another challenge: http://www.fritzhansen.com/content/us/products/lounge/space at leats it would be a challenge to me because of the curved surfaces

anssi, you nailed it!!! the templates are located in user/library/app support/sketchup 7/sketchup/templates. i was looking for them in the program folder. thanks! one problem solved. now i am left with the problem of how to get the same toolbars to open whenever i start SU7 up. regards.

thanks, worked now

I think this post might help.. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=14390

This is a known bug. BillW nailed the explanation. We're working on it.

Got it! Both groups and components can be DC's. New group default name is Group, need to double click name to rename and thus it's unique. Unlike a new component that defaults to a unique new name.

@billw said: For Google Sketchup guys It would be nice if there was a way of clicking on the Component Options - image which could take you to a manufacturers web site. Perhaps a new parameter Form Design > URL Although, it looks like (from the docs) an URL can be embedded in the description/summary fields with <a href="http://www.google.com"> Yeah, that's the current path: add a link inside your description tag. In general, we didn't want to allow links on anything that doesn't look like a link, which is why the image isn't linkable. That being said, I've added your request to our feature list for discussion. A sidenote: since we pull the imageURL's image from your webserver, one could use this get a rough approximation of how many people are downloading your DCs from the 3dwarehouse and configuring them by watching your traffic logs. Cheers,

thank you remus, Gaieus, Anssi!! with the infos and tips you provided i can calm down and go on with my project have a nice weekend.

@jim said: Chris, look for it in the Outliner window. Thanks Jim, but I suddenly realised that SU might not put elements or components in order with the last on top like HTML. This seems to be true. There was wrong data in a js array but it didn't show up as I expected. I see that more people are using web dialogs. I hope this revelation might be helpful for them. Thanks again, Chris

Dear All, Nick Johnson of Cadsoft Solutions (http://www.cadsoftsolutions.co.uk/) recently sent me this video and message regarding the use of ViaCAD as a 2d drafting aid for Sketchup: Although ViaCAD can import 3D models from SketchUp, owing to the polygon nature of Sketchup files these files are not much good for making automated 2D drawings as all of the polygon edges are displayed. However, if you export your SketchUp model as .DWG then these can be imported into ViaCAD without issue and can be fully dimensioned and placed in scaled drawing layouts. I have knocked up a quick movie which illustrates these 2 approaches for you... http://www.cadsoftsolutions.co.uk/movies/sketchup_2_viacad.mov You will need Apple's QuickTime Video Player to watch the movie which can be downloaded at no charge from the following URL: http://www.apple.com/quicktime I hope you find this useful. Kind regards, Bob

That's perfect!! Thank you very much. I knew I was missing some important point.

That would do it

Vivo, Weird things on screen usually indicate a display driver problem. Firs check that your graphics card settings are set to the SU-recommended values. If that doesn't help, you can, as a diagnostic test, try turning off Hardware Acceleration in the Window>Preferences>OpenGL dialog. If that helps (it has the side effect of making SU run much more slowly) you should go to your graphics card's chipset manufacturer's website (usually Nvidia or ATI) and download and install a newer (or different) version of the graphics card driver software. You might have to try different versions before a working one is found. Running SU with Hardware Acceleration off is a viable option only if your models are very small. Anssi

I dont think this is currently possible, although it would be possible to change the 'component info-name' attribute. This isnt the actual component name, though, which is a bit counter intuitive.

Hi there again. I have found a way of sketching the 3d book, with no external app. Hance I'm filled with satisfction. On the toto list I'm searching for a way of describing how I did it. [image: 1018589_my_3d_book_09.jpg] Regarding your reply, being a newbe this something new to me, and I must explore it. Lots of thanks.. The file explaning my method: [url]http://www1.freepdfconvert.com/export/777422805/result/3d_book_Tutorial_09.zip [/url]

still on the house . I'm just not that quick and continued in another topic about firewood and axe

i did it and it worked great. thank you. -shawn

Oh, I was taking this a different way. I'd like to see the physical size of an object SOMEWHERE, in Object Info, , Component Browser, the bottom of the screen, or something. Sometimes I make something or see something and it takes a bit of work to find out how big it is physically. Thanks, Jim

Thank you so much for all of your help. It is all singing all dancing now.