Yeah! This is the stuff!

@driven said: IDX Free on Mac I only see the shadows on 3 pains in SU not much but hope it helps john Interesting. I guess IDX handles the transparency/color much the same as SketchUp. SketchUp does "all or nothing" on transparent shadows. Off above a certain threshold of transparency and on below it.

SketchCAD?

hello, did you try to turn edges quite white (1 or 2 on rbg scale) ?

can be interesting but now seems I miss something with the Jim's LEGO importer! Nothing append when I make Menu Plugins/LDraw Import/Import file I have made a folder c:\ldraw and put a .dat file inside but... So I test my model with the 3DS exporter from Leocad : no problem (it's Bryce's Shoes at the top image [image: ptR2_moto.png]

@sketch3d.de said: upgrading a license doesn't create an additional license... No,but keepsthe old one. Like my pre-SU7 licenses

Well, I tend not to use too many materials - and often I just use colours (which are obviously not as slow) as for some materials in a final render (in 3rd party software) you do not necessarily need image materials or you can swap them easily if UV mapping is not an issue. But again - I can imagine serious differences between PC's and Mac's and even within these categories, between individual machines.

I also have another script called loose geometrry to groups that you mighr find useful. I wrote it specifically for what you are doing. It finds a face, then takes all touching edges and faces and turns that intoa group, then it moves on to the nect face that has not been added to a group and repeats the process. It is handy for quickly making groups of zillions of entire extruded buildings. I wrote it for the same process you are describing, something I was soing a LOT of at the time at work. I also have a snippet of code that I developed that takes a selection of faces and extrudes them by a given height, and a given amount of extrusions. It is used for selecting a bunch of flat building footprints then specifying how many storeys the building will have and how tall each storey is. And I even built in the ability to have the first floor be different than the other floors, since that is a common practice in planning to have a tall bottom floor with shorter upper floors. Let me know if that would be a useful script in your workflow and I'll clean it up and post it on Monday. Chris

Hey guys. I've modelled this and posted the images here. After my crit, I have altered the design slightly and I need a far more accurate model of the skin. Essentially it'll be the same as the framework as the Great Court of the British Museum. [image: 300px-British_Museum_Great_Court_roof.jpg] I initially modelled it with SoapSkinBubble, but now I've looked at Tig's EEbyRails and Lines2Tubes to make this but I still have no idea how to make it using EEbyRails. I've taken the outline of the bubble and now struggling to make it. [image: c1.jpg] [image: c2.jpg] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/445006/Outline.skp - Here is a link to the outline of the building If someone could help me, I would be extremely grateful! I want something like what Tig made in this topic. Thank you!!

Thanks for posting this Gaieus, really inspiring stuff in there.

Thanks guys. I have a second PC in the office on which I can try it next time I am there (snowed in at home at present) and see what happens.

@tig said: "Gaius Nimium" Is what you should be... "One Who Rejoices Too Much"

This plugin: http://www.smustard.com/script/Drop

The actual command to export it out in 2007 file format (so you'll be able to import it into SketchUp) is "_AecExportToAutoCAD2007". You can also access it by pressing the big red upper left "A", picking the "Export" option and the choosing the proper "AutoCAD" format option. See the attached screen shot below. [image: dZPJ_AecExport.jpg]

Thanks for the reply Jean! I'll try it without the length snapping to see what happens. I'm using the snapping, because I want everything "on the grid" (or a whole number). Have you heard of some way to have all points within a certain distance auto-merge? Maybe this is a question for the Ruby/Scripts forum?

@sigitas said: draw the contour line select bouth and use sandbox tool contour from see at pic there is presented step by step. good luck. THANK YOU!!! I'll try that...

Jaxcoffee, I could probably give you a lot of information about where to find documentary evidence in the UK, but I don't think it'll of any use to you!

Johnny,Gai, Thanks for that link. Chris

great answer TIG

Thank you for your help. Regards Fred