Ye, most of the cases it is. We often realign the axes to be able to work easier but by right clicking the any of the axes, you can "reset" them There is a different way of georeferencing in SU: go to your modl info window and set Location there

Hi Billy, There are a couple of notes here (sorry but on this "craputer" at work in the office I cannot even get the current snapshot to be imported to SU so I cannot check every word now). Google used to "encourage" users to hide all edges in the model before uploading. Now AFAIK in the latest SU version it is automated so your imported CAD lineworkwill never show up. The snapshot and terrain images are never diplayed in GE so whatever you drape on them will not be displayed either (you can use Tom's workaround however). It seems to me that you are only working with the snapshot and not the (elevated) terrain. Notice that there are two extra layers in SU after importing the snapshot; the flat GE Snapshot which is the one you should start working on (and from your decription that is inded the case in your workflow) and which is turned on by default AND the GE Terrain which has the topography features (which you seem to be missing) and which is turned off by default. You should also adjust your model to the terrain (with different techniques since it is never 100% accurate). You can turn on this layer by clicking the checkbox right to it OR by using the "Toggle Terrain" button in the GE Toolbar.

Hi all, Problems and artifacts, especially on selecting, with Nvidia cards 8800 GT, solved with latest drivers: GeForce Release 178 WHQL Version: 178.24 Release Date: October 15, 2008 Tested in Win XP 32 and Win XP 64 , both SU6 and SU5, works fine. Regards George

Well, at first I'm creating the city to be used in Google Earth. And it's all done using Sketchup. But at a later date, I'm eventually going to use the assets in a game engine. But that's pretty far ahead in time. During the work with Sketchup and Google Earth, some buildings will probably be repeated. But just a few since this is city that's evolved from scratch about a thousand years ago. Meaning that the buildings aren't even mathematical correct at all. So I thought I'd use a smart way of texturing to save memory and thus, increasing performance that way. That's why I'm tiling as many textures as possible. The models will be quite simplified and won't have a high polycount at all. At a later date, I'm going to take pictures of the buildings and use CrazyBump to create the bump-maps etc. I've already done some testing on this and the results is very nice indeed!

thanks man but I've tried and that's not work however , the thumbnail is not a big problem

Fixed

Thanks. I know about the follow me tool. What I want to know is for example. How do you bend or curve a cylinder or tube that has a profile in it, let's say like a flex duct profile.

@jim said: As a work-around, you can create a rectangle anywhere - it does not need to be attached to your unfold geometry - and select it as the last unfold plane. Jim Yep, that what I do now and it does the job well and quite happy with the results. Thanks for the script Ken

edit: wrong post sorry

sorry this post has nothing to do with this, just wanted the 10,000th post =p

EDIT: I mistakenly made this post thinking you were talking about making arced shapes on a flat plane. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Hi, I'm also a newb, but what I ended up doing to make sure my 'freeform' drawings were on the same plane is the following: Make a plane of any size, large enough for the shape you want to make to fit inside, make the plane a group (so lines drawn on it don't attach to the plane) draw your shape on the surface of the plane, when you connect the last point, the surface should automatically come into being like magic. delete your drawing surface plane (or throw it off to the side and save it for later) Again, may not be the best or most efficient way to do it, but it works for me.

@tobobo said: Ummmm..... I will keep thinking on it though. Thanks Toby to try by your way (even if what Gaieus says give us very few chance) @anssi said: \.... If that is so, you had better reverse them before applying materials, especially if you intend to render the model with some external rendering software...// Ansi you are completely right. I always draw in this grey-blue back face, which is taking the light better than white one in order to observe the shapes. But i have forgotten the rendering issue. Thanks for this yellow paper. simon

Cool, I had that box checked I just wanted to make sure thats what it did. Thanks

In fact it is an OpenGL problem, it seems. Meaning graphics card issue. I just had it in SU 2013, Windows 7 (in Mac Parallels). I fixed it by : SU menu, Window- Preferences- OpenGL, uncheck Use hardware acceleration.

The import probably comes through as a component/group. Yes, you have to explode or edit it (but each way is just a two click operation).

hakuna matata

Hy, Your chair seems interesting, have you any other pictures that can help to make it, like front face or side face ?

Thanks Remus. I must have just overlooked it. Scott

ok, thaink you guys so much, I'm gonna try this one again.