'Scuse me, not thinking write this AM, I shall just scale the bleeping thing up and remove the problem at base point. Yes obvious I know, I just had to work it out with a pencil and a very long spoon...........

I couldn't get it to work properly, I can't control position of the books on the shelf and their orientation (this is probably because I have a model that doesn't follow standard axes orientation)

Added Info: I just renamed both folder and rb to get them out of the picture and re-installed TT_Lib 2.9.1 from Store again - same result. And - yes - I exit SU8 and then restart.

@cwmunro said: Okay - It's official, I'm a moron today! I had my numbers lock key off. Geez! I can assure you that you're not the only one. (me, but don't tell anyone) Same thing when trying to orbit in whichever "non-orbitable" program.... until you relize........

validate that this is a real DWG (and not another format with a renamed file extension) by opening in the free Teigha Viewer f. Mac OS X v10.6+. hth, Norbert

Excellent - did Google for such! ta!

Barry, that worked just fine for me on my MacBook Pro. Thanks.

That script is pretty dated - newer versions of SketchUp allow you to get the volume of a selected solid group/component directly in Entity Info. This manual example is really what you are seeking to be automated ? [image: vGiz_Capture.PNG]

@tig said: But didn't he suggest that the latest driver might be the culprit. if I understood Ulis @atelierpaar said: I updated several times - but it doesn`t make any difference. correct, the error message was already shown before the driver was updated. If not he may of course try rolling back to a working version. Norbert

SketchUp > Preferences > OpenGL Tinker with the various permutations and see it that improves it

WOWOWOW! it was just what I needed. thanks!!!

If you repair one corner by hand, you will see why the plugin has problems to make it... [image: ft8U_corner2radii.jpg]

http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/117002

I don't know of a checklist per se but it shouldn't be too difficult. where are your materials and components located for SU8? Are they under SketchUp's Materials and Components folders? If so, you can either link to those local collections where they reside or copy them to SU2013's folders or even put them somewhere else. Then just use Open or Create a Local Collection from the Details menus followed by Add to Favorites from the same menus. The only content you should avoid copying directly would be plugins. Download fresh copies of the plugins you use. Regarding your component issue, as I wrote before, the materials used on the component are part of the component's SKP file and do not depend upon the original texture file's library location. If it did, it would be similar to Microsoft Word which depends upon the viewer having the same font as the author or the document for proper viewing. SketchUp files are more like PDFs in that fonts are embedded in PDF files.

With the sort of structure you want to build you are better off spending a few minutes making suitable components. Here I have made a 3 component joint with rotation points on a separate layer. Using this joint you can very quickly throw together a very complex structure. You start with one joint component and then make unique as needed to get the various arrays you want. You can change angle and rotation and redraw the faces of the components to create whatever shape pipe you want. This is simply a way of having components correctly aligned to each other. As with anything of this type, if you consider how it would be constructed in real life you usually find that using a selection of parts is the best way to go. Also by using this type of joint, you give yourself a framework from which to use curviloft or Extrusion tools etc to make nice connector fittings. Of course the other very simple way of doing it would be to construct it from a bunch of lines then use Pipe along path, or profile builder or some such to finish the construction for you. [image: zLSO_Joint.JPG] [image: Y5m9_Handles.JPG] Joint.skp

TIG and mitcorb thanks for your reply. Well I didn't find this to be a major problem. However, I am trying to track down why my Ver 2013 seems to crash more that others, so I have been on a hunt to find the reason. Note that was happening on my old XP laptop. Ver 2013 on my laptop, with XP was almost unusable. However, last week the company gave me a new computer with Win 7 pro. So I just loaded Ver 2013 and re-installed all plugins which I wish to use. So far so good. Thanks TIG for the info about the plugin "simple_loft_loader". And the above line leads me to another question, just how many plugins are duplicated, such that there are excellent, good and mediocre plugins that have the same objectives? Ok, going to stop worrying about the extra save. Got work. Again thanks for the input. Ken

Thank you numerbis By turning on the hidden geometry I can get to the texture option and it is not projected. Unless I turn on hidden geometry to get to a single face I do not have the option for right-click texture thank you

Thanks to all, I reloaded the advanced camera tools msi, but still couldn't get the old view, having had a look at the new one (attachment) it seems to be fine [image: 1SdM_cameral.JPG]

Thanks for taking the time to do this. I pretty much had the first section sorted but have never used FFD. That seems like a huge help for the last contour Cheers again!

@cotty said: @ely862me said: I believe Tig has just discovered a way to reduce the time of the light-year travel ! I'm looking forward to the day he implements this technique in his plugins to increase their speed I believe that are not his plugins that are not up to speed, but the universe we use them in .