As lucifer says, select the column->ctrl+x->go in to the component you want the column in->edit->paste in place

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Yes Anssi, you are 100 percent correct. With best regards PRSS

Autodesk also has the free TrueView application that besides having almost all the viewing and printing functionality of full AutoCad can convert newer DWG files to older (even very old) formats. There is a link (the "DWG From Autodesk" button)to the download on the main Autodesk webpage. Anssi

Seems all works fine! See same thread above

Thanks for the tips, although it seems the Style window does not use standard Windows dialog boxes (which I suppose it's why it's one I can't do alt+space m on, which works for the others). Damn!

The plug in worked really well but I saved a backup, this one may end up in the do not render pile. Has anyone had this trouble with photomatch before, could be my user error. [image: mxlb_ouch.JPG]

The Idea to find a solution for the construction of roads on an terrain within Sketchup does not let me off. I saw in the Forum some nice terrains created by Vue or any other 3D software. But i did not yet see any with inserted models and the accompanying Streets or Roads on a sloped and curved terrain in Sketchup excepted in other 3D software (see example pictures below). Also most of architectural works in Sketchup are done on flat 2D grounds. Ore am i wrong. When i found this "Anadelta Tessera" program, the idea came to me to generate a points cloud file from a Sketchup terrain for studying the road construction in that program. Because till now i couldn't find a Points Cloud ASCII sample file for download. It is perhaps a creazy idea. I hope I do not bore you with my ideas. May be the only possible solution is this Program:http://www.compuneering.com/simuterra.php Karlheinz [image: Em48_roads1.jpg] [image: GEA7_roads2.jpg] [image: ZuCO_roads3.jpg]

With only a couple of components to reload, the plugin would probably not make too much difference but I can easily imagine that it is a huge time saver when you have dozens of such components and you can even easily get lost in what is updated and what not.

Dear TIG, A slightly lower poly model using a repeating component, just to prove that I do listen to your good advice. Actually, my last attempt confused file size with number of entities. I now open Model Info when drawing a component to see how I'm doing. Kind regards, Bob corrugation_lowerpoly2.skp

@chrisglasier said: @tig said: You need to make two similar styles - one with and one without the sections ticked - make sure the correct styles are applied to the required scenes... Should then work as expected... Thanks for speedy reply. I didn't know section planes had anything to do with styles; I will investigate that. Any further illumination would be good as I can be quite thick sometimes! Thanks Chris OK found it!

Ok Thank you modelhead.

@charly2008 said: The Problem is that SRMTs and other map materials with higher resolution one can get only from the german land survey offices against much money, so i saw an alternative only in the GE-Terrains. But The GE Terrains are sufficient for my purposes. The sme here, unfortunately. I'm lucky however because there's a geologist in town whose hobby is to research the ancient ground level in Roman times. This, combined with our data from excavations (we do the survey work ourselves) is sufficient for my reconstructions. @charly2008 said: But your note (you can check this under > Window > Model info > Location). I tried this immediately by importing several terrains but in the model info there is only the location which was predefined by me. Have I made any mistake? See picture below. With SU 7, the pre-set location is NOT overwritten by the newer snapshots. The reason behind this is to be able to take several snapshots within a relatively small area (with bigger areas the spherical/orthogonal differences will make you unable to do it properly). So your solution would be to open the Location tab > uncheck the pre-set location > take the snapshot and now that will re-geolocate your model to this new location. Be always very careful with this as if you forget to uncheck the original location it will screw up your model. Best is to use a non-geolocated template.

@gaieus said: Cool, I wasn't sure if I got the problem right. A couple of further tips/info: When you just hide the edges, they will still separate the facets i.e. you can select them individually and the whole surface will look faceted. With softening the edges, you'll end up with a curved surface which is still made up of these facets but SU displays it as one,smooth area. The only place it is obvious that it's also made up of these facets is the edges/sides of these surfaces (say the top and bottom of a cylinder). You can manually hide edges by using the Shift + Eraser tool and soften them with the Ctrl+Eraser tool. Smooth surfaces cannot be PushPulled, the texture cannot be positioned on them and some other limitations also apply. You can however reveal the dividing edges (and perform some of these operations) by going to View > Hidden geometry (it will also reveal other hidden things, not only softened edges). Etc. etc... Now that you mention it, I do remember the trick with the eraser. I just had not thought of the smoothing as a solution. Thanks again for the tip.

Hi Karl, My toolbars allows you to make custom toolbars using many of SketchUp's built-in buttons (and a few custom ones.) It isn't a plugin organizer, but can help you get the most from the available toolbar area by eliminating buttons you rarely use. It can also help the with the crazy toolbar positioning bug in sketchup by having a few, larger toolbars it is easier to set them back to normal.

Thanks for all your comments, they help a lot. First, as expected, I can see some problems with my workflow. I was taking a floor plan into SU, then an elevation, and coordinating them. There were minor discrepancies— for instance, a wall 1/64" out of line. The snaps & inferences happened with different lines. Second, while I'm currently working on a building, but I can see places in the furniture where small triangles did not close. Third, the scale thing. I wasn't getting it before, but the bit about only closing in so far has been keeping me from getting close enough to see the problems. On to the next: What's going on when Push/Pull will select a face, but will not move it? Or will only move it a certain amount, then refuse to budge? Or not move it until the mouse moves in just the right direction, after scribbling around trying to find any way that works? Best, JIm PS: I'm in the States. What are millimeters?

What you "marked" as an error is in fact not an error. Projected texture should behave like that (that's why it's called "projected" as if it were coming from a computer projector; it will be "distorted" on sides near parallel to the "projector rays"). Basically "wrapping" is what you need instead (Remus solution is something like that) although it is rather hard to do on such heavily triangulated surfaces you have (see especially images 3 and 4).

You could also try building a dynamic component. Take a look at the Sketchup 7 example of a picket fence component. As you scale the component the pickets are automatically copied and spaced. To do this with bricks, you would need to build two sub-components: one row with a full brick in the corner and one row with a half brick, so the two rows would be offset. This component could also be used to lay down flooring or drywall.

thank you much appreciated

it goes to 10 percent and the program becomes nonresponsive, i last left it for about half an hour... i tried it with just one section of the house and it worked fine after about 30 seconds. all i needed was that one part anyway..