Also it seems that there can almost nothing be found on the net about SU that would not already be here...

Thanks, guys. Urgen, that's a fancy glass for orange juice.

Thanks for all of the good suggestions/comments. I have used a few ruby scripts but for nothing like what has been suggested. It's good to know SU can accomplish this task, however I might choose. I haven't had a call for models like this. I'll need to find some tutorials on curved faces and using ruby scripts. Thanks again. Tim

thanks bro...u gave something i am looking for a long time......

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Hey guys, See this post for the most basic functionality: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=9318

@mlammert said: My next desire is to create curves and circles on the TIN surface and "bend" those... Mark This was done quickly with a low-poly count so the curves are not as smooth as they could easily be. It was made by placing TIN beams on a vertical TIN surface and then using Smoove to curve the beams in the vertical plane. When I had the curves I wanted I rotated everything together back to the horizontal plane... did the various other steps in the tutorial, etc.. For other shapes you could either build them from TINs or use intersect as described in Alan Fraser's original response. Good luck! [image: PeN7_curvedlinessmall.jpg] curved lines on surface.skp

Well, I couldn't find any text files with odd looking names so I uninstalled the whole shootin match and reinstalled and now it works. Must have been a corrupt file somewhere. Thanks for the ideas.

pns000, what is your handrail's profile like? I've noticed when working with small curved profiles with the follow-me command, they don't always behave as expected. Usually, enlarging it say 100x (after copying the profile and path to another file) it works correctly; then I just reduce it.

H i see it's working now

Thanks folks. Managed it with instancing in the end, though struggled to make the first pebble.

Hi Molly, It's the "Profile" tab in your User Control Panel in the top left corner. Go through all the tabs to create your custom settings in different things.

Note that with the very latest maintenance release you should be able to import cad 2007 formats as well.

Some very great news about lighting adjustments in SU: @unknownuser said: Re: Lighting Plugin for Sketchup (page 9) by AdamB on Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:19 pm I've put the LightUp Demo for PC and Macintosh on the website.http://www.light-up.co.uk With great trepidation, I invite you all to give it a whirl. Please read the GettingStarted.pdf Now where the hell is that corkscrew! Adam Thx so much Adam :-)slb

thanks dear Fbartels . recently I am working on a new way for organic modeling . this is ( i guess) something new , and easier than geart SOLO method). i'll share it soon

@rob d said: Chris Thanks for the hint on using the xref ruby. I hadn't realised you could xref components with it too. That's made my day! Well don't get too ecstatic. The tool is sort of broken. If you have a file with components which themselves are made of components you have to be careful. If you modify a component several 'layers' down and then open the top most file, the xref manager will want to update that component and it's parent component. Unfortunately this will send the ruby and Sketchup off into never-never land as it is evidently a circular reference. I've asked TIG (the author) to modify the xref ruby to only show the components inserted directly in the file (not any of the 'children') but he has failed to respond. You can work around this by setting the update on all the lower level child components to OK in the manager and only updating the highest level children. In SolidWorks we call these parts and assemblies, but since that nomenclature is not present in Sketchup, I'm attempting to adapt ;> I posted a file in the xref ruby discussion area. You can download it and see what I'm driving at. Perhaps if more people poke TIG he will fix the script. Have fun, chris

Thanks, ilay7k. I will try those techniques out.

thank you for the skp tut

I'd say I left out a lot of the clasps etc Eric. Still it might be fun to make a little movie of the table opening / closing Mike