@unknownuser said: does the 'drape-tool' also work on non-sandbox-surfaces? Only on triangulated surfaces. SU (natively) creates "simple" curved walls with parallely edged, coplanar rectangles - so the answer is no. Most of the other 3D programmes though make up every face of triangles so that can work. Some plugins (like the "Bezier Patch" or the "Soap Skin and Bubble") also make triangulated surfaces so the sandbox tools must work on them, too.

Thank you Howard, I completely forgot about the other layers. Thank for the tips Many thanks, Bruce Watt

OK, so I've downloaded the trial version of the program, installed it and using it to convert some models to SKP format. Here is the thing. The model converts beautifully, but there are no textures to it. Completely white in SU. This makes the models I'm converting a lot less useful. The models I'm converting is some stuff I bought from 3Dplants.com - all nicely textured and such, but now they're pretty useless without textures. I tried importing them one by one and then converting them but even then some textures are lost and it seems that Deep Exploration does a better job at converting the geometry than SU does itself! Go figure... Please people, anybody with some advise, make yourself heard!

Here's a txt version of the "Introductory SketchUp Notes" I provide my students - these are the "default" shortcuts - you can easily change them to be whatever you want - there's also some additional information listed here as well - maybe this will help (& I hope I'm not infringing on any copyright laws by posting this): start To change units to decimal: Window --> Model Info --> Units --> Format --> Decimal --> (close the dialog box) To show toolbars: View --> Toolbars --> Getting Started View --> Toolbars --> Large Tool Set View --> Toolbars --> Views Note: Status Bar – the long gray rectangular area at the bottom of the drawing area Value Control Box – located on the right side of the status bar Must press Enter to have a value accepted Default Shortcuts: T = Tools --> Tape measure Space bar = Tools --> Select S = Tools --> Scale Q = Tools --> Rotate P = Tools --> Push/Pull B = Tools --> Paint Bucket F = Tools --> Offset M = Tools --> Move E = Tools --> Eraser CTRL + Z = Edit --> Undo CTRL + T = Edit --> Select None CTRL + A = Edit --> Select All CTRL + Y = Edit --> Redo CTRL + V = Edit --> Paste G = Edit --> Make Component Delete key = Edit --> Delete CTRL + X = Edit --> Cut CTRL + C = Edit --> Copy R = Draw --> Rectangle L = Draw --> Line C = Draw --> Circle A = Draw --> Arc Z = Camera --> Zoom H = Camera --> Pan O = Camera --> Orbit end

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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.