Have you tried any of the real 3D trees from the WH and removing the leaves? Most of them are kind of basic (but therefore would also fit what the images show) and generally the leaves are the poorest part actually so without them they might look okay. Also, Alan Fraser posted some example of his work in the CMS forum like this one: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=8246 or this one: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=20675 where stripping the leaves off will also result in some dead looking trees.

Hi Jean, Thanks for the model, but I'm afraid I've gotten to far in the model to go back and change the seating. I've gotten the seating done by just offsetting the bottom of the racing surface to the back of the building's rim. Plus, I have a road leading in and out of the track area so that cars and other vehicles can enter. I will gladly put you under the contributers for the track when I upload it to the warehouse.

great find. Thats exactly what i ended up doing, used the poly segmenter.

A quick little rewind plugin can easily be made. All the code needed is: Sketchup.active_model.pages.selected_page = Sketchup.active_model.pages[0] You can see the result when types into the Ruby Console. A custom toolbar with extended controls maybe?

Ok now I get it. It was a backup file. I had always thought the back up file was the Autosave one, and never checked the difference between the two. You learn something every day and on Sketucation I learn several things each and every day.... Thanks to both of you for clearing that up... I'm glad its not my file or my computer ... Its just me

Thanks, these will definitely come in handy for those fans of these models. Maybe we could move it to the components/materials/styles section? Not completely where it would fit but here I guess it will sink too soon.

That seems to do the trick. In one instance, I had to make it a unique texture, then re-apply and make unique again. Oh well, whatever works, correct? Thanks for your help.

I've had a time with the zoom feature with middle trackball on mighty mouse. Randomly stops working. Zoom extents and it's back on track.

Just a tip, lock the 2D template so you can't select it.

This video might help you, let it play all the way through and I think it will answer your questions.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaQFpCQS_y4

I avoid Collada as it never imports right in any app I've ever used, I do not know if it's due to SU not exporting it right but it just does not work. I also say .obj is true universal, just remember to flip axis and you are golden.

Uh... 'twas because the edges defining the faces were on a different layer than the other entities in the group and not '0' and the mother entity was on another layer still. Should'a looked there first.... and saved myself the humiliation of being an object lesson in answering one's own, or some such contained more explicitly herein, about being very mindful of nested layers almost always being best '0' and '0' only. (Which I knew and practice, but made a boo-boo just the same.)

It's difficult to UV map textures like that - why not paint alternate stripes red/white like this [switch hidden geometry 'on' first - then 'off' afterwards][image: Capture.PNG]

You can hide the rest of the model whilst editing a component [under edit menu] that way you can see what you are doing and more easily erase unwanted overlaps from the 'intersection with model', by hand...

Thanks, Paul. I do have Pro. Just not too familiar with it. But it sounds like the best way. The best alternative is suppose is as you suggest- get the area I want covering as much of the monitor screen as possible and then fiddle with it. Thanks, much. Dave

Hi ThomThom DUH! I will slap my self now hahaha thanks anyway TT, I'll put this in the DUH thread ultimatez

Thanks for all the advice. I have a couple photos I will bring my model into. The videos and text links were extremely helpful. Regards, John

You should work full-size in Sketchup. It doesn't "draw to scale". Set you empty SKP model - Model Info > Units - to say 'meters'. Import the site-plan image and place it down flat. Use the Tapemeasure tool and pick two points on this image that you know to be a given distance a part - perhaps a road width or a building-frontage width - let's say it's 30m. The VCB will show a dimension [it won't be 30m unless you are the luckiest guy in the world! but that's not important], immediately type in the correct dimension as 30m and press <enter>, a dialog asks if you want to rescale the model, say 'yes'. Group it and lock the group so you don't accidentally change it. The image is now scaled to the right size, so drawing things over it at their true size will be in the correct relationships/proportions. Now you can draw over it to add new roads and block-building forms, entering the sizes in meters as you want... Group or make components of these parts so they don't 'stick-together' when moving/rotating... You can set some scene tabs of 3d perpsectives or 2d plan [no-perspective] etc with shadows on as desired. Export these as images - you can scale a plan later - once your model is more complete...

@rv1974 said: @Fredo: I swear you was the real target of the topic starter! Gotcha! Actually, I was referring to the interactive method to edit curves shown in the Russian demo. For the Ramp question, there are approximate solutions. Attached is a small standalone plugin showing the concept (indeed, it would deserve a GUI to pick the contours, play with parameters, propose to skin with curviloft, etc...) - maybe I will integrate the function in Curviloft [image: Ramp Shearing.gif] The plugin is realsed in the Plugin section of the forum: see http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=29230#p254673 To use the plugin CurviShear Select one or several curves (it has to be real Sketchup Curves) Contextual menu (or plugin menu) Curve Shearing Dialog box to enter the base height, the maximum height and Group option. New curve(s) are generated The plugin also works with a single curve. When you have more than 2 curves, the ordering is unfortunately dependent on the SU selection order. IMPORTANT: For the time being, the Direction for Shearing is the Z AXIS. So you curves should preferrably be in the Horizontal plane. Fredo

@thomthom said: And the flutes could be made into CutOut components for easy reuse and quick editing. Another good idea