@waldessss Have you read the preceding posts in this thread which explain how to do this yourself... Also make sure you have the latest version of the SketchUcation tools installed as this has the newest licensing setup. Restart SketchUp after the installation[s] to sync everything...

why can't I upload the skp? Ok,so this upload issue is due to a recent update to our forum software. Seems to have affected everyone using this software so expect a fix next week. Until then non-standard file types like skp, obj, fbx etc are not supported until they publish a fix.

Loved this. Brad is a cool dude too. Pioneers in CAD back then

select 2 or more segmen line , use CLEANUP 3 , chose REPAIR EDGE. and BOOM!

ah thanks been driving me nuts

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@huynhminhtriet You can see at my site https://moiscript.weebly.com/ Divers / Manuels / Sauce Tomate(Su) / SimFonia / ... 6 items But i doubt that links are always available! You can try http://www.simfonia.fr/SAT/ at https://archive.org/ your best luck! I will see on my own archives but i doubt, it was a some difficult program!

pCon Planner can import any SU and export to any dwg version and vice-versa.

@lodiv76505 I stopped using Xeon, ECC ram and Quadro (whatever they call them now) based systems a long time ago. For normal CAD/3D use it's just not worth it.

@frascati I came here to find out how to form an elliptical cone, but didn't see a simple way. So I had to figure it out for myself. Yea, this is an old thread. I'm posting this here in the hope that someone else searching for the solution might find it. Draw a circle. Make a triangle with one point on the centre of the circle, one point on the edge, and the third point at the height you want the cone. Select the edge of the circle. Choose "Tools —> Follow Me" and click on the triangle's face. You should now have a circular cone. Choose "Tools —> Scale". A yellow box with green handles should appear. Click on the centre green handle on the vertical box of the selection that is in the dimension you want to make smaller to create your ellipse. Touch the modifier key that causes both sides to scale about the centre. On the Mac, that's the OPTion key. Move the cursor inward until you get the size of ellipse you want, or type a scale factor into the "Measurements" box. That's how I created the following elliptical cone, with a length-width ratio of 0.5. [image: 1775272020099-screenshot-2026-04-03-at-20.06.14.png]

@Zuzana777 You should select the group containing the guide points, not launch TopoShaper inside the group.

Hey Jessica, I've had luck with both the cad formats dwg and dxf... IFC is probably the best option for SU to Revit though.. you have to create a project and import it in my experience and Revit handles it more like a family than a revit model.

It's 99,9% related to clipping planes tolerance To troubleshoot this you can type in Ruby console Sketchup.send_action 10624 Then in the windows which will pop up, check the "Force" flag and try to play a bit with "Near" and "Far" parameters. If the "Model Far" is a really huge number compared to the actual expected size of the model (causing the "Far" clipping plane to be REALLY FAR, then you can have that kind of floating-point-precision-related z-fights happening like in your screenshot). There are a few reasons that can trigger this kind of behavior (which is the pretty much the opposite of the well known "clipping problem"). Usually there's something REALLY FAR from axes origin (maybe a tiny stray segment miles away from world 0,0,0 or possibly you accidentally created a misplaced copy of your 3d text which for whatever reason ended up at light years distance from model space). In that case you can try to select whatever should actually be in your "intended" model (maybe temporarily group & lock it for added safety), then invert the selection and erase whatever else is in the model (this will clean up accidentally misplaced geometry that you can't see because it ended up into some different solar system) and everything should be fine. Another possible reason is that some of the objects in the model is actually in the right place, but its internal coordinate system has the origin miles away from model origin. In that case you can troubleshoot that looking at object bounding boxes or if you want to fix that super-fast, just install the "Axes Tool" plugin from Thomthom and recursively select components and sub-components and run the tool in order to place the object's axes in the center of the bounding box. Being that you apparently have just a few objects, you could just try to explode and regroup them one by one and that could fix the problem. Another reason which comes into my mind that can trigger this kind of glitches, is when you have some "giant" component and you scaled it insanely small compared to the original size.. in that case you can try to "scale definition" (or, again, just explode and regroup it) and that should fix the problem in such specific case. If you created your 3d text insanely big and you scaled it a lot, that could be the culprit. If none of this fixes works, maybe you can share the model and I could try to see what's goin'on exactly.

That is an embarrassing DUH on my part. I don't know what the heck I was thinking. It is there clear as day. I am embarrassed beyond belief

Did you open the Ruby Console while performing steps? Error msgs ?

I also get the "cannot hide layer that is a part of the active path" error when trying to Generate Quadmesh from terrain. This error occurs even when selecting the contours that are grouped. What fixed it for me: move the group of contours to the root context. This error seems to come up if you are working within nested groups. TopoShaper seems to only work in the master context. Ruby Error - CLEANSING - 24-Feb-26 10:33:43 - SU2025.0 - LibFredo6 - v15.8e.txt

Thanks for this post and resolution, I'm coincidentally having this exact issue on the same tutorial! Good practice for sure. -R

Happens to me all the time...I just thought it was a standard thing like when you draw a line to cut geometry and it creates a new white face over your existing material face.