Your are experiencing clipping - several possible causes, see the SU help on this matter. http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=36261&query=clipping&topic=&type=

IMO too iRender is overpriced for this market as well as most of the other add-ons. dtr

The bezier curve did the trick. I am already familar with soapbubble. These were the main ruby's scripts that I used to make this. Oh, also used line2cylinder ruby. tesilestructure.skp

@dtrarch said: Al I checked out the Accurender site and in truth was underwhelmed by the render quality. Also only saw one interior with lighting and same did not project light on anything. ??? Dry hole IMO. dtr Nxt is in Beta test mode and a few, good, AccuRender users have been helping with it. One of its goals is to provide a "Studio" mode, in which you can render an object without adding any lights, but still ge a good rendering. (This is used by adding HDRI illumination and reflection). By eliminating the step of adding lights, it makes it easy to get a good rendering without spending time adding things to your drawing. If I understand it correctly, this rendering was made without adding lighting to the model, but just by selecting the Studio setting. (Ignore the fact that the race car is wheel are below the floor - this is just a beta test image.) [image: hHzJ_Racecar.jpg] It is great to have reflective materials, etc. but they need something to reflect. The Studio mode gives objects something to reflect without having to add a lot of geometry to the model.

Yes, indeed. Now to figure out how to make it a script with a shortcut key.

I'm with tinanne... Personally I leave the sky to white (like in SU5) and then I might use a background sky-image, a sky-dome or a style... In my latest project I used the Instant Watercolour 2 made by Ross Macintosh... [image: 1Bft_Scene3-Water2.jpg]

Under your texarea (while typing), there are two tabs. One is "Options" the other is "Attachments".

As for Google Earth and SU (hope this isn't too off topic), the Kmz and Collada SU exports make this easy. Commercially though, providing a Google Earth building modelling service is tricky. There are 2 significant obstacles that I hope Google will eventually address; Most clients wants to see their properties appear instantaneously and permanently on Google Earth, the 3d warehouse route does not guarantee this, if your model is approved, it can take months to show up on GE and then it is only in "the best of 3d warehouse" layer, it may never appear in the default building layer. Google want quality but surely the easy way to get quality is to make the modelling service commercially viable. Second Life, Twinity, Virtual Earth allow instant upload. 2.Google Earths policy on what is classed as unacceptable advertising is unclear. I cannot find out if it is acceptable for a 3d building to have a corporate logo on the side of it.

richcat thanks! That solved the problem.

@remus said: i think the autosave fature is only there to cover your back if SU crashes or your PC crashes. Although it deletes it to the recycle bin, so go through your recycle bin and it should be there! rem Thanks Remus. I feared thought it would be something like that. Unfortunately i was working on a file on the sever, hence no recycling bin! Regards, Sanio

Nigel, I've created a tutorial for you here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4208 Cinderella - you will go to the Ball !!! ... Hope this helps Howard L'

Well Tom, two years I worked for a builder/developer and that is exactly how I would do it. The plans and elevations would get developed and finished and then I would build a 3D model for use as marketing material. Sure with SU you can do the model 1st or the other way around. It just depends on which way you want to go. No right or wrong, just find the way that works best for you.

monsterzero> A dbl side by side old stage coach shotgun is what Im trying to make..What are you going to make? Thanks for the video..You should know that it would help to be on speed to watch it, it's so fast..

Good, glad to hear that.

Yes, I also read posts about the beta tes going on then. What I wrote about the accidental uploads to the WH does not necessarily mean though that there is beta testing already. It can even be in an "alpha" phase - just tested by the SU Folks. Guys you know that if a SU7 beta test were already on, people would most probably "find out" soon though probably not the details.

jbacus, strange that shortcut (edit/context menu flyout/zoom extents) doesn't work for me. I just get the mac error sound when I hit the key. Strange. The menu itself works.

That's a handy ruby, thanks. I often export the my sketchup models to 2d AutoCAD drawings, particularly at the concept stage of the project.

Okay, Gaieus. Thanks for the data. Danty

That was an interesting tutorial, what I am referring to however is meshing prior to export, not after import. If I make a plane with curves in it in Sketchup, selecting 'hidden geometry' shows nothing except for the plane boundary. When you export however, a rendering program then shows the massive triangulation (or not so massive, depending on the vertices in the curves specified in Sketchup)that Sketchup has decided as the best way to polygon the surface. The imported mesh model that is shown on the clip is optimized as far as uniform distribution and shape of the polygons...a model created in Sketchup never has this uniform distribution, that is what I was hoping to be able to do, create a uniform mesh in Sketchup prior to export. You can manually divide the plane into a more uniform distribution of polys by simply adding lines, but unfortunately then your texture UV mapping controls only work on the individual manually created polys and not the plane as a whole...really ugly.

That's a pretty useful tid-bit Jordan, thanks for sharing.