Thanks - worked a charm

You can obtain a fairly quick and basic effect by using gradient transparency pngs in front of the camera as here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=23368&p=198149#p198149

I am not aware of anything older. If you can think of what it was, I'd be interested in seeing it. As far as I know, these are ground breaking plugins listed (and only scratching the surface of possiblities!).

Brilliant! I will try it right now! thanks

wow! "erase coplanar edges" in the "cleanup" plugion is perfect !!!

Although the Plugins folder may be empty, don't forget the stuff in the Tools folder is still being loader - Dynamic Components, Sandbox, Photo Textures...

Sketchup does not subdivide the texture deliberately, it is only not capable to align the texture. The only ways of texturing organic shapes in Sketchup is using projected texture (native), or using spherical or cylindrical projection (plugin UVTools 0.1). There are also other ways of texturing, like this workaround or using another programm for uv-mapping (plugin UVTools 0.2)

@sercrojoe said: Edit: By changing certain groups' or components' Entity Info, I've been able to change their layers (apparently), but for some of them it just won't work. Why is that? Well, that's the easiest way and actually "the" way normally. You can also use the Layers toolbar but the results will probably be the same. If you have any issues ("some of them not working..."), double check if the content is on some different layer than Layer0. "Primitive" or "raw" (i.e. ungrouped) geometry should never go elsewhere. There may still be nested groups/components on all different layers within your groups/components - check that, too. Eventually copy the troublesome groups and paste them in a new file. Have a look what layers they have "inherited" to get some clue what may be wrong with the original file and/or ultimately upload such faulty pieces here so we can have a look.

Well, that's it, I haven't (had the problem). I was primarily interested in the thread, because this was an apple issue that I was interested in seeing the outcome of what happened. However, like you guys, the assistive option checkbox was ticked on my computer.

It is a handy thing sometimes as you can easily drag and drop materials from one window to the other (say when you have just made a new material of an imported image from scratch and want to keep it in one of your libraries)

Yeah I noticed the xml file for kerk was 131MB where as the 3ds was 59MB, the original SU file was 32MB. Its obvious different formats and exporters triangulate the model differently.

And with this that is another story [image: http://www.etsavega.net/dibex/imatges/Choisy-R_8c.jpg]

Yes, it does. If you have pőroblems with it, just upload your model and the image here so we can play around a bit.

OR move everything above the default ground plane (the x/y plane). But turning shadows on ground off is an easier solution of course.

How about giving one set a distinctive texture in addition to colour?

I too have a mac and I am having the exact same problem and get the same results after upgrading from 6 to 7.1 I did all the work arounds list in this post and got the same results as Anar

Thanks, Chris: You are very kind to reply. As a matter of educating me, do you happen to know what factors would contribute to this condition, other than my ignorance? This appears analogous to Autocad block insertion points issues, but I don't know. (And it is rather involved process to correct this in Autocad, too.) I assume there is no easy script fix for this. Or is there? EDIT: After performing the operations suggested by Chris Fullmer, I gained a little better understanding of the problem. The component axes (not the workspace global axes) are normally connected with the bounding box of the component or group upon creation. If some modeling operation "corrupts" this relationship, the component axes may become divorced from the bounding box. It just so happens that while using SketchyFFD in SU6 I discovered that the deformation matrix was being formed at or near the divorced group axes, and because of this offset, some squirrelly results were happening after moving the matrix into position around the target group and applying the deformations. So, this may be a caveat for users of SketchyFFD, whatever version, to be sure that the axes are in the right location.

Hello Jody, That is exactly what the problem was. Now in what way does turning off Hardware acceleration affect the performance of SU? I am on the iMac 27" With the latest OSX 10.6.2 Graphics card is: ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 Mb 8Gb Ram screen resolution of these big ones is: 2560 x 1440 Many thanks Jody for your advise Filip K.

since clouds are water vapor, will the software then become vapor ware??

@jagizzi said: Gaieus, I am on my Mac, which is new to me, so I don't know how to capture a window to post so I will have to save the sketchup file itself. (Would take that bit of knowledge too, if you knew how). Easy on my PC buy am learning the mac as i go. Thanks, jagizzi to do a screen capture on your mac you can use "command/shift/3" for a full screen capture, or "command/shift/4 " will bring up a set of gun sights to capture the area you highlight. I have always wanted to build one of these ovens for bread and pizza, so I will follow this closely.