As far as background objects go, would it work for you to create a group and do your work on a face within the group and "hide rest of model" selected?

Wow! That looks great But I think it would work only with models that are made with triangles of the same size and shape. I am working on setup, that (maybe) will be able to triangulate complex organic shapes. I do not know if it will work how I need but I will post a result here.

Curic Extend There may be other tools for this, in fact I'm pretty sure there has to be.

thanks Dave, almost I'm a bit relieved now, because I thought I was too silly to find that

That is a regularly mentioned gripe, no solution currently AFAIK.

I have one of the scanect mark 2 scanners, I took them about 6 months to get the apps sorted out, so many little problems, bad battery life , unable to calibrate About a month ago we got it all dialed in,but still we’re having problems I’m on complete lock down for 2 weeks so I’ll play with it more Anyone else out there into scanning yet?

Sketchucation en français: https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=51

What extension are you trying to install? How did you try to install it? What version of SketchUp are you using? Your profile says it's 2019 Free/Make but that's impossible because there is no such version.

I don't know of any extensions that will "tween" objects. You could create an animation using Fredo's Animator extension https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=401 or if not too complex Sketchup scenes.

ThruPaint?

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.