@hmuller2 said: Hi , when importing any brd files (4 ... 10 layers) in Sketchup 8 Pro I always get the error message "PCBNEW-BOARD missing not closing properly". Maybe this plugin was an idea for the KiCad project http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/KiCad+EDA+Software+Suite but not followed up since march 2011 ? Ciao hmuller2, could you attach the .brd file where you have encountered this error message? You can send it by email too... Thanks Ciao Giovanni

Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. I'll give it a try when I get a minute. Don't worry about the typo - I've done much worse and English is all I know!

@luigidemaio said: Ho fatto tutto correttamente ma nulla di fatto. Grazie comunque Panixia. Mi sapresti indicare come faccio ad andare nella sezione di italiano. Grazie ancora. Luigi se non ricordo male l'accesso alla sezione italiana la devi sbloccare dal pannello di controllo. riguardo al plugin, se non funziona credo proprio che tu non abbia fatto tutto correttamente. un altro motivo potrebbe essere che non hai i privilegi di amministratore e non ti fa scrivere nelle cartelle di sistema, tu sei sicuro di essere amministratore del pc o magari stai provando a installare sul pc dello studio di cui non sei amministratore o qualcosa del genere? prova anche con simple installer di thomthom. lo trovi tra i plugin. eventualmente prova a postare uno screenshot della tua cartella plugin così vedo se effettivamente è tutto in ordine come dici tu..

I use this fun plugin and its very easy to be informed thanks to this!

Thanks Rich

@dave r said: Check this out. There's a command for Center Selection which would probably get you started. On my PC I have his toolbar set up so Zoom Extents zooms to a selection if there is one. Thanks! The plugin from Jim's website (Is it the same Jim?) works!! It zooms to the selected item no matter how far or where it is. The plugin can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/jimfoltz/my-sketchup-plugins/zoom-selection-extents

Move the .rb file from where you saved it to the Plugins folder under SketchUp. Before doing so, be sure you have full administrative rights to the Plugins folder. restart Sketchup after pasting the rb file into the Plugins folder.

i found the reason http://www.ruthless.zathras.de/facts/apps/polygonesia/3d-transformation-matrix.php seems that martinrinehart put the minus sign in the wrong place [image: hMOd_rotationaroundzaxismatrix.jpg]

@cadfather said: Sure, and don't call it cadfather! I will do that eventually and I promise not to call it CadFather!

@gbterstal said: Thanks so much Honoluludesktop. Just for the record... HonoluluDesktop died a few years ago... August 5th 2011 in San Francisco... http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=40819

@gullfo said: looks more like the former than the latter... SEE wikipedia: Cycloidal Drive This has nothing to do with curves made with the Spirograph toy !

I thot Alex had done a reference WebDialog plugin ?

ah ok.. thank you! hope this will happen! it is for a noble purpose (optimization of barrel's volumes in a crude-beer production laboratory, the more optimization, the more beer)

Very useful tool, thank you! [image: pgFx_.gif]

This 'spherizes' a selected face http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=471346#p471346

and this one ? http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39837

Will give it a go now. Excellent work Aerilius!! And GREAT images Pilou!

could be stupid but my SU kept crashing when i would create a group from slice, so i tried fiddling around with other variables. i found that when i turned off axes and guides when i was slicing the model, it stopped crashing. dont know why, just did.

No probs, I'm just giving you the basics, Dave has the good stuff.

In the value control box (VCB), you can enter relative and absolute coordinates too, see this help page...