@chris fullmer said: Welcome aboard! Then scale it to -1 (make sure you grab the correct scale handle or else you flip it in more directions than you really want). Or while the copy is selected right click and select 'flip along red/green/blue axis'

If it's an office computer, make sure that SU is allowed to communicate with the Internet (have a check at the firewall settings for instance). Network administrators tend to limit everything as much as possible.

But they might try to sell me a Mac....and I for one am opposed to that There's your sarcasm, Chris

When I first came across plugins for SU I looked over the lists of plugins and their description. If the description of what they did appeared to fit my workflow I'd try them out. It's really subjective which plugins will fit you as it depends on your own usage of Sketchup.

With SU 6 there were some glitches with the export (see some details below) so first of all I'd suggest to upgrade to SU 7 (even if you only start with the free version). Otherwise make sure that the image extensions are all lower case (jpg instead of JPG) as well as there are no special characters (maybe even spaces) in the image names.

Thank you all. Now that I have seen how it is done I wonder why I did not think of it. I will def be coming back

@gaieus said: @remus said: i think google do it on their end, so you just have to wait. Yes, they do. It takes a while to process every submitted model so from a couple of hours to a day or so... Don't worry, it will be there. Thanks for the quick replies. This is an AWESOME resource!

Kev There is always the tried and tested Photoshop method, extract an above view of only the road, take into PS and paint your road complete with lines and all then save as a texture and apply to road. [image: http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5247/road1i.jpg] [image: http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/635/road2a.jpg] [image: http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/4989/road3n.jpg] [image: http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/176/road4h.jpg]

After executing these 8 steps i reinstalled the driver but it was not successful. After a second deinstallation/reinstallation it worked without problems.

Thanks Bill. I'll try your suggestions.

No problem at all with several searches for me. Just guessing, but try closing down all your browser windows and then trying again. If that fails, try restarting your computer. Do you have a different browser installed? If so, try that.

Hi Mike, There is a plugin which would allow you to assign a (web) URL to any entity in SU - say a building that's turned into a group and such. You need to right click though and select the URL item in the context menu and then it will open a "normal" browser window, not a neat, chromeless one within SU. (see url_link.rb here) There were requests for this during development of SU 7 though because (theoretically) dynamic components could do this but AFAIK Google finally didn't include this feature for security reasons. I see you have SU 6 anyway so you couldn't go anywhere with DC's as it needs SU 7. I'm pretty sure however that with some modification of the URL plugin, it could be made nicer in SU because webdialogs have been implemented since that script was written (before SU 6). OR you do the whole presentation in Google Earth and add as much rich html content on click as you want.

Ditto for keeping XP. I run SU on Ubuntu and it just has too many glitches plus the plugin issues Coen mentions. Just not worth it, I'd stick with Blender for Linux.

I have not used it or seen it in action, but TBD has a script called time.rb that does this. http://www.smustard.com/script/TimeTrack Check it out, its only $5.00 USD Chris

@anglaret said: I suppose you are right, but a component does not brake an area betwen 2 rooms (to change floors coverings for example) You could leave a line to separate the rooms. That's how I would do it.

Thanks for the compliments

@gaieus said: At least we only have "simple" rain here. So much about global warming. No, Gaieus Here in the north it goes: Higher temperatures in the Arctic> more evaporation, more winds> more rain As to importing DWG files, a valid file should import OK, but SU ignores many object types, especially those created by AEC applications like AutoCad Architecture. Those should be "Exported to AutoCad" prior to sending you the file. Cleaning the file of unnecessary geometry makes it import faster, but should otherwise not be necessary. There seems to be some limit to file size, though, I have read somewhere that at somewhere bigger than 10 Mb the importer begins to choke. Note too that the new AutoCad 2010 version that came out this spring has a new file format that is not yet readable by SU. So if the person who is sending you files uses that, they should save the file in the 2007 format or older. An intermittent problem with the same file might indicate some other problem, like a problem with a removable disk/memory stick or a network glitch, if the file resides on a server. Anssi

Have look at Walkabout 3D or Simmetry 3D. They both have full working trial versions.

yes yes thank you

IE8 installed. (And that's the one I'm using, if I may say so)