A variation on Remus's approach. It's not your Daddy's SketchUp ... subd and smooth ... oh my gosh ... the possibilities! [image: nyds%20small.jpg]

Thanks, Remus. That was very clear. Tom

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=d0658dd8334c7c2da76655b2a48d2c2f It was doing my head in writing a tute. Hopefully you'll be able to work it out from that.

OK, I've now got the Subdevide-Smooth tools. It will take me a little while to learn the moves, but this is real progress. Once I get closer to a final model for Stonehenge, I'll start a new thread to let you know how it's going. Thanks to you all for your help. Solo, Isn't it the middle of the night in Dallas? Tom

@unknownuser said: When I select File>Export>2D Drawing and select the DWG file type, the DWG file origin is placed at the center point of my current view in SU. There's the problem then - I exported it in parallell projection, and it is, as shown earlier a 2D shape. Well, well. I'll go over to the CNC-guys and program the router directly instead, at least for now. Next time I'll guess I'll better come up with a sollution Thanks everyone, for your input and everything! // Olle

It looks worked out to me. What approach did you use to make the rail?

maybe need to close such topics and "news" too when new skipy will appear, open it...(imho) Admins what do you think?

Kriscidious's tutorials are good; and ultimately you will need some very good model organization: Make your floor plan a component. What you include in that component depends on the flexibility you want/need. You can Copy that floor plan component off to the side and edit it, after your edits are finished, erase it, your plan in the house will be changed as long as you didn't select "make unique". there are other ways too but this technique is consistent for me.

Thanks for that Irv. I like the idea of having the joint as a separate component.

If you are not familiar with ruby scripting, don't bother with the ruby console (actually it's under the Window menu). It is used for entering special scripts there but who does not know what to enter, should practically leave it alone... There are "ready to use" ruby scripts (plugins) made by scripters and they add fantastic extra abilities to SU. Normally they are just plain text files with an *.rb extension which you need to download into the Plugins folder of your SU application. They appear in various menu items (although many of them are only in the "Plugins menu". Visit or Ruby Forum somewhere at the bottom-ish of the Board Index to see a bunch of them.

there are scripts that correct that problem. one is ExtendCloseLines and it can be obtained from smustard.com. there may be free ones as well. check it out here.

hi sweetluge, did you have switched off the floor layer? if yes, I thinkt your line already exists, it is just made invisible. now you are trying to draw another line in the same place (SketchUp doesnt understand that, because it knows there already is a line). like the others said: the only way is to build groups/components - which you should use in any case in order to keep a model organised and structured

@anssi said: I think the most direct route is ... ... probably to use SVGmaker Norbert

Hello Susan Well, it is almost closing time here too. Means it´s prolly deep in the middle of the night at your place. Thanks for the tip with attachment. I guess I was just too warped around work to see the tree in the woods. I´ll attach the data, then. Hmmm. Too big to attach. I´ll provide a new working link then. http://www.notneededanymore.com/emptypromise Anybody else got a guess or a tip? I´d hate having to start over again. Wolf

I installed the fix and it now works fine. Thanks very much. Julian

Yes I have the same in all DWG exports: The units get exported right ( 1 mm in SU = 1 unit in the DWG file) BUT the scale flags in the DWG file all have Imperial values (Measurement, for instance, is set to 0), so if you have your AutoCad set up to recognize the scale values (as per default), everything gets imported 25.4 times too big. I already posted a bug report about this some weeks ago. Anssi

Hi, I had (have) the same prolem with the 2.5 D trees I use. I have noticed that if for instance the window and the tree are NOT in a group there is no problem. But if the window is in a separate group (what I usually do for easy editing) it 'shines' thru the 'alpha channeld' tree. (png texture). Hope it is of some use. erikB

Thanks for the tips! I have tried different formats with simple model and so far I have been able to import 3ds- and obj-formats quite ok. It seems that 3ds are at least the doubble the size when I export them from Sketchup. Now the biggest obj-file that I have been able to import to Blender has been around 10 MB. With bigger files I always get memory problems. Have you also tried to import Collada-format? In Blenderartist Forum some people have had some success with Collada. Anyway, at least I know that I can import part of my models, so maybe it is time to start learning Blender too. Anyway, I have feeling that Blender will never replace Sketchup in my workflow but for simple animations it could be something. If you still run some import test please share the results.

as always you are a star thanx

The image I provided here is very simple. The one's I am really interested in are of French chairs. The Thonet rocker is a classic, but I was working on a simpler "cafe" chair. It has curved braces and other things that join immediately below the seat. So, somewhere in the process of making the parts, I got something out of line by a fraction of a degree. I tried: Looking at the whole thing from the front view in parallel projection. Creating a huge rectangular block that aligned with the center and "pushing" it through the contents I had already made. I then used "intersect with model to create edges. After erasing all of the excess, I mirrored the "half chair" and "moved" everything back together. I am getting better at this, but the parts are so close I would think they would snap together. Thanks, John D