I've found that on a Mac there can be multiple layers of processing on mouse events. The OS does one layer, the mouse driver does another layer, and the running app does another layer. These all need to align for the middle button and scroll wheel to behave as expected. For example, on my Mac I need to connect the mouse and then manually open the Microsoft Mouse item in System Preferences after a system reboot; it does not initialize unless I follow this sequence (yeah, I know, crappy mouse - but what I had available from a prior Windows box).

Just thought I'd tell everyone we found no fix as such, but someone else on the team has the pro version of SketchUp and that has the export options we needed. I don't understand the incompatibility between all these programmes but at least I have my problem sorted.

Sounds like Trimble might have the wrong email address for you, and you need to contact them.

Like Dave, I don't know how you drew your wall, but you appear not to have paid close attention to the inference engine while doing so. Many of the stray lines you see can simply be erased which unifies the adjacent faces. But there are several places where points are slightly out of plane with each other, requiring surfaces to be triangulated instead of a single plane. The attached screenshot is an extreme zoom of the area just above the upper left window. You can see that things are not aligned. [image: toQZ_ScreenShot2015-04-14at8.38.03AM.png]

iam very sorry for being late in reply. i tried what u said but nothing happened. when zooming out ,lines appears through faces but when zooming in it looks great . that's happened only when i re-installed the windows

@driven said: what is the 'scale' of the model v the 'scale' of the texture... if you apply a 1inch texture to a one 1 mile face, you'll only see the background color as the texture is tiny... Right Click a material on a face and Select 'Texture' >> 'Position' to see if it's tiny... john John you're a sweetheart! Scale was exactly the problem! Thanks a million

See comments regarding various errors: ` require 'sketchup.rb' def create_sphere @radius = 0.feet if not @radius # along Green Y axis prompts = ["radius", "R", "G", "B"] values = [@radius, @R, @G, @B] results = inputbox prompts, values, "Sphere" return if not results @radius, @R, @G, @B,= results model = Sketchup.active_model # why keep switching between model and Sketchup.active_model? model.start_operation "Sphere" compdef = Sketchup.active_model.definitions.add # needed 's' multiple places show confusion between an Entity and its Entities collection ents = compdef.entities center = [0, 0, 0] radius = @radius circle = ents.add_circle center, [0, 0, 1], radius circle_face = ents.add_face circle assign these right away - the followme will destroy the original circle_face Color.new needs integers not strings circle_face.material=Sketchup::Color.new(@R.to_i, @G.to_i, @B.to_i) circle_face.material.alpha = 0.3 path = ents.add_circle center, [0, 1, 0], radius + 1 circle_face.followme path ents.erase_entities path place_component activates the Tool to manually place a ComponentInstance via GUI add_instance explicitly places one via Ruby You probably don't want to do both? #status=model.place_component(compdef) need to create trans before you can use it! This creates an identity, which adds the instance at the model origin trans=Geom::Transformation.new Sketchup.active_model.active_entities.add_instance(compdef, trans) model.commit_operation end if( not file_loaded?("Sphere.rb") ) utilities_menu = UI.menu("Plugins").add_submenu("Sphere") utilities_menu.add_item("Sphere") { create_sphere } end #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- file_loaded("Sphere.rb")` Also, you should isolate your code in a module so that the method does not go into the global namespace.

Thanks for your answer TIG, i really looked for that but don't know how to start this kind of shape.

@medicanic7 said: The plugins section of the forum is locked so I decided to post here. The plugins section isn't locked, the padlock icon can be misleading, the parent forum is locked so that you post to the relevant subforum. So if you want to go to the Plugin sub-forum click this link. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=323

@dave r said: You're right and that's a very good question. Maybe the rating system on YouTube would help? I expect after you've watched videos from a few different people, you'll be able to tell who is well-prepared and whose style works for you. Nice answer, Dave I've found that the tutorials with ridiculously high numbers of views (thousands) generally have decent content.

Just use it to create a new one with a different name in the Materials editor.

Thanks Pilou, that was the video I was looking for and did not find. After creating some better images to project, I was able to get it done. Here is an image of how it finally turned out.... [image: 8APD_Capture-RevisedProjectionImage.PNG] Notice that I actually had to make two copies because of the orientation. The original image that I was using just did not work well at all (was a photograph that was taken at an angle). It sure isn't perfect but it is close enough for how it is being used and a huge step forward from what I originally had. Once again, thanks for the reply..........

I'm still trying to find the time to sort out batch mode and the toggle resizing for earlier versions... for me it's easier if everyone else updates to v2015...lol john

Bo, à présent on peut effacer le post, pour ce qu'il informme...

It might be that turning on Profiles in your style's edge settings would take care of the issue. With profiles turned off, you can wind up with this sort of thing. [image: 6207200155_e6846d44e1_z.jpg] But with Profiles turned on (and set to 1) curved surfaces will look like this. [image: 6207200107_2bdf29730d_z.jpg] Using hidden Line for the face style makes this appear a bit more dramatic than it will in other face styles but the same thing happens with those other face styles.

So, remove that plugin and try to contact its author about the error message. Many plugin authors no longer support SketchUp v8.

You should be downloading the .rbz versions. Then you can use Install Extension in Window>Preferences>Extensions to install them automatically.

http://www.3darcstudio.com/downloads-files.html

Thanks guys ... that fixed it.

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