Thanks for replaying @unknownuser said: it seems a bit excessive to reinvent the wheel... Your are completely rigth! That does not make sense. I was just looking for a possability to set and save such an option along the skp-file. @unknownuser said: Have you considered the JointPushPull script ? Yes, I thought about that. But I decided to work only with a few plugins. Regards, Kurt

Vista - right-click bottom Task-bar and select Cascade, Side by Side etc for ALL windows... Can't do SKPs alone... unless they are the only windows open...

Alright, it's not clipping. It's because you have used a section plane. And as you must know, SketchUp doesn't create solids. It creates hollow structures. You have two options. Either get rid of the section plane and show the outside edges of the plates. The other option would be to use TIG's plugin to create a face on the section plane.

You may have to construct some Scenes that will set the camera square on to the orientations you desire. And, I thought that there was at least one camera control plugin that could do this? I assume that Parallel Projection could be applied to each scene?

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=32810&hilit=bezier+patch Coming soon....but ask Thomthom when?

I am guessing you are clicking on the "Photo Textures" icon in SketchUp, and it brings up the window in Street view? Try clicking the "Add Location" icon, that will bring up a regular Google Earth window where you can grab the terrain and import that. You can click that icon many times to keep importing more pieces of the terrain. Good luck, Chris

Yes, absolutely. It is completely legal to make commercial products with the free version. Cool, 'eh?

Here's Windows TaskMangager with two SKPs open at the same time -> two versions of Sketchup...[image: JPQY_Capture.PNG]

Thanks for that additional info, rabbit. Very encouraging. Knowing my AutoCAD experience will carry over somewhat is nice to hear. I put together a little presentation, a render, some 2D drawings as I would've produced in AutoCAD, and exported a 3D PDF page where you can see the model and spin it around right there in the PDF and sent that off to my boss. I'll see what he thinks and if he's into it, I'll definitely be looking more into Rhino.

This sounds like Sketchup got stuck. It has happened to me after severely contorting some geometry. I even saw edgeless slivers that could not be selected. And I was not using any layers other than default. I think you discovered the best way to correct the problem.

Hi Napper, Use the scale tool inside the group/component (while editing it). You can also use the Tape measure tool to scale a group/component while editing it (again). Measure an edge whose desired size you know and after clicking the second time, just type the desired value. Again, inside the group/component (this is important as beside SU remembering that it is a custom scale, your materials will also be scaled with it). Alternatively, if it were a component, not a group (why not?) when right clicking on a scaled component, you also have a "Scale definition" menu item. That will tell SU that this should be the "normal" size and not an exceptional one. When you have windows in a model, they are likely to be in several instances anyway in which case components are preferred anyway.

that's rendered in the game... sorry.

Man! I've never seen so many "No's" in one thread. But thanks for correcting my perception.

Acad drawing elements are unlike other Cad applications. In Acad, a line can be a simple 3d line, or rectangle with thickness, and extrusion direction (vector). A acad line with a thickness of 0.0 is a line, with a thickness of 1 inch, it is a rectangle with a height of 1 inch. You can not make a line with thickness in SketchUp. The SketchUp importer changes a line with thickness into a face. In SketchUp, when you model a set of connected edges in the x,y plane(say a polyline), then you loft the edges in the z direction, Sketchup will change the connected line into connected faces, and edges. SketchUp's DXF exporter will not translate this model into a polyline with thickness. The following is a portion of an ASCII DXF with some of my notes prefaced with #. A DXF listing always starts with a group code then followed by the data. This sequence is repeated throughout. Thickness, and bulge are as the tables above indicates. Some of the group codes are documented under "common group codes for entities". . . 0 #Acad group code precedes every piece of data POLYLINE #data is entity Name 5 #Acad group code for handle 29 #handle 8 #Acad group code for layer name T-2DPLINE-3 #layer name 62 #etc. 5 #etc. 66 1 10 #Acad group code for x 0.0 #x 20 #Acad group code for y 0.0 #y 30 #Acad group code for z 0.0 #z 39 #Acad group code for thickness 2.4332129974000671 #thickness 40 2.0 0 VERTEX #first vertex in polyline 5 34 8 T-2DPLINE-3 62 5 10 -1.3768750602197291 20 -3.437321703110606 30 0.0 0 VERTEX #second vertex in ployline 5 35 8 T-2DPLINE-3 62 5 10 -0.8415682007917144 20 3.2296819097655769 30 0.0 42 #Acad group code for bulge -0.9902342116099923 #bulge data 0 . . I do not know what AutoCad drawing elements require entity thickness, width, and bulge. At one time Acad dimension line arrow heads used a lwpolyline with width, but I do not know if Acad 2011 continues to do so. My copy of Volo View is good up to Acad 2000. Thanks for the info on TrueView. Had it on my system at one time, but didn't like, and removed it.

@gaieus said: It's modelhead and Notareal who figured this out. So this seems to be a broader issue and with IE. Good to know, thanks. It was not particularly pinpointed to IE (just a stong suspect). Anyhow it was verified that a new user profile did fix the problem, but the root for the issue did stay unlear (had no change to do a deeper analysis). Effect of 'random' entries should be trivial to test if one have time... just create manually similar random entries I sort of doupt that this actually have much effect, but still worth to test. No idea what might couse these entries.

Use the protractor tool. Bring it onto the face, then hold 'shift' to lock it to that plane. Click on one corner of the face, then the opposite corner, then the opposite corner one more time to draw a guide along the surface of the face. Now use the 'shift' key to lock the protractor to the red or green axis (depending on the orientation of your original face). Click once on the previously created guide (to start another guide). Click again elsewhere on the same guide. Type '90' and hit 'enter'. Now you have a guide to use to draw your line. No plugin needed.

I can't say for sure. Your issue sounds similar to one I was having while using a pocket usb drive. I was hoping my mention would spark something with someone else.

Many Thanks everybody. So nice to be amongst such gifted people. @Gaieus .... for reference purposes.. Preference > extensions > **Ruby Script examples[b]and then context click > Point of center. Thank you Gaieus @Honoluludesktop.... really smart way, easier after you have gotten the point of center as Gaieus explained. Thanks everybody, really appreciate**[/b]

Hi, thanks a lot... although I don't quite get what do you mean. Haha. I will try the intersect options anyway. Thanks! Will update here after that.

Another suggestion is to integrate Sketchup with a realtime rendering application eg. Lumion, Twinmotion or another. I know that in nearest future all architectural applications will be oblige to use this technology (directry from games). First one who will do that, will be world's leader and I believe that this will be Google Sketchup (my favorite tool in everyday work). I will be first customer. Just today Lumion gets models straight from 3d Warehouse. Integration should be easier then with V-ray.