Is this what you are looking for?[image: 7aWF_ex1.jpg][image: nFWu_ex2.jpg]ex1.skp If yes,then u need skin.rb plugin(to make the mesh between the beams) and joint push&pull plugin(to give thickness to the mesh).

Use the Force, Antsvam, Use the Force! Jim

hi guys, thanks for replies, I must admit, after getting suv8, I havent reloaded this ruby. 'Round corners' does the trick when necessary. Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year, everyone. Baz

Hi Joel, Have you tried projecting your imge onto the shape? [flash=800,600:3s437fii]http://www.youtube.com/v/HHsRRLCAOm8[/flash:3s437fii] If so, then you other option is to UV Map the material in an external application like Blender, Roadkill (these are free) or a commercial application (lots to choose from). Whaat's UV Tools plugin can help for this.

The free training edition of Tgi3d amorph might be enough for a simple structure - worth testing it at least. You can model the wavy rectangle then thicken it as needed with JPP. TIGs extrude series of plugins would also work for you in all likelihood - simple example:- [image: NrI2_Wavy.png]

Hi all, Thanks a lot for your precious replies! I ended up modelling a completely different (much easier ) Panthella lamp : [image: k3en_1211471108verner_panton1_orgineel.jpg] [image: NSmH_Panthella.jpg] Panthella.skp So since I very often feel gulty for my nearly void contribution to this community, here's the file in case someone might be in need of it for a quick immediate use. It's not to scale, it's just the approximate shape of the lamp but it's there! Again thanks a lot for everything! P.S. to Shura : I need to find some time to upload this dancing people...

mouse is alive and wagging it's tail.

I think what you're after is called Texture Atlasing.

Solid, manifold, water-tight. No holes. No stray lines. No internal geometry. Here's a plugin to help identify problem areas: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=30504 And a new one that tries to fix solids: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=33471

[image: 5271000242_61f816b1c4.jpg] This is possible and not difficult with native tools. Jim's suggestion is good. I did it with Follow Me. Although you don't have to, I started with a square and stretched it with the Move tool after getting the shape. I used an arc--could have increased the number of segments to make it smoother--for the profile. To avoid the point that would inevitably be created at the top of the arc, I put in a short horizontal line segment. [image: 5271011096_46961173f4.jpg] (click for a larger image) There is some unneeded geometry created by Follow Me so a quick Intersect and clean up followed by stretching it to length with Move and you're done.

You could use the stamp tool from the sandbox to add your topo to the downloaded area. First unlock the downloaded terrain then either explode it or put your topo inside the terrain group. Use the stamp tool. Now you have little control over precise vertical placement but once you stamped the topo, it will create a surface with hard edges around so you can select it and use the move tool to adjust the final placement. Finally soften all the edges.

Thanks chris. I think I get it. @chris fullmer said: So then when you navigate in SketchUp, it looks like a photoreal model that you navigating around. Oh boy! p

When you click on either su v7, or su v8 to start, your system will recall that that as the default su. Because of installing su v8, your system is starting with that version. All you need do is to start up with su v7 for your system to default to su v7 thereafter.

@adamb said: Is that right? I believe the Ruby in SketchUp is the full language but with some extra hooks to support that proxy nature of Ruby objects wrt to the underlying COM stuff. How is the behaviour of the Set class different? http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/set.html Methods: clear contains? delete each empty? include? insert length new size to_a Compared to standard Ruby: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Set.html [image: 0l6Z_SetClass.png] I believe it was some Googler that mentioned that it was not a full installation. Maybe they meant it was not a standard installation as they modify several methods in the base classes. And I have no idea why they did what they did to the Set class. I've been trying to get info on this for a while now. I can't find the exact thread now, but I did find report is issues when some Ruby packages where tried within Su Ruby. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=20297&start=0#p169325 If you look at the lib/ruby/1.8/ folder for a standard Ruby install you find several classes missing. Base64 is one of them. I've not mapped out everything that's missing.

What? You're not working on this?

Let me ask you another question. Why do you want to break the model down. Is it just for the purposes of viewing the model isolated one floor at a time, or do you need to physically have a separate file for each floor that you need then then make changes to. If it is just a viewing issue then I would use section cuts. If you make a to level section cut you can cut for example at the top of the third floor. If you also want to cut at the bottom of the third floor (or top of second floor at the same time) then you can put everything at the top level into a group, now enter that group and make your second section cut. Now you can save that as a scene and do the same thing for all of your floors. When you get an updated model next week you can drop it right in place of this (very easy if you make your model a component, then you can reload from another file). You won't have to re-create the section cuts or scenes every week, ready to view as soon as you bring in your new model.

If you want to bend some thing different than a cone try FredoScale. See attached example Oblique Cone Radial Tip.skp

Thanks for the lead. I'll follow the advice and see if I can work around the "features" of the software.

Thankyou very much Gaieus, I just went through learning the kerkythea renamed zip files, so I will remember that. cheers.