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...

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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: 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.

Further answers are given here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=15716

Sounds like a classic case of 'you get what you pay for.' A firm in india with no client contact is never going to be able to produce a brilliant site for the client, as they simply dont know exactly what the client wants. But then if all you want is a clean generic site its probably quite a good option.

Ive done a few from here. http://www.latech.edu/tech/physical-plant/buildingabbr.html

Brodie, your "another thought" is exactly how I do it whenever I'm working with a contoured site model: it works slick if you can get all the draped lines to cut the planes (why I normally just do it the old way before sandbox)...just some hidding of the "stretch-marks" created in the alt-move process.

another way (posted by susan sorger) is to create a template with a large number of disabled layers. thus when you create new geometry or dimensions/text just put it in one of the disabled layers, enable it and create a new scene. it will show only in the new scene.

No,it hasn't changed. A component can only have one gluing/cutting plane at a time (since the axis szstem defines it and there can only be one axis system at a time). There are workarounds but not an ultimate solution.

Good assessment. I may have a bug to add but nothing without a work around.

I thought is had something to do with WedDialogs, but I can't remember the specifics. Was it the Instructor window?