Good name I'll try it myself with TIG's posted code

Is that Sketchup & Lumion?

Glad that helped Rob. Keep in mind that a component's or group's axes are aligned with the global axes upon creation of the component or group. If this axis orientation doesn't align with the geometry of the component, as would be the case with, say a rafter drawn in place or a window drawn on an angled wall, Change Axes can be used to modify the axis orientation as well as change the location of the component's or group's origin and thus the insertion point. Of course this is useful if you want tools to align to the axes when editing. If you are using interested in generating some sort of report indicating the dimensions of the components or groups in your model, alignment of the axes with the geometry is critical. Those reports typically report the dimensions of the bounding boxes. If the component will be used in the future, setting the orientation and location of the axes can greatly improve your workflow, too.

Ok, so it's not a bug but I could not find the option any more. Thank you very much!

These are some 'one-liners' that manipulate selections etc - Copy+Paste into the Ruby Console + <enter> To select just Faces and Edges in the active context m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.clear;m.active_entities.each{|e|s.add(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;Face or e.class==Sketchup;;Edge} To select just all Faces in the active context m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.clear;m.active_entities.each{|e|s.add(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;Face} To select just all Edges in the active context m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.clear;m.active_entities.each{|e|s.add(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge} To select just the Faces and Edges in the current selection m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.each{|e|s.remove(e)if e.class!=Sketchup;;Face and e.class!=Sketchup;;Edge} To select just the Edges in the current selection m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.each{|e|s.remove(e)if e.class!=Sketchup;;Edge} To select just the Faces in the current selection m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.each{|e|s.remove(e)if e.class!=Sketchup;;Face} You can expand this idea to quickly select/deselect all manner of things

thanks, I have that tool! it got buried in one of my replacement plugin menus

mirjman, These are the nicest images i have seen in a while. i'd love to hear about your process to create these, a tut?

@Gaieus Thanks! Very powerfull tool. First, i have some trouble but when i find context menu, everything it's ok! Thanks again!

Just put profile lines on with a thickness of 1. Styles/edges

That's tough. Perhaps if you clarified exactly what you need and what you need it for. There are thousands of cities in the world and all are a bit different and the type you need is probably relative to where your clients are located. You can try to search Google images for things like "Urban Communities", "Urban Centers", "Town Square", etc. I still say your best bet is to get out with a camera and spend a day in an area relevant to your archvis projects and take as many photos as you can. If you want 3D backgrounds that are ready made with all that stuff in it, I know of nothing like that on the market, except for hobbyist software like DAZ3D and iClone. Most archvis professionals want more control over their projects and would rather create the entourage and backgrounds themselves so it doesn't look like they just drop clip art into their scene.

Jean yes, you are right, infact SU obvioulsy cretaes poly meshes when it exports to *dwg... maybe there is a mesh to 'solid' (acis) converter somewhere... ? if i find it, i'll post back here Merci en tous les cas Paddy

Thanks for the input - Have solved the issue by eg: Walls - edit>select all & placing them back on their original Layer via Entity Info which has worked! Layer0 had remained On all the time as I always group & create separate Layers via Entity Info as I work, so not sure what happened but the wheels are back on!!!!

That always happens when (after selecting the scale tool) you zoom in too quickly. They are still visible - go on scaling this way for now...

Juan, 3D trees - especially at this density and amount - are just too many polygons and too much load for GE. What the 3D Tree Layer in GE does is that they have a certain level of detail (LOD) engine in them which will turn them less detailed when seeing from a distance and even 2D when seeing from a bigger distance. Even the close-up is a highly optimized way of displaying vegetation (not the way SU builds up these trees for sure). Many game engines work the same way. There is an interest at Google to eventually make this tree layer public and allow contributors to populate their own area with them but until then it is a futile effort to do this as it kills GE as you can also experience.

Hey TIG - think I owe you a beer or two! Thanks for you help with this, very much appreciated! Will give this a try and will also have a look at SKMtools too. Cheers Sam

Another great suggestion. I will try that tonight and report back!

@rc5 said: @bob james said: @unknownuser said: sketchup gives a bug splat when i close the window. This happens to me often I also am continually plagued with the right-click menu being greyed out. So I have to weed out the conflicting plugin(s). I've seen this grayed out thing very often, but not the component browser. May I have the list of plugins that are the culprit? It's not a 'culprit' plugin or two. It's a result of the number of plugins you have loading - the context-menu etc can only support a certain number of 'commands' - if you exceed it by having hundreds of plugins vying for space it will 'gray-out'. This is a discussion about it AND even a plugin that tries to optimize 'command' usage http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=252413#p252413 . However its success will be limited if you have too many plugins loading - you can 'spring-clean' and disable the ones you never use that are contributing to the 'critical-mass' that's tipping you over the 'gray-out' limit - rename the little used .rb files with .TXT suffix, and then if you find later you want it to revert you can just remove the suffix and restart, OR to load it for that session only use ' load "xxxx.rb.TXT"' in the Ruby Console - where 'xxxx' is the tool/script's name. Note that if you have the latest version of your plugins then this will also help - a few scripts [including several of Fredo's] were found to contribute to this 'gray-out' issue by making 'duplicated' commands - as far as I know they have all be updated many months ago to avoid this contributory factor... Look through your Plugins and the Plugins Index to ensure you are up to date too...

how large model u have been build on the sketchup?

post some vidoes review for the sketchup model please...! tq!

Enjoy