@ntxdave said: @tk0001 said: Dave, I think the technique I used here would work well for you, as long as the views are relatively close to the camera. The further you pull away, the more the dark edges jumble up the background "unhighlighted" information. The model I'm working on is of a facility that is rather large, so I want to try to dampen the background stuff as much as possible. What I really wanted to do was replicate the view SketchUp gives when you double click on a group, but with transparency in the surrounding information. I'm close. Hopefully I can get there. Yes, it probably would however, that means all of my groups would have to be duplicated plus there is the camera distance issue. The car wash runs anywhere from 135' to 155' long. Therefore, the lines could be an issue. My other point is that everything is centered around presenting in a paper driven environment (which I fully understand since a one of the primary uses is for the builders and etc.). However, today's environment also needs to be a little more multimedia focused as well. As you described about the monitor, we also present our proposed layouts from time to time with touch screen monitors. One of my dreams would be somewhat similar to what you were describing/wanting. It would be really neat if I could bring up one of my models/layouts, double click on a piece of equipment (component/group) and have it highlighted or the rest of the equipment hidden (like double-clicking on a group). I have looked at some presentation tools that support 3D models but they do not give me the capability to "cycle through" the various pieces of equipment in my model/layout. Guess I am just living in a dream world Wish I was a good enough coder to go off and develop something on my own. Good luck in your pursuit, Dave. Hopefully an adequate solution will be presented in this thread one of these days. FYI, to give you some perspective, if you refer to the "Highlighted" image above, the outside dimension of the blue highlighted equipment is about 300'.

Make hundreds if you wish.

Somewhere along the line you ought to be able to get someone to export so the dimensions are correct when imported into SketchUp. If not, can you get one of the other file types that SketchUp will import? Then you should be able to click on Options and set the correct units. It wouldn't hurt to see if you can get cleaner models to import, too.

@unknownuser said: I love Apple and own all the mobile devices, an iMac and several Mac Pros for my home, but in the pipeline for my work…there isn’t one Mac. It can’t run Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Fume FX, or CUDA so I’m still waiting. I hope that in the future Apple will remedy this situation so that a Mac Pro can be found everywhere without any limitations. —- AKIKO ASHLEY That pretty much sums it up for me. It would be a no-brainer if the thing had even moderately good Nvidia cards in it. It's so frustrating that Apple (and almost everyone else) views 'Pro' consumers as video editors. I'm a pro; I make a living sitting in front of many many pixels creating stuff, stuff that actually gets built into real things. The conclusion my better half (who's machine would shame anyone* on here) and I came to is that I buy another Retina Macbook Pro and build a monster powerful PC to use as a render slave. *I dare you step up to her hardware

Found it. In case anyone else wonders it's accessed via the Styles Panel: Edit->Modeling (furthest tab to the right).

Congratulations!

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?