This is probably the funniest question I've ever seen posted on this forum... Shew...good luck with this one!

Yes, that is what it looks like to me, too. If you download the 'solar north' plugin from the extension warehouse, then you can click the top button in the plugins's toolbar to toggle on and off.

Thank you, guys. That will be helpful information for him to make a decision.

AFAIK the viewer used to be payware (bought a licence myself back then, for Android) but the licensing was changed it is now free.

@justintse said: You might want to check out Modeleur - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXCHJTxQR1s it's an urban design extension that seems like it might line up with what you're looking for. That's pretty much exactly what I was looking for! Yeah it's pretty but maybe worth it. Thanks.

not sure i follow you pbacot. see attached sequence of crude screenshots. their numbers don't match the narrative below, but you get the picture. grab block's midpoint and drag it along red axis until it snaps to path 2's left edge drag block down along blue axis so it's flush with the poured concrete footing using inference snap, of course. move block to path 2's right edge using midpoint snaps and tap ctrl to make a copy. divide by 2 and erase the outboard copies. slide block along green axis and place it wherever you wish, nicely centered, on path 2. [image: 83bJ_1.JPG] [image: JYv5_2.JPG] [image: cU7D_3.JPG] [image: v284_4.JPG] [image: qADH_5.JPG] [image: c16v_6.JPG] [image: M4xS_7.JPG] [image: L4oo_8.JPG]

Hi I see now its in solid inspector, I've downloaded thanks again Dean

Edge color by axis as a built-in tolerance that will accept edges slightly off axis. Sometimes, as here, edges that are close enough for it to color are off by minute amounts that can mess up other operations. One would have hoped SketchUp could be more consistent, but evidently that's harder than it sounds!

@gmthompson said: removing the rb from the plugins folder has resolved the crashing Apart from the extension needing to be compatible with SU2019Pro, which I am not sure of as I do not use it. What method did you use for installation? From the sounds of it you copied and pasted the *.rb file into the SketchUp folders. If so, this the wrong approach, you need to install it using the Extension Manager, also uninstall / remove it using the Extension Manager. Cudos for trying to be more efficient though!

I suspected something like that was happening. thank you Fredo6.

You'll probably get the best answer and fastest service if you contact the author directly.

Suggestions; Didier Bur's truly excellent points cloud plugin (Cloud v8.0bxx) is excellent and well supported - get it from the plug-in store. Fredo's Toposhaper will generate surfaces from that data. If you need to do more work on it, import and preprocess in a GIS like QGIS and then export as a shapefile and import that into SU using the Spirix shapefile importer (https://sites.google.com/site/spirixcode/code/spirix_shapefile_importer.rb?attredirects=0&d=1). Ive been using QGIS to match up LIDAR generated 2m contours with imagery and align to the same CRS. Importing using the shapefile importer has required some simple scaling but gives good results.

This market share might be data that is of interest to a number of Sketchup users/ developers. Can I suggest setting up a simple survey (one question, tick the boxes)? The Sketchucation admins may be prepared to co-operate, or you could set up one on something like Google Forms (I'm not a fan of Survey Monkey, but its a possibility. You would need to promote i on the other sketchup sites/ forums, for completeness. My only request is ... if you do this - make really simple; as above.

I haven't had to sign in for years. It could be your antivirus, cookie settings, permissions, security settings...

Just realised that the insertion point (Component axis) of the pump should have been set at the mid point between the two valves. Revised SKP attached. Component orientation revised.skp

Fast Feedback has to do with the way your graphics card is utilized. Turning it off can help improve performance when the GPU doesn't fully support OpenGL.

I am not able to duplicate the problems with the baseplate visibility in section or the missing face in the foundation. The foundation shows all 101 entities in Layer0. Changing the roof framing layer visibility does not affect it for me. If we are seeing that no other users are experiencing the same problems with your models as you do, you might try Unchecking "Use fast feedback" under "SketchUp / Preferences / OpenGl" tab. (i.e. that would indicate a graphics card problem). Check if the graphics card driver is up to date. Clearly you don't want faces and edges to be on other layers besides Layer0. Only assign other layers to groups and components. If you are following this, at it seems you are trying, then the only thing I might suggest is to try the "Default layer geometry" plugin to periodically check that all your edges and faces are in Layer0. In regard to the section / baseplate question, view the model without the section cut selected, but active. Also uncheck (off) "View / Section Planes". Why don't you set up some scenes using sections that you want, and see how the scenes turn out?

@Philw, as Dave R mentions, you need to update to the latest version of SketchUcationTools: Download the SketchUcationTools RBZ from: https://sketchucation.com/resources/plugin-store-download Open SketchUp 2019 Select (Menu) Window -> Extension Manager Click Install Extension button Select the downloaded RBZ file Restart SketchUp

Yes. Yes I am.

@mike211248 said: Hi Tig When I model in SketchUp 2017 as it is installed on the computer at the moment, the following happens: When I apply a texture to the drawing, all that appears is the colour of the texture. Two common reasons for this one. First, you have Face Style set to Shaded, not Shaded with Textures. [image: 9xzY_Screenshot-6_18_20197_21_21AM.png] The other one is your model is created at a much larger scale than appropriate for the texture. If you zoom in close, can you see the texture?