In addition to what's been said already... IF you have applied a texture material directly onto a group or component-instance then that textures material is displayed for any internal faces using the default material [consistently oriented], BUT you cannot affect the material's texture placement on a face by face basis even by editing the container and selecting a face, because that face would still have the default material ! You must apply a textured material directly onto a face for you to be able to use the right-click context-menu Texture tools to modify it individually for each face... THEN you will be able to rotate the texture individually on a face as desired... Tip: once you have just two versions of the textured material adjusted as desired [let's say vertical and horizontal grain] then you need not continue to edit every texture to make it horizontal. Simply use the Material Browser's eyedropper tool to sample a horizontal version of the material - it becomes the active material - and then paint using that on all of the surfaces you want to have the horizontal version - it's a much quicker method than using the Texture tool on every one in turn...

If you infer from an edge, you'll get a guideline...which is infinite in length, but which should not be visible through solid surfaces. If you infer from a point, you'll get a short dotted line of whatever length you measured, terminating in a construction point. Again, not visible through solid surfaces. These processes are the same whether you're inferring from raw geometry or geometry inside a group/component. If you get anything else, it's most likely a graphics card issue.

Thanks, all of you for your input.

Thanks Rich for the explanation. Now I know what I'm looking at. I rarely see a version 8 model when I'm searching. Mostly 5,6,and 7. I usually just get the highest version on the list and so far I have no problems with any downloads.

Fololow me and keep does not rotate but in some cases it does not keep the heigt constant. 1001 Bits tools does but it's $ but does have a 30 day trial period

ok.... this is my problem....i can't select any template. leftclick onatemplate is not active... [image: 5580680968_3fe421796c_m.jpg] thanks

Tig's explanation gives the logical reason for the behaviour...but of course things aren't always logical. The sides of a road wouldn't bend like that, for instance. I thought some time ago about requesting a new feature for the Offset Tool, activated by holding Ctrl down, but thinking more deeply, it's one of those situations in which the software can't read your mind; it has no idea which lines you want to remain parallel and which to 'doctor'. Mostly, I do what Tig has done and simply delete the weird bits (much easier with the last couple of versions that allow edges to self-intersect) If you really do want to maintain some kind of predictable curvature on the offset, having exceeded the centre of curvature of the outside corners, then use the maths demonstrated in the diagram. This effectively shifts the centre to the middle of the square...so you can run a number of concentric offsets with uniformly smaller corner curves. The easiest solution is, of course, to work from the inside and offset outwards...then you don't get any of these problems and the corner curves will remain mathematically parallel...but probably more rounded than you want by the time you reach the exterior. [image: h7z3_fillet_thumb.jpg]

jsax Instead of playing a thousand and one question why not upload the model to the 3 d warehouse so it can be looked like in detail. That would probably save a lots of time?? The model size seems very large 55MB vs what appears should be simple and looks like aliasing but not quite. Make sure you purge your model and get rid of all extraneous things not in the model or I would even go further and get rid of all materials , cleanup removing stray edges and see what happens when coplanar faces are removed although will probably break your model. At that size you may need to zip it to upload if it will compress far enough. For such a simple model why not re draw and see if problem comes back?? What does this look like in just 2d with out the extruded thickness?? Is there any hidden geo causing the large file size? Have you tried w/o hardware accel? Have you tried adjusting the anti alias?? The more I look at image the more I am thinking it is a small size issue. Can you explain why the apparent break across the dia. Use the create. face tool that comes with SU and select the edges of one of those a see if you can force face formation. Is the large file size from other portions of the model you are not showing in the image? BTW way you are around the corner, Littleton here

It is ghosted out until you turn on shadows at all.

ah ok... thanks! i'll look into it. i hope this will fix it

@unknownuser said: Here is another one I tried to find this past weekend but could not. It was bookmarked here at the office. http://freemusicarchive.org/ Thanks Eric, much appreciated.

I've lost count of how many CAD programs I've tried over the years hoping to find a good layout tool to go with Sketchup. Just recently TigerCAD, TurboCAD again after many years, DoubleCAD, FelixCAD. Bottom line I think DraftSight is it. I thought it was 2D at first, but scanning the manual it is actually 2.5D! and it opened a 12mb dxf model from SU perfectly with layers. It makes nice vector PDFs and .dwgs that open well in other programs. UI is different and still figuring it out. Also imports images and you can reference external files. All the stuff required to do layouts and drafting. And it's free. DoubleCAD imports the skp model but you can't actually do anything with it, too clunky and slow. My two cents. I normally use ArchiCAD by the way. EDIT: Update. Upon further review DoubleCAD isn't working out. Now, I'm export 2D drawings extracted from the model in a preliminary sheet layout in dxf. Then open in DraftSight to add images, Word docs, etc. No 2.5D, just 2D. One issue is although it prints to pdf very well, the file is 15mb! I found that printing an svg, open that in Inkscape and save as pdf makes great quality and 141kb. TurboCAD Designer also works for this, but not free, about $40.

Well I have just over half of the responses need to allow my to start analyzing the results. If you haven't already done so, can you please spare 10 minutes to take the survey. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Rob

The order of events in the promise may be reversed.

There is a command-line utility for "scrambling" a Ruby source file, which outputs an .rbs of the same name. http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/utilities.html C;\Plugins>scrambler SketchUp Ruby Scrambler version 1.0 Usage -- Scrambler file1.rb [file2.rb] ... Creates file1.rbs [file2.rbs] ... For obvious reasons, an unscrambler isn't available.

You need to use Sketchup.load to load .rbs files. http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/sketchup.html#load

I would subdivide it with Subdivide and smooth and then erase diagonals

SU8 free doesn't have an option for importing CAD files. You need pro for that. You could try the plugin here, though.

I was also having crashes when using chris's Shape Bender. after updating HolePunchTool that problem also went away!

Yes, I get that too sometimes. It indeed seems to be the file size (rather than resolution size). Save it as jpg and it will become larger - then it displays. We should really close down one of these days and clean up this forum software. It has so many glitches!