Now now guys, play nice shreesti, I am sure if someone has one they are willing to share they will. Otherwise you just might have to build one your self. Do you have a picture of the door you are looking for? This might help. Thanks.

No problem. For future reference its probably a lot faster to do stuff like this yourself rather than waste time asking for it. For this one it was simply a case of drawing a semi circle, putting the legs on and applying a nice texture. Nothing taxing

I don't really know anything about the 3DS file structure, but I would guess that as SU itself has no other material properties than colour and texture, the exporter would set all the other required values to something considered as a default. Most users export 3DS in order to render the model in some external rendering application by adding lights and other features not available in SU. In the applications I have used, the ambient property of a material, makes it glow quite unrealistically, so I would have had to turn it off. I am not even sure that the property is set by SU. If it is optional, the problem might even be with your receiving application or its settings, if it adds a black ambient "channel" if your 3DS file has none. Just blundering guesses Anssi

Presto, by right clicking the png (or using the identy info pulldown menu) you can set the image not to cast shadows...so no bounding box shadow, but no shadow at all (ok sometimes).

Ahh, I see. I have not spent much time looking at the Mac SU screen. I didn't realize thar all the toolbars were sort of separated out that way. I'm afraid I do'nt know Boa sorte e tenha um bom dia! Chris

You just copy the script (*.rb file) into the Plugins folder of your SU application. Hopefully you have access to the Program Files folder. Then you can run it from the Plugins menu in SU (you will need to restart SU).

Thats great! I always learn something new here. Thanks Panga.

very very but very good! thanks....

well,.. this is really fun style, Thank's

This is an old bug of SU that was fixed in version 4, but the fix had to be removed due to some trouble about probable copyright infringements or something like that. Unfortunately there isn't a known fix for this at this time. Personally I'm hoping it is fixed in the next version of SU.

Dear Chris, My thoughts and best wishes go with you and your family. Kindest regards, Bob

Thanks for sharing this rabbit, I'm gonna give a look at it !!

Thanks I like it a lot.

Hello ! Is there other complementary google tools ???

It seems this guy has written a lot on AutoCAD, so maybe it might be worth a look. V7, someday soon I imagine

so far as I know, setting a 2x or 4x antialias in the opengl preference dialog (if supported by your graphic card) doesn't affect your texture, but only the edges of your model. On my computer Sketchup doesn't apply any improvement to the texture antialiasing: many other programs, especially computer games, have this feature. The best workaround I know, if you need a static image, is to render it bigger (2x, 4x) and resample it with an image editor with a good resampling algorythm (bicubic, spline, ecc) like The Gimp or Photoshop. If you still want to avoid the moire effect inside Sketchup, another way is to edit your texture with an image editor and soften or soft blur it. If the texture is not so crisp, this will reduce the moire effect. Here some snapshots: [image: 5s1X_testnoantialias.jpg] [image: 7m67_testantialias.jpg] [image: btXR_testresampled.jpg]

[image: Q3U7_Centralpointdetermination-1.jpg][image: pNb1_Centralpointdetermination-2.jpg]Dear David, Thousand apologies, my sloppiness and Sketchup's inferences caused the inaccuracies of my initial central point's graphical determination (see corrected drawing). In a second attachment, the superposition of the original photograph (magenta edge), the yellowish cropped image), the greenish reconstructed uncropped photo show the usefulness of the method. Since I am dealing with 1900 photos, LIDAR and other techniques aren't really helpful here... Many thanks for diving in after so many years!

Hi Hoangduong, I'm frequently confronted to this problem when I use the stamp tool. For me, it happens when i have other objects near the surface I want to stamp and when my model become too large. To avoid this, there's a few solutions : Try to put all others objects in a turned off layer Take your surface and your building print out of your model, and do the stamp in a new file, and then copy it in your model (not always possible...) If you have an old version of Sketchup 5, save your file in the SU 5 format, do it under SU 5, and reopen it with SU6. It never crash on sketchup 5 for me. Hope it helps you.

Thanks For all your words of advice I very much appreciate it. Thanks for the link Edson, It is the reason why I have been so late in coming back, I have spent a good few hours watching the clips. I have moved the model nearer to the origin and can zoom in and out ok now. I have split the 4.1km scheme into 10 segments so I will have to figure how to join them up again. diolch yn fawr Stephen

There is an option on the shadows dialog box that says cast on ground, just uncheck that and you wont have to move the model. Post some pics in the gallery when you're done [image: Ejz4_Untitled-1.jpg]