Thanx man! Its working now

There do seem to be some technical differences between 2D and 3D templates, beyond simply the starting angle of view...but I can't elaborate. For now, just go with whatever floats your boat. Gai is right, in early versions all the default templates, whether Imperial, metric or metric inches etc. all opened in plan view with no ground, sky or Flat Bryce. The Isometric/Perspective view came along later; that is, after all, how most other modellers open by default...at least they do when not in quad view.

Thanks!

Nice one, Tom!

oh, cheffey, I am flattered no, I am not working as interface designer (if I would, I would redesign SketchUp to look like the iPhone ). I am a mere student, currently working in london. my only goal is to give our beloved Ruby Gods ideas for their amazing plugins (well, if the Google guys were inspired by it and we find some nice new tools in SU7, I won't complain )

thanks guy for the help again

Ugh, my fatigue made me overlook what I was actually looking at: it was the wrong tab! This reteaches me the valuable lesson of being well-rested...

Great Post!! Thank you.

Oops, sorry. I get it now. SU is scaling the whole screen (I use a big screen iMac.) Sorry. Ken

Thanks, guys!

Search for gaieus (what else )

Wow Alex, very clever. You know, I just bought a 10' USB cord for my mouse so I could sit back and walk my clients through a model allowing them to be closer to the screen. The Wiimote would have been much better for this and only about $8 more!

@gidon yuval said: Hi Bren and welcome to the forum. One thig that may help you in getting the hang of using SU is to think in terms of extrusion. I'm sure you are familiar with the Playdough machines where the child simply chooses the nozzle shape and forces the Playdough through it. [attachment=0:3sjfduc3]<!-- ia0 -->180px-Playdoh.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3sjfduc3] Well, modeling with SU is quite similar. Always think in terms of the base shape or the profile of what you want to model. Once you have the shape and you know in which you want it to go then you've done 50% of the work. Yes, indeed. Thanks, Gidon. Hadn't read your reply yet, as I've been quite busy, but now that I read this it is immediately reminding me of the Follow Me tool. I managed to create a donut with it which I afterwards gave some smooth bumps and dents of different sizes. Furthermore, made some terrain, a little cabin of stone, a bucket, etc. I think it's going quite well and fast too

ok! i ve just fixed it;i should think better i just download the latest version and installed it but still wondering where are they putting those registry?¿ deeply hidden THX! Elisei

This can interest you : Programms for Solver Puzzles For the original "Soma" you must load "Cubix 3D" who is in the same link The best link about Soma The creator of Soma Piet Hein : His watchword : Co existence or no existence and this interesting one I don't give you the solution because it's one of the more "simple" crazzy headache I had never seen Even you find a 3D solution(many exist), that don't say that you can assembly it in reality! Only one works! PS It is also not so easy to unbuild it the Skp File [image: file.php?id=10383&mode=view] [image: file.php?id=10385&mode=view]

Dear Plot-Paris Is the attached what you need? I constructed the solid in the following way: Draw the inner arc with the required segment length. Offset the inner arc the required distance to give the outer arc. Use the extrude line tool to extrude the inner arc the required height. Explode the surface and extrude each face towards the outer arc, snapping to the line segments (mid-points) on the outer arc. Delete un-needed surfaces. Use the line tool fill in the shape. Delete all coplanar lines. Use the smooth tool to hide lines. Regards, Bob Matching up segments.skp

Thanks a lot for the tip, it's very useful indeed.

Gene - Dylan is correct that doing full construction drawings in SketchUp is not common. Most of us haven't attempted it. That isn't to say you can't -- whatever turns your crank. If you wanted to do your electrical plan in SketchUp you could create the various symbols as components that you could place on your plan as required. If you are a SketchUp Pro user you could alternately add your symbols and annotations using the LayOut program that comes with SketchUp Pro. In it you could more easily produce a SketchUp based set of construction drawings -- more easily than just using SketchUp. Regards, Ross

thanks for your advice, didn't know about the purge.

Thanks for your replies. the TaffGoch way worked. I created a composant with the object of interest, then to rotate it, I hit the "modify the composant option" and voila, it worked. Thanks to all again