@Grice There is something weird in the style of the model that makes Sketchup freeze when views are changed by program. This is true for the native animation, whether Play or Export Video. This even happens when you change scenes manually. I notice the same behavior when building a fly-through animation based on your scenes with Animator. Sketchup seems to block and freeze at certain transitions, which makes the generation quite long (I cannot attach it here as it is too big, but I can post it on YouTube if you are OK). Anyway, the model is useful to me for Animator, as it shows that Animation should be edited with simple styles, using complex styles only for generation of videos. EDIT: I investigated deeper this problem of freeze: for some frames, and inexplicably, write_image can take more than 2 minutes this seems to be related to the watermark This has nothing to do with the face-me components Fredo

Thanks for your reply. I finally use classification ( an ifc one ) for components and put all my parameters on it ( ref, name, details ... ). That allow me to avoid the "instance" use and exploit my component definition on layout drawings notes ( on that case it is for electrical draw with a lot of repeated references/details ). regards

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Thanks! It seems this does what I wanted. I will try it. Thanks again for your precious time and help. Best regards

LinkedIn update listing on "Ping Pink" 3 April 2016 reads: CAAD Lecturer RMUTT (Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi - Thailand) December 2014 – February 2016 (1 year 3 months)Faculty of Architecture 3D & Graphic Design I have sent a LinkedIn email to Jeerawan asking if their is any news on the "plugin" she may be able to share with the SketchUcation community.

Maybe the carve function of Fredos VisuHole can be a workaround? [image: MAH8_visuholecarve.gif]

Thank Dan, I prefer English in most cases, but honored to be on the halls of fame!

Some are here! http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/s4u-slice

yes TIG actually i draw a rectangle and group this. than i go in the group and ad center point (smustard). after this i must explode the gorup and must delete the rectangle. a second way is to draw short help lines in the group to see the point. the point alone in the group isnt pickable. if i cant name this point or make visible in the outliner i must go the way via Max this was my fear. thank you TIG [image: iNtI_2016-03-31_22h38_47.jpg]

@juju big thanks. is difficult to contact ikarus contact mail on the webpage is an other than ikarus.hu and the email info@ikarus.hu will not work. ok i try my best with Gaieus best regards dean

@sketcpeppe75 said: @tig said: @sketcpeppe75 said: how can i insert other sections... 16x20cm, 20x24cm 20x28cm... these in program are small for european structure. thank you very much Look in the subfolder, in the file 'housebuilder_sections.txt' there are the lists of section-types and sizes etc... Make a copy of that file, edit the file to show the sections you want in the single-line as shown for each of the four types; use the same 'syntax' as the original sizes in 'mm' [aaxbb|aaaxbbb|... etc], test it and if it works with your new custom sizes you've cooking-with-gas; if NOT then you've always got the original version to revert to...[attachment=0:e0cz8i6k]<!-- ia0 -->Capture.PNG<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:e0cz8i6k] thank you very much TIG ) I'm using the TIG version of metric 1.2 plugin. I edited the housebuilder_sections.txt file as described but the new values I entered seem to be ignored by the script. They don't show up on the selection menu. Thanks, Karl

WOW super thank you - that will help!!!

Would like to help but it's a subscription plugin and I do not have it, is there not a place to ask the author on his site?

@unknownuser said: the right clic menu to save the current position of the selection, so you don't need to open the folding menu above the screen Time saver!

Try component on face by CPlassais

Yes, you were right, thanks guys, Dale Martens the plugin author has taken care of my query. I can go back to sleep now!

Strange. It works well for me in SU 2016

You mean like this? http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=397%26amp;t=63826%26amp;start=300#p588850 I definetelly feel that is needed too! Click the gif: [image: MuLG03A.gif]

Thank you guys, I will look into it. Yeah, I guess I got a bit lazy to uninstall those plugins that I don't really use regularly.

Thanks for the thorough response, TIG, much appreciated and really interesting.