It is a feature of the "Sketchy edges" style that you are using. Smaller details fade away the farther they are from the camera. Your mullions became visible when I moved the "level of detail" slider in the Style Edit window to the far right. The fading cannot be turned off altogether, so if that is not enough, the only option is to switch to a non-sketchy style. Anssi

Moved to the SU forum.

Is it a front face or back face? Can you post a picture?

@anssi said: ...When exporting larger than screen images, turn off Antialiasing from the Image export options, or SU will freeze or crash. Anssi The "biggest" export I have ever needed was 3500 x 3500 pixels and I did it with AA on (single 2.7 GHz CPU, 512 Mb memory and a 256 Mb ATI Radeon card - not a power machine at all...) True it was without shadows (then it froze big time).

I haven't modelled anything for GE for a long while so I cannot tell. I might give it another shot one of these days as I have plans to use it for certain purposes though.

no, it did not happen on a clean file. i have already discarded the texture. let us see how it goes. thanks.

holy colw, amazing! thanks so much, this is exactly what i needed!

That worked out perfect! Thanks a lot, I know if I keep working on this it will finally get easier for me. I am just having a hard time getting everything rotated into place the right way. I cant get my trusses to sit the direction I want them to for some reason. Thanks for the help!

Hello again! Indeed there were a couple of threads about this topic, I had a closer look now. And yes, my model was very big, I was doing a very large sea plane that would be as near as possible to the horizon. I've already reduced it quite a bit and the problem got quite a lot more manageable. Thank you all for the tips!

I find the "flip.." command a bit confusing. I prefer to use the "Scale by -1" method to mirror a part. To use this method, select the wall stud -- the stud must be a component -- then click the Scale tool (or "S" on the keyboard). This will make a bunch of scaling points to appear on the corners and midpoints of the 2x4. Move the cursor to the center point on the vertical midpoint of the stud. Be sure that you move it over the one that is in the center of the narrow edge of the board -- not one of the edges. It will turn red and the dot will be reflected on the other side of the 2x4 with another red dot connected by a dotted line. (I find orbiting around so I can see both dots and/or zooming in is very helpful.) Click ONCE on it, and begin to push it horozontally "through" the board (Push the left edge through to the right side), now enter "-1" in the VCB, hit ENTER, and the part will be mirrored. Be sure to stay "on axis" with the movement. I use this procedure to mirror paneled door rails/stiles that are molded on one edge. You could of course, flip the wide side of the 2x4 or even flip it top-to-bottom by selecting the proper scaling points, pushing through and entering -1. This is one operation that will NOT be reflected in all instances of the component. Changing the length will change the length of all instances of the component, but mirroring will affect ONLY the single component your mirror. And, you can copy the mirrored component as many times as necessary, and lengthening either the mirrored copy, or the original, will be reflected on all instances of the component, original AND mirrored. Just another demonstration that there are often several different ways to accomplish the same thing in SU. GT

Thanks Dave and yes, indeed a class A tut!

Got a sample model?

dont have access to a bmp of this but... Gluck [image: S6LO_seeded-glass.jpg] [image: vzrB_straw-glass.jpg]

I would go for the largest monitor you can get your hands on. I recently bought two 24" Soyo LCD's that make my life much easier. Less scrolling and switching. One is at home working in duet with my Dell laptop. The other is in the office next to a 16" diagonal CRT. The Soyo has a brightness number of 1000 and resolution of 1920x1200. Very bright and very sharp. Makes the detail jump for my old eyes. I'd love to jump up to Solo's 42" [image: CBkH_screen-shot.jpg]

Hiii Thanks .. just what i needed

Anssi I found out what was causing the problem: CLineAtFaceIntersection.rb I removed it from the plugins and all is well once again. Thanks for all the help Mike

The reason why I thought it made since was because sometimes colors are listed this way and it seems to make sense to enter info in 1 box vs 3. Photoshop has this flexibilty I just recently discovered.

Thankss!!