One last try, this may be something near what you want or just be a another work around The inner working of axes tool [image: pic_0024.jpg] I just leaned this today about axes tool, iso view, gives a perpendicular alinement.(cool). Help you to set red axes in step 1 Correct step 2: I sorry not a front view but a ground view of axis (one axis in front of other) . Rotate axes by orbit tool, the green axis into the red at ground level. This help you move the green and blue axis in step 3 [image: Movie_0003.gif]

I would definitely recommend purchasing at least Photoshop. I've always stayed far away from costly subscriptions if I can. I don't have extended, and I don't know if it's of much use. I also have Lightroom, I think there's some feature overlap there, but LR in itself is really awesome. One huge difference between earlier versions of Photoshop and cs5 and 6 is 64bit support. I went from cs2 to cs5, and the difference in file handling between the two versions was night and day. Of course this was comparing 150Mb many layered files, so it depends on the kind of photo editing you use. I didn't find a whole lot of practical difference in Illustrator versions, but image tracing works really great. I don't remember it from cs2, I didn't use it much then. Acrobat and indesign conversion features are vastly improved. jm2c Andy

Not all the faces are the same size. I would rather have an option to place at the bottom, or have an offset value. I will keep searching. Thanks.

If you want moving water Lumion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhOvBICNE9Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-8sePgziRY

i would say make an extrusion (follow me or curviloft) of a triangle shape along the spline path (bezier spline and maybe Curvizard) and then scale it a bit along the z-axis - eventually using the FFD plugin since it seems to be more distorted on the upper part.

Nifty, thanks Jim. Do you mean the script could be adapted to link the numbers to the component? That would be beyond me at the moment.

If you just want to create spiral stairs, have a look at this one witch can also screw components: http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=357 http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=15784#p240238

@mwm5053 said: Steve WOW hell of a job man Thanks!

oh.. for the trackpad parts of this thread, let's not forget we don't need a laptop to utilize their features.. we have this option as well.. http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/ those things are sweet

Not all of us have appple quick time to run untitled.mov I did this gif as a aid to your posted format, Dave Most of the time I think Apple has a better video output I started with apple long ago but never made it to the mac so I dont know all the in and outs of is Mac OS Now answering Peter's question from a pc point of view? I have 3 thoughts to add 1} I think, in his case, it maybe the 3d setting of the graph card, if his frame is 10 fps and above for a video 1032 x 774. [image: pic_0077.jpg] 2) or he may not have the right video grabber or using the right movie format for getting a constant 10fps and above. [image: pic_0079.jpg] 3) or if its random and drop frame when he records his machine maybe doing things in the background Task Manager Change your SU or Recorder, set priority, to high or real time [image: pic_0080.jpg]

Different operating system. Jason is showing the Materials window on a Windows machine. On Mac they use the native OS-supplied colors window doodad. As to the material showing as a flat color, you must be in shaded face style instead of shaded with Textures. Change that under the view menu orin the Styles Edit tab and you should see it.

Now that really is weird. It must be a bug. Thanks Jim, I never thought of importing to Layer0...but see no logical reason why that should make any difference.

Ah yea, what you say as now as a Pro users holds more weight

I do not exactly know how network licenses work at the moment but you cannot have SU free and Pro installed on the same computer. They are practically the same program - with some additional tools for the Pro version. So I guess it would be a tedious workflow keeping to install/uninstall the two versions. Previously, if there was no available license on the network (or even single installation of the Pro version), it fell back to the free version making it an ideal tool for such offices as they only needed to buy a few seats. I guess this is exactly why they changed this behaviour - to encourage sales...

Hi Chris! Absolutely no problems with it now, since I've been matching the start/end positions, its working absolutly fine. The plug-in is great and is saving me a whole load of time/calculations... a great bit of work there Chris Many thanks for the response - I fear it was my lack of reading on the plug-in that caused the problem in the first place being the impatient person that I am. Deadlines wait for no man (or woman). All the best, Matt.

Thanks Dave. This is what I did try, and I think it betters the effect for the most part. I don't move the sliders all the way to the ends as the few colors in the model begin to look strange.

Adding to wishlist - Make Layout and SketchUp file icons different so I'm not continually opening one thinking it's the other.

Reinstall again ("repair installation"). It seems for whatever reason, the first install of Layout 3.0.16846 doesn't update the version number.

@unknownuser said: So far ThomThom's method is the only one that works, tried desperately to avoid it as I still have over 100 houses yet to drape!! Can you not do them en masse?

Jeff, Thanks a bunch! I transferred the old textures to the new computer @ User--Library--Application Support--Google Sketchup (#)--SketchUp--Materials, and that worked great.