Perzactly! This is what I wanna do. I chose to turn off the Foreground Photo (within the Styles settings), and that did the trick. Thanks, Dave.

I wouldn't create gcode with SketchUp directly. You should export a solid object as STL and use an external slicer program (Cura, Slic3r, Makerbot, KISSlicer, ...).

So FEM is exactly method that I had shown above or in this one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzAjrHOsZuQ

@patrickbateman said: I consider myself a good sketchup modeler but nowhere near as advanced as some of the stuff on here. I just started a position where I do a lot of sketchup work for a [anchor= goto=http://www.edgedesign.ae/2016/02/28/dubai-architecture-firms/:fhp7w6k7]Dubai architecture firms[/anchor:fhp7w6k7](I was mainly hired because of my sketchup skills and experience). I am trying to get as advanced and efficient as possible and am looking for new techniques, must have plugins, extensions, and general things to make my life easier and models looking better. There are so many ruby plugins I don't know which ones I should install. Right now I am using SU Podium extensively for rendering. I have been playing around with Land F/X and haven't really explored it yet but I have been using it for CAD cleanup before importing to sketchup and it works well. When working with topo I have had to go back and forth between CAD and sketchup a lot since editing topo in sketchup is difficult so I find myself importing topo, running sandbox tools, then going back to cad to fix things and doing it again a few times to get things right. I'm sure there's a better way. I am really impress after reading your work and experience your write in your post that you do lot of sketch up work for a landscape Architecture. I am pretty sure after you visit on the above given blog you can suggest us some different thing and different work that we can do in our Blog.

That's it! Curviloft. Thankyou sdmitch. Excellent plugin

@vigy said: Well, you have to agree that the text and dimension preference are very poor in SU, hope they will improve. I wouldn't hold my breath on that. Historically, since the introduction of LayOut, the improvements in dimensioning as well as text and labels have all come in LayOut. SketchUp's Dimension and Text tools haven't changed at least as long as I've been using SketchUp starting with V3.

Thank you guys

@tig said: Why not make two Styles - one with Color by Layer set and the other with Color by Material set. Set up two Scene Tabs, each using one of those Styles. You can remove all other changeable properties from each of those Tabs, so that only the 'Coloring' changes with the Tab. Then simply toggling between the two Tabs changes the 'Coloring'. thank you~ ! this ways is more than speed my work

I suppose I'd better not edit his code.

For anyone that is having this issue: Trimble team has responded to me that it is a known problem and it is on the list of things to be addressed. A work around I have found is as follows. After opening the file you intend to work on, open a second new session. Do not save the new session. If you want to work with a dynamic component, insert it into the unsaved file, make your adjustments, and copy/paste it into the model you are actually working on. Just leave that unsaved file open and do not save it and you can continue to use it for dc adjustments. Pain in the behind, but at least I can keep functioning while waiting for a real solution. I use dynamic windows in all my home models so I can't live without this feature. paul.

TT architectural tools- Crop boundary. S4u Slice is nice too

Glad it helped. As long as you keep edges and faces on Layer 0 throughout your models, you'll find things much easier. Cheers, d

Thanks for sharing this juju... can't wait to get my hands on this beauty of a plugin

@bebelamoraes said: I can't find much logic in it... the 64-Bit OpenGL stack of the used video driver is faulty, therefore using the 32-Bit version of SU and its 32-Bit OpenGL API calls helps. If ever buying something new, go for a dedicated nVidia GeForce GTX series.

Jaguarrh, As an alternative to Procad who seem to just provide a basics course, sketchuptraining.com.au do a couple of more advanced courses; one that covers Visualisation/rendering with Sketchup and a course for producing technical drawings with Sketchup and Layout. The courses focus mostly on architecture and building design but they do cover terrain modelling as well as the use of advanced plugins to extend Sketchup's capabilities. They seem to specialise only in Sketchup unlike the others you mention and if you look at the gallery on the website or follow the link to the Facebook page, they have some very impressive examples. It says that courses are held once or twice a year in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Worth a look... Grice

If it is already colored you can actually edit the color in the materials list and change it. Yes I know, the color gray is now yellow or something like that. [image: wHus_changecolor.png]

Hello: Look in Sketchucation Plugin Store for "Flattery" by Pumpkin Pirate. The description seems to fit your need. Otherwise, a related possibility in the 3d printing Category search list. The 3d printing Category list is fairly short, but one of the titles seems to fit your request.

Don't know why this has happened but a reinstall of SU might have fixed it. We'll see...

What Box said. And if you need solid components you can make them from the array.

If you have to make a lot of revisions, it's generally best to keep the line styles as simple as you can.