SketchUp is somewhat an odd out out when it comes to backfaces. Most other 3d modelling apps doesn't even display backfaces - if you look from the backside it'd be transparent. Unless you explicitly told it to display backfaces. Id' not say it's good modelling technique to keep backface with no material, but it is good practice to keep control over frontface and backface orientation and keep them consistent - making sure the frontfaces are the ones visible. When you have consistent and regular normals you have a more predictable mesh which makes modelling tools act more reliably. There aren't that many functions in native SU where this matters, but there is some. And plugins and extensions - in particular render engines cares much more about this. Some doesn't use SU's backface materials, some do. VfSU for instance do that by default. But you will find odd things happen when you try to displace a mesh if you have faces flipped this way and that - as the displacement height is dictated by the face normal.

@razer said: Hey guys Im trying to find a plugin that will let me Snap my components together by edge face or vertex, Using shift+alt is a pain snapping to wrong faces and stuff. Thanks Don't forget the move tools capability to move to absolute or relative coordinates based on key board inputs. I use it most often for moving to origin by inputting [0,0,0]

Jim, Thanks again:-)

thank you very much I understood and did it but with the file don't have "locale"?

Yes, that is what I'm using now even without a spreadsheet - generate report is doing this. But i have a lot of attributes and they differ - so it is hard to find what is needed.

Since you're drawing cabinets, are you planning to apply wood grain materials to these groups and components? Is the material orientation going to be important to you?

@honoluludesktop said: A components axis is typically the corner of its bounding box. It can be relocated to the center of the component. I have seen a plugin that moves the axis of components herein. Did you try a search of the forum? Aha, maybe this is it. I couldn't get that plugin working reliably - so I made my own version: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=30508

instant roof... http://www.valiarchitects.com/sketchup_scripts/instant-roof

OK, I added this on the request forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=4452d26f07caaf18&hl=en Best, Jason.

It's called the instructor -- you can launch it from the windows menu. It doesn't have all the keyboard shortcuts but most of them. Best, Jason.

On OSX in GS 8 Pro, the Ruby console is indicating that the plugin is appending "\" instead of "/" when trying to locate the HTML file. @unknownuser said: "/Users/user/Downloads/gallery_reference_1.07/sample\Art_museum1.htm file does not exist"

Not yet, but soon...

yeah WorkPlane seem to be good in this case, it helps me make a fast plane. you're so enthusiasm, thanks all

TT: used your scripts and all now seems to be okay. It was nothing obvious but seems to have been a script left over from my 3D mouse: it kept looking for a central rotation point. It kept repeating it over and over in the ruby console. Many thanks - sure hope that problem is really gone. Been staying steady at 451/1000.

Thank you a lot, Chris. Worked perfectly. All my cameras (actually, scenes as you pointed out) are perspective ones, so I received no warnings. No worries about not being able to undo... I save a new file version several times a day.

that's the one - thanks

Version 3 will have a new UI with better explanations of the different options. (No estimate on when it's done though.)

Thanks

Good info. Will go into my ragged and tattered mental notebook