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TIG, Great. No problems. Thanks so much for your work on the extension.

And for us Mac users, there is no equivalent erase tool in any standard toolbar (aka "palette"). But, like DaveR, I just press the delete key. I have a lot of shortcut keys set up, and have become so accustomed to using them that moving the mouse away from the model and then clicking on a tool icon seems like more effort to me! That said, having an explicit button to click can be very valuable in tutorials and animations shared in sites like this, as it seems like magic occurred if you press an off-screen key.

@pilou said: a brute method Thx Fredo6 and its versatile Curviloft Kill surfaces and segments for keep only circular curves you can make the same with other if you want truncated conic volumes [image: like-thatt.jpg] Funny i have made a conic form few days ago for the free Simlab Composer Lite (max 1920 *1080) (geometric caterpilar curves + spheres ) [image: carterpilar.jpg] Thanks! I used the Skinning tool and that did exactly what I wanted; creating a surface along the arcs I created to get a smooth transition from the lozenge to the circle. Thanks so much for helping out. I am not back on track!

If wishes were fishes.... Considering the iPad Pro use iOS and SketchUp doesn't support that, it is probably a non-starter.

Adding to and echoing pbacot's excellent advices, I hope this might also be of use. I would stick with the native SU tools and get a thorough grip on what can be done with them. Have a look at some of the YouTube videos; Justin Geis's TheSketchupEssentials has a lot of good information. There are, of course, many different approaches to terrain modelling but with the Sandbox tools in mind, using a combination of these could help rather than using just the one tool. Definitely keep your building footprint and hard landscape as separate groups or components. I have done some work on your original SKP and hope that it will be more illuminating than what would be a rambling commentary on what I did! Essentially, I drew the required outlines on a flat surface above the model and used the Drape tool to indicate where to cut into the terrain and re-build with the drop curb and sloped driveway. If you would like to PM me I will try and answer any queries. Terrain Testing SB 2015v.skp [image: wIQB_03.jpg] [image: Mag8_04.jpg]

I realized that the objects in this file have been located using Easting & Northing coordinates which explains why they are approx over 7 million metres from their axis location. Which could explain why I was having issues with working in the file before relocating them.

Edit material only shows the material name in the box below. If I edit texture (open GIMP) Gimp has a name which relates to the image file. Yet sometimes the GIMP name doesn't correspond to anything I can find. So far the only way that MIGHT tell me the actual texture hame is to open in GIMP. That would be slow in trying to manage textures in reducing them for example. With the Twilight export I can easily see what textures are larger--but finding what they are in the Sketchup file is another matter, especially when the image in SU is so small it just looks like a solid color.

The only things I saw where the cursor wasn't visible was when he made a group after context clicking on the selected geometry and then when he moved the cursor to bring the Entity Info panel up to show that it's a solid group.

As a test, can you get it to work with a different keyboard shortcut?

@dave r said: @pipinek said: Alas it does not work AT ALL! I have removed/deinstalled some some paid plugins from one of my machines via Extension Manager and they are STILL are marked as active in Extension Warehouse. There is no option now, as previously in Ext. Warehouse to uninstall them. Only the option INSTALL is available. HOW ON EARTH ONE CAN DEACTIVATE paid plugins? Thank you in advance. Uninstall is found in the Extension Manager. [attachment=0:1c7l5gp0]<!-- ia0 -->Screenshot - 3_16_2020 , 7_36_28 PM.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1c7l5gp0] After uninstalling from the previous version, you should be able to go to the extension in the Extension Warehouse in the new version and click Install. I do thank you very much. The problem is, after uninstalling the plugin via (as shown on the picture) it is not freed-up in Ext. Warehouse. Thus cannot licence it. I have been trying to uninstall some plugins on the older machine and then trasfer them to the new one. The max number of licence has been still marked as 3/3.

It's not a good idea to copy extensions/plugins between computers or between different versions on the same computer. Install fresh copies of the extensions to make sure that you get current versions and get them installed correctly. For extensions from Sketchucation that you installed using the Sketchucation tool, you can install your bundle from one computer to the other. Otherwise you need to just search for an install extensions one at a time. You could copy any custom components, materials, and styles though.

In most cases I would say you are right Juju---except for these, I think. Chuck V.'s plugins are some of the best in the industry, and in particular, the door & window tool. Its parametric settings are better than anything I can produce in either Archicad or Vectorworks, and it has alone saved me countless hours to create very complex windows, doors, and door systems. Of course, if I could wave a magic wand, they would be perpetual. Oh, well...... Cheers. [image: iR0G_ScreenShot2020-03-13at2.28.22PM.png]

As Dave R has suggested, using a texture would be the way to go. If you do prefer a vector method then maybe the following might help. Extract or copy the curved face or, at least, copy the curved edge in order to have the new linework sit over the surface correctly. Define the arc centre of the curve. Model a single brick as a component. I used just the face with four sides converging to a single point at the arc centre. Once the model is populated with the brick component the bed & perpendicular joints can be adjusted by scaling the brick face. If you just have an arc edge then add some extra lines so that a face is formed on the ground plane (make it a group). The brick face should lie slightly in front of the wall face or arc line. [image: PG4l_01.jpg] Next, rotate/copy the brick sufficient to give coverage across the wall width with some overlap. Group this first course and then copy it upwards to form the second course. Rotate to give the staggered joints. [image: pFou_02.jpg] Now group the first and second courses together and copy upwards to give vertical coverage to the wall. Place all of the bricks into one further group. [image: ThQH_03.jpg] Push-pull the wall ground plane up to the top edge height needed to form a vertical face if you did not extract this from the model already. [image: ux2H_04.jpg] Select the brick group and the wall group. Run 'Intersect with selected'. When done, hide the bricks and the wall groups. You should now have just the intersected linework to represent the bricks in the curved wall. Select and group this linework and fit into the main model. [image: bWC0_05.jpg] A bit long winded I know but an enjoyable afternoon diversion. I used only native SU tools.

Francois, I stumbled across your posting and oddly enough, I am doing exactly the same thing - now, it's 2020, so it's close to 5 years after you posted this so I wanted to see how you've progressed with this workflow? Any feedback would be great - have you thought of or have already converted over to using the newest version of Layout or you still working between the two apps (SU & VW)? Thanks! J @frv said: I had to do some elevations in a hurry. I had a detailled SU model. Imported it into Layout. Set the scale to 1:100 Exported a pdf from Layout. Imported the pdf of several pages as a reference into Vectorworks (2014) on several designlayers and put them into vieuwports set up as A1 elevations drawings with dimensions and all. This is a housing units project devided over 3 blocks. 12 elevations. Now when I edit the SU model all I have to do is update the Layout file and reexport the pdf. Then open the Vectoworksfile which automatically updates all pdf references. And all my 12 elevations are updated at once. Since this link is by pdf you can actually snap to lines in the pdf in Vectorworks. Conclusion: With a few simple clicks I have a perfect (layout) link between SU and Vectorworks. I don't have to mess about replacing pdf's. All is done automatically. It would even be better if Layout could update all its pages by one click. I could not use Layouts tools for dimensions etc. Too slow and a bit too simple to properly set up drawings with. Mayby someone can make a plugin that automates the proces of opening the Layout file, update all pages and export to pdf again. Francois [attachment=0:1xrpkhwg]<!-- ia0 -->elevation 1.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1xrpkhwg]

Of course....

You can reset the default by renaming the . exe file. Sketchup changes the default exe to sketchup.exe as they expect you to only use one version. If you want SU8 as your daily use but still have su13 for when you need it, navigate to the su13 folder and change the exe to sketchup13.exe This lets you choose the one in the su8 folder as the default open with. This is a workaround and not really the right thing to do, however I haven't found any problems with doing it.

@dave r said: I'm interested in how this will be useful for you. This was going to be my question. Why?

Materials are visible as thumbnails in Windows Explorer by default. I'm on Windows10 with SketchUp-2018. Try to repair SketchUp installation.

You can store your model in cloud storage provided by Trimble Connect or you can save it to your computer locally or you can do both. I do both when I use the web-based version.