Hi, Pilou: Can you clarify what is meant by multiple in your thread title? It looks to me that you want the text to ignore mirroring effect as in some CAD programs?

So no one had the same problem and solved it? The problem is not in the rendering settings... the result is similar to the camera view; is the animation different to the camera view... So, should I really cut the render?

hi, any news about this potentionally tool? in autocad you can stop a running command hitting ESC. It is much more usefull in SU which, often, tend to freeze unespectly executing plugins routines. best regards, andrea

Box, thanks for your reply on this. I ended up removing Maxwell Render and reinstalling. It fixed the problem Neets

@Gilles The more useful room of the house must have of course the best environment!

Also try AntonS window Settings plugin. A true gem.

I think it comes close to doing what I want but instead of stretching it scales. It may very well do what is I requested but if it does I'm not smart enough to get it to.

SuperDrape only works vertically downwards, so you might need to reoriented you two pieces to suit. SuperDrawp clones materials too, but if that's not so important try my EEbyVectoreToObjects... Pull the selected face through the receiver form [along ANY vector - pre-draw a guideline if that'll help with snapping] and a now a new group is made, extruding the selected face up to the receiver object's surfaces. Edit that group and erase everything in it except for the 'draped' edges on the receiver's surface. Edit>Cut that group and edit the receiver group. Edit>PasteInPlace and explode the newly inserted group. Its edges should merge with the receiver group's geometry à la 'drape'...

Try something like this m=Sketchup.active_model;ms=m.materials;gs=m.active_entities.grep(Sketchup;;Group);m.start_operation('vmat');gs.clone.each_with_index{|g,i|next unless gs.include?(g);v=g.volume;(gs.delete(g);next)if v<=0;g.material=(ma=ms.add('vmat#1'));ma.color=[rand(255),rand(255),rand(255)];ma.alpha=0.5;gs.clone.each{|gg|(gg.material=ma;gs.delete(gg))if gg.volume==v};};m.commit_operation; This colors all groups in the active context which share the same volume, in a new random material [alpha=0.5]... Non-solid groups [volume <=0... usually -1] are ignored...

Well! Well! Well! Thank you all! Now I have found the solution! I'll try all your suggestions to find the perfect one for my animation. I think the fade effect I need, is something I must prepare before and then use with those plugins.... yes! Thank you so much!

I just added a feature in Skelion plugin to add large terrain mesh. It uses NASA’s SRTM Elevation data. The bad news are that it is a pro feature and there is no good interpolation, so in some areas like Tibet you can appreciate the errors. No image terrain imported. In the image you can see maximum area of SketchUp and the mesh exported with Skelion. [image: eJ5Y_relief.jpg]

Hi pazzero: Perhaps look up something like "aluminum framed glazing system". Find a well known manufacturer in your region, and look into their publications or website for the proper terminology. A well known manufacturer in the US is Kawneer.

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great idea - works well - but it won't colour faces inside groups - is that right?

@tt_su said: What about the normal Text tool? click on empty space and it creates text that is fixed in the view. Though you have to put it on a separate layer that toggles for each scene. (There is a plugin to create a layer that is visible only to the current view.) Yeah I got this answer on the Google forums and this seems to be perfect for what I need it for, I've already been using the Add Hidden Layer plugin. @glro said: Maybe this plugin http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=38171 adds a text box on each scene This looks like a useful plugin but seems a bit complicated for my purpose at the moment. The standard Sketchup text tool works fine for me. The ideal would be a plugin that uses the Sketchup text tool but gives an option to add a solid/semi-transparent background to the text, just for clarity's sake. Thanks for the responses.

Good idea for a work around - thanks!

You will find this funtionality in many plugins... e.g. [image: ocab_extrude_line.jpg]

@arc said: Although China has ... Interesting..... How long is Sketchup distributed in China Are there any Ruby-programmers Is there a gallery, showing what Sketchup users create

Paul, To learn more, how to generate 3skeng compatible groups & components open the 3skeng client, click on the tab “tutor”. Hover over the three grey vertical lines on the right side and click on the play button. This will open a window with an overview of all tutorials. See the lowest section “Advances use” Regards, Sebastian

Absolutly no problem, there is a no random option inside the Random Components Replacement! [image: file.php?id=88818&t=1] So you can choice a collection of handles of a same color degraded following the altitude ("Color By Z" By Chris Fullmer or "Color By" (Z,slope,etc...) By Sdmitch or by difficulties as you want! This plugin is a true gem! [image: XzrM_no_random.jpg] And even a special Random Components Replacement always by Sdmitch with relative or absolute size Between Source / Target ! [image: zYUw_rempl1.jpg] PilouComponentReplacement.rb