@hatrack said: The model started with a plan imported from CAD and was over 400 meters from the axes origin. I moved it to the origin, and the display issue is gone. This definitely an issue. Not sure where it comes from but OpenGL gets confused. @hatrack said: I tried temporarily moving the axes to the model, but the display issue recurred. The axes don't determine the location of the origin. The origin is a fixed point in the model space. By default the axes are placed at the origin. @hatrack said: So, for now, I'm marking its original location with a few lines, and even though there's now a little geometry in the distance, the model is displaying well. Keep an eye on that, though. That geometry might cause you issues, particularly with Zoom Extents. My inclination would be to identify the coordinates of that distant point and write them down for later reference. YOu can always move the model back to that point later if you must.

The county's GIS department might have LIDAR or other terrain data. It depends on how much resolution you need, though. It also depends on how fresh the data needs to be. It's possible to get data points from an on-the-ground survey and import that insto SketchUP as a point cloud. Then use the Sandbox Tools or TopShaper to generate the terrain geometry.

@escapeartist said: Might have to do that. Good luck. BTW, please update your forum profile. It's even more out of date than your SketchUp support.

thank you All and I appreciate your comments

@tig said: Lately gmail and its derivatives have blocked most kinds of 'compressed files'... So RBZ, Layout, SKM files and possibly others can't be attached to emails [e.g. ZIP]. Even if you use another suffix and tell the recipient to rename it receipt, it gets spotted ! The 'header' is read of every attached file. Perhaps SKP files are now subject to similar draconian measures ?? Use DropBox or something similar... Well that's weird as I just sent my yahoo account a zipped skp file. Something else must be going on then. [image: Screenshot-1.jpg]

You can find a bunch of free HDRI skies here at ambientCG.

still an issue

SketchUp is not geared towards that level of intricacy. Not impossible just labour intensive, especially for furniture. I still think texturing is the way to go. If it's for presentation then its more visual than accurate.

Thank you Rich. I knew there had to be an easy way to do it. You are a star.

Please don't SHOUT at us ! Typing everything in capital letters is considered to be bad-manners... Now to answer your question... Layers [Tags] can have colors set manually from your model's materials - including transparency and textures... But only their colors are accessible [get/set] through the Ruby API - i.e. not transparency or textures. SketchUp can have materials which include simple colors and textures - with or without transparency. So if you want to 'extract' your layer/tag colors with Ruby it is possible, then you can use the color' RGB data to make a new material in your model [perhaps named after the layer/tag name ?]. However, although it's possible, it's not simple ! There have previously been several threads discussing this... try searching the forums' posts... There are working code examples...

Normally it will directly render your SKP file... Free to you to change anything if you want! simple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVSH6_yqY1I or a little more tricky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GynbluSJHOQ

@dbur33 said: msg_validation_error Request to Sketchucation = ERROR_F09 Error F09 indicates a plugin name mismatch. Is it possible you are trying to license Round Corner using a license for FredoCorner? Or the other way around? What version of SketchUp are you using? Please complete your forum profile.

Hi Dave, It wouldn't surprise me, as I mentioned, this model has been a WIP for the past 3-4 years. I think back then I broke my own rule of keeping it simple, I might investigate further this weekend. Unfortunately, I have too much time invested in this model to start all over, as much as I would like to. Thanks for help Dave, very much appreciated. Stan

It's best to just model it. I would never use displacement in this manner. There are plug-ins that could help with the modeling pretty quickly I bet.

I would guess the odd behaviour is targeting only you I'm afraid. In Windows you can change the Open dialog dropdown behaviour via the Local Group Policy or the Regedit. But its so deeply buried that there's no way you managed to do so without knowing. Bizarre.

@ Box @ all: again a very THANK YOU ! i used on the end the solution of "BOX" and feel a bit silly. Sooo easy this topic is solved .