Many render engines will ignore back faces, this causes holes in your renders. 3d printers use the face orientation to know what is air and what is print media. I cannot think of a reason why having back faces painted and facing out, would be beneficial. Some times it can be useful to paint back faces because you want the inner space to be a colour or hide 'gaps' that can appear when edges are turned off, and transparent materials can be useful on back faces on occasion.

If you're making progress your learning Isolate geometry into groups/components to make editing easier. Tag[Layer for the OGs] items to help organisation and visibility. Outliner is your friend if you stay organised and name things with some type of convention you can glance at. The most important key press in SketchUp is CTRL+S and 2nd most important is F1. Use both frequently.

Greetings, I do thank you for your picturesque elucidation and precision of your guidance. Looking forward, as many, I think, users to the improvement announced being implemented. Best regards

That's too easy! Thanks Rich!

Thank you.

Yes, I have used (trial) Sketchfab in the past. It does have some neat features but it does not (to my knowledge) suppler animations (such as those created with Animator or dynamic components). You also have to upload your model to their site (as I remember). Maybe I am just way out of line on this topic. I just would like to see things move up to the next step.

Dave's advice applies to CAD work in general. Setting up the file the way YOU want it from the start allows you to take of advantage of templates, other personalized digital materials and organization, and, particularly, the workflow that you've developed over the years. That's perhaps the greatest value and time saving in this sort of work. Compared to ready-made geometry, it pays off in the end.

@tig said: Your error message shows that your custom app is using a compiled .SO file. These types of files will have to be recompiled to ensure they are compatible with the newer SketchUp version... Speak with the original author, and the fix is in his hands... OK thank you for the advices , I'll speak to them and try to fix it. Thank you!

Can you share the .skp file s we can see exactly what you've got? Or send it to me privately if you don't want to share it publicly.

Many thanks! That does the trick. I much appreciate your help.

When I launch Thomas Thomassen's editable text tool, it pops up on the left monitor instead of the right one where I typically run SU. Can this be remedied? I have TT's library version 2.12.3. And can it be improved so we can immediately start typing into it without first having to deal with the default string of text that reads "Enter text"? (Or have said text pre-selected like the native tool does?) [image: h5rW_TTseditabletexttooldialogueboxonwrongscreen.JPG]

Thank's a lot !!

Great thank you Easy

@aukuras said: I need high precision... I think the best approach then is to model it at the correct length from the beginning and avoid introducing errors by modifying the incorrect shape.

@scozzarella said: "Shortcut_31": "0 0 0 X /Modifica/Menu contestuale a comparsa/Esplodi", SharedPreferences.json This is the problem. If I add : the it works. But next restart the json file is again buggy. "Shortcut_31": "0 0 0 X /Modifica/Menu contestuale a comparsa/Esplodi :", Help! That is odd! On my SharedPreferences.json, I see a colon at the end of most shortcuts that invoke built-in commands rather than ones from extensions, but not on any that involve the flyout context menu. For example, compare these two lines from my file: "Shortcut_58": "0 0 1 U /Edit/Context Menu Flyout/Explode", "Shortcut_6": "0 0 0 R selectRectangleTool:", The first one is my shortcut for explode from the context menu - no colon. The second is the way the json file captures the command that shows as "Draw/Shapes/Rectangle" in the preferences shortcuts panel. Note how it has been converted to "selectRectangleTool:" in the json. I wonder if there is a bug in this conversion in the Italian version? The SharedPreferences file is rewritten each time SketchUp exits, so if SketchUp is mishandling the conversion of this command, that's why it won't work when you restart. I can only suggest that you refer this problem to SketchUp support, as it shouldn't be happening. I created a topic over on the public SketchUp forum on the chance that the developers are more likely to notice it there than here.

Found the plugin for it. It's called Project to Face by Eneroth. [image: LUQO_SketchUp_b2CzCYpeKZ.gif]

Thank you so very much. Edited the file as you suggested and everything works perfectly now. Much appreciated Regards Mike

You should try welding the lines with a plugin before exporting: Tig welding, Curvizard and/or whatever you find in the plugin store for welding edges.

OK guys, here is a perfect example of what I would like to see when presenting a SU model. Interactive Watch Presentation I was not able to determine what software was used but it is what I was trying to encourage. Imagine being able to enable this type of interactivity in LayOut presentation mode, PowerPoint, or some other presentation tool. It would even be beat to achieve this interactivity on a web site (which this guy has already figured out). Yes, I am a senior citizen without a computer to work on this stuff but I am currently obsessed with finding out how to achieve this and sharing it with/making it available to the SketchUcation community. Fredo, with your talent and expertise you should be able to come up with something.

https://sketchucation.com/purchase.php?plugin=roundcorner That's where you can get a license for RoundCorner