Basically layers control the visibility of things in SU. If you have geometry on one layer which you then turn off that geometry will be hidden. Its important to remember that visibility is all the layers control, they dont work like photoshop where things on layers are separated. The basic workflow with scenes is to draw everything on layer0, then when youve drawn some things, turn them in to groups and move them to their respective layers. Its very important that you draw everything on layer0 to start with, as otherwise youll get geometry all over your model, and its a real beast to sort out. Just to give you an example, say i was doing a quick interior. Id first draw all the walls, doors and windows, group them and then put them on a layer called 'walls.' Id then start adding 1 arrangement of furniture, id put all this on a layer called 'furniture 1'. Lastly id do another furniture arrangement, and put all that on to a layer called 'furniture 2.' This would allow me to show the model to the client and switch between the 2 arrangements of furniture simply y toggling which layers are on and off. To answer your second question, you dont need to use scenes with layers, although you can. As default i think SU is setup to save the visibility of scenes when you add a new scene, so if you ad a new scene when youve got a few layers hidden, those layers will be hidden each time you go back to that scene. This can provide a quick way of switching between views, which is pretty cool. If we go back to our previous example, you could save a scene with 'furntiure1' visible and then another scene with 'furniture2' visible, then youd be able to quickly switch between the 2 layouts with minimal messing about in between. Lastly, the organiser is a different thing entirely. Its is basically just a folder tree sort of arrangement to display what groups and components you have in the model. If you want to use it it is very important you name all your groups and components, as otherwise it just become a large incomprehensible mess. It would be quite OT to go in to any more detail here, so i'll just link to the rather useful google vid here: Very un-usefully the vid has disappeared grumble, all i can suggest is to have a play around with it, its fairly self explanatory. p.s. this might be more appropriate in the newbie forum.

LayOut Tutorials and Tips & Tricks http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12650 Transparent background in LO and extracting image (with this transparent background)

Dear Max, Clever and instructive explanation. And certainly a very useful tool. (i have fought some time ago with that spiral shape and haven't found in this time such a tool [image: horseshoestair_Final5.jpg] ) ;-)simon

I have never used it, but there is a freebie program out there called "Wink" that does things like Camtasia does. Here is the link: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Please remember, this is only according to what I have heard. Check out that website for more information.

Sorry for the broad post, something like St James Park would be cool. [image: St_James_Park_A.jpg] [image: St_James_Park4.jpg] [image: St_James_Park2.jpg]

Check out this. http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6184 You say you're from holland, so you wouldn't mind reading it in Dutch I guess, there's a Dutch and English version of my tutorial available at my forum, you need to register to read the Dutch version, not the English. enjoy. It explains most of the things to achieve a good result. The basic workflow. Some things might be changed since Maxwell 1.7 but not that much.

. . . here's the revised version . . . same as original but now finished, showing how to move & copy the parts so the assembly is completed . . . [flash=448,361:3fr35mt9]http://i103.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/ShermanPeabody/SU/3_inch_cube_02.flv[/flash:3fr35mt9] Hope this is helpful to someone. [image: SD8o_3x3x30.22inthickcubes01.jpg]

i did the same once and after the integration of the Free Download Manager once again , it happened again, i discovered that saying no to the Free first dialog, and once looking like closed the download, it suddenly appears the option of saving normal in Windows. The question was that the Free Download saves it as php or something, the way to do is to change in the options , the name to : --whatever-- .skp Then it works ok. I use both now )

Yeah, thanks to all of you for your answers and ideas, and especially to the very clear tutorial from solo ! You can also find an easy way I got from other forum, very interesting for all of those who design furniture with SKU : http://www.systemed.fr/Forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=18&PN=1 GLB [image: RYDY_Ftcolonnecanneleavecrenflement.png]

Thank you so much Solo for the tutorial and especially for the quick response. I am fairly new to SketchUp so the first three stages I was able to do, but ruby techniques is something I need to study up on. I am reading the SketchUp Ruby API Deveoper's Guide now. Hopefully I will be able to complete the last stages of the snake tutorial you so graciously provided me after reading the guide. I now see the range of designs capabilities with SketchUp are far beyond what I thought. Very impressive program and community forum. I am hooked.

Thanks for that Isaac!

thanks you eric...this is a looking for

@Greyhead and Remus: JoinPP is a powerfull script for push/pull on terrain, but there was a problem here. If you use this tool , pull a shape along z axis to make a wall or a road on terrain, the top faces of the wall were a copy of these ones on terrain, it was not "flat", for example, vehicle such as cars can not ride on, is there another way to fix this?

Ross, thanks for finding this and James thanks for posting it here. I read this "back in the day" but I am really looking forward to going through it again. Awesome stuff.

Mike, If you look its actually already IN the Tutorial area of SCF... ... Also, how do you print out a Video ??? I think the ability to print out a Tutorial is quite useful so that you can have it on your desk next to you when working - for quick reference. (See Fredo's brilliant documentation [PDFs] for the scripts he's produced - excellent). ... Howard L'

Now that would be cool. [image: zEVz_Junk3.jpg]

Pilou, if you mean the finished textures, the ones I posted are just a scaled down example. The original size of the finished textures were 1200x1200.

oh!! fantastic lovely program--thsanks !!

Yeah, been fiddling with that one. Which is the reason why I asked. I'll have to follow Steve's advice, I think.