Thank you for answering, that just worked out perfect!!!!!!!! Thanks

or group all the lines to make them seperate...

Hank, See this tutorial: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=11436 ... save as *.kmz ... Hope this helps Howard L'

Thx i did go through it,just didnt get it at first,ive done it on my work pc but this old horse does not seem to support,will have to try at home.

Since they all seem to work when hardware acceleration is off it sound like a graphic driver bug. Is your graphics driver up to date? What hardware do you have?

This a perfect example for the use of lofted shapes. have a look under * Ruby Discussions i have requested a loft script.

nice presentation, Coen (only found it today). didn't know about the workaround to position textures. but I think this is definitely something needed for SU7 - better texture control... @mrjumpmanv2: I always used two teams of about 10 prism tanks to destroy bases (but only after sending a spy into the enemys base, so that all my tanks are already upgraded once...)

@plot-paris said: one thing you can definitely do is switch off the "proviles" in the style window. the model will look nicer and you save some processing power... Thanks Plot, dd that and it does look better,, (so much to learn )

How about some nice Romanesue churches? They may seem to be rather difficult by the first sight but you can start with a simple one and keep adding things to it (like it was actually being done hundreds of years ago).

Try "Proper animation" by Morisdov! You can make all animation you want with it! See my little tut page bottom

wow, thanks- that clears things up a bit. Great, and £27 is the kind of thing I can afford at the moment too. It also said I can put that money towards a proper license as well. I love google

Hi Jorgensen, hi folks. See this SU file for ideas. Painting an outside wall.zip

Yes, I also meant what Chris says.

I cannot quite say what is wrong with it, but if I copy the objects to a new model, everything works OK. Anssi

I think this may answer my question, http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=435938

Chris, I would encourage you to persue it if you have the time. For a solution to be useful for time planning purposes it needs to integegrate with legacy project management software otherwise you potential target market will not be interrested, however 'fresh' your solution may be. Project planners will not be interrested in maintaining two data sets and will not discard traditional devices such as PERT and GANTT in favour of 4D, no matter how intuitive your data input may be. @unknownuser said: I think then you agree this Synchro "solution" is half-hearted You are putting words in my mouth. I cannot comment on the merrits of Synchro without looking at it in depth, but what I do know is that the system would have gone through years of development and could hardly be described as a 'half-hearted' solution. .

Jean, thank you. That is really neat. I have another way too. See here AnotherWay.skp

FYI> If you plan to render models from SketchUp you'll have more options if you're on a PC system. Other than that, it's all a matter of what you prefer.

sorry this post has nothing to do with this, just wanted the 10,000th post =p

Scott, thanks. It just occured to me from something you said before, that I have a very important tip for you. It is much easier if you do this backwards. That is: Start Scene 1 with the entire model completed and showing. Think through wich pieces are going be "built" before the viewers eyes and make groups or components of each of those. Be careful not to nest things inside one another if the inside component appears after the outside one ( obvious I know but hard to keep track of when you formulating this ahead of time.) So you may end up grouping this in ways that are not the most effiicient for modelling purposes. Once you have all the pieces that you are going to have built before your eyes, go ahead, still in the first scene, to place every single section cut that you will need. So place the one at end that will hide the group when it is active and also place the one that will show the item when it is active. In every single group, make the plane that shows the item to be the active plane ( remember you are doing this backwards so this would be the last step where everything is visible) Once you have all the planes set in all the groups, create your scene tab. Now add a scene. Now edit your group that will have the last item to be built and change the active slice so that it causes the item to disappear and update the scene. Add scene, edit the next group or component that would be the second last to be built and change the active slice again to one that would hide the geometry)and update the scene. Add a scene etc. Do this all the way to the end till the very last scene has the very last group or component disappear. I'm sure you have guessed why this is a good way to do this. If you start in the opposite direction building one group at a time and placing section slices as you build, every time you add a new scene and add section slices to that one, you will need to go back to all of your previous scenes and hide the newly placed sections that will appear in those and update each of the scenes. Much easier to start backwards and change one section at a time as you add the scenes. Each previous scene will already have it right. NOW, move all the scene tabs so that the first one is the last, and the second one is the second last etc. Now it will start from nothing and build itself.