@snicolo said: Workaround: If you do not pre-select the face when doing the offset the crash does not happens. It is a known crash and hopefully we will address it soon. Good advice, however I have always preselected the face (habit) and as far as I can recall, SU never crashed before like this, until recently. Also, lately, I've had 3+ "Splat-less" crashes just selecting other tools, last 2 were "Joint-push-pull". In that case, I opened 2 SU sessions, copied the "problem" comp over, and it worked OK in session 2. Copied back the edited comp and session 1 was normal since, even with JPP. Again, this crashing seems more prevalent when my models get well over 200,000 lines, but I also have a few very stable 500K+ models. And as I said before, it seems more prevalent since I installed Simfonia, but I haven't used SAT for several weeks, and never in those "splat-less" models.

@trogluddite said: The classic example of course, is coming across an item in a menu with a name you've never seen before. "Oooh, it's in the same menu as the tools I use loads, could be a useful time-saver." - clicks help file... "Discombobulationator - use this tool for discombobulationating." Thanks a bunch! (Corel in particular seem good at this trick). Years ago, before I discovered SU, I picked up a little freebee drafting app from TUCOWS. It seemed simple enough and was aimed at drawing flow charts, which I needed at the time. One of the first things I did was click on HELP, then "Documentation". Here is a short extract as I remember it........ Drawing Tools. LINE Use this tool to draw lines CIRCLE Use this tool to draw circles BOX Use this tool to draw boxes You get the gist.... Then at the bottom of HELP was the "On-line website Help file" So I clicked on it......... It opened a page that was IDENTICAL to the Help documentation. I guess my first clue should have been the web address..... ending in .RU It was pretty good at drawing flow charts, but a bitch to edit anything, especially text. Scrappo after 3 hours of frustration.

That answers my question...thanks so much. I like to export at hi res, like 8000 wide, so it makes sense that the lines are so light.

Huh? Could you make your question more clear? The transition from Google to Trimble should have been seamless as far as licenses were concerned.

@thomthom said: Is it enabled under Extensions? Huh. It was not. Don't understand how that happened, I haven't messed with any extensions in quite a while. Oh well, it's back now, and all is right with the world (except for maybe a couple of things -- the economy, congress, the environment......) Thanks much

Checked to see if auto save is on, it's off! Thought was auto saving conflict.

Guess we never got Grant interested?

If I might make a suggestion - if you would try to include a more accurate description of your problem or question in the subject of your post, it will be easier for others to find in the future should they have a similar situation. Plus, it will increase your chances that someone with expertise in the area you are having a problem with will notice the post and maybe provide the help you need. For instance, rather than simply calling it "Frustration" why not "Need tutorial on making SciFi Buildings" or something along those lines.

hi, thank you very much, that is exactly, what i needed ! great! thanx again for helping! stan

@dan rathbun said: Is that English, German or both ? the (near to no) GUI is in English, should be feasible for everybody. This release will cease to work if the registry key will change to 'Trimble' with a future SU version. Norbert

Seems difficult to move alone vertex with the Autofold (some capricious For move some vertex without plugin I draw an helper little segment and that is it that I move along inferanced lines + Autofold! That avoid some headaches [image: euBT_help_line.jpg]

@pbacot said: (Caveat: Today I find the move tool in some instances fails to snap and TT's VertexTools does just fine moving the points. I think it's a bug.) One reason for this could be a prevented autofold. Try to use the alt key while moving the vertex. edit: didn't see the second page, so Rich was faster

@unknownuser said: Depending how are your segments of spiral if then don't touch any other a simple double click is sufficient Else look at Selection Toys by Thomthom if each segment of the spiral is similar take look at select line by length by Chris Fullmer hi, yes , the thomthom - tool in quadfacetool does exactly , what i needen now. the next search is an intelligent "follow-path" tool, i will start another topic for that thank you very much! stan

Note: Even running from a thumb drive, the SketchUp Viewer applet still writes into the CurrentUser Hive of the Windows Registry. %(#804000)[HKCU\\Software\\Google\\Viewer] Weirdly... the following key is created but never used: %(#804000)[HKCU\\Software\\Google\\SketchUpViewer8]

Hi Helmi, Do you know or use AutoCAD ? I did some short guideline on how to vectorize PDF -> AutoCAD -> SU - assuming that PDF has linework. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=45500 I was checking other options using Free Inkscape - from PNG directly to DXF R13 Result below... [image: WTrq_20120922-SUskitch.png] beginner_skitch.zip

That's it. No reason why that shouldn't work. The lack of metric (just can't if everything keeps coming in feet and inches) is the reason for this. Since my plans are eventually in feet and inches I used to always refer to that. However in measuring buildings the notation becomes busy and sometimes gets confused. Typing feet and inches as input on a whole measure plan is also more tedious. Decimal inches is what I now use on my Disto and for marking, and laying out a plan, but if you can't check your work quickly, it adds another little task. I can always set the CAD to ft and in for dimensioning later. When I work with someone else who insists on measuring Ft. and inches, like I will today, I have to reset the disto and do it all long hand.

Has anybody tried the Gyration Air Mouse Elite for presentations with SketchUp? http://www.gyration.com/

yes i know but i said that because in this particular case he specified he need to revert just some components which were eventually painted not on purpose..

@unknownuser said: .hmmm, I didn't know Sketchup would directly export as .dwg/.dxf extensions. Well dust my britches.. I do now!! I had failed to follow my Dad's main axiom whey you have a problem like this(or most other stuff too). He always said.."You have to LOOK..LOOK ..oh..did I mention...LOOK?" Well that's exactly what I did...BINGO! DUH!! When I selected "EXPORT/3D...the file type was default(skp. I think). All of a sudden...it dawned on me... .dwg...DUMB!! There it was. OMG. Ok guys, problem solved. Sorry if you had to read all this crap. Well, at least I found it..and that's what matters. And man am I a happy camper now. cheers fitz