Thanks TIG, I’ll try your RB. I guess this has been reported to Trimble.

@bouwe said: but sometimes it happen. so thats why i asked if there is a plugin for it . TIG's plugin for which I provided the link will fix it.

Thanks. I had looked at the style setting and just didn't see it. Now, to finish my work.

thank you Dave R.

This is a change to the way Hide works that was made to make it possible to use Hide instead of controlling visibility with tags. You can now hide and show objects through Outliner because of this. It does make this a scene property, too. Look at the Properties to Save options in the Scenes panel. Like all other Properties to Save, if you change one of those properties for a scene, you have to update the scene. Tags are still a good way to control visibility but with the separation between hidden objects and hidden geometry, you now have much finer control of what is shown in a scene without having to have so many tags. You might have a read through the Release Notes for SU2020 especially under What's New in Sketchup 2020.0>Hidden Objects. This is not a bug so I moved your thread.

Ha !! I know what i did - as this wasn't happening in other models - i cut and paste into another clean scene. It came in on its side - I'd Altered the Axes just before saving (obviously in a rush) Blue wasn't vertical. Hence when the model looked right in the viewport i was orbiting around the blue axex which was at a crazy angle !!!! NumbNuts! I'll leave this here for people who may do this in the future and prevent them 1hr of frustration - thank you for the speedy response BOX Cheers C

Perhaps the links in this thread will help. https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=72193 https://www.sketchup3d.de/download/center/#199-183-version-2015

I suppose it gets more complicated with the subscription and I'm not sure what will happen to 2020 when I update to 2021 since both would be under the subscription license. To be honest I don't know why I keep those old versions installed. well, it comes in handy once in a great while when I need to create screen shots from older versions for instruction. I'd never go back to using those older versions for my day to day work, though.

Cool!

Thanks very much TIG I pasted the old code and it worked. All jpg were added to the materials windows, then I saved as a collection I will replace it with your code Take Care

The window is probably opening off screen. Try this: Open the Add More Imagery window, even if you don’t see it. Hold down Alt, and tap the space bar. Release Alt, and tap the M key. Tap any arrow key. Now move your cursor, and see if the add location window is attached. Left-click to drop the window off where you want it to be located. What version of SketchUp are you using? Are you still using SU2017 as indicated in your profile?

thanks for the responses.

Unfortunately, too many people take length snapping to mean grid snapping, which is not what it does. This misunderstanding coupled with how it actually works can cause subtle errors in models. The resulting problems are usually discovered much later when they have contaminated other entities and become difficult to correct. Like Box said, just turn it off and leave it that way.

Am I right..? It doesn't necessarily mean " a year". Say my subscription runs-out on November 2, I cannot use SketchUp then. If, however, I want to use SketchUp Pro again, I can resubscribe any time, Such as December 22, and a new year's subscription begins on that date?

I edited my post with 'bad info'. Glad you posted this...I had no idea connector worked with SU. Going to go give it a try now! cheers

@pilou said: If the terrain is not yet existing seems there is not more elegant method than your... ...except this following is without ruler tool! So a little more speedy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWjVrL0oetQ Thank you very much, it was a great informative video

I believe that currently it's incompatible with v2020 - see other posts about this...

Well Poser looks very interesting if you need/want to have that level of animation and audio. My original idea was in response to Nukeman's original post to show that animation of 3D characters was possible in SketchUp without having to combine multiple videos to show an animated character in a SketchUp scene. Yes, I agree that doing so with tools like Animator and MSPhysics does take a lot of work. Bottom line is that, at least for now, doing all of this entirely inside SketchUp is not really the right way to do. IMO, SketchUp is not a good tool for creating game like environments. Again, IMO, SketchUp is a great tool for doing architectural or product models and even including some level of animation as a way to present the model/product. In those environments the best option combining the model and animated characters might be a tool like Twinmotion. And even in that environment it is my understanding that the animation of the characters is somewhat limited (you can not control all aspects of the character animation). I had planned on trying to show an animated character walking across a terrain or even thought about trying to animate a character going up a set of stairs. I think that everyone has already demonstrated that, while possible with a great amount of work, the current tools are not the best toolset for achieving something like that. In closing, sorry for the long post, I appreciate the responses we have had in the thread. I wish my skills were better at delivering and look forward to any additional insight on the topic.

I believe the only thing you can do is reduced these disruption by increase the number of segments of all rounded parts: cylinder, cuting forms etc... But as SketchUp is not a Nurbs prog you will have always little default of continuity in Boolean operations when they are not straight lines! Else best plugin for Boolean operations is BoolTools 2 ! (better than the native function) (for SU MAKE or Pro) https://youtu.be/aEo3cKHd-xw

Sure they are maybe more 5 000 plugins so...and we don't know Chiness, Indian etc... The SU4 above is very powerful and interesting if you want make some repetitive Fractale or Grebble Components volumes...following your imagination! [image: suforyou.jpg] [image: simili1.jpg]