My apologies, and fear not I'll never darken your threads again.

...and there it is. Always nice when someone points you in the right direction. Thanks!

@pbacot said: This is what I mean, in the attached image. But I see what is going on with the texture now. Try using ThruPaint. Makes things easier. +1

Uh, that's because you can't make a two column toolbar. If you had actually read what I wrote, you'd have seen I covered that.

an image would help to understand the problem did you try to use a higher resolution for the export?

Welcome to the forum! You should have a look at your dot key, it might be broken...

Or Jims Map Sun?

I manged to get it to work. My revit model had other revit files linked into it that hadn't been bound, once bound and un grouped they exported fine. Thanks for your help though.

@box said: With Profile builder create the profile of the paint line then select all the lines you want to be those paint lines and use the Build along path (follow me)option. It will say I can't find a path do you want individual ones, say yes and it will do it for you no matter how long the lines are or at what angle. i will try this, thank you! It worked- thank YOU!!

Also depending on your structure and the actual results you want you could use a section plane or change the view to top and use parallel projection.

Ahhhhh. I see. Many thanks.

Yeah. You can do that, too.

Details in link below.....but it looks like the reinstatement fee would be an additional $50.(over the $95.) http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000020 Charlie

Apart from Previous, I often use Hide when I bump into something. You need a shortcut key for it tho. I use H, clever huh?

Thanks for the info. I got to play with the pro version for 8 hours when I installed SU earlier this week, but I spent it learning dynamic components. Those are really awesome, but I only use SU for personal work, and can't quite justify the $600 for the pro version. (Especially since Autodesk Inventor is only like $700.)

If there is one problem that Sketchup has as a truly viable software package it's that you have to find work-arounds for it's buggy weirdness. For more complex models using spline cages etc. I use MODO for it's brilliant sub-d integration, relatively low cost (compared to other "big" packages), and it has the best interface of any advanced 3D package. But that's a different discussion... -If you can't "see" your geometry or things disappear, it's probably because the scale of the model is small and so when you try to do certain operations SU just makes the really small pieces disappear as if being unrecognizable. The easiest way to deal with the small geometry SU problem is to use the "boolean helper" plugin which really only does two things: it scales up and it scales back down again. Of course you can do this manually, but it's nice to have easy to use buttons that just do it for you. -To get around camera clipping turn your perspective on (which will unset the clipping), then do a couple of operations, then turn perspective off again (if you don't like perspective on). I always have to do this periodically. So without being able to see what your model is specifically, here is what I would recommend: It sounds like you trying to build spline cages for skinning. For this type of operation SU isn't ideal, especially for complex models, but you can do it. First, don't try to skin the whole model in one go. Do it in pieces. In fact I would take pieces of the model and copy them into separate files, then after getting each piece to work, copy and paste the whole model and put it together. - I think SU gets confused when dealing with large groups of complex geometry and performing operations that it's not necessarily good at, but it seems to do better when dealing with smaller compact units and them putting them together. By separating these pieces you might also find where the real problems are.

For editing in Illustrator you will be better off exporting as EPS File (*.eps) Since EPS is a vector format this will allow you to edit the graphics in Illustrator and then scale to any size without loosing image quality.

Problem solved, it was are in google+ account. Thanks

To reiterate the previous two posts... You could probably make that with far fewer facets without losing anything in the appearance. Your faulty object is probably quite small... There is a well know limitation in SketchUp... SketchUp cannot create very tiny faces. Its tolerance is ~1/1000th" - so if you have a small facet with one or more very short edges it will assume that the start and end points of the tiny edges are coincident and so it will not add the edge. Consequently the face[s] relying on each tiny unmade edge will not get created either. Scale up your object x100 [or more], perform the operation and there should now be no overly small edges, so the facets will be made as hoped. Scale down x0.01, the then tiny facets will be kept because although small edges cannot be made they can exist ! You need to be aware of the size limitation and scaling 'trick' when using several native operations - like FollowMe - and any Plugins which do operations which could give tiny geometry in their outputs. Humongous geometry can also have similar issues, but that is rarer

can you make your own animated models for lumion?