@matte said: Good Day, Over the years I have created an extensive Library of things to cut and paste into my models. It's large enough to the point to where I am having problems picking the "right" part in a timely manner. For example when I want to add a table light to a scene. Style is very important.... When I “open the folder” that I have all my table lights in… there is “70 or 80” to choose from. The way I input a “Light” now is insert them one by one till I find something suitable. What I would like to know…. Is there some form of an Icon viewer where when I open the folder in windows with many Sketchup items in there… I see what they are without having to open them up one by one till I find something usable. Thanks Matte Also worth checking out Component Finder.

S4u has free external version converter on his site

Also note that many of thomthom's extensions need you to install his TT_Lib 'helper' file... https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TT_Lib So download and install that too... Restart SketchUp after installing any Lib's RBZ so that everything gets properly synced... Fredo's extensions are another example where a Lib needs to be installed too...

you need to practice with a good tutorial. You can use youtube to learn uv mapping for free.

How are you trying to install these extensions ? More details would help us to help you... Note that some extensions need a helper Lib installing - LibFredo is one of these... With the PluginStore you download the RBZ file for the extension, and save it to your Downloads folder. Do not try to open it with SketchUp. It needs installing... Within SketchUp v2021's Extensions menu open the Extension Manager [it's in a different menu in earlier versions]... Click the 'Install Extension' button in its dialog. Find the RBZ and SketchUp automatically installs the contents of the RBZ for you... When an extension needs a helper Lib also install that and restart SketchUp to ensure everything gets synced...

Some authors like Fredo & thomthom use supporting Lib files, which are available to download and install [LibFredo], then after SketchUp is restarted the tools should load and be available. However, don't fall into the trap of thinking that every extension is listed under the Extensions menu... Read up on each particular extension's usage - e.g. Fredo's Tools is accessed through the Tools menu list or its Toolbar entry... Some other tools are also activated from the context-menu... read up on each one...

Doesn't Archicad have 'combine by material' option when exporting to external file formats like fbx\obj? If you by mistake have 3ds Max- there are some soog solutions..

@rshawiii said: Is is possible to combine multiple fredo-splines. I want to join them at their endpoints, then have the two original splines behave as a single spline that can be edited/adjusted going forward. Combining 2 splines into one would cause each spline to be (slightly) modified to ensure continuity at the junction. This is not supported currently by FredoSpline, but can probably be done (although not trivial in the general case). Same, by the way, for the split of splines, that is, cut a spline into pieces which are also splines. Currently, the only thing you can do is to extend a spline by its extremity.

Because the different "strands" of the drapery needed to be different lengths and pinned at different angles, I decided to scrap trying to use the original circular array of rectangles and am modeling each strand one by one... I don't even have the original component anymore! ​ I think my original issue was the way I was selecting the geometry. I was able to model one of the strands, attaching file. drapes.skp The other issue I've come across is once I model the cloth, I realize I needed to add more pins, but because I want the pins to be in a circular shape, if I toggle the drape off, I can't tell where to put the pins so they catch the cloth. Is it possible to add pins after modeling the cloth? If anyone has a better work process on how to model the referenced drape, please let me know.

посмотрите на плагин MSPhysics (free), изучив его более детально можно будет делать движущиеся объекты.

@l i am said: Did you listen with sound? No, so I went back and listened and yes, he is in sync. Well done.

@majid866 said: Dear Friends, 3 new rail added to MAJ Rail. You can see details in the following video. Please contact me (partban@gmail.com) if you wish to have your own rail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVakFRvqJgU New rail type added. [image: Bb5k_majrail.png]

What about Sketchups own Advanced camera tools ? [image: TiGf_AC.PNG]

@unknownuser said: And I assume you had the problem until you did the redraw. Same problem as you (with your own curves! So redraw them! Normally you don't have any problem with Hull's ship with the Fredo Curviloft! All must be drawn in one pass I believe you have false drawn your curves but with what reason ...no ideas Bon courage and wait the Fredo advices! But for me any spline(s) drawn in order in Layer 0 must draw any ship! (see the Fredo avatar By Axeonalias [image: 5538065865_60e0d74feb_b.jpg] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y8MR6_kUoU

It makes the hole in the wall, with the large grey shape into the building and then it deletes everything [image: j0mm_video1.gif]

@rshawiii said: more visual indication of the status would still be nice. Thanks for the quick response. When you are in no-inferencing mode, the vertex you move is circled in pink.

@tig said: What you are trying to do would probably be more easily achieved with another extension - like TrueBend or ShapeBender - manipulating a 3dText group... Thanks. Shape Bender was the solution. Not easy to use until you understand. But great when you know how.

Yes, I posted it also on the Simlab forum, but they have to approve my post ...

Seems to be working now. Not my imagination it was not before. Bizarre. I did not try to recreate the workflow I was doing exactly. It involves a large mesh (1M triangles) and creating splines at intersecting faces. sketchup and computer seems stressed with this. When I get back on it for real, If I have a problem, will let you know. Thanks for the fast response.

@unknownuser said: Error: #<Errno::EACCES: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - C:/Users/Rick/AppData/Local/Temp/SCF/SketchUcation_Usage.log> The SketchUcation toolset writes a log file used in our own debugging. It does it silently as you use its tools. Fortunately the error is quite clearly explained in the error message [often it can be somewhat arcane !] SketchUp is unable to open the log file to write into it - this suggests a folder/file permissions limitation which was probably created by initially installing SketchUp incorrectly [i.e. not using ...right-click installer's exe > "Run as administrator"]... subsequent corrections of the installation - perhaps using 'Repair' - didn't reset that particular permission as it's outside the main 'SketchUp' domain... A simple fix would be to exit SketchUp and use Windows Explorer to open the Temp folder C:/Users/Rick/AppData/Local/Temp Then delete its SCF subfolder. This will delete the subfolder and its contents [i.e. SketchUcation_Usage.log], if any. When you restart SketchUp and the SketchUcation toolset loads it will not find the subfolder or log file and recreate both of them, this time using the correct permissions as were reset by any 'Repair' you might have done to the main SketchUp installation... If you get error-message problems with the other SCF files [not in Temp], then deleting those might help too... C:\Users\Rick\AppData\Local\SCF