BTW my profile is wrong I have , 7, 8. If you only have 6 SU is not upward comaptible so you may need to post the model and have someone change for you.

I have the same problem. Seems to have just started today.

Hi mmrajote, hi folks. Make sure that the gluing property of the component is set to any. Just ideas.

@thomthom said: Your lines are 380km !!! away from ORIGIN. SketchUp doesn't handle such large lengths. Import the model and untick "Preserve drawing origin" in the import options.

I have found some success by rotating the contours up by 45 degrees so that they do not overlap vertically. It unfortunately does not solve all of the cliff problems. I do wish the SU team would investigate what is going on with the Sandbox tools. There seems to be some loss of functionality since 7.1.

That's it! Thanks mate. Knew there had to be a simple way.

Pretty much the same rules as making any SU model smaller. If it's a repetitive model you can turn geometry into instances of eachother. It depends entirely on what's making the file size so big though. Maybe you can post a screenshot of the model. -Brodie

I made this little component a while back. Just import into your model and scale as needed. Use it for any images you want to face the camera. It's sized for people PNGs, but you can use it for whatever. FaceMeBlank.skp

The 'colors' are set within the 3ds file. The 3ds file will be looking for any textures' image files in a certain place. So either keep the relevant folder of images with the 3ds file OR put the images in the same folder as the 3ds file. If the 3ds file has an absolute path set inside it, then I'm unclear how we might find that out...

Yes John, I thought your referring about the black and white convertion... About the watercolor, I have a tutorial at the Sketchup Books section please check it out... allanx

@juanv.soler said: Locking the toolbars once and for ever is something that does not need to be mentioned I hope. OH Yes Let's mention that again and again until it's fixed.

An individual Model Material has a SaveAs == 1 SKM file.[image: SaveAs.png] But the right-side pop-out menu lets you save everything as a Collection == a folder of SKM files.[image: Collection.png]

You can use the Move Tool and move any vertex to an absolute position,[x,y,z],or by a delta amount,<dx,dy,dz>. If the mesh is on a regular grid, my Snap2Grid plugin at my blog might solve the problem.

@TIG : Thanx for the tip this is really helpfull. Btw, there's another question : i can cut the glass with no problem, but the frames consist group inside group (nested group structure). in pro version i can use 'solid' to solidify all frames blocks so later i can subtract with the crack volume, but what if in this case we use 'free' version. To be able to reach all the face to cut out , i have to go one by one of the group and do 'intersect' or other option is to explode everything to get the face level. Is this the right (fastest) way to do it? or maybe there's another better alternate way. Thanx

@tig said: There are plenty of things to snap the green to. A Circle will align to the surface it is hovering over. If that surface is axial it will take the color of the axis or be black otherwise... OR in the absence if a surface it will align to the nearest current axis otherwise. To get it to lock to the [current] 'red' axis you need to orbit so you are looking somewhat along the [current] 'red' axis. When the circle's cursor turns 'red' you know it's on that axis. To lock it to 'red' hold the shift-key. Click on the hip's edge to locate it, it will be made centered on that line. Change its size and segment-count as desired, before you do anything else... Afterwards you are best to Group it - this will avoid it sticking to other existing geometry unexpectedly, while you are changing it later. I moved the circle down [locked in the current blue-axis] because a round ridge-tile is only a partial circle, and wouldn't be centered on the hip-line... Sorted, all understood now. Thanks for that

Thanks a lot Sam!! will try it tonight... best V

@thomthom said: @kmiglioo said: i hava a simmillar problem, when impoting 3ds files from max to sketchup. is there a quick way to clean it up? What problem? Several issues has been mentioned here... Sorry the one with missing triangles and re scaling doesn't fix it,also when I export 3ds files from max to Sketchup some weird triangles show up.I've tried several plugins but nothing helps. It would be awesome if someone knows a way to solve it, other than manually. Thanks!

I've not experienced either of those issues. and yes you need V8 to save toolbars.

Out of curiosity, Otis, what will you be doing with these threads?

Yep, seems to be up again...