@solo said: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=9342&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=cloth Hallo Pete, that is really an impressive work! However I was looking for something more general. Think of a group of 3D letters, e.g. "PETE". If I was to drop a cloth over them, I would not really know how the final image would come out. And even if I did, I would not know how to draw it! I'd like SketchUp to do the job for me... Thanks anyway!

Hi Chris. I like your model. It's a nice example of the DC potential. After all, the main question is how DC can improve our productivity in the daily work. The DC feature is meaningless if there is no improvement, but a waste of time. It's a fancy thing to open/close door, but it should serve a purpose. In my work as a constructor, I always have looked for solution to automate repetetive tasks. I have tried many different CAD solutions, and many are quite good in doing autotasks . But I have never trusted their final output when it comes to details, mainly because other people have set the parameters/conditions. In SU I have full control of the output and details, because I am making the parameters fit my way of thinking/solving problems. How I see it, the DC- feature sets me in a position to save a lot of time with deploying/shaping components, gives me full control over the parameters and at the same time gives me the good "look what I have done" feeling when things work properly. So hopefully there will be a lot of useful DC out there, which can be shared. One last thing. I miss an option to lock access to attributes and even to components, preventing people from altering code. Keep up with the good work Chris! Dagfinn

Excellent, glad it worked out! Glad others were able to chime in with ideas, Chris

Thanks, did some experiments and indeed it works as you explain. Francois

One can only hope!

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Alsatic, Thanks for the direction to the rudy.... It works OK for what I do. It's not much different than doing it the "manual" way using the protractor and text tools. This is because, if I'm doing it correctly, you have to do three clicks counterclockwise to get the angle, then select it, explode it, and then clean up the line and arch it added to the drawing. Anyway, thanks to all of you for the input.... (James and Chris) I'm set now,

Thanks Juju for this tip - I have seen it so much and always wondered what it is really about.

Hehe thanks for the training, seems to be an "okay" function @ John, totally agree... If this should be the "o so great SU7" where everybody's waiting for I would consider to say "Google Fails". Okay the new functions are nice but it wasn't really worth waiting IMO. Also they didn't work on any of the SU-users their needs... But meh, hopefully 8 would be better.. And long live Ruby in the meanwhile ^^

Now that i tested it, it tells me the same message as before except is says "plugins/defaul-settings.igs. Failed to open file line 0, column 0." This is strange, and sorry for all the questioning but this is reaaly strange:D

Thanks, Tom -- any clues on how to get my layer manager box back?

Hi Holysky, Not a Car and not SU lines but the basics of the technique are the same; have a look at this tutorial here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=100543#p100543 Download the skp file and go from scene to scene.

My most "popular model" is a model I made a while back; a low-poly large beanbag chair, that I don't even think I did a very good job on : with around 400 views and 330 downloads a week. 8 people have added it in their collections, and it has 55 ratings. HOW!??! it has to be my least detailed model, easiest model(done in like 10 minutes), and doesn't even have that many tags! model found here: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=de862f78d1412e5268d4f5a3519f61be My second most "popular model" is a photo-textured version of someone else's posable version of someone else's colored version of someone else's extract of master chief from halo 3: with around 430 views and 250 downloads a week. model found here: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=ec26ff8e5bcd25a25dfd2d7998768282 after those two models, the download rate plummets to 70, the 50, then 30, etc. I REALY don't get why certaion models are so popular

Giaeus also said those two but i didnt see them in the post :S anyways thank you both!

It's a zipped plugin. Unzip it (and don't change anything) into the Plugins folder in the Sketchup program folder (on windows). Restart SU and activate the toolbar under the View > Toolbars (it will be some "On surface operations" or something.

So is it okay now?

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I agree modelhead. The company I'm working for has invested quite a bit of money plus the lead designer has the background with Vectorworks. LOL...he does also have a Sketchup for Dummies on his desk so I know is is trying to slowly learn it. I think "The old dog and new trick" comes into play sometimes. Can't say as I blame that. I have a hard time switching to new versions of programs when I'm so use to the older version. Thanks for your input..... Jeff