Thanks David, I have made the change to the camera angle. I guess it is one of those things that when you work on it long enough I know what is what but others may not. Thanks. As far as the explanation (or idea) I am not sure if that is it, only due to the fact that the same thing happened when a shot was taken from the other side of the glass wall looking in. The tile in front of the wall was messed up there as well. Once I turned off "use maximum texture size" this bug went away. I only turned that on since I had heard it may help the overall quality of exported images. As I know know that is not always the case. Scott

Thanks Dan, many of us are suffering with the compression of YT and any kind of valuable info about how and what to set up in the video to minimize this is always welcome.

@unknownuser said: I don't know if i am on target with your question but the new Smustard profile builder and the dynamic component feature seem to give that sort of function. Dynamic components can be useful for stretchable components. For instance if you want to make an arbitrary length piping run with 20 foot pipe sections, and fittings between settings, then you can do the whole thing with one component. But you still have to place the component in the first place and stretch it to the desired size, and if your fittings have an inside (e.g. connection to wall) then you also have to align the component properly depending on whether you are placing in on the inside or outside of a wll. I'll have to take a look at profile builder and see what it does.

Yes, that is the problem Chris. I wonder whether the component origin/axis is set up by the 3ds exporter or by the SU importer? One workaround may be a simple script that explodes and remakes each component one at a time. C'mon Thom, there's a challenge for you

@sorgesu said: Thank you!! If I can just add my two bob's worth hopefully answering your question about mac image editors - if you set your Sketchup preferences (Applications - applications for editing image files - /Applications/iPhoto.app), as mentioned; and then set your iPhoto preferences (General - edit photo - full screen) you end up in the iPhoto editor. This is an image editor for photos more than anything else (and not a bad one) but at least it will show the functioning of the in-Sketchup edit texture image process. Cheers Nick

@jean lemire said: Hi Jim, hi Gaieus, hi folks. ...... Sometimes, I would like to able to enter a d for the diameter but now it is not possible. Maybe that could be suggested for SU 8......... Jean, instead of 2000d for a diam. to be 2000mm just enter 2000/2 and [Enter] (units can't be included with this option though, just figures) The result will be R=2000/2mm =1000mm meaning the diameter will be 2000mm. PC only? or Mac too. Wo3Dan

the thing is that i should only need to have the model opened in 3ds max (with the correct poly values and the such) and then export it to W3D. will fxb open/import in 3ds?

WHooo amazing thanks a lot dude Sure plot-paris I will upload it around june or july for my exam.

The method David describes is a good that I've used too when I've had lots of animations to make and didn't want to muck up my model. The idea is to treat the whole model as a component in a blank model. So save your main model and close it. Then open a blank model. File>Import and import your model file. Place it somewhere in the blank model. Now set up your animation scenes. Now if you make changes to your original model file, they do not get updated automatically in the animation file. But you can reload the model manually. So in the animation file, right click on the model (which is still a single large component) and choose "reload" and then choose your model again. It will load in the newly modified version in the exact same spot. Then repeat for all animations. For me it depends what my other animations are though. If I have 4 animations that are identical camera locations but different styles (pure white and shadows with no lines, pure color no lines, pure white with lines and no shadows, inverted fog to act as a z-depth layer). I will set up all camera scenes to only store the camera location and not thet style or shadow info. Then I make 4 scenes that only store style and shadow info. These scenes do not get included in the animation. But it makes it easy to export my animation in a different style over and over until I get all the layers of animation I want. So for me it always depends on what I am trying to export. Hope that helps, Chris

@edson said: csaba, he is asking which are the ones that install with SU6 not the ones available to him. Sorry, misread...

RANT RANT RANT

Yeah, the method I shows totally falls apart when you have different things that you want to update in each scene. You have to do that manually for sure. what I hate the worst is when I need to change layers on and off over lots of scenes That makes me cry. Chris

Gene, You can always save your SketchUp model as a version 6 skp while in SU 7 In order to be compatible with SU7 skps, the update would most likely come from Chief Architect and not from Google. CMD

I use my specification numbering system as a guide. My library is next to me, and I can look up and see the categories. 08 Windows > 01 component name, or 01 sub categories as necessary.

What a weird request. Tell us more. What will the building be used for? Is it for a client? Will it be built or are you just doing a concept? Do you have a picture of a particular ladybird (ladybug?)? I did a quick tut on creating a ladybug shape that might help. [image: o8mW_LadyBugShape.jpg] LadyBugShape.skp

well I tried their .3ds export with 2 simple cubes (components). The plug-in complained that it can't be exported because they're components and I'd explode them before. I uninstalled it instead (which imho is a much more productive idea)

plot-paris just with Your help I solved my problem now I understand why su acting so with my topo Thanks Gaieus for info!

It's because I can only find the simple solutions.

looks interesting,will try it out. much appreciated. thanks guys. peace.

Matt Interesting that you brought this up, because it has just started to happen to me, and it is only in SketchUp that it seems to want to save to this old file. First place I look though when I can't find the file icon.