FYI, the suits were impressed--enough to purchase the Pro if we needed it. Funny though, I have now tested this by comparison and I was using the cut-down free version all the time (well, except for the first 8 trial days). I never noticed anything go away after the first 8 days so I assumed I was just living with Pro on borrowed time--that's a newbie for you! Anyway I'm concluding at this stage of our use that we can get along fine with the freebie version and wait to pick up Pro at a later date. Thank you all again for the help you gave me getting through this. We are taking the exported animation to a trade show next week, where I suspect it may draw some attention.

i have 6.0.515 which is the pro version but it will allow you some hours of use without the license number.

As far as I know, there is no way to hide options in the menu at all. This would come in handy though, Chris

Good, glad that helped. And yes, I also so that hint of a line. I wish it was not there too. Chris

Thanks modelhead. Are you familiar with the Trim feature in CAD? If so do you know how to do this in SU. It seems in SU that if you make a mistake and try to change it later it causes more of a problem and ends up deleting more than you want.

thnk you mate, really appreciate it

Could you, please, post this list in the ruby forum so that the authors of these plugins can have a look?

Yeah, that too (just forgot to post about).

Hi Gaieus, sorry not having expplained the problem. In fact as very often it was related to the hardware acceleration. After disabling it all was OK. Graphic card was ATI radeon hd 2600 and under Vista.

The view will be (to my eyes) completely flat with no shading when in the shadow settings dialog you slide the dark slider to 100 and the light slider to 0 and turn "Use sun for shading" on. Anssi

tell the line number, and I will try to help Some topics have ben renamed, either to be more clear in a few words, or because they were mixed with other topics in the same message. Topics have been erased because they are included in 7.0, such as dynamic components. Marc

It should be there - except you don'topen Preferences from the Window but from the Sketchup menu.

Thanks Guys!!

Nate, I suggest you download and install the plugin, UVtools. See this discussion about the tool, and how to use it. Note that it may still be a work-in-progress. Be sure to read all the posts in the discussion, to fully understand how to get the tool to work, as there are no other instructions. All issues are, however, covered in the discussion: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=10404 It's a great tool! (Thanks, again, Whaat.) I even added, to the above discussion, one of my experiments with mapping a globe. Regards, Taff

Thats a great tip Bob, thanks! Chris

Ah, good to see you have the culprit - can you notify the author of SU Animate about this? That would be best.

I've had similar problems using download managers, most of the time they work, but sometimes all they do is frustrate. If you try downloading without a download manager it will work fine.

@kabukidoo said: New to sketchup, have managed to locate and download both the line on surface plug in and the joint push plugin. Trying to make a sloped curved wall much like above. Every time I go to delete excess my interior wall disappears below the "cut" Help? Very helpful video though. I'm amazed I've gotten so far so quick. Can you attach the model just before you do that? Remember that in removing excess you have to leave any edges that are "used" by the faces you wish to keep. It's easy at first to mistakenly remove too many edges (at least I had that problem sometimes). One way to remove a face or smooth curved surface: DOUBLE CLICK on the face to select the face plus all bounding edges. GROUP. Then DELETE. That should leave edges that adjacent faces need. HEY EARTHMOVER! I see you visited recently but not posted for a while. How are you? Miss your inspiration!