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]

This is one of the rare reasons why you can change the active layer.

Multiple offset by sdmitch is top!

This or This or ... ? MC Escher Spirite! Without image it's very difficult to imagine what do you want! Line 2 Tubes by Didier Bur for bottom one! Can be applied to your all image in one pass (surrely very long calculus) So better calculate one then to make some Dim repeat [image: 9uBd_this_or_this.jpg] [image: e1Ou_GIF_pattern.gif]

Kind of difficult to give you a concise answer without seeing examples of what you’re now doing . Most effective NPR artistic style presentations are a combination of exporting various raw SU images , “ quick and dirty “ renders and manipulating them in software like PhotoSketcher then combining it all in a photo editing program. I can personally recommend the book “Digital Watercolor “ by Alan Casas it’s in the scetchUcation store. Also might be worth cruising through the Post Processing thread on this forum . Most of the posts are older but still good info and links there. Suggest looking a what others are doing and their workflows and then adapting that to your needs.

You're welcome. Generally if you are managing your model correctly clipping really shouldn't be a big problem.

Which Macbook Pro do you have? If it's one of the older models you will be able to mirror & replace the drive, which would be the ideal scenario. Here's a bit of info: https://www.howtogeek.com/348398/can-you-upgrade-the-hard-drive-or-ssd-in-your-mac/

OK - I am back on the right track. Need to make some adjustments but at least it is now acting the way it should. Making me feel kind of foolish with the silly mistakes I made. [image: tJSh_WalkingMan1.gif]

Reload only works on components. So save the contents of a file as a component. A component doesn't save views styles etc, only entities.

I see, thanks i will do it like that... Thank you guys... Such a great community here Take care of yourself

All compression/decompression tools will have a settings menu, in which you change which file-types it 'opens'... I quote from WinRAR's FAQs: @unknownuser said: If WinRAR was associated with archives during installation (the default installation option), the archive will be opened in WinRAR. You also may associate WinRAR with archives after installation using the Integration settings dialog... Opening a .JAR file in something rather than Java means that it hasn't executed properly, so ImageTrimmer will fail. But you should be able to have WinRAR installed and ImageTrimmer working with its .JAR files through Java - but you must set WinRAR's file-associations to ignore .JAR files...

you can do it manually and if you can't find it you can purge