When you are exporting to 3ds...or anything else for that matter...you need to go into the export options (small, hiding-in-plain-sight button on lower right of export dialog box)and uncheck the Export stand alone edges box. You should only need to do this once.

Turning on hidden geometry did the trick. Thanks Sorgesu

Like Mr.Gaieus sad: You can speed up your workflow with this with the help of the Skin.rb. It's little tricky but save a lot's of time.

Ah yes, I could really use one to put my feet onto now in the office...

James, are those the ones from the source above?

Wow, despite of the polycount it could still be a very handy program! Thanks Phil (and of course, welcome to the forums though I see you haven't just recently registered) I think you should also post this in the Hardware & Software section.

Gaius we look at SCF as our sister forum or as we fondly call it Forum Next Door

Hi Jean, I know the file is supposed to be under Help>Self Paced Tutorials. All I have there are the 3 intro videos above the separator line. I'll try an "erase and replace" and see what happens. Thanks.

Hahahaa, only pulling your leg Tina. You knew this of course Mike PS: Mr Lucey was my father's name ..... now your pulling my leg

Sorry, It's OK. I found it.

I honestly cannot explain why .png exported textures give problems as I never bothered to find out once I realised .bmp and .jpg worked everytime. If you cannot establish the units used in Milkshape then a few tests can be done to determine what works best, I would assume cm's will work as the app is European after all. Normally when exporting a model you have a settings drop box where it can be selected, however that does not mean SU will always import it.

I think my drivers may have been the problem. I had v6, latest version was v14. And it seems to be handling a 16MB model rather easily now. Thanks!

@unknownuser said: Hey lapx and TIG, My model has a lot of text in it. So I opened the Model Info dialog box > text > Select all Leader text (button), then clicked on the paint chip selected a new color and clicked on Update Selected Text. That changed the color of the text in my model. Is that what you say is not working? Please let me know. Thank you. v 6.4.112 PC: Change the global text colour doesn't work like it used to... You can select 'all' text, AND you can change the colour setting BUT it don't 'stick'. The only way with this latest version is to select all of the text then use the material paint-bucket to re-colour the selection... It needs fixing.

The roller coaster project is officially "over" - it was a gigantic success! Sorry this photo is very poor quality but it gives you an idea what some of the students did. This photo does not show all the roller coasters. Only four groups attempted the Round & Round - it was the most difficult, I think. [image: OLcQ_roller_coasters_010.jpg]

@solo said: I use Vue inf for texturing complexed shapes and then bake to poly's and export with image attached. I have tried importing 'fitted' textures from many apps and concluded Vue inf is the best so far... ...Pete,Thanks for research , I shall use it...

He must have - it works now without the "workaround". Downloaded and works fine.

If you set the appropriate face of the knob component to glue to a vertical plabe, it won't go into the door but rather sticks to its surface (if it is a component, you need to be within its context).

Yeah that feature is on the mac version. Pretty nice feature.

Your are experiencing clipping - several possible causes, see the SU help on this matter. http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=36261&query=clipping&topic=&type=