When I was ready with the dome, exactly the same parachute came to my mind

Taff, Thanks, I was in the process of taking a educated swing at it; just hoping that someone knew off hand. Currently, the dxf file I import is a simple entity file of 3dfaces(no blocks, etc.) and it imports into Su as a component with the file name. I am guessing that blocks may be treated as components, and was setting up a test to see if I was right. The fact is that my knowledge of dxf is very weak and while my original translator works, it was designed more by brute force them finesse. I looked at your file and I see lots of stuff in it that I do not use (or know how to use), but will take your approach if mine fails. Uploading stuff below: [image: gY1Q_Temp111.jpg]

@geh4evr said: And to help you save time on the crap filtering, I quite like this set of people: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=672afaff9501bffe8c9a320772ecab1c&prevstart=0&scoring=p Ahh iClone, Have you seen the actual iClone software. It's quite cool

Thank you both for the replies. My thinking was to getting into maybe somekind of interior design firm or something that does renderings often. i know learning will be a long proccess but what better learning is there than on the job. I learned more about Autocad through work than I ever did in school. In my line of work i deal with water and sewer stuff (i.e. Lift stations, well site, booster pump stations and so on) i guess I can take an existing project of ours and do it in SU and present it to the boss and maybe he will fit it into the budget for future projects. I never thought of it that way, this whole time I was taking SU and modeling house when I could actually model something that I use on a daily basis. Hmm....see thats why I love forums, so many inputs that you see things you missed in the beginning. I got the perfect project for this too. will post my progress Thank you, any and all advice is appreciated.

ok, i see. Thats probably just because of the pics. Nothing to worry about really.

Okay, Al, but it sounds like you do want all four section planes perpendicular to the ground plane. As far as our slight semantic mixup, you did say initially that you want to "add a section plane perpendicular to the current view." I think it's rather natural to think of the "current view" as whatever is on the screen; therefore, anything perpendicular to that would appear edge-on. ~Voder

Hello Solo,hello all, i'm new with SU, could you explain me more about the sub-divide tool in order to achieve the same result you send me. Thank you.

If you have multiple buildings, and want to move only one, couldn't you create a layer for each building. Using the "put in layer" plugin, put all the geometry for each building in its layer. Then, turn off all layers except the one for the building you want to move, select all the geometry in that layer and move it.

[quote="plot-paris"]Ken, I hope you are aware of the fact, that you can only import images with maximum resolution of 1024 px. anything above that will be scaled down by SU, although the full file size will be added to the SU-file. And that is my problem. I import the image close to 1024, however, when you scale uthe up to size, you get large pixels. That is my wish, since PDF is vector, that it would import into Sketchup and scale up without the large pixels. Thanks for your input. Ken

It sounds more likely to be the upgrade to 10.5.5 thats causing the problem. apart form that im not really sure what to suggest, you might have some luck here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&keywords=%2Bleopard++&fid[]=11

When you push/pull a face you make a solid, when you go "inside" the solid you should see the faces are blue. White is the colour of the "outside" of the solid, blue is the "inside" of the solid. Within SU it does not matter, you can put a texture on the inside face with no problems. When you use a program external to SU is when the inside/outside faces issue becomes a problem. What's the point of rendering the "inside" right? You will end up with strange results and holes in the model where there should not be any. Have a look at the following model, they look identical right? Now go "View -> Face style -> Monochrome" The left block will render fine, the right will not because it's "inside out". inside-out-tut.skp

Hi folks. Just in case you did not saw the tutorial where this was shown, you can use a double inference from two adjacent sides of a rectangle (or square) to get its center. The procedure is as follow: 1 - Find the inference from the midpoint of one side. Wait for the pop-up to appears. 2 - Immediately find the inference from one of the midpoint of one of the adjacent sides. Wait for the pop-up. 3 - Move roughly where the center should be. You shall see inference lines to both choosen midpoints. This is the center you want. Just ideas.

Tonto, So you got how to create the hull shape with the 'follow me' tool? If not, those steps can be demonstrated in more detail. Taff

I am farily new to 3d modeling, dabbled with it in school. My main platform is Autocad, in which my 3D exerience has been with. I kinda have a grasp on the modeling but still alot of learning to do. I am currently modeling a house that I just decided to trace after not finding a cad file. I will post in gallery as it becomes recognizable, too see what everyone thinks.

This is a very old forum.. however if anyone is still interested in SketchUp and BIM, here is a solution: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=41840 The plugin provides an easy way to create parametric primitives like walls, beams, columns etc inside SketckUp. It follows a standard process-flow similar to popular BIM software like Revit. best! Dex

I looked at it a little further, and the odd thing is that it happens with only one file. And the error read "Please enter an integer between 1 and 99"(normally the max. is 20). Funny. Anssi

Updating what i found out, Versions 2, 3 and 4 runs ok after the evaluation in PC with Vista Premium Entering the serial_number only for there is no chance to enter the authorization code. 2 says it will work until...and then says nothing , but it works ¡ 3 and 4 says they will work for 335 minutes , but when done and got to 0 minutes, when re_opened they show again the same message and work ¡ So great. I am now running the three of them plus the 6 . Version 5 was not of my taste so i have not tested. I have found much more easier to deal with big topographical_cad plans in 4 than in 6. zooming, panning, drawing ,... it was not supposed to be like that but it is, and the power that 2 had is still missing .

Ha, did I write something that I don't know about incidentally? BW - as I heard from Tommy, you will soon be able to fully utilize your spreadheet and maths expertise!

@sketch3d.de said: not "fast feedback" but the mentioned "hardware acceleration" (one above). I meant the I disabled the Hardware acceleration, which then ticks the Fast feedback and gave me a warning about it. No matter what I do I get a bugsplat. Personally I would prefer the black window problem with hardware acceleration on. I have an nVidia card but I just boot into Windows when doing SU, it doesn't bother me I was just saying what happened to me. I am not looking to fix it. I will just wait until SU7 and the release of the Linux version