@rich o brien said: It appears in the menu when you right click on a selected section cut. Yes, thanks!!!

@dave r said: Have you updated it so it makes smoother curves? Yes. On the main menu at the bottom is a dropdown for Quality. Does look much better at higher quality

hi jeremy, what are your successful settings? it may help someone down the line... john

hi, thanks for your patience and care. unfortunately each step is slightly different, due to curved stringers, therefore the triangular patters will be different on left and right side of the stringers. i think the stairs are consistent, so i have to try your tip to make one cut-out, and try duplicating it along sides. a great idea!

Used very often in this tutorial! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELs9qYLs3eo&feature=player_embedded

If you want the bent component to match the curve you should be putting the straight line directly over or under the straight component.

it may be a simple error on your part... In the past I have hit 'Preview' instead of 'Submit', read my post then quit... took ages to workout what I was doing wrong, i.e. I never hit 'Submit'... on the other hand, it may be 'Big Brother' censoring your post's... john

The component axis can easily rotate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfwWseF2XGg

hi todd, glad it's working for you... btw. the "%x( killall cfprefsd )" bit on the SU forum was from me , I'm not an SU team member... john

Rather than use Model Info > Statistics > Purge Unused... try purging in steps. Purge Styles from the Styles Browser dialog. Purge Layers from the Layers Browser dialog. Purge Materials from the Materials Browser dialog. Purge Components from the Components Browser dialog. Purge Layers from the Layers Browser dialog. Purge Materials from the Materials Browser dialog. The reason I suggest you do the steps is there's less to process each step. You need to do Layers and Materials twice, as there might be Layers and Materials only used by unused Components, so after those Components are purged they become purge-able too.

Thank you for your answer!

Don't be embarrassed. There are two different 'CAD' coordinate/axes conventions. One grew from 2d the other reflects 3d more sensibly... The older way is indeed what you had wrongly assumed for SketchUp. Old way... X left/right on screen == 'Width' Y up/down on screen == 'Height' Z in/out of screen == 'Depth' SketchUp and several other newer 3d apps... With an 'Origin' at [0,0,0] defining the 'ground-plane' X left/right on a 'ground-plane' == Red, aka 'Length' Y in/out on a 'ground-plane' == Green, aka 'Depth' Z up/down from the 'ground-plane' == Blue, aka 'Height' Points, offsets etc are always defined as [X, Y, Z] values In fact for those of us using the Ruby API... the SUp 'bounding-box' convention is the awkwardly set up as the 'old-way' - which can be very confusing as bb.width/bb.height/bb.depth is actually bb.x_size/bb.y_size/bb.z_size, when intuitively we might assume the SUp convention of x/z/y The two coordinate/axes conventions lead to some anomalies when importing/exporting - where you might see 'Flip Y/Z Axes' options. This is there to convert one set of axes to another, otherwise an imported object might come in 'laid on its back' etc...

You should flag it with Max

The example shows changing to fixed size for leader text. Should this also be available for 'Screen Text'? Those options are grey...

Yep. It sounds like you downloaded the wrong version. The 32-bit version will help.

There are plenty of ways to do this. This one just crossed my mind first. Draw a polyline with Bezier curves. Draw a tube on that polyline with Pipe along a path. Scale down some of the sections and create a surface between them with Curviloft. The use round corner at the ends. Then play with the scale tool or FFD to achieve the desired result. As for the other indents, just create some shapes that resembles them and intersect them with the body of the bottle. bottle details.skp [image: bottle details.jpg]

For this specific piece no need a scanner! Just draw around and inside with a pencil sharp pointed very well on a transparent tracing paper Put this paper on your screen! You can redraw your form under it with sketchup and your mouse! That's all!

One of the first things you should do with SketchUp is pee in the corners. Make it your own. Create your own template. I always use a white background when drawing. I set up the style as shown in the screen shot for my default style and because I need to work in fractional inches, I set units that way. Then I saved a blank file as my default template. [image: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7498/15589298213_f21aa143f8_z.jpg]

Let me reinforce what Dave has said: using inferencing effectively is one of the most valuable and essential SketchUp skills you can learn. You'd be surprised how many defective models get submitted for help when something won't work because elements of the drawing are subtly out of alignment. This problem is almost without exception the result of not using inference properly!

The process has always been select the component, start the plugin, select the straight line, select the curve.