Check out Joint Push Pull: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=6708

I have missed it So you can erase my thread!

And the winner is, the Gilles technique, for ease of execution. I will try the other techniques also. Thanks guys! I got to thinking in the real world, you wouldn't any one to fall of the steps, so I sandwiched the staircase between two walls, with an entrance at the bottom. [image: 6v8H_silobserv.jpg]

Thanks Didier! (Sorry for the delayed response...spring break )

http://rapidshare.com/files/28652296/SketchUp_6.zip hope this helps

If you have Notepad++ set the default encoding to 'UTF8 without BOM'. You can copy/paste non-keyboard characters. You can also use UFT8 coding - there are many www sites giving these. e,g, http://www.utf8-chartable.de/ You need a look up table... For example using "\xB2" >>> ² in the output [but you could simply use ² instead]

Thanks Sam That works a treat. Your help is much appreciated. Ross

Selection tools does it to. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=14975#p114380 select groups right click context menu/group copies/convert into component If groups were copies you will have one component + n instances. edit: if groups are copies, right click context menu/group copies/select all right click context menu/group copies/convert into component.

FAK ?

I don't know, but if you make your subject more informative you'll be letting folks know what you're looking for without them having to click through just to see what you are talking about.

You only get a 'Plugins menu' [which I suspect you are referring to obliquely] IF there are scripts [.rb or .rbs files] in the Plugins folder that are auto-loaded when Sketchup starts up... and which make menu items in that very menu. So to have 'plugin' tools available to you, then you must first install them in the Plugins folder and restart Sketchup, and these files code must also add items to the Plugins menu [note that some scripts add tools into other menus, or context-menu, or even just make a toolbar - so having scripts in that folder is not a guarantee that the equivalent menu will appear...] What Plugins do you have? Where are they? What do their instructions say above how to activate them etc etc...

Here's an overview of methods of installing plugins: http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/01/installing-plugins-for-google-sketchup/

@whaat said: @jorge2011 said: excellent idea. when will be available? Free will? I am thinking of releasing a free standalone version but also including it in an upcoming commercial plugin (more as a convenient bonus tool kind of like the knife tool in Artisan which resembles the free Zorro2) Good to see you in action again Dale!

Look at this http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=392834#p392834 You can use it in conjunction with something like my TextureTools - which accurately positions textures individually... [See the Plugins Index...]

Maybe you could try this one.

Your copy is working fine directly placed in my Plugins folder... so, Thanks!

Thank you for the fast response I will try this later using su2ase as a framework I'll post my progress later Max

Any further development on this?

@unknownuser said: fwiw, i've been going on about this for years now.. i've pretty much given up on them ever fixing it so by default when i launch sketchup, i always give it a cmmdW -> cmmdN (close window -> open new window).. (and that only works if you don't have one of those pesky plugins which alters a new window prior to you doing anything to it.. if you have one of those plugins, you'll have to close the window -> answer the 'would you like to save?' prompt -> open new window) i see, pretty much what i've noticed after testing a few things. frustrating, for sure. i think i got rid of the plugin i had hanging around that would ask the 'save' question. that was annoying as well.