This might be a good suggestion to post on the SU wish list. For the stuff I do, a lot of my models end up in a printed 2D format, and I suspect this would be the case for many of us (especially architects) so it would make sense to have print quality 2D images instead of the jagged line stuff we have currently.

Thanks kaas and Lz - I didn't know you could apply multiple textures... that's encouraging to know. Cheers Shawn

Thanks

I bet many would love to know how you do those incredible models!

Thanks to all for your assistance. Had to do a design work around due to time constraints. Will have a play with all suggestions when I get time. Interesting technique, Dave, Never would have thought of that! Cheers

Thanks a million for this guys, this helps a lot, i'll try what you said too JQL, thanks you.

I've watched the first video (plastic chair) many times... & I'm still picking up new things!

I had a GTX 660ti 3g before upgrading to a Titan, I saw no difference in SU or any other software that was not GPU dependent. I upgraded purely for GPU rendering.

If you were to make your parking-bay as a component that glues to a horizontal surface and cuts an opening then the z-fighting of the coincident faces will be avoided as the face below it will be removed automatically as the component is relocated... However, you would need to place those component-instances again - because they only get their glued-to-face when they are initially added to the model - unless of course you install and use a plugin that can 're-glue' these un-glued selected cutting-components [my HolePunch has such a utility]. Alternatively remember that Images do not z-fight when they are placed onto a surface - so an alternative is to get a simple Image of the carpark bay, edit the original component and erase the face, and then add the image into it, scaling it to the right size, tidy up any unneeded nested faces, edges etc, and now all instances of the parking-bay component should no longer z-fight when placed directly on top of another surface...

Ok, thanks anyway.

Sounds to me like the component might be glued to the mesh. Right click on the component, unglue.

Tahnks Box, next time first I will search then I will speak!

Have a go with Honoluludesktop's Make Unique. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=346107#p346107

I think it's worth repeating that 2014 has the new version of Ruby and while that has caused a few issues with a few plugins not working, new plugins are less likely to work with the older system. No doubt more and more we will see 'Requires SU2014 and up'.

Another possibility: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=79%26amp;t=57658%26amp;hilit=+follow+me+keep#p524527

Not for me ... ?!?

@syburn said: Wow, There are some impressive sofa renderings from the Magician of a guy called Alvis. But I love all these ebooks that are available these days. Will these ebooks show me similar ways to make tufted sofas like Alvis? http://sketchucation.com/shop/books/intermediate/158-how-to-model-a-french-leather-armchair This book is by Alvis. So maybe.

Couldn't agree more... Specially if you're talking about BIM plugins! They are fast at modeling things that are not really how they are going to be built. I tell you how I feel: The best plugins around are the line tool, pushpull, the group and component, hole cutting components and all the abstract geometry plugins, like joint push pull, fredo scale, curviloft... Then there are those that really really make a difference now and then Section Cut Face being the top one along with edge tools divide face and inspect (I have high hopes on Skalp, but suspect it will make me model differently... I'll take a look at it when there's a trial). Nowadays you can't live without a render plugin too so I'd recommend Thea to everyone. All the other plugins facilitate your life so much you wouldn't consider living without them, but I must admit that every new install of sketchup, narrows my plugin list more and more, and I use more and more the native tools. The only ones that make me run away are the BIM kind of plugins. They make you design their way, not your way, but that's fair though, because for that you have Sketchup already!

Well this is not a direct answer to your question but is one that "could" solve your problem. I'm not much into animations, however, I read somewhere here of a plugin that can create a spline for animation path and can importa another spline as animation path. If that is indeed the case, you can generate the path for the first animation, then place it in the origin, and generate the new animation... I hope you're able to fix it and if you do, please share your solution. EDIT: Well there is a path for sure in Key animation, but I don know about generating a path from existing scenes. I don't even know if the Key animation path is actual geometry... Maybe you can speed up your animation recreation with it though... http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=320705#p320705 There are other animation plugins. Maybe one could do the trick. JQL

Thanks again for the help guys, much appreciated. SU should really but an Anti Liasing setting on the Mac version, so users don't have to hack at it in the Ruby Console.