Ok I understand now, that what I wanted to do exactly, thank you so much !!!!!

I have to say that I am glad to learn that the sketchup devs do frequent this forum - as someone mentioned earlier this is severely lacking from the giants. The ultimate responsiveness would be the developers of Cockos Reaper (music production software). They are active on the forums and respond quite quickly in terms of developing features or at least explaining why they will be focusing on something more important. Suspect that this sort of answer would at least let Solo know when they might address this or if as suggested it is too big a task for the foreseeable future Regarding blender, ah yes.......I have downloaded and installed and uninstalled. Did manage to follow a tutorial that allowed me to turn a sphere into a heart and then do a basic render. Just that sketchup would introduce some decent animation path functionality. Took a look at Truespace (but since they no longer offer a format converter to bring in and export CAD friendly files.......) but man they have nice camera tools......

Je m'en doutais compte-tenu de ton pseudo ( mais on peut se tromper ) Il faut t'inscrire sur ce sub-forum pour y rentrer. Mais tu peux aussi venir sur ce forum :http://escargot-archi.eu/forum/viewforum.php?f=30 MALAISE

@chris fullmer said: I new copy tool could be coded and then assigned a shortcut. But thats not quite what you were looking for, Chris i would not mind that as long as the copying got done.

Aha , Thanks Remus

yeah i guess i thought i could send it to someone and have them render it...but ill try to render engine....and possibly put more effort into rendering it myself but i would love to have someone at least render one of my work..just have a quick see on how it would look..thanks though.

You can use Global Material Change to apply another material to all entities with a specified material. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13192

@sepo said: I suggest you import picture not as a texture. Stretch it to fit the frame. Explode it. It should render correctly. thank you all so much for the advise it worked !! god bless this forum

http://www.walkabout3d.com/

any takers?

hehehe You should add that to this thread: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=17444 it'd be nice to collect all the odd messages.

it was confirmed, and the guys at DD told me how to uninstall. its seems its installed in plugins/ldd so plugins/ldd/unist/unistall.exe does the trick.

@unknownuser said: Really nice Teezer. Could you show the mesh? Pretty simple, really. Just a repeating component: [image: xfL0_UpholsteryComponent.jpg] Here's the .skp if you'd like to fuss with it: UpholsteryComponent.skp

Some renderers will benefit from GPUs, but most are CPU based, among them V-Ray.

@wo3dan said: Thomas, Couldn't you simply create your arc(s) tangent to the "parent" edges, adjust their radii and finally move to the intersection/vertex. It's just one step extra, the move operation. See attached file. Yea I could do that. I do all sorts of 'tricks' to draw the arches correct. I just hoped there might be a secret SU thing, a 'Duh!' thing which I might have missed.

If you keep your model far from the SU origin, you will always suffer from clipping (and this "jitter" syndrome Thom mentioned). The same even if you move your stuff closer to the origin but leave any tiny bit of geometry "out there". A solution could be (I'm just "thinking loud" now as I'm too lazy to try out) to select all in your original SU file (with the origin away in the distance) make a component of the whole model Save (this component) as... (Context menu) open the component as a "normal" SU model (note that the origin will be close; where the origin of the component was placed) do all the modelling work if you wish, "Reload" this model/component into the original file. Certainly a couple of steps to do but it shouldn't be more than a minute and you waste much more time with suffering this way.

Thanks for your recommendations. It might be best to hold off until the E+ is fully developed. I'll be following it. In the mean time I'll probably stick with the code recognized tools that don't involve SketchUp. Thanks again, Mark

The problem is that V-Ray only recognizes the geometry as it is in the very first scene. Hidden geometry, layer visibility, and Face-Me component's direction in the following scenes are ignored. The animation is basically limited to camera position. Check out the ASGVis forum for more info on V-Ray animation. I've never really given it a go. You might find some useful info there.

That's what I was afraid of. I suppose this should go to the Wishlist...