thank you

Extrude Edges tools by TIG (despite the name it's useful for curvated surface! ) Ferrari idem Soap Skin Bubble idem What learn ? All! They are complementary! PS If you look the avatar of Fredo6 you will see a Sketchup boat ! So take Fredo's plugins first! [image: file.php?avatar=133_1370445374.png]

@Miguel There is Service Pack 3 to suit v2015 64 bit, http://www.vray.com/vray-for-sketchup/buy-vray-for-sketchup.html Have you these latest files installed ? Have you contacted the Vray support guys ?

Start off by clearing everything, by using: model = Sketchup.active_model model.entities.clear! then purge the model using: model.definitions.purge_unused model.active_layer=model.layers[0]; model.layers.purge_unused model.materials.current=nil; model.materials.purge_unused model.styles.purge_unused ds = model.attribute_dictionaries; ds.to_a.each{|d| ds.delete(d) } if ds Now you have an empty SKP. Try doing the import AND export within a model.start_operation(...) block, BUT do not ' commit' it, rather you need to ' abort' it after each one. That way the import happens, the export happens but the changes to the model are undone by each ' abort'. The exported file is NOT undone by the ' abort' !

Read the WebDialog pages in the API... There are also many freely available scripts in the PluginStore etc, using WebDialogs, where you can read the RB, HTML and JS etc, to see the 'callback' code format...

The building of which I try to make a reports [image: DrmD_building.png]

Yep, that was the Point!! Many thanks!

Digging up an old thread... The reason for this is that, like with forced 2-point perspective in sketchup, when you zoom in on a matched photo it is not a true 3d zoom like in a normal view. In order to keep the perspective the same, sketchup is effectively cropping the view. If it let you zoom in normally, it would change the perspective (the zoom tool effectively moves the camera towards whatever you're zooming in to). The way round this would be to 'zoom in' in the sense that a zoom lens on a camera zooms in - by changing the field of view. This can be done by typing in a focal length in mm into the input box when you're in the zoom tool, or by holding down shift and then zooming. Give it a try, let me know if it helps!

@juju said: thinks to myself maybe Box should apply for moderator status, or else try to phrase things in a friendlier way Box is a Top SketchUcator.. he just doesn't wear his badge adding- this actually could be a bug.. not likely but there's still the possibility. he's saying autosave is set to 10minutes but there's no file?

@box said: Fire wall, anti virus, windows updates, adblocker, popup blocker, internet security options, adaware virus,caches, cookies, so many possible reasons......mostly related to PC maintenance/house keeping. Difficult in any language. Have you any advice about the most common problems?

Thank you I've managed to open the file by renaming it, and I've purged it and checked for any problems (there weren't any) its a 27mb file and its still abit slow and whenever i put shadows on it crashes, is there any way around this? all repeated objects are already components.

Walter Use SU version 2014 and get SU2Atl plugin from ATL. This will NOT work in SU 2015) (found in "older" section of ATL downloads)

1: ToggleUnits http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=81391#p81391 you only need to assign a shortcut to the the precision +- pair...

Thanks DaveR all good now Andrew

Awesome -- Zorro (now that I understand how to use it!) did the trick. TIG's method is a bit more elegant - but a lot more work!

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/vray-material-to-standard-material I use for SU this method to convert model from evermotion http://blog.turbosquid.com/2013/08/29/converting-max-vray-materials-to-standard-materials/

@pbacot said: JQL. In use in real projects though, components are complex window and doors models etc. I've done this sort of thing many times, trying to find faces to apply different function too. Intersect with objects that lie right on a face (not intersecting planes) is pretty poor, and complicated by the elements in components, requiring a lot of work, sometimes with finicky face division. A clean opening is wanted. One can always work on a copy of the face. Leaving the original. Not sure even with a plugin there'd be an answer, but believe me, it's not easy. I've done all sorts of intersecting, and it's often faster to draw, cut, and hack your way to a useable face. I spend a lot of time on Board and Batten wall designs. Best is being able to use a good texture, or having a BIM solution that puts geometry on the face and updates itself. Pbacot, No doubt about any of that. Any way, for the specific question this answer might be the best around. I work daily with hole cutting components myself, with as complex geometry as construction documents need and know this intersect with selection works. Any other method is welcome but tracing around windows is not a good method as windows might have complex geometry, that might be either coplanar or not to facade face and wich might make it impossible to trace every single window. BIM is just too much if the need is this basic. A good texture, wich is what I use, it's not actual geometry. Avoiding hole cutting components is a workflow breaker in this particular case. Working on a copy of the face, leaving the original is after all what I've done, what I did was that I created a temporary copy and grouped it outside. I offered a simple enough solution...

@pbacot said: I guess my experience is colored because I use my own CAD drawings and I don't generally have problems in accuracy. But I have seen where the accuracy of an import can be undetectably off--until it causes problems in working the model (closing faces etc.) later on. fwiw, when i realized the accuracy issue, it was when i was first learning rhino using a template with feet as the units and a tolerance of .001 unit (so, lower tolerance than sketchup's 1/1000th inch).. i brought it into sketchup and for a minute, thought sketchup was more accurate than rhino since everything wasn't exactly in place in sketchup (out of whack enough to get a 'don't panic- there's a problem.. should i fix it?' message.. which eventually led me to realize the tolerances in rhino were adjustable. but 1/1000th unit is a good to high tolerance setting for most situations so if the original cad app was drawn in feet, it's likely their tolerance wasn't set tighter than .001 feet.. so that's probably the most notable scenario to look out for. on the flipside, if the original modeler was using millimeters or centimeters at .001, you won't have any accuracy problems when bringing that into sketchup. [but even then, this is assuming the cad model went through some trimming/splitting/boolean operations in the original application which is when these tolerance issues will readily show up]

Thank you everyone, I suspect it could be a graphics card problem. I have tried installing latest drivers but this makes AutoCAD impossible to use. The card I have is expensive but out of guarantee. Will save up for a new card. Regards, Andrew

Have been hunting for this - so hard to animate wheels on a vehicle and render it. Simfonia animation does this loopable rotation but doesn't play nice with renderers. Have we had any progress in this sphere since this thread began? I'm in need of loopable animation now.