Thanks for getting back to me- sorry i haven't responded to the comments - been dividing my time between this and the new SU. My computer is a three year old Dell Inspiron 8600, 1 gig ram and Nvida VC. No problem with the windows account admin rights. The one thing in hardware that changed was I added a second monitor at about the same time I upgraded to the new SU version. I haven't taken the time to back track my steps and remove the monitor and then re-load the earlier version of 6 - hopes are to avoid this. As you experienced Hank, the setting work fine for a few times, then rearrange. I have saved the startup template several times. Very strange. I'll post any resolution to the problem, if found. Report this post

Just as an aside, you can tell AutoCAD where to start a hatch by using the SNAPBASE command.

Hi dtrarch See links below http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=378 http://www.sketchucation.com/scf/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3784 Richcat

I just signed up for the new forums. But I did not have to wait for any activation. I could immediately log in. (EDIT: Just read the post on the second page of comments that activation was suspended. Ignore this post.)

Sorry, I misunderstood your question. The position camera command wants always to animate. For complex models, try wireframe mode, then switch back display after the camera move.

I have already moved on and deleted the camera. If you go to the plugin page of SU and look at the bottom of the page you'll find it. Its in the old page also. If you get stuck let me know.

There is a great ruby script from TIG - grow.rb - various arrays and more.. You can find it at Didier Bur's site http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/RUBY_Library_Depot.htm Regards, George

Now this was the best thread to move!

Bert, The issue might be having the network adapters in your computer, not whether they are actually connected to anything. I once remember getting this message with SU5, on my XP laptop that also was not connected, but that had the adapters enabled. Anssi

Anssi, I don't have to export when bringing a model into SU. I am using ADT 2004, for some reason when you import into SU it would go all skiewampus (that is the technical term) Don't know where I found this work around, but here it goes, hope you can understand it..... In ADT, set view to "top view" switch to "front view" back to "top view" then click the "undo" arrow then file, export to AutoCAD 2000 open SU import model and everything should be fine don't forget the OPTIONS button for settings Thanks for replying. I'll keep my ears out and let you know if I find anything.

Yeah, that's what I meant in the "footie" of my first post. Although I seem to have reinvented the wheel with this topic, I don't mind for it keeps the issue hot while SU 7 is being prepared...

Thanks, I think I see how it works now.

I want to add one of these to my workstation: [image: endlesspool1.jpg] Just plug your computer in and... oh yeah. Nevermind.

It works!!!! My eternal gratitude to you Paul. This is a wonderful forum. Don Vid

Matte, sorry, I didn't get your e-mail until Monday morning and by then I was neck deep in brush fires. Didn't get a chance to look but I see you got it figured out. That's great and sorry about that.

Over the years I've printed very little direct from SU. That changed recently as I started working in an office that has a nice colour laser printer and I love seeing the colour output. The mistake I was making for a while with printing related to the size of my modelling window vs. the print area. I was finding my printed models to be small relative the paper. Eventually I realized that my dimwitted mistake was in thinking 'stretch to fit' (or whatever the printer drivers call it) would make my model fit. What I was forgetting about was the print is the entire modelling window and not just the model. So with a big monitor with lots of floating tool panels open I might just have my view of the actual model taking up less than half of the overall modelling window. On printing it is the entire window that prints. As I often work with a white background and sky & ground turned off, it isn't always very obvious why the model printed so much smaller than expected. Now what I do is before printing I resize my window and think of it as a cropping or framing tool to determine exactly what I want to print. Regards, Ross P: Ross at work

Ah, I see, you meant for plan views, like AutoCAD does. That would be a tricky one to implement as as soon as you orbited out of the plan view the re-aligned selection box would become more of a hindrance than a help. An effective workaround is to save a scene which is a rotated plan view of the skewed bit of the overall plan which you can switch to and then pan around when you need to make a selection.

Glenn, I just drew arcs and rotated them a little bit to "bend down" on one end then just copied the whole thing onto the other end. Add the poles separately.

Doh, I understand now. thanks so very much. Of course, it is totally obvious when someone else has thought of it. Thanks again.

feel free to contact me at sketchup-house-plans.com and I can set you up with some space to work on this... and perhaps help. standards would be realisim... a sheet of plywood should cover 4'x8' with out repeating the pattern or should look correct when repeating... wood trim should be narrow and long, and should have tight graining. a cross section of wood should be just that, a cross section, and the outside of wood or the long grain should be just that... yeah I could get into this.