Do hoscht du awwer ganz rescht!

I think it's the "normal" text tool. Generally you cannot export that as it's not vector (or texture) info at all. 3D Text is different as it is "real" geometry so there's no difference between it and any other geometry like a house of a plant.

@jean lemire said: I am just curious about one thing: why does SU takes 15 seconds to load at first time and 5 seconds on subsequent loads ? This is on a PC with Windows XP-Pro. There is probably a cache memory involved but I am curious. Yes, the first time it reads it from the disk, which is really slow. Then the second time it just reads from the memory.

Yes it's a tricky edge to deal with. To date Pilou's solution is the most clean and customizable.

@malaise said: Thanks for the trick Pilou @ ChrisG , effectively I have to work around group to understand why not all the groups are'nt diplayed MALAISE On the face of it I cannot see any logic - e.g some components from the warehouse show some don't; similarly for those made by me and for groups. Maybe it has something to do with layers? Also the colors are quite different. Sorry not to be able to be more helpful ... Chris

Very nice and thanks again.

With SU 6, there were some problems with certain images inserted in Mac not showing up on PC (this was due some RGB channel and EXIF info issue) but even those didn't crash the app just the images didn't show (I think it's been fixed in SU 7). Other than that, I haven't had experiences with such behaviour either (although you never know).

@eng.basel said: what is SU ? "SU" = "SketchUp" (just abbreviating). @eng.basel said: how i can resize by using it ? 5-8 MB uncompressed JPGE .. Like I also suggested - and you resized (a bit). You can also resize the resolution. I can imagine that these image files have some thousands of pixels side wise. Note that SU won't display better resolution than 1024 pixels (or 2048 pixels if "Use large texture" is set in preferences) anyway so any image bigger than that is useless but taxing your system.

It wasn't the 3d warehouse dialog, but a webdialog I put together with some small functions for a specific task. One of the tasks was selecting and replacing a whole lot of instances. The dialog went away after I wrapped some of my functions in start_operation/commit_operation.

@linea said: Andrew, if you want to photoshop-up your SU image a bit, I do a simple process for making your roof look grassy, unfortunately I can't paste the results here as my only example is a commercial image but if you are interested let me know and I'll post a quick tut. I would certainly be interested in a tutorial. I'm working on a project with greenroofs as well.

it seems your right, strangely i didnt turn it on, thankyou!

Hey, i found the problem - whenever i search for a key word in the shortcut - it doesn't find it, when i input the location of the actual menu it doesn't see it either, but when i put the first letter of a word in the plugin it shows only one function of the plugin (rotate around blue, rotate around red, rotate around green)...it shows up when I put the word re in the search menu, but nothing else works. its a bit odd. I wonder why that is?

As lucifer says, select the column->ctrl+x->go in to the component you want the column in->edit->paste in place

Geometric

Yes Anssi, you are 100 percent correct. With best regards PRSS

Autodesk also has the free TrueView application that besides having almost all the viewing and printing functionality of full AutoCad can convert newer DWG files to older (even very old) formats. There is a link (the "DWG From Autodesk" button)to the download on the main Autodesk webpage. Anssi

Seems all works fine! See same thread above

Thanks for the tips, although it seems the Style window does not use standard Windows dialog boxes (which I suppose it's why it's one I can't do alt+space m on, which works for the others). Damn!

The plug in worked really well but I saved a backup, this one may end up in the do not render pile. Has anyone had this trouble with photomatch before, could be my user error. [image: mxlb_ouch.JPG]

The Idea to find a solution for the construction of roads on an terrain within Sketchup does not let me off. I saw in the Forum some nice terrains created by Vue or any other 3D software. But i did not yet see any with inserted models and the accompanying Streets or Roads on a sloped and curved terrain in Sketchup excepted in other 3D software (see example pictures below). Also most of architectural works in Sketchup are done on flat 2D grounds. Ore am i wrong. When i found this "Anadelta Tessera" program, the idea came to me to generate a points cloud file from a Sketchup terrain for studying the road construction in that program. Because till now i couldn't find a Points Cloud ASCII sample file for download. It is perhaps a creazy idea. I hope I do not bore you with my ideas. May be the only possible solution is this Program:http://www.compuneering.com/simuterra.php Karlheinz [image: Em48_roads1.jpg] [image: GEA7_roads2.jpg] [image: ZuCO_roads3.jpg]