@gaieus said: Still it seems that the texture is scaled with that cabinet door. Are there two, separate texture images with the model? If not, try to right click on that component and "Scale definition". If it were a native SU model, this would fix the texture scaling issue. There was only one texture for the wood but I did right-click and make unique texture and scale that one so I found a work around just wanted to see if anyone else had seen this before. Thanks

Thanks for the tips guys. Much appreciated! Ken

Scott, Modelhead, Thank you very much - some great recommendations there. It is clear that Photoshop (or it's various cousins - I'm on a Mac and using Gimp, Pixelmator etc.) is pretty essential. I have had some success with Gimp by taking a basic board, and copying/modifying it in various ways to create larger panels. Gimp's Liquid resixe and bump maps help create some pretty good looking images that then serve fairly well for the size of furniture I am working with at the moment.

@Panga: I used VirtualBox 3.0.10 on linux. I found the solution on wikipedia: VirtualBox does support OpenGL (only 32-bit windows XP and Vista, linux, solaris) after having installed the "Guest Additions" (see manual, it's like a setup cd that you put in the virtual operating system) @juan974: I have not yet thought about it... Interesting . The XP on the Virtual Machine cannot be completely compared to a normal XP on a real computer, VirtualBox does not support all techniques that Sketchup can use, like hardware acceleration. Also I used a very stripped down Windows XP which can of course not use the full ram (in my case I allowed it only to use 192MB) because otherwise the host operating system cannot work. The minimal XP install cd can be created with nLite. Luckily SU7.1 works now also in Wine on linux without problems, so I only need VirtualBox for placing models in Google Earth. The above test made me wonder why SU runs faster in a virtual machine than in wine...

@manojglobal said: hi My first sketchup layout. comments are walcome... Manoj Singh Hi! It's your first try... That's look like my first file Yo uwill porgress Warm redards From France Sergio

I have recently bought it in a bundle but haven't played with it yet however as far as I know, it will only export the camera viewports. But now as I am thinking about it - in LayOut (as you are planning to use it maybe), you can adjust your viewport to any size and when you export the image with transparent background, it's already a piece of cake to select the transparent channel, invert selection and crop to selected area. OR you can install CubicPanoOut (see in the ruby library depot) and it will adjust your viewport width or height to any set size so you can export easily. (Or render with Kerkythea or Twilight - I know both can export batch render at given exact size and also a clipmask render to apply in post pro - maybe other renderers can also do it easily.)

That was good, Andrew, thanks!

@martinrinehart said: Like SketchUp, the tutorial's free. nearly everything is free here.

@cmoreink said: I think I'm home welcome then.

@tig said: @wolverine said: Dilemma - have a model of a log cabin I've constructed (8" "D" logs, all individual, sixteen courses high). Now, I've got to get door and window openings in. Best methods for doing so? Thanks ! Make a grouped punching shape for the door as a box that extends through the wall, move it into place. Perfect, many thanks, worked great.

Ruby in layout has been suggested, but so far no one has really given any good ideas of what ruby should be able to accomplish. I think this is a great example of something ruby would be useful for in LO. Chris

What you say Chris makes perfect sense. The seller would have to be selling lock stock and barrel

guys, i think i am having a similar problem. a big site where i located 3 buildings which i modeled separately in their own files. however, when they were brought into the big file i had to place them in new positions relative to their previous origins. then i took them back to the original files and pasted them in the same place as they are in the big file (so that moving them back and forth is easier). problems: in the original files the first origin is never forgotten when i want to have a facade view. in the big file my renderer (podium) does not "see" the buildings. any ideas? EDIT: apparently the problem went away after i closed sketchup and opened it again.

@al hart said: @dedmin said: Seems that SpaceDesign doesn't support cyrillic characters We can probably fix that. (We have to do special processing on characters to get SketchUp to store them properly as attributes on components. Can you send a reply with some cyrillic characters in it, so I can paste them in and get them to work properly. Thanks, Al Няма проблем - това е български език. Translate No problem - this is Bulgarian language.

Captain, Here's a try at it using Jeans method. I drew a quick "From Scratch" mesh and then used "Sculpt Tools" with lag line turned on and just drug across the mesh a couple times to get this result. Then I used the radial bend to grab from the middle of the bullnoses buldge to the edge of the radius and bent it down ninety degrees. Did the same for the other side. In the second pic, I just used follow me to sweep a rectangle around a curve with pretty many segments, welded the inner lines to use as rails, then used TIG's EEbyRails to sweep the bullnose profile. That gave me enough subdivisions to run up and down the bullnosed edge with sculpt tools to mess it up a little. This method saved from having the polys where they aren't needed and will give more accuracy when doing rockfaced bullnose around radii. [image: HPNe_Bullnoserockfaced.jpg] [image: wC34_Bullnoserockfaced2.jpg]

The way to get nice movies out of SU is to export .pngs instead of .mov. And set the resolution up by 2x the final desired size. then use Quicktime Pro to assemble all the images into a .mov and set hte size how you want it, and export (and yes I do have to ignore my conscience every time I use QT pro ). That will make a high quality movie. chris

Thanks to everyone, great help. Thank you very much.

version 7 won't overide your version 6, so there is no need to do everything explained here. It gets installed into its own directory, and keeps itself separate from 6. It might not import your keyboard shortcuts from 6 correctly though, if I recall correctly. Which is annoying.

Forgot the link to Chris' plugin: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=18963

Finished model [image: IeNE_Chair.jpg] http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=25129