@blastfurnace said: .....When I relocate an axis then I grab a group I want the Protractor (Axes) of that group to snap to the current axes. **(A)**It doesn't always do that and **(B)**sometime it is off by so little between two axes that it isn't quickly noticeable.... (A) I notice that some groups are "stubborn" and keep their own axes to align to. They simply do not wish to adopt to the new drawing axes by use of the 'Move' tool and its protractor. I don't know the cause of this. Your flang group is one of them. (B) Don't snap to axes. Use input 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees after rotating to arbitrary angle.

@tig said: If you have an Image in a SKP and you Explode it into a Face with a Material then it can't be 'undone' That's the bottom line I was looking to determine. Thanks gents, all the other suggestions I already know of and use.

The Plugin Store installs plugins to the correct directory based on the operating system and SU version and, importantly, maintains the correct file structure which historically has been difficult for many people to do manually. Read any of the long threads in the Plugins forum for proof of that. With SU2014 the correct location to be putting plugins is under Users/App Data. The beauty of this is that you don't need to be concerned with the location because it is handled autmoatically The Extension Warehouse does the same sort of thing. Of course with the Plugin Store plugin there's a number of tools for managing the plugins once you have installed them but first things first.

@joelm3dm said: ....Try this little file below. If I draw a line from one circle to the other, the line vanishes. If I try drawing the line elsewhere and there's no problem at all. ... I can't draw any lines that disappear by themselfs. Neither outside nor inside group's environment. b.t.w. your drawing axes are upside down. Right click on one to reset them. Not that I think that this makes any difference in the "vanishing edges" issue.

@mitcorb said: If the IE cache situation becomes persistent, you can, on Windows make a shortcut for "inetcpl.cpl" This is the file for the Internet Options UI. From here, you can clear your cache if you do not use the normal method, or CCleaner. Forgot about CCleaner. That saves me having to actually open IE again. Internet Explorer's motto should be "the most popular browser for downloading Chrome."

I often need alternate styles while working. I have scenes set up that change the style (and nothing else) so I can look at the presentation of export style, then switch to a style that is easier for working.

@unknownuser said: The ghost never seems to cause any further problems with the model. Like real gosht!

Does this happen with every SKP you try, or a specific SKP that might be corrupted ? If it's SKP related try this. Open a new SKP. Preferences > General > Check models for problems tick Automatically check... AND Automatically fix... OK. Close SketchUp. Now reopen the problem SKP. It should be fixed as SketchUp opens it. Now try Model Info... again... If it occurs with every SKP then you need to use Control Panels > Programs and Features and Reinstall/Repair SketchUp v2013 - something is wrong and needs fixing. Failing that, try uninstalling SketchUp and reinstalling from scratch... Any custom files you have [e.g. Plugins will NOT be deleted by a proper uninstall using the system-uninstaller]

Derei, By the way, you could remove the up and downs by duplicating the wave profile at 1/4 and 3/4 distance, and then use Curviloft, Loft by Spline, as shown below: [image: tXgY_Derei-Wave-Curviloft.png] Derei - need2extrude.skp Fredo

thank you a lot @ all who have tried ans especially Dave R and kaas! Upon another close inspection I found out that one edge consisted of only 10 faces while all 3 other "rounded-edges" had 12 rounded faces...strange. Plus I could clearly see those "precision related errors" Dave was speaking about, I must clearly have messed something up big time unintentionally by being a very few mm off without noticing it! The red-axis for example does not run parallel to the objects outer edge. maybe it is so slightly off, that it is "ok" for the object as it is, but once solid-actions are performed it just looses it. Anyway. Am happy to have a working clamp now and will pay even more attention to those little details in the future. thanks again to everybody who wrote in this thread. best regards, Alex

Jim, Thanks so much that worked! I just did not know "STereo Lithography was STL and did not look close enough.

Thanks TIG, that worked perfectly.

Nice! Works like a champ. Many thanks!

THanks guys. The video helped

Thanks for the replies, I used the method of Rich, the only thing I needed to do was to scale up my model 100 times. Because my model failed to drape correct. It's works fine now.

You can use Edit>Copy and Edit>Paste or PasteInPlace on anything in one SKP and thereby duplicate it in another SKP. You can't readily reuse a Group in another SKP later on, unless you convert it to a Component [context-menu item]... The usual way to make one SKP's Components available for use at any time later, is to open the Component Browser and either Save an individual Component [you can also do this for a selected instance, from a context-menu item] or you can choose the flyout menu option to Save all of your Components to a Collection. You can delete any unwanted SKPs from that folder... That Collection [aka Library] can be made accessible from the Component Browser, so that you can use those Components in future projects... If you are thinking of keeping all of your Component SKPs in a single location then ensure you have FULL Security permissions to that folder - the standard SketchUp/Components folder might have limited permissions by default...

it's just 3 monitors!

Excellent! Very cool use of Soap Skin Bubble!

Many Plugin shave been updated in the last few months so they would be compatible with v2014. You should always install the latest versions into v2014. Using an old version copied over from v2013 is a recipe for disaster and annoyance. The SketchUcation PluginStore will have most of your Plugins - use the v2.6.0 feature to AutoInstall all of them using a My Setup 'Bundle'... You need to have installed and opened v2.6.0 in v2013 - this will save a listing for that computer/version. Then in v2014 your computer[s]/versions will be listed as 'Bundles'. Duplicate the 13 'Bundle'. Remove any Plugins you don't really want - you will have almost certainly have some installed you never use ! Remember to include the 'Libs' like tt's and LibFredo - otherwise many of their tools will not work without their Libs being installed. Then simply AutoInstall that entire 'Bundle'... Sit back while the list is processed - if you are installing into the default Plugins folder it should be surprisingly fast... Remember that a few Extensions are only available from the ExtensionWarehouse - so you need to get/install those separately... Remeber to restart SketchUp after adding all of these Plugins to complete the process - some recently installed Plugins [like Fredo's] will not work properly until SketchUp restarts... So now your v2014 will have a similar setup of Plugins to v2013 - using all of the latest versions - of course there might be a few as yet incompatible ones around - but if so just Disable them in the SketchUcation PluginsManager and remember to let the author know about the issue - so it can be fixed asap... If you have set up Sets under the PluginsManager in v2013, you can use the 'Export All Sets' option into a folder on your Desktop, then in v2014 use the PluginsManager Sets to 'Import Sets' to add the Sets from that folder - now v2013 and v2014 should look very familiar as you can choose which Plugins to Enable/Load/Disable for particular modeling tasks...

@dave r said: You can't if they are instances of the same component. You would need to use Make Unique to break their relationship to each other. Thanks i understand gary