I am currently having the same problem. Suddenly, today out of nowhere, I get the bug splat everytime I try to drape something. Including draping one rectangle onto another. Your file crashed my Sketchup. I've been dealing with this this morning. I have uninstalled and reinstalled SU. Still have the problem. I have the most recent version. I do not understand what's causing the problem.

@dazrae said: Utiler. Cheers for the welcome, great forum here, I will be sure to stick around!! Where abouts in Oz (Brisbane here) -Dazrae A bit further north, Daz. Sunny Townsville.

Thanks for the responses everyone. It's given me some ideas to go on, particularly, the idea of making the pyramid, unfold it and then scale it to fit the material. I initially used the dimensions of the sheet of the copper (4',4'), made a square and then pulled it up into a pyramid, then unfolded it and took measurements which were larger than the 4' span. So it didn't compute with me. I actually made it out of copper last night, kind of guessing the angles, and it turned out o.k. My first fabrication attempt of that sort. It's a hood for a forge. It's a truncated pyramidal type thing. It's was a recycled piece of copper and a little beat, but it'll work. I'll reverse engineer it in SU and post it once i figure out how to post something on here. Thanks again everybody

thanks!!

Chris, I would encourage you to persue it if you have the time. For a solution to be useful for time planning purposes it needs to integegrate with legacy project management software otherwise you potential target market will not be interrested, however 'fresh' your solution may be. Project planners will not be interrested in maintaining two data sets and will not discard traditional devices such as PERT and GANTT in favour of 4D, no matter how intuitive your data input may be. @unknownuser said: I think then you agree this Synchro "solution" is half-hearted You are putting words in my mouth. I cannot comment on the merrits of Synchro without looking at it in depth, but what I do know is that the system would have gone through years of development and could hardly be described as a 'half-hearted' solution. .

Cheers for that possible workaround. I'll check it out. Though, I still wish for a better method in SU. The process really needs to be easier.

And yet, it seems like a pretty fine result to me!

... then there is a the Curve Stitcher plugin. Select the 2 curves, Plugins -> Curve stitcher Just be aware that it stitches from the start of the curve to the start of the other curve, so if you do the arcs in opposite directions you can get shapes like this [image: 3226623.5467cce5.240.jpg]

@thomthom said: http://www.zermatt.se/ I would rather something that is Open source or at least free. Since the Quake 3 game engine is GPL I live in hope that one day someone will develop a GPL SU to EXE convertor.

It does look like Space design has been combined into RP tools, as there is no download for it except RP tools. When I download RP tools [image: RPTools-toolbar.jpg] along time ago - the 30 day trial ended and the original tools from the free space design keep working (These are [image: Space_Design_Toolbar.jpg] ) which included the rotate and move as well as copy which have been used a lot. The others in RP tools just say that trial has expired when clicked. I bought the full RP tools for another machine for the plot line thickness and colour and 2d text for cad drawings. Pav are you referring to the fact that in order to get to the download page you fill in your email address and name, and company if relevant? It does then say a link will be sent and suggests that you then make it a favourite which will then by pass this page. I have never had any unsolicited email from Al or RPS. If you email Al [image: Support-email.PNG] of RPS if you do not want to do this I don't think he would mind. They are all very helpful. If want to buy then here is linkhttp://www.renderplus.com/pdf/purchase.htm#RpTools or on the main page there is a link to purchase in contents

Great - glad that it solved the problem!

@remus said: Sorry, youve lost me Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will be able to answer your question. but do you find that value in texture coordinates have something with like the vertex coordinates? Following your advice, should i divide width or height of texture image?

Thanks to all, once you have others, put here. Cheers

Great, thanks. I've only been importing images as texture. Peter

Hey, just wanted to drop a quick note and say thanks for the tips on this. Through being very diligent about how I placed my images (as textures, not images), and by re-setting my views so I'm not so far away that the camera thinks separate planes are the same, I was able to eliminate the flickering problem completely. Thanks a ton to all for your help and insight! I appreciate it muchly.

Thanks guys, I followed the tutorial and it worked a treat. The results are awesome and my client loves it!!! I realy appreciate all the advice!

Chuggy, I cannot comment in open forum due to agreements I made with a client however I may be able to help you, pls check your PM.

I understand what you mean. I asked for the same thing. (http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5556) We can only hope.

ahhh... i meant as a general approach, you do have to delete by hand, no matter how complex?

Thanks for all the responses. Jakob's eraser and space key works perfectly! Thanks so much for the great tip! Even better if we can have bigger eraser for bigger area selection in future.