Rich, Thanks for your help. I've got some issues here possibly with very old windows xp. Our tech guy has been a big help, too. Was finally able to subscribe. Am trying Standard per your recommendation. Thanks, again. Dave

Tig, Thanks for the thoughts/ideas. I do not think cad orgin issue is at fault here, but I will look closer to be sure. I will try to get the file to a reasonable size and give you the link. I am on a deadline at the moment so I will not have time to do it until tomorrow. Thanks for your help. paul

That would be one way to do it. I guess I would just Expand the nested components instead. [image: cvYY_Screenshot-1_23_20144_12_54AM.png] That way you'd see both the nested components and the lower level components. [image: JMls_Screenshot-1_23_20144_13_56AM.png]

Thanks guys. The curvishear looks awesome and promising. I'll give it a shot tomorrow.

Sorry I had this in the wrong Forum. Would have been nice to know it was moved though. Anyways, I (sort of) fixed the problem for anyone else who has this same issue. First I went through all my plugins and compared the numbers beside them. I did this by going right in my C > Programs ...> Sketchup folders. Then I compared those numbers to the numbers of the updated plugins posted in these forums. Example: [image: f8Yg_PluginNumbers.jpg] Since none of those numbers matched, I decided to go through each of those plugin folders to see if what they had inside matched. Since they did, I removed all the lower numbered folders, and decided to remove ALL of the plugins by Fredo and start over fresh, with the latest ones. However, that still wouldn't let me open Sketchup without it crashing. So, I removed all the folders I needed (Plugins, Components...etc) and placed those on my desktop.(Drag and drop) I then uninstalled Sketchup and did a fresh install. I put all the plugins that I use from the plugins folder on my desktop into the new plugins folder I just installed. (Copy / Paste) and did the same with all the components I made and had in the (desktop) components folder. I also checked all the other folders that I had to make sure nothing was missing. Whoola! It worked! I was finally able to open Sketchup without a bugsplat. Only issue I have now is, I can't seem to find my toolbars that go to some of the plugins. I also don't see some of them listed under Plugins, tools, Window and View Toolbars menu. I am wondering if, when I moved them to my desktop, if the .rs and other .r files that I now see in their respective folders, need to be taken out of the folder and just listed under the folders? I also can't load some of them, that I know are in there. So, I missed something somewhere. [image: GREE_ErrorLoading.jpg] Without having to reinstall all those plugins,(that actually still exist in my plugins folder) is there a step I missed? I don't want to mess things up any more than they are, and since I'm not a coder, I don't know what belongs inside the folder, and what should be outside of the folder. I know I copied my original folder contents exactly like they were, so I'm stumped. If I have to, I'll reinstall them, but I'm afraid I might not remove all of what needs to be removed properly. Thanks for any help!

@mitcorb said: Hi, Mistro: I looked around and found an older thread in this link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sketchupissues/gN4yhIK3tGY Is it indeed your graphic card settings? Thanks mitcorb! It's funny because I found that same thread earlier and remembered I never set my graphic card settings after my last reformat. But still not sure if that is the cause because I reformatted months ago and did many Sketchup projects since with no problem. But then again, I recently did a windows update so maybe something got reset? When I went in the Nvidia control panel it was on "let the 3D application decide". So I set it to high quality instead so applications will use the card settings and Sketchup is running more smoothly. If it happens again, I will report it here.

Just got informed by mail about your response- the thread is almost two yrs old But thanks for your workflow- actually it would be nice if it wouldn't disappear somewhere as it is a good how-to. There are some more ways to handle larger scenes or objects with high poly count: using layers using ghost-components plugin But loading / replacing components from single files is definitely good- building up some kind of library for future use is surely beneficial.

Please go to the User Control Panel and set the info for your platform, SketchUp version, etc. It is hard to help without thi info, as most plugins that deal with the Ruby Console are platform specific.

Did you use Stripe or PayPal? What is your browser version?

Set author filter to -Authors- to list all authors. As for your scrolling issues...try a different mouse maybe?

(a purist try to make anything in a same program: Su is a cool candidate! Blender also! Of course you right like for draw real cuves sometimes better is use this little thing! Maybe that interest you! An incredible direct 2D functions drawer! [image: agraph2.jpg]

One more thing. Eveything works now, but when I export it as Animation/Video it keep still. Solution?

Ok. Thanks

@pgarmyn said: @masterpaul You have it if the view direction (line between camera and viewpoint) is perpendicular to the sectionplan, with camera switched 'on'. Any face perpendicular to the view direction is represented without (perspective) deformation, and they will have the same scale if they are in the same perpendicular plan (= same distance). Yeah, your right, I I didnt set my model to be aligned to the axes, it was slightly off.

It's now 2014. There's a SketchUp Basecamp coming in ~two months... Remember what usually gets announced at/around a Basecamp ?

Why don't you try Sandbox? [image: Zprp_sandbox.png]

@gilles said: Pour revenir au sujet: Coming back to the first post: good find i would have guessed the assembly is more automated than this.

seems Round edges by fredo6 can make thet!

I've now solved the problem, which was due to corrupt preferences. The solution procedure was as follows: Close SketchUp. Open a Finder window. Click Go in the top menu bar, press and hold the Option key, then click Library when it appears in the list. Click Preferences. Click and drag the file com.sketchup.sketchup.plist to Trash. Launch SketchUp.

@box said: Have you edited the transparency within SU, that can make things look wrong. A PNG with a transparent background is different to a transparent PNG. Also it seems to be caused by looking at the back faces, try flipping them to see if that is the problem. If you upload the model someone should be able to see what is going on. I suggest it isn't a Bug! I have not edited the transparency - I'll try to flip the faces. thanks.