it's cool, i fixed it. well i say i fixed it, looks as though sketchup was warming itself up for a bugsplat. happy days pav

Thanks Jakob, I think you're right but I didn't realise I had to explode the 'parent' component... If this is the case, i think i would rather build the component to cut the external wall and just draw a rectangle at the intersection of the inner face of the wall and delete the face... that way if you need to remove the component, at least the out wall will re-build on deletion...

Well, at first I'm creating the city to be used in Google Earth. And it's all done using Sketchup. But at a later date, I'm eventually going to use the assets in a game engine. But that's pretty far ahead in time. During the work with Sketchup and Google Earth, some buildings will probably be repeated. But just a few since this is city that's evolved from scratch about a thousand years ago. Meaning that the buildings aren't even mathematical correct at all. So I thought I'd use a smart way of texturing to save memory and thus, increasing performance that way. That's why I'm tiling as many textures as possible. The models will be quite simplified and won't have a high polycount at all. At a later date, I'm going to take pictures of the buildings and use CrazyBump to create the bump-maps etc. I've already done some testing on this and the results is very nice indeed!

Thanx man! Its working now

Updating what i found out, Versions 2, 3 and 4 runs ok after the evaluation in PC with Vista Premium Entering the serial_number only for there is no chance to enter the authorization code. 2 says it will work until...and then says nothing , but it works ¡ 3 and 4 says they will work for 335 minutes , but when done and got to 0 minutes, when re_opened they show again the same message and work ¡ So great. I am now running the three of them plus the 6 . Version 5 was not of my taste so i have not tested. I have found much more easier to deal with big topographical_cad plans in 4 than in 6. zooming, panning, drawing ,... it was not supposed to be like that but it is, and the power that 2 had is still missing .

set designer, You should note that SketchUp doesn't actually do curves. All circles, arcs, bezier curves, etc. are composed of straight-line entities. After import, you can select a curve and change the number of line segments, if you need a smoother 'curve.' (At least, that is usually reported as effective.) After selection, look in the 'Entity Info' dialog box, and therein change the number of segments. Taff

@jim said: As a work-around, you can create a rectangle anywhere - it does not need to be attached to your unfold geometry - and select it as the last unfold plane. Jim Yep, that what I do now and it does the job well and quite happy with the results. Thanks for the script Ken

@gaieus said: Ah, see. It doesn't seem to be posible (at least not for me). You know where to file a feature request, don't ou? Yes of course, I was just double-checking. Thanks.

When I was ready with the dome, exactly the same parachute came to my mind

Hi Billy, There are a couple of notes here (sorry but on this "craputer" at work in the office I cannot even get the current snapshot to be imported to SU so I cannot check every word now). Google used to "encourage" users to hide all edges in the model before uploading. Now AFAIK in the latest SU version it is automated so your imported CAD lineworkwill never show up. The snapshot and terrain images are never diplayed in GE so whatever you drape on them will not be displayed either (you can use Tom's workaround however). It seems to me that you are only working with the snapshot and not the (elevated) terrain. Notice that there are two extra layers in SU after importing the snapshot; the flat GE Snapshot which is the one you should start working on (and from your decription that is inded the case in your workflow) and which is turned on by default AND the GE Terrain which has the topography features (which you seem to be missing) and which is turned off by default. You should also adjust your model to the terrain (with different techniques since it is never 100% accurate). You can turn on this layer by clicking the checkbox right to it OR by using the "Toggle Terrain" button in the GE Toolbar.

Okay, Al, but it sounds like you do want all four section planes perpendicular to the ground plane. As far as our slight semantic mixup, you did say initially that you want to "add a section plane perpendicular to the current view." I think it's rather natural to think of the "current view" as whatever is on the screen; therefore, anything perpendicular to that would appear edge-on. ~Voder

Thanks Remus. I must have just overlooked it. Scott

I have to agree with Remus here. Adding too much drives up complexity and in the end costs. I just think there are some major "misses" from making Sketchup a real hit....UV tools and the shadow bug are the 2 biggest for me.

If you have multiple buildings, and want to move only one, couldn't you create a layer for each building. Using the "put in layer" plugin, put all the geometry for each building in its layer. Then, turn off all layers except the one for the building you want to move, select all the geometry in that layer and move it.

@sketch3d.de said: not "fast feedback" but the mentioned "hardware acceleration" (one above). I meant the I disabled the Hardware acceleration, which then ticks the Fast feedback and gave me a warning about it. No matter what I do I get a bugsplat. Personally I would prefer the black window problem with hardware acceleration on. I have an nVidia card but I just boot into Windows when doing SU, it doesn't bother me I was just saying what happened to me. I am not looking to fix it. I will just wait until SU7 and the release of the Linux version

@geh4evr said: And to help you save time on the crap filtering, I quite like this set of people: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=672afaff9501bffe8c9a320772ecab1c&prevstart=0&scoring=p Ahh iClone, Have you seen the actual iClone software. It's quite cool

Hello Solo,hello all, i'm new with SU, could you explain me more about the sub-divide tool in order to achieve the same result you send me. Thank you.

Taff, Thanks, I was in the process of taking a educated swing at it; just hoping that someone knew off hand. Currently, the dxf file I import is a simple entity file of 3dfaces(no blocks, etc.) and it imports into Su as a component with the file name. I am guessing that blocks may be treated as components, and was setting up a test to see if I was right. The fact is that my knowledge of dxf is very weak and while my original translator works, it was designed more by brute force them finesse. I looked at your file and I see lots of stuff in it that I do not use (or know how to use), but will take your approach if mine fails. Uploading stuff below: [image: gY1Q_Temp111.jpg]

Hi folks. Just in case you did not saw the tutorial where this was shown, you can use a double inference from two adjacent sides of a rectangle (or square) to get its center. The procedure is as follow: 1 - Find the inference from the midpoint of one side. Wait for the pop-up to appears. 2 - Immediately find the inference from one of the midpoint of one of the adjacent sides. Wait for the pop-up. 3 - Move roughly where the center should be. You shall see inference lines to both choosen midpoints. This is the center you want. Just ideas.

I looked at it a little further, and the odd thing is that it happens with only one file. And the error read "Please enter an integer between 1 and 99"(normally the max. is 20). Funny. Anssi