It looks to me as if you've just moved the axes. The thing to do is right click on the origin and choose Reset. You might find it easiest to hide the model or at least the part of it in the vicinity of the origin before doing that. You don't need to delete anything though. Unhide with Edit>Unhide.

Sounds like your v8 DXFimporter is foobar - reinstall it...

Not bad, I'll have to keep that one in the 'ol toolbox. Would be good for something a little simpler than what I'm doing. Doesn't take transitional areas (road to ditch to field) into consideration and the edges aren't great. [image: Capture.PNG]

From your specs and model size you should not have memory issue unless you are using grahics vs what you noted with large memory or maybe dual monitors. Their memory gets subtraced from what you can use because w7 till maintains compatibility with x32 that cannot use extended memory address space above the 4gb limit Chack the two items of page two on this link especially the one about unchecking max memory use http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/5816-windows-7-64-bit-ram-issue-2.html

Yeah it's an on and off problem. If I go and check uncheck stuff in preferences it works a while than it appears again.

as it turns out the one on the right did work out much better in this instance and after flipping just a few faces it seemed almost perfect. [image: Capture1.PNG] [image: Capture2.PNG] the one on the left however had some major issues! go figure. [image: Capture3.PNG]

sigh I guess ill just skip sketchup then. I was really looking forward to using this program with these models.

Dear David, Thanks, I had forgotten about that option. Kind regards, Bob

One partial solution to this problem that I use is to explode everything, groups components, the lot. In most cases it will be beyond peoples ability or patience to extract elements from the model. Baz

@chris fullmer said: Seriously Roger, I'm going to down to AZ and follow you around for a few days. You always have some cool camera project cooking in the background. That would be easy, but a bit boring as I am moving slower and slower

I posted an AHK script to resize the SU drawing area (minus toolbars, tabbars,) rather than window size. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=30720 Wreaks havoc on your Toolbars...

Dave, Hang in there buddy......I aim to make you proud.... :~) Thanks for the latest cutlist link......though it is likely pilot error. Charlie

Hey, MartinK, I have your exact laptop and love it! I bought it when it first came out (at a significantly higher price), and the young salesdudes were drooling at the mouth as they watched me walk out with what they lusted after. Little did they know that I needed a "gaming computer" to keep up with all my graphic needs! Although I'm in love with it, it wouldn't be fair to omit telling you that sometimes it does crash, but then, I have no idea who or what is to blame for that. Now a couple of keys are also sticking a bit -- not staying down and activated, more like they're harder to press. I'm sure I can find a way to remove the keyboard and clean everything out to alleviate that issue. Other than that, no problems whatever! Love having all this computing power, large screen, etc. Awesome choice! Good luck with yours! Gigi

Short answer, I think, yes there is. I want to say it is Smart Drop. First look in Plugins Index above- red button at top of page. Then, if not there, perhaps Ruby Library Depot. You may also be able to do this with Drape? Stamp? in the Sandbox Tools?

Thanks for that - yes it is really annoying. I'll try your spotlight search to get rid of the SKBs. Cheers Sam

The Logo Contest might be kinda fun tho. Since people would know this isn't actually going to be used by Google they could go nuts with it.

yeah, but I am pretty sure I made the mac ones from a windows set I downloaded once, so I thought they might be out there all done. David

You could create it as a straight run of blocks with the gaps and make the whole run a component. Then use Shape Bender to bend it to the curve.

@broomstick said: I usually get the same result activating the Bucket (B) and then alt-click on the correct texture. That way when you click with the bucket on other faces, it will apply the material with the collected UVs Indeed, but the problem is how to set the "correct texture" because if you sample material from a face where was not "mapped" in some way, it will just sample the material. "Positioning" the texture does exactly that: assign UV on that textured face, so when sampling, you get the UV's too.

My favorite is Stray Lines: http://www.smustard.com/script/StrayLines It labels all lines that do not meet up with another line, and that is what is going on in your model. Download that, then run it and it will show each little broken spot. You might have to zoom in very very close to see the problem. But once you see the line that is not meeting up, just connect it and it should work. Though if it is too small, SU will not let you draw it. You'll have to figure out a way around that if it comes up.