yeah . .. what he said. ****

This thread seems to deal with the same issue (amongst other things): http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=14353&p=108605 It seems not, which is annoying. I'm going to see if Layout can do something for me.

@gaieus said: Edson, Was the texture not applied to a back face (and on the front face inside the wrong one)? That would explain also (and probably explain why your workaround worked). csaba, it surely could. I was using this and other context elements from several older projects thus I do not remember when I modeled that. one of the things I did was to reverse the face before trying the other steps.

wow thanks guys... solo thats awesome!!! thanks mate... i been keeping an eye out for SDS2, so ill wait for that to come.... hopefully soon!!!!

I was advised to update my GPU drivers as SU made some driver changes in V7. SU8 needs Open GL 1.5. The highest available for my old ATI-9200 card is OGL 1.3. So I need a new GPU; which means an upgrade to my old power supply as the new cards are power hogs. But my old case may not be able to mount the new form factor P/S, so I may need a new case, which may not mount my old Gigabyte M/B. And so it goes............

Thanks for all your inputs guys... appreciated... I'll have to try various things and see what works for me. Best wishes from London...

@marian said: Max is like a tool shed squized into the size of a swiss army knife and just as unwieldy while SU is the swiss army knife with the added ability of adding or removing the tools you need or not. beautifully put!

Hi Rich, Depending on the complexity of the model (i.e. on how many faces you need to do this), it can be easier or even worse... After projecting the photo, exit the PM tool and go to the faces. Right click each face and make the texture unique on each. This should crop the image at the boundary of the face on one hand and make it rectangularly mapped on it on the other. A lot of renderers have issues with matched photos and this procedure generally helps.

I wish I had one. I've been looking at CNC routers for cutting large sheets of plywood but they are quite expensive and if I put one of those in my shop, I wouldn't have room to build another boat.

Make a rough draw of what you want.

@pixero said: Well, it's hard to say how fast anyone will learn Photoshop but I use it a lot to incorporate both people, trees and more. There is lots of ready to use cutout trees availble and after a while you'll want to photograph your own and make your custom library of images. Be sure to learn how to color adjust the images so they match the lighting of the render. Here is a good place to start: http://vyonyx.com/category/tuts/ Great tutorials and also some trees and people for download. Another thing. If you're serious about Photoshop you should get yourself a wacom pen. Makes life soo much easier in Photoshop. Cheers for that. Long time ago, about 2 years, I bought a Wacom tablet for Sketchup after watching Ironman, but I realised the mouse was so much better ,plus i needed the money at university for Booze and smokes so i sold it. Should have kept it lol

How about "fog" in SketchUp?[image: Temp00.png]

Thanks for all your replies guys, I'll check out each suggestion.

anstvam I have a folder of how to,s I've collected for a while. This from the 4 09 time frame. I don't have the author info and maybe dated but perhaps it will give you some ideas. http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=f48b65c28d87667427d16763a0ff49 Update 0201 2011, found the author while looking for something else. It is catamountainThis is some data she has in the sage site.Here is a better link http://groups.google.com/group/Sketchup-Pro/browse_thread/thread/b97e3d2cb4fe0a75/117b0f68b52ee3f3

It is not a SU setting (and definitely not a setting at model level - which means that cannot be set with the template) but indeed a printer setting so you are stuck where you are now and what you already know.

Black tape on the check engine light will probably be just fine. Maybe. I hope. I don't find that I get reversed faces all that often when I work. And fixing them as I go isn't that big of a problem. I just right click on a properly oriented face and choose Orient Faces. I do see if frequently in models by other folks who start with flat surfaces divided into smaller faces and then use Push/Pull on them. Of course in those cases, while it looks like the faces are reversed, SketchUp is doing the correct thing if you look from the other side. As was already mentions, internal faces can cause problems but those should probably be removed anyway.

I have Podium, Kerky , Twilight, plus I have played with Shaderlight, Hypershot and Vray for SU. After seeing Pete's Demo in boulder of Thea, I am leaning toward a purchase of that. What does this mean??? I'm rendo-schizophrenic. And I suck at all of them.

Now basic plugin

I think 3ds only imports "geometry", well as far as I am aware I dont think the cameras can come over also I would look for a plugin maybe other than that I haven't heard of a way before?

Fixed Found a older SketchUp 7 Version buried in my Library folder. Removed it, and there was V8.