Thanks Coen.

@gaieus said: Hi Tavi, Just a short list: navigation around (orbiting, panning, zooming) scenes with different layers on/off ability to change (obviously pre-defined) textures say on walls or roof tiles or colours of window frames Hmmm...I'm asking for more actually. Here is mine: Navigation. Rendering options. Making changes to the model. Textures and also geometries. Collaboration. People can make modification simultaneously. Ideally, it will be like online doc/spreadsheet. But I have no idea where we should start from?

I saw this software a while back in a CAD magazine and contacted the company to see if there was any planned future support for Sketchup. I was basically told there was not enough of a request for it. They did say if there was enough interest it might be something they would consider supporting. I do know people who use it and swear by it. If you like what you see please write them as I would also love a way to have far more security control of designs after they are sent out. http://www.pinionsoftware.com/Products/Overview.php Scott

Yes please, curve divider would be very helpful. If it could work like the divide line that would be great. I often need to construct very complicated curved ramps so being able to divide the curves that define the ramp equally would be nice so that the ramp climbs smoothly.

I like the idea of multiple panes that are interactive. That might even make the inference issue that people have a bit less challenging too.

Any more thoughts out there on this subject? Just curious...

As remus said, put it into perspective to your employer. It takes way much more time for you to do it manually. $20 is nothing. SketchUp Pro is cheap compared to AutoCAD.

thank you very much

fantastic! didn't know that. great!

To old, not more available, sorry

Hey Rick ! Great to get a reply from you. @rickw said: It "might be possible" in ruby, by going into each group/component and applying the texture to the faces inside. I'm afraid i have to understand the same time:" It may be not possible ". Each of us works with components to make the skp files light, save CPU, and take benefit of component's behavior. At the end, we can't apply material and textures easily .. Really hope this SketchUp improvement will interess you enough to work on it. simon

Hi Pixero,, Many Thanks for the scripts, especially the JS frame step, this isn't necessarily a request for you but I'm surprised this hasn't been discussed more. Could this not be incorporated or adapted so that it could be used with some rendering software to produce animations. Unless i missed something I'd have thought this would have jumped on many others. either way many Thanks Matt

would also be interesting if u could apply them to a blank skectup file and those steps would be created again great for recovering unsaved stuff or showing people how to do things

I didnt get it either, you might just have been unlucky bruce.

@remus said: Im guessing its a link to one of the foreign language forums, and unless youve signed up to them you cant see them. Bingo.

For those who have problems with materials and lights in Su2Pov, the following: As previously documented regarding placing the lights: First be sure that a copy of the Su2Pov folder is in the Su components folder. Use the <esc> key after selecting a Su2Pov light fixture to produce a cursor that will locate the light. The "edit Pov-Ray Finish" menu is available if you start Su by selecting a project.skp with your mouse. If you start the program before opening a file, the menu may not appear. Once the program is started in this way, the menu is available, until you shut down. The dos screen flashes from time to time when the feature can not be accessed. Make sure that you edit component or group for access to a material. Aside from always starting the program in this way is to make a shortcut of a untitled.skp, rename it SketchUp, and change the folder icon to the Su icon, place the shortcut where ever you start your program from. The drawback to this is that you can not start Su by dragging a file into the shortcut. If anyone finds exception to this, let me know and I will edit this post.

find the plugin "Automated 2d Output"... maybe in Didier's website

@remus said: ...i might just being feeling particularly lazy tonight. no doubt about you being lazy, remus what you would like to have sounds pretty much like tha maya workflow. you hit the extrude face command and get this weird handle thing, that lets you rotate, scale and move (relative to the original face, so that moving "up" means "away from the face"). makes only sense if you can push/pull several faces at once. because then you can move/rotate/scale all faces arround their indivitual centres simultanously. so if you selected all the faces of this sphere and extruded, then moved it upward, you would get this funny shape (you can currently do that with normal push/pull). but with your idea, if you now scaled them down to lets say 0.1, all the spikes would suddenly become pointed. or if you rotated them, they would all twist arround their individual centres - phantastic! [image: extrudeselectionro7.jpg] I don't know of a way to do that in the current SketchUp version just with one operation. one great way to implement this into a future SketchUp version would be to right-click on a multiple face selection with the push/pull tool active and select "extrude faces". like that you don't have to introduce another button and the interfaces keeps it's simplicity...

I have updated the code... The procedure you wanted is not possible without problems... Pages don't always keep their active layer. Here is the new procedure : Read the components and their names. Create a layer : the name is the same as the first component + "- sizes" (A layer called "Leg - sizes") Repeat for all components. Create a "Scene 1" if it does not exist already. Create a scene with the same name as the first component. (A scene called "Leg" is created) Repeat for all components.

As soon as you take another tool, you freeze the previous on the screen! So you can only save it as a 2D image or 2D.5 file (3D object are only save by Tool/save If you want now save (or export) your previous 3D object, just click it in the Tool box, and save ( or export it)!