Todd's has been around longer but even Todd says, it's not as easy to use as it could be.

Thanks Ocean & Casca, yes I have looked at Plant factory and will check Speedtree, actually I'm not too concern about something a bit pricey as long as is good, widely used and not too complicate to learn. Does proxy in sketchup solve the problem even if I use many different plants of 15mb + each? to be honest I have not used the new vray 2.0 yet. Will be nice to make like a poll to see what people here are using to deal with photorealistic vegetation.

BugSplat reports do go directly to Trimble, but we don't personally contact each user who crashes - the reports are mostly used to pull out the "most common" issues. However, if you put a name or email address on the report, and then post in the SketchUp forum, I (or someone else) can look up the crash report and may be able to offer insight. Thanks, Marc

Shape bender works fine. Good luck though. Send pictures if you have time.Very cool work.

I understand. Take a look at style builder then...

have a look at [anchor=texture_resizer goto=http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=360679#p360679:3q4d018w]texture_resizer[/anchor:3q4d018w], I haven't used it lately, but it's very good... john

@panixia said: @mistro11 said: I go back and forth between floors a lot so hiding and unhiding layers every minute would drive me crazy. use scenes. i use them a lot for this sort of stuff.. +1

Never... Just helping a friend who couldn't find them. i figured they'd be in the opposite place they should be.

@box said: Has that fixed your Guide problem too? The guide problem was before I inserted any cameras. Come to think of it, that issue has not bothered me in a while. I think since I packed all the levels of the building back into the shell, that problem is solved due to everything being more localized. But I wouldn't think 800 feet should be too far. I will confirm that theory and report in the guide visibility thread.

In this particular case why not see the Videos ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XClkab8aOes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsKZpmrJkxs

Or Dave's?

Do you know there's absolutely nothing wrong with the file? Can you split out a chunk of it and import that?

The file-set that you have got seems to be a set of XML files, which can be opened / read by some specific program. BUT SketchUp cannot do that, directly. If you find the correct program to do it, then you can hopefully view / process the files. Perhaps that program can then export the data into another file format, which of course needs to be suitable for SketchUp to import - e.g. DAE, DXF etc. You got the original ZIP file from somewhere. It must have said what format it was in and what application you need to open it ?? You need to do some detective work...

@schnipschnap said: Hi I tried about everyting.. still saving takes a long time. My drawing consists almost enterely of circles and arcs. (I build Dome Tents and Houses) I always used 1000 sides for circles to get a detailed drawing. Now i know thats too much... I used Autocad before, where circles are calculated somehow different, so i nerver thought this could be a problem. Now i know it is How many sides do you use? Does anyone know how to change number of sides in a entire model? Or do i just have to redraw the whole thing? Thanks for the help! Have you tried Window->Model Info->Statistics to see how many Edges and Faces your model contains? Edges don't take much data, so you could have an enormous number without getting all that large a file. The slow save might be SketchUp making sure the model is valid while saving it. Unlike Autocad, SketchUp does not have an abstract representation of a circle or arc. It represents one as a collection of Edge segments with some metadata tagging them as belonging them to a circle or arc. So, when you choose to use 1000 sides, you are affecting not just the visual presentation but also the size of the model, because each segment is saved individually. For what it is worth, unless you enlarge your view enormously you are very unlikely to see any difference in the view from increasing the sides to more than a couple hundred. There is no way to manually change the number of sides in every circle and arc at one go. Someone could probably write a Ruby to do it, but I don't know of an existing one.

same here, but also for the .skp files. Even with a new created 2015 pro version models i am forced to open in 2014 so i get an error. If i can not solve the issue (since i do not want to run 2015 version and then open the file via browsing or from the list below every annoying time) i guess i am going to uninstall the 2014 version. Any help will be very appreciated.

good work!

Thrupaint is your fiend! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2QjLlUQVrY

@dave r said: Get the Select tool and double click on it somewhere. It'll open for editing. It might be that it's made up of sub-components. If you see more blue bounding boxes, double click again to open for editing. Do that until you get to the edges and faces. Thanks, this helped me.

Yes, exactly like that.