TIG, Thanks, I used a memorystick and it worked.

Glad I could help. Best regards, JQL

@tig said: ...then revert to the Make version if you decide not to buy it. and if used for non-commercial purposes only. An upgrade from a non-legal license of SUP7 to SUP13 is obviously not possible, i.e. a full new license of SUP13 needs to be bought in this case. Norbert

Hello Dave @dave r said: [attachment=3:3cdzjik2]<!-- ia3 -->jpp.png<!-- ia3 -->[/attachment:3cdzjik2] A question for you, Bruce. What would your expectation be for the way these corners get handled? They don't appear to be correctly done although I don't fault the tool. It appears that JPP did what it was asked to do. %(#0000FF)[I would expect the plugin to at lease read my mind and perform the operation correctly. I agree its a difficult one. Perhaps various corner operations can be made as an option to the plugins. Its not until you stop and think of exactly what and how the operations performs that the complexity is revealed. My clients think that I just tap the keyboard a few times and the compute generates the building drawings.] [attachment=2:3cdzjik2]<!-- ia2 -->jpp2.png<!-- ia2 -->[/attachment:3cdzjik2] This seems more correct to me although the joint between the angled portions and the horizontal part, although correct for what JPP is supposed to do, is probably not the way it would be built in real life. The horizontal and angled surfaces have been extruded the same amount so to join them you would have to miter them at half the angle between which is exactly what JPP did. [attachment=1:3cdzjik2]<!-- ia1 -->jpp3.png<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:3cdzjik2] Maybe this is better? I expect that no matter what modifications were made to JPP or Shell, there'll always be geometry that will be problematic. There will always be some things that require the judgement of the user. Agreed, I am just pleased that someone has thought about this more than i and provided a plugin that makes my life easier. All the best

David, it was most certainly my pleasure. I envy your year at College of the Redwoods. I expect you've been designing and making some very nice furniture. Congratulations on the path you are following. Back to your printing problem, what do you get if you export a JPG or PNG instead of trying to print the view?

I moved my tool pallettes to the top bar to alleviate the problem lol only to find the same problem exists. This should be fixed immediately. Unless they cannot, its also a pain when sketchup crashes. When sketchup relaunches it takes its time to open the previous file without toolbars argghghhhhghghghghgghhhhhhh the horror.

Sorry I don't use it (but understand it works OK) but there are videos at the site. Try with a simple smaller terrain section. Also Valiarchitects has Instant Terrain that I have used. The point of Instant Terrain is to provide an even and regular terrain geometry from your model, because sometimes that is needed to have InstantRoad work. Try with a portion of your work (in a test file). You can get help by contacting Valiarchitects (Chuck) if you make a try and refine your questions.

I think "default layer geometry" does all that needs to be done. Then all geometry is on Layer0 where it belongs, and you can assign components, including nested groups or components to whatever layer is required.

@sketchuh said: I couldn't open a file in sketchup 2013 make, because that file has "many" imported 3d models in it. Yes sketchup make crashes many times on me. I wonder does Pro version run faster?! No.

That's funny. I'm guessing its a bug. I'll look into it on Monday

One of my plugins was mentioned in a book and no permission was sought. Use of logos and trademarks need permission

I did something similar,how about using the windows back-up files, save what you have to a thumb drive or disc, then return the documents to a previous saved backup

No, I was talking about something different than the clipping bug. There are steps to take to keep the clipping bug at bay. Search the forum for the clipping bug.

The problem comes from my hard disk(I believe) as it went out of power(loose connecter perhaps) and then when I made it to work back this problem occurred with both these files(The folder they are in was open when the hard disk stopped working). The .skb gives the same error ! The weird thing is that I can see the preview of the large one but it won't open.

@wo3dan said: With your suggestion: Scene A with section plane 1 active Scene B with section plane 1 still active, different location though.. Thanks Gerrit, To split hairs.....I envision section plane 1 uses same position (location) for "Scenes A&B"...only camera "B" is 180° to Camera "A".(think turntable) @wo3dan said: The animation from A to B (and back) shows the transition of the section cut running from A to B (and back) (scene transitions enabled and unequal to zero) The only minor difference is that things are much simpler now without the need of an extra section plane. I envision a "sweeping" 180° Turn/transition from "A" to "B" using the same plane.......yes...unlike the current transition from one plane to another....though maybe the sweeping transition would be more........??...sexy? Again...thanks for you input/thought's. Best, Charlie

When You select print there is a section that allows you to select what scenes to print. However you can only do a range like 2 thu 6 etc.

I go back and forth between AutoCAD and SketchUp all the time with no problems. Some suggestions: The cleaner your AutoCAD file the better it will open in SketchUp. I keep a AutoCAD file called To SketchUp that has essentially nothing in it (no blocks, no linetypes, meta data, etc.). I copy my geometry into that file then use Purge (extensively)and Overkill to get the file ready for SketchUp. SketchUp doesn't have arcs or circles so any line that intersects a circle will give you trouble. On the SketchUp side open the Entity Info panel and increase the chord count of the arcs to give you smoother lines. On the AutoCAD side I always extend any lines that intersect arcs several inches beyond the arc so I can trim them back in SketchUp. I hope something here helps.

Wow, thanks Philip! I learned a lot from your example. First, component wrapping comes BEFORE axis changing. Next I really didn't understand how to propagate a variable through nested components. The trick is parent! I know what the ! means, but I was having trouble figuring out how to make a reference within the nested components that made sense. I probably could have constructed something, but your solution is much more streamlined (and intuitive). Finally, I had not thought about using a logical sequence to drive the values of the variables. In hindsight, the solution is pretty straightforward, but for the life of me I couldn't figure it out. All in all, pretty clever! Thanks, again, for your extremely helpful post. I'm off and fixing a number of other DCs that I made that have similar issues. Frank.

Switch to parallel projection view (I assigned F5 key to switch between parallel and perspective view). This enables zooming in very close any point, line, plane. Hope it helps.

Thank you very much Ken for your reply. Yes, I think Photobucket had some issues lately and it won't appear every time. (Might be that some of their servers are overloaded temporary.) The maximum attachment size for the the forums at the moment is 2MB. I think it should be large enough for most of the images.