@titatonio said: It's very important to me, to be able to restore these files. if older revisions or backup files (.SKB) do exist, you may want try to recover them by using the capable "GetDataBack" recovery software (trial avail.). Don't write anything further to the thumb drive to avoid damaging hidden instances of the required files.

@westy49 said: Am surprised that Curviloft is so expensive. It is £55 a year. This is about one-ninth of the cost of buying an open license for SketchUp Pro 18. I would not mind buying a one-off open license but there is no guarantee that I will use the plug-in very much so I am reluctant to pay so much for just one year's use. Can someone design a more cost-effective plug-in to do the same job? Where did you find Curviloft for £55 a year? Here on Sketchucation it's available at no charge. No need to have someone reinvent the wheel.

Select the backwards faces and use the "reverse faces: command in the contextual menu and get all the outward facing surfaces to be "front face" Yes, it can cause problems. If you don't see division edges between the reversed coloration, toggle "hidden geometry" in the view menu. Then you can reverse faces that are backwards separate from the adjoining smoothed faces. There are plugin tools to help this process if you have a lot of it, but that's the primary way to fix reversed faces.

That's not a slight work around. CutList is designed to work that way. You could make a set of colors with custom names to apply to the different components. If you apply them to the faces in the components, you only need to do that to a single instance and all other instances will get the same treatment. Save your collection of customized colors for later use. [image: tzXN_Screenshot-2_22_20189_35_02AM.png]

Every time I go to Costco my TV screen shrinks...

I started having an odd thing happen with the new 2018. The inferencing stops working on the red axis every blue moon. The only way to get it to work in session is to use the arrow keys to force it. Restarting SketchUp always solves it. Weird.

Very good. I'm happy you're all set.

@jakemm said: Update: Ok, it looks to be that because it was a simple model, that's why Sketchup got confused. Once I'd started adding some internal walls, everything magically worked as it should do! Without seeing it. That's what I figured. You can always just add a temporary flat roof or something. SU doesn't know a house from anything else. It's really just set to find some sort of negative space it seems.

Yes, there is no automatic way for it in SU. Maybe Thom needs more good suggestions for new tools in QFace/SubD workflow. I find Blender easier for this type of modeling but I will not quit on QFace/SubD workflow yet. I think there is room and will on Thom side to add more tools to ease things out when modeling with QFace/SubD way, we just need to present them to him.

does this cpu shot tell you anything? this took 25 seconds to export at 6000 pix wide, and the program seems to freeze and this white box appears on the screen and the little white box lower left .. [image: pJRN_2Untitled.png]

There is no risk if you make regular copies before every serious change.

Or do you mean you want to start with a sloping grid? You can rotate the "from scratch" grid up (or down) to 1:12 with the rotate tool.

@dohyungkim By default, JointPushPull, Joint Tool, uses the neighbour faces to constrain the direction, even if these faces are not part of the selection. You can disable this feature with one option which is in the button palette ("neighbour influence..."). I also recommend you migrate to the newest version of JointPushPull, v4.2a. Fredo

You might be able to use Bitmap to Mesh.