he's got a 64 bit version.

the techy answer to this has got to do with server load. every person browsing the forums opens a session on the server. If we let every session launched to remain open then the server would buckle under the sheer volume. so to keep the experience for everyone zippy and nice we kick out people not actively using the system after a set duration. the next evolution of the site is factoring all these things in. we learn as we go...

If you have v8 you need to be sure you have permission to modify the Plugins folder - without that changes made with the Plugins Manager will NOT be retained on a restart of SketchUp - see this... http://sketchucation.com/resources/tutorials/intermediate/811-setting-security-permissions-in-sketchup Also see this on generally installing Plugins... http://sketchucation.com/resources/tutorials/beginner/108-installing-sketchup-plugins and this on the PluginStore tools... http://sketchucation.com/resources/plugin-store-download which has sections on the Plugins Manager - you are NOT Uninstalling them - you are Disabling them.

Try drawing edges over the terrain that will relate to the centerline of the road (with the terrain in a separate group so it won't interact. Use the center line as a guide to use follow me on a profile of your street and sidewalk. The number of edges you use in the center line and whether or not you adjust it to finesse the road grade and curves determines the quality of the road to some extent. You may want to use follow me and keep or upright extruder plugins. Use Sandbox drape to adjust the terrain to the road since google terrain does not conform to any road, real or imagined. Drape gives vertical or uniform slope cuts---you can increase the offset to get more gradual cuts but the offset is the same all sides, unlike real roads. You may wish to sculpt the terrain afterwards---or include ample apron in the road profile to fit to the terrain better. This is one way using basic tools. A little rough but you wanted "simple". Keep searching this site there's more evolved methods discussed in the forum. You can see in the example that I did not use many edges and there will be abrupt surprises for the drivers on this road. You can use plugins like Bezier Spline and Curvizard to manipulate your center line. [image: jCsz_ScreenShot2015-08-15at6.14.47PM.png]

In my door scripts I create door stiles and rails as vertical members. Then I rotate rails and move them into position. This way I can use vertical wood grain for all door members. When I want to create a list of materials for a program like cut list or Cut Master I simply look at the component axis and determine Length, Width and Thickness. I used to have vertical and horizontal wood grain textures but I find a lot of advantages doing it this way (textures are half the size, skp files are smaller etc..)

Moved from the Bugs forum because this isn't a bug.

@emilia93 said: I changed units in Preferences window but still all dimensions are in mm Please post the SKP, or a screenshot of your Model Info > Units etc... You are missing a step... NEW models open from the chosen Template. If that is set to meters then that's what a new model will use [until you change it]. Make as a new model 'Template' set up just as you want it, save it 'as a template', then set that Template as your Preferences default Template... All NEW models will use those units. Any models you made before this will use the units they had when last saved... Change those in Model Info > Units, and save the model, as appropriate...

Why don't you find out here: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179%26amp;t=62468

That was my next stop but Box beat me to it. You didn't say you had painted the group and were editing it. Happy it's sorted, though.