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I've added an example of using EEbyRails to make a simple OR complex ramp on a curve - see here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=206584#p206584 All you need is a curve for the cross-section [profile] and curves for the two side rails - rotated in 3D so that the landing is as you want [probably level?]...

ah, ok.. the move tool.. i thought you found some weirdness with push/pull. my entry in battle of the 'nother way to do it' (but this one wins ) select the face then choose the move tool... put the move tool cursor on an edge further up the rafter.. press and hold shift.. push the mouse button and extend..

I have a shortcut key assigned to make group and component from selection - even if one item [links to Edit Menu item not CM] - G=Group and B=Block[Component] - the 'standard' of G=Component is just illogical!!!. A key is quicker than the context-menu anyway...

No, the two platforms have different licenses.

Maybe your model is very large, or located far away from the origin.

Hi all, i was trying to do something similar. I have both windows and osx. For windows, the options shown above work, for osx, please see: http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/SyncOtherFolders http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/~seiryu/symboliclinker.html cheers santiago

Thanks guys - ZORO2 is just the ticket!! Kind Regards Syd

There are lots of Plugins to help... Here are a few simple examples[image: OrganicForms1.png][image: OrganicForms2.png]OrganicForms.skp

Found the solution. I had Details hidden in the Scenes Window. Walter

Hello remus Thank you for your reply. I already have Layer Manager v6 installed, but there is no functionality for this feature. I am still searching. The workaround is to open an additional SU window and a coy of the file in question, rename a suitable layer to make a replica copy of, and copy and paste an object on that layer into the target file in the other current SU window. This is surely more time consuming, hence the request. Kind Regards Syd

Thanks Anssi It's fast reply

That was it, thanks again all

Copy with Move+Ctrl has functions above the Edit>Copy etc You can Copy with a base point by picking a start using inferencing and then typing in an offset, using axis locking (shift) etc etc. You can also multi-copy as an array using NNx or NN/ after making the first copy to set the number made after/between. Similarly Rotate+Ctrl make copies about a centre and again NNx or NN/ sets the number of copies after/between

Thanks guys - I've added the code: { Sketchup.active_model.selection.clear } to the existing ContextMenuMenus.rb file TIG supplied Kind Regards Syd

@anssi said: I quite liked the original @Last forum with no eye candy at all. We all did - and I remember very well all the discussions we had, when Google decided to move to Google Groups... (which nolonger seem to exist in the form it had when they moved all the content...) The @Last forum was using the commercial vBulletin forum software, while the SCF is using the free Open Source phpBB forum solution...

Thanks TIG Syd

I'm not sure what the problem is, but doubt that it's just a simple SU bug. I was playing around yesterday with seeing what a basketball court looked like using stained wood rather than just colours for the markings...so I imported a number of versions of a very large scale wooden floor texture. each one was 2048 x 1024 pixels; and I had no problem at all...well other than SU resampling the texture to a lower resolution.

thanks for the tip, not dumb at all.. actually is the first thing the getting started tutorial says but I never check it, and I think many others do the same, then we get all troubles with resizing textures

I have a script called scale2face.rb that stretches selected components/groups up to touch selected faces above them - used for elongating columns etc up to the underside of sloping roofs etc etc... Here's a reworked version 'scaledown2face.rb' that scales them downwards... (c) TIG 2009 scaledown2face.rb Usage: Select face(s) & group/component-instance(s) located ABOVE face(s). Unacceptable selections produce error dialogs Pick 'ScaleDown2Face' off the Plugins Menu or type scaledown2face in the Ruby Console. The selected items will be scaled downwards [in the Z] until their CLs meet the face or faces. Any intermediate faces etc are ignored; the scaling passes through them. It has a one step undo. Version: 1.0 20091201 First Release [based on scale2face].For the Plugins folder...