I don't like the initials idea. I'm probably here early enough to lock up "mr" but Mike Roberts and Mary Ryan may not be so happy when they get here next year. The Java sort-of-standard proposed by Sun (inverted website names) never got popular. Too long. A ten-pound cure for a one-pound problem. I think that using the name of the plugin should be SOP. VisMap is in a module named VisMap. That means that before you release anything, you Google it, which is a good idea for a lot of reasons. A Wiki or Google doc re bad plugins would be most helpful. "X is bad" is not helpful, but "X is bad because..." would tell you what not to do so that you don't end up on the bad list.

@tig said: Now right-click on each of these new Materials in turn and pick Save_as, and save each of them as new skm file, say into the ../Materials/Wood folder. Thanks to you I not only got my woods into Wood, but I've also got a Materials dropdown that doesn't overflow and need scrolling, I've got A_Personal_Palette category with the stuff I use all the time and I've got rid of, for example, Colors_Named. A million thanks.

An example to the explanations of TIG. Karlheinz flatroomtest2.skp

@chris fullmer said: I'm amazed that you keep coming back to the observer's Thom They have caused you so much pain already. well... that's the part I haven't done yet. there is an issue with the area calculation SU does when you have skewed groups/components. haven't gotten to the part of adding the observers yet. But I dread it. I've yet not dared to go back to DoubleCut.

Yea, template snippets would be nice.

@yaza said: The use of this plugin would unfold the volumes starting from a chosen face or vertex. I only thought of 2 possibles in interpreting your curt question - there IS a third ! Look for Jim's 'unfold' ruby available through links here...

You're my target user, Chris. Hope the link helps.

I think I read threads where users sucessfully moved Podium to the main pluginfolder. But there seem to be mulitple scattered files. I've given Jeff a nudge. I think he'll be able to help when he comes online.

Well, I did indeed play around quite a lot to see what's happening when I am doing this. My approach was to reload the image and then go to top view and toggle undo/redo to see the difference between the B&W and the colour version. To be honest, I didn1t see any difference so I basically trust the method - true that when I go quite close in my area, the imagery is not the best as well as in those rare cases when I use this technique (to paint some small scale, artificial terrain for GE), any subtle difference would be rather unnoticeable.

Just as a note: I had posted the same questions in the SMustard question section. Rick forwarded the question on to Dale Martens who responded back to me. By then I did (with all the suggestions here) have it solved, but I did let him know the methodology used to solve it. Good on them for the response.

Moved the thread to the Developer's forum. We have reorganized so that the Plugin section is only a list of plugins you can download and use.

Moved the thread to the Developer's forum. We have reorganized so that the Plugin section is only a list of plugins you can download and use.

Hey, It turns out that thomthom's first suggestion was the one! I thought I had tried that, thanks for the posts everyone! Laura

Moved the thread to the Developer's forum. We have reorganized so that the Plugin section is only a list of plugins you can download and use.

Moved the thread to the Developer's forum. We have reorganized so that the Plugin section is only a list of plugins you can download and use.

Moved the thread to the Developer's forum. We have reorganized so that the Plugin section is only a list of plugins you can download and use.

Moved the thread to the Developer's forum. We have reorganized so that the Plugin section is only a list of plugins you can download and use.

Moved the thread to the Developer's forum. We have reorganized so that the Plugin section is only a list of plugins you can download and use.

Moved the thread to the Developer's forum. We have reorganized so that the Plugin section is only a list of plugins you can download and use.

Moved the thread to the Developer's forum. We have reorganized so that the Plugin section is only a list of plugins you can download and use.