@sketch3d.de said: ...problem can regularly be avoided by using a video card with a driver optimized for and supporting the full OpenGL stack as e.g. the nVidia CAD series 'Quadro FX' instead of gaming cards optimized for speed only ... and slow low-end solutions.... Norbert, Regarding the Quadro FX cards, nVidia even has a "partner certified driver" for SketchUp. (The driver is currently available only for XP.) I was pleasantly surprised the other day, when I installed new Quadro driver Note that, when your system reports that a newer, updated driver is NOT available, you should question from whence that message comes. Apparently, Microsoft is providing this assessment. How do they know? If I check Windows Update, it says no newer driver is available, yet nVidia had one. I suspect that Microsoft will always be behind on it's driver update notifications. Do yourself a favor, and actively search for one on your own. (I have the mobile version of the Quadro FX, and couldn't be happier with this new driver.) I'm sorry that I can't report that will help Vista users, including Verrou. However, the adviceNorbert provided, regarding 'fast feedback,' is typically the most-effective fix for cursor and marquee-selection problems (XP and Vista, alike.) Turning off 'fast feedback' doesn't slow down SketchUp as much as disabling 'hardware acceleration.' Hopefully, the feedback setting alone should resolve Verrou's problem. Taff

Hi, You can do this with LayOut, if you have SketchUp Pro installed. Place your model on a clean page, and scale the viewport to be slightly larger than the page. "Select View > Full Screen" to go into full screen presentation mode. Double click on the model to enter the 3D view, and pick your scenes from the context menu. You can also play animations from the context menu. john .

Hello, I guess a safe uninstall will never hurt but maybe you can just install the English version on top of the existing German one. To be honest,I've never encountered with this situation yet so whatever you do and succeed, could you post your experiences?

Okay, I am 6 pages deep into this project in LayOut, and the font (reset) issue is frustrating me, now do I save this as a template too? And how do I deal with different fonts, line weights, fill types as they emerge during the creation of the drawings process, save all of that as a template too? aloha red

I have now added you to the French UG.

There is something in the control panel only if you have use joints or others who has need it! Seems you must read this tut :Basic tutorial

@lonewolf said: I see alot of talk about Photoshop use in conjunction with Sketchup, is this a necessary program or are there alternatives? "PhotoShop" is already a kind of synonime for all image editing programs. There are other alternatives, of course, I myself use Corel PhotoPaint for instance but there is also Gimp - a free alternative for PS. In any case, you don't necessarily need an image editor but it may be useful to have one in your arsenal.

Thanks, JuanVictor. I did indeed end up re-installing, and it seems to have fixed it. What a pain in the booty, though...

I've used that layer and I don't recommend it. It gets really tedious to hide and unhide in the outline in my opinion. Its hard to know that something is turned off burried 4 levels down inside a group by using the outliner. All I can say about the weird lines getting lsot on weird layers is that its something that used to happen to me more frequently. Now it almost never happens. I think it is just because I have gotten better at keeping my geometry cleaner and making sure I create groups and components cleanly. But using any of these methods you can do very details work in SU. I modeled Neutra's house down to the outlets and light switches. On that model I just used the outliner to control my geometry. It worked all right, but it felt like it was more difficult than necessary. Other modles I've used layers better to control visibilty. Anyhow, keep it up. Feel free to post models that are getting messed up and let others look at them. They might have tips on how to keep it cleaner or how to clean it fater. Have fun, Chris

I saw this video on I/O ruby scripts Does anyone know where to find the scrips to make a SU model into an interactive game? http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SketchyEndeavors/~3/311515542/video-google-io-2008-advanced-ruby.html

IES is a b@stard to use. I worked with some consultants who modelled the environmental performance of one of my buildings with it. There are big problems with creating the building model though. Hopefully this plugin gives them a better way of doing that. IES is also very slow in its analysis. AFAIK it is a tool aimed at engineers rather than architects and requires entry of some quite technical data, as it takes account of the proposed heating systems and lots of HVAC stuff. The consultants I worked with have stopped using IES and replaced it with a system called Hevacomp. Hevacomp has been bought by Bentley, and is based on the EnergyPlus analysis engine, albeit heavily modified. I have tried the EnergyPlus SketchUp beta. It kind of works, but this sort of thing isn't easy. I don't think IES is going to be your thing if you want to do energy analysis with SU. I would be really interested to hear anyone else's views though. [Edit: I just noticed that there is a free application called VE-Ware on the IES site which works with both the SketchUp and Revit plugins. Something to try out next week I think...]

OH, I thought that was only the overall object profile! Thanks. I worry for nothing.

Oh sorry again - I keep making assumptions that people can read my mind. Here is a file to download and put in your Plugins folder; then restart SketchUp. export_corners.rb

Work-around: Paste in place a copy of the target mesh into another Sketchup session. Paste the drape lines into the same session above. Create as layer called "drape" and make it active. Drape the lines onto the copy of the target mesh. Open the target mesh group, select a draped line and right-click > select all on same layer. Group, then copy the draped lines and paste in place into the original file. If find that by isolating the target mesh in this way also speeds up the slow drape operation considerably.

An update to this: This also occurs in SketchUp 7. And I've realised that the components isn't missing, but instead it's the position of the copies that's incorrect. They all end up in the position of the original.

Hi Thom, Have you tried Karpo yet? I'm not sure about the results but there might be a format combination that works for you.

haha I look every where except that.what a walleye me. thank you!

Wow! That was quick. Thanks Chris. It worked like a charm. Cheers

Kool thanks edson. I'll check those out! I appreciate the help.

Great work. Thanks Boo. Rastus