looks and sounds good. been waiting for the new LSS Toolbar. thank you kirill.

this is why i always love kerkythea they do things with love

%(#0080FF)[Thanks Tig, I have now downloaded and tried the 'extrude tool, beautiful, simple and effective, including the toolbars I found the tutorial here that I read quietly after translating them, and learned well, thank you many. ]

You can import 3ds files with the free version.

I think he means a tool for normal mapping, bump mapping or something similar to that which, when applied to a surface, will deform and add vertexes to the mesh according to the map? or perhaps a real-time render plugin that makes it look that way even though it isn't? I'm not sure myself

@thomthom said: Right-Click Face -> Align View I was thinking in a changing the views as an option like happens in axes. But this will do it for me. Thanks

So I've checked out the Tgi3d plugin. Sort of does what i require. the difference being that i was hoping for incremental selection using the arrow keys, i know realise how i should have explained it sorry. so it would go 1 select a line 2 select a direction 3 use arrow keys to select how much of that segmented line you need the tgi3d plugin does all the line in one go up to a border or a junction, so there might be use in my way

Thanks A LOT i got, and it's what i want:)

Thank you very much! It works now!

@thierry_st_malo said: It was a kind of smoothing that I was looking for. I have two plugins on my blog that might help you. The first is EqSegCurve which allows you to specify either a number of segments or segment length. The input segment length will be adjusted as required if length is entered. The second is Spline which adds interpolated points to smooth the curve. Your model is attached with an example of each. Essai.skp

Thanks for the reply Pilou. I've not had time to experiment properly. I have all the roof tools and I still don't think I can do multiple gable roofs at once. I'll combine your trick as well when i get some time. It would be good however to just have a roof tool that can do multiple roofs in the same way as single roofs and be able to make any type of roof.

Thank you for update to version 8... I was waiting for it long time!

It seems to me that the only way a plugin could crash SU when using the native dwg import is by using observers. Can anyone think of any other way?

Nice headsup Brooke. It seems to to everything from Follow me and Keep through to various lofting, morphing and skinning options. I'm going to have to bookmark that site though...to remember what parameter results in what.

Thank you Sam, i can't believe it escaped me this long - works very well, i wish sketchup had a stronger highlight but your plugin shows clearly the selection even for faces inside groups.

Gaius, you're a Godsend! I have struggled with this for years actually, but haven't persisted because until now, I haven't really needed the facility. Thanks a million!

@unknownuser said: @glro said: ... Is this a Pro feature? I looked for it in 8 and I don't see anything like it. Also I'm on a Mac... (missing feature on Mac?) i use sketchup pro, i don't know if it exists in normal sketchup you can check using window > preferences > extensions if advanced camera tools is in the list, you can do it also

I am very interested and will try it. You are modest kind, and creative, and most helpful. But you did not save that image.... Too much flowing. We cannot capture it all, we cannot hold any of it.

I suspected as much. A general solution would spend more time inspecting than processing I suppose. Grooves on a single (non-extruded) face should be quite simple, but I imagine the code would vary from solving the edges that turn corners. Edges that support co-planar faces and turn corners is a different procedure than those that turn corners and support non-planar. Also edges that form a "C" as opposed to closed loop would be processed different as well. Could there possibly be a prompt to help the script identify the situation before the process runs? It appears there is an overwhelming desire and need for the (universal) script, across many different industries, but I certainly understand the nature of edges in sketchup and the inability to identify them as they have no "normals" like faces do. I'm however, still hopeful for a solution.