Newbie Question: Placing objects on top one another

Hazza

Draw an X to find the center of the square and use the circle tool to draw a circle in the square.

... or install the free CentrePoint plugin from Smustard.

rocker9455

Thanks Hazza, Remus and paris you have all been exceptionally helpful
here is my finished result (http://www.filefactory.com/file/5d8fbe/n/Final_Design_skp).
Please comment on it to what you think. Keep in mind I'm only 14 and that
was the first thing i have ever done in SU! I hope i can become involved
in this forum

Hosted on 3D warehouse (if you prefer it to file factory)
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=89fe9b63f07cde0fdd381eae8554f9d4&prevstart=0

Paris

@rocker9455 said:

Thanks Hazza, Remus and paris you have all been exceptionally helpful
here is my finished result (http://www.filefactory.com/file/5d8fbe/n/Final_Design_skp).
Please comment on it to what you think. Keep in mind I'm only 14 and that
was the first thing i have ever done in SU! I hope i can become involved
in this forum

Hosted on 3D warehouse (if you prefer it to file factory)
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=89fe9b63f07cde0fdd381eae8554f9d4&prevstart=0

Looks great. Now all you need to do is download the Podium free version and add some light.

SU Podium | Rendering for SketchUp made easy

SU Podium is an easy to use rendering plugin for SketchUp - Add photo realistic lighting, materials, and reflections to your drawings

(www.suplugins.com)

rocker9455

thanks i appreciate the support i will have a look at podium now

remus

I wouldnt worry about it for the moment, but your model is huge! i made a similar model quickly, just to check, and it was about 30 Kb compared to the 5.4 Mb of yours. Not really sure whats making yours so big, as ive purged it a few times and had a quick look for strange stuff but i cant find anything obvious. Anyone got any ideas what could be causing this? im rather intrigued now.

Hazza

Pretty good for a first model, although I can't figure out why it is 5 meg in size for such a simple model.

Hazza

Remus bet me to it after I had an idea and went back to the model but STILL didn't find anything.

rocker9455

well the texture for the base was a picture, was about 2mb (high quality scans of wood) but the shade is only a little picture (just created a 40x40 pixel drawing in gimp and coloured it in half blue and yellow) and fiddled about with the settings to make it look good, hope this helps hehe

remus

That would probably do it

rocker9455

hang on a sec, i just checked it again and it was a 5mb picture hehe
and again thank you all