Make an image file from the CAD file you get and import that as an image. You can either scale that and trace over it or do as I often do and put the image in the background so I can look at it for reference while I'm drawing. Here's an example of a table I drew a few years ago. The drawing wasn't anywhere close to being usable for tracing but by standing it up in the background it gave me an easy references for drawing the table anyway. [image: 4572762809_774d328b0c.jpg]

Something like the select tool of Ruby Console+ ?

Sorry for the late feedback. Problem seems solved. It seems it was exactly the problem with the server. Thank you and best regards, JQL

I will correct the missing 'requires' in this script and repost it in the PluginStore as v1.1a Watch for an update... v1.1a is now there http://sketchucation.com/resources/pluginstore?pln=SectionProp

Thanks to Jim of course. That is one of my most used plugin.

Hi, not familiar with the plugin you mentioned but you might want to check [Re]Scene which also is capable of renaming all your scenes. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=472206#p472206 Cheers!

I'll take a look at those. I'm a furniture designer and I'm so busy I seldom have time to look at plugins although I know they would make my life easier. Thanks again Dave!!!

@gullfo said: if you do this often, maybe create a generic set of materials with the names and colors desired (i do this for lumber, metal etc frame materials as well as "sheet" so they can be used in cutlist for example). one caveat is the color of the material cannot be the same as another otherwise they collide - e.g. taking Color007 and renaming it "Charcoal" and saving it as such, then loading the model, you'll see Color007 overriding the renamed one. so you need to tweak the color slightly. hopefully in a future version of SU they'll fix this behavior so the name of the material guides it's inclusion. In my case there are just so many variations of materials and textures that a generic set wouldn't be feasible. It's a good idea though. Thanks.

No. It will use Internet Explorer under Windows regardless of what browser you have installed. This is because SketchUp uses the OS's HTML render engine.

@larryg said: any easy way to covert rounded shapes back to square? no basically, it requires a little forethought.. make a copy of the geometry prior to rounding it so it can be replaced if need be.

Strange. I've been using the Wudworx tools since before its release and I've never seen that error. I wonder what caused it.

No special problem Maybe because you are on an office work with some limitation ? This plugin Ferrari make the same!

Here is one of the files. Most features work similar Keith LooseTenonJoint.swf

I found this old thread and thought I would add an update. I've been working with the author of NGPlant to implement collada export. The latest version is pretty neat and creates trees with instanced leaves as SU components. NGP is a cool application. It's an open source cross platform WYSIWYG tree generator. More info here:- http://ngplant.sourceforge.net I created some video tutorials on Vimeo for building trees with NGP. The tricky thing is to get realistic trees with a manageable poly count.

Will be very cool with the Radial Move by CPlassais ! And with the "tricky one liner" for the ruby console by TIG (which makes each faces selected as a component)! m=Sketchup.active_model;n=m.active_entities;m.selection.to_a.each{|e|(g=n.add_group(e);g.to_component.definition.name="Face#1")if e.class==Sketchup;;Face}

Being sold away from Google made SketchUp more free. And in that spirit it sits now in %(#000000)[SketchUp/SketchUp 2013].

http://sketchucation.com/resources/pluginstore?pln=TIG_Honeycomber

DaveR Yes, I'm sure that there have been lots of problems in the past with people not being able to get their head round the 'plugin' file structures required by some plugins, and so a more automated system is a welcome improvement. However, "easier for users to find and install tools" - I would suggest that finding the tools is now NOT easier. I spent hours looking for 'solar north' and still ended up going out of SU and using the google search engine to find it - surely that says something. The system has become fragmented. I suppose I have been using 'solar north' for so long under previous versions (before SU2013), that I had not realised that it was a plugin (or is it an 'extension'?). David

THX TIG