@tig said: This happened to most users a week or two ago - it told you even if you had the latest version [rubbish update checker by Google means you get nagged when you do have the latest version !?]... Your PC seems to be just slow in catching up "I forgot to wind the sundial. Now it's stuck on yesterday." R. Hunter

Thank you Chris. I'll try it

Sounds like a cool project, can't wait to see a rough... btw, I vote 'word-picture is a bit blurry' for the euphemystic metaphor of the month-award

Make a Style to suit what you want. For example, this is a built-in 'gradient' light blue sky + a white background [image: FKUb_Capture.PNG] This is a darker blue sky with green ground ticked - they have gradients [image: 4aV0_Capture1.PNG] If you want something more dramatic use a watermark 'gradient' background image stretched across the whole screen, like this [image: 97Rg_Capture2.PNG] or this [image: cAg2_Capture3.PNG]

rufy, can you post the png, or a screenshot showing the problem?

Thanks Rich, that's a good idea! I'm gonna give it a go. If anyone else has good suggetions, please let me know

When you are at editing your image as per Chris' method above, you can also load the colour version of GE instead of the b&w one imported to SU. In order to do this, make sure that when you import the GE snapshot, before navigating away from the exact viewpoint in GE, turn off all visible layers (such as roads, YouTube vidoes, any inscriptions, placemarks, 3D buildings and all) so that you get the clear GE view only go to file > save > save image (this will save the colour GE image) in your SU material browser, click on the b&w image, go to the edit tab and reload your image (see attached) Right there, there is another button you can open the reloaded (and now already colour) image with. [image: sCRY_ReloadGEImage.png] Also, if you want to edit the GE terrain (adding details with the Sandbox tools for instance), unlock the GE snapshot as well as the GE terrain, open the snapshot group, right click on the face, go to Texture > Projected sample this projected material with the Alt+Paint bucket tool (it will turn into a sampler or eyedropper) exit the snapshot group, toggle to the terrain, open it and paint it with the sampled/projected material. Whatever minor changes you are going to do now, will not clutter your projected material on the GE terrain now. See this example file with a reloaded material (this is the historic centre of my home town) Pecs_with_my_home.skp

The project is too interesting from my concern lot of things are there to add in to it.Well i guess most of the thing you has worked out.The extra's are you can go fitting umbrellas for protecting you from the sun rays and you can enjoy yourself onto the beach by having cold drinks beside you.

Many thx! Not for me but for guys who want to know! You win a futur dédicasse by a crazzy artist

Happy to help, Jonas

That is not total hits, that was unique reigistered users. So being in the 100,00's of thousands is not possible, since we only have (nearly) 40,000. So 16,000 of those 40,000 have logged in this year. Plus that does not account for all the people who choose to hide their login status, and all the people with accounts but who do not take the time to log in. Chris

There may be some softened edges dividing the faces there. Turn on hidden geometry to check this out (View menu). Also, if the face bearing the texture is inside a group/component, you need to dig down to the face (edit the group).

Qwerter sent me some data, and the problem reproduces for me with SketchUp 7.1. I've recommended reporting it to Google. Until they fix it you can work around it by also exporting to PNG format and importing that image into Piranesi. Arvan

And pay attention that holding ctrl will soften them, and holding shift will hide them. It is important to use the right key. I virtually always want them softened, not hidden, so I tend to only use ctrl. Chris

ah! didn't notice it was the same poster.

@messire said: Hi all, i need to rescale it down 0,9939 to 1 but it seems the scale tool only accepts increments of 0,01 thnx Nils That .01% snap-to is a real pain, but you can define it more accurately. Just scale it to about the size you want, and type to the VCB the actual ratio you want and [enter]. Often when I need to scale down/up just a tad, it will snap to the nearest .01%. If I move the cursor, it snaps up or down to the next .01%, say between .98 and .97, and I want something in between. So I estimate where in between and say it is .0976 Just simply type .976 [enter] and it will scale to that. If it is off a bit, undo and just rescale from there at say .9765 or .977 I have found trying to enter an exact dimension is a hit or mostly a miss situation. I just put in a guide line where I want the edge to be, and then snap the scale to that. It can get tricky though.

Draw a vertical plane face much bigger than you need. Draw a guide line from a corner of the shape onto the face - in the direct you want the projection. Copy the outermost edges of the shape and paste-in-place into a group [draw a temporary line to start that group]. Edit the group, select those edge lines and use ExtrudeEdgesByVector. Pick the guide line points from the shape's corner up to the face and beyond. You now have an extrusion piercing the face. Do some Intersecting to get the shape imprinted on the face and there you have the shape projected onto the face. Erase unwanted bits...

@unknownuser said: Brooke has rejected all of my ideas out of hand Uh, beg pardon. Regarding your rejection of my rejection, That's out of hand!

At Sumstard there is "CloseOpens" and "StrayLines" to fix these problematic parts. Apparently stray lines are less problematic - they can be deleted by any cleanup plugin but those open gaps are.

@imabzeous said: i mean to print on architectural scale like 1/4 1/2 etc, in ps i dont kno whow to do it helppp I assume ps means photoshop. Here's a method: frame your model in SU with a line only rectangle of some known size (in feet) -- bigger than the model extents. Render with the frame turned on (you can render exact same view with it off if it's on a layer) In PS, measure how many pixels accross on the rectangle -- you will know how many pixels equals the distance In PS crop to the rectangle lines In PS use print with preview (after figuring out how many pixels wide to match the scale you want -- simple math)