@dalek said: TIG, Very helpful again. I've got another one. I've got two components that cross in my model. I want to delete the bottom half of one of the components, and keep the top half that lies on the other side of the second component. Kind of like an "x", and I want to delete on of the edges so I end up with a "y". So, I "intersect with model." That gives me lines where the two compenents cross, but when I go to delete the edges I don't want, it deletes the entire edge, even the edge on the other side of component #2. Is there any way to prevent this, or do I have to retrace the shorter edges I want to keep? Dale Use 'Intersect' when you are within the component itself (during an edit). Do it for each component in turn. That way the intersecting lines are then made within the components and you should be able to erase them within each component during an edit as desired...

I think he is referring to particles in the air (dust,humidity,etc..), that cause refraction and reflection of light, thus causing the 'volumetric' effect (beams or cones of light). Most of the time,volmetric light is 'mimiced' by modelers/render engines ,as the polycount of real particles can be troublesome..... Cheers, Kwistenbiebel

@unknownuser said: If you increase the number of segments in your cylinder (and the squished sphere as well) you'll get a smoother look. Thanks - that's great advice and helps . . . just a word of advice to the other newbs like me - DO NOT set the number of circle sides to 2000 - NO! Use lower values, closer to 100, or so. Happy modeling, Brad [image: 5yET_bw_egg_slicing_001.jpg]

jbacus, strange that shortcut (edit/context menu flyout/zoom extents) doesn't work for me. I just get the mac error sound when I hit the key. Strange. The menu itself works.

Great as usual Tom, thanks.

mk11, I found my quickest work thru was to place a line from the exterior centerpoint of the opening that was above the floor plane down (blue) to the floor, this was my pick point for dimensioning. Mostly I deleted them at the next ISO view, but if you place them in their own layer, you can use them again. I like the dimensioning capabilities of SU. It is extremely flexible,stable and easy to modify, and with a little technique modification on my part it is quite easy to dimension a plan to my tolerances. Regards,

A little visual spiral riff inspired by that beautiful golden mean curve model of Dave's. [image: spiral2.jpg] Dave's file with transparent colors and rotated.

Malte, I don't know if this has to do with what you experience but some of the window components do have some 6 unnecessary extra lines/edges in them. Looking from the purple side: nr.1, nr.8 and nr.12 cheers, Wo3Dan

If I may add.... Cat-chick!! [image: catchickzr8.jpg] catchick.skp

thanks a lot!

Thank you Jean. As usual, once you explain it it's obvious. Before that it was impossible.

Wow, so simple that I did not see it. I looked and tried everything BUT that Thanks so much Glenn

Gai, Thanx so much... I'll loo0k in to it later today and let you know the result. Again... Thanx, Bob

Thanks for the pointer to the Most Used Scripts thread. Lots of interesting notions there. I particularly liked the menus idea, as it seemed to me that Plugins was going to get awfully cluttered. I know next to nothing about Ruby (I don't want to, either. I spent too much time customizing AutoCAD. Now I want to design and draw in SketchUp.) but I was able to discern the structure and to customize it for myself. I was even able to hack out a way to make a heading and a faux separator at the end. I can see using Roof so often that I don't want to have to go through the extra step on the menu, so I left on it's own under Plugins. Bur's layer_manager_extension and projection_extension look to me to be so useful that they should be integrated right into SketchUp. Shapes also seems like it will be important. As time goes by, I expect to refer to that Most Used Scripts thread again and again.

@unknownuser said: Dave R wrote: Those little chevron-shaped faces are common with Follow Me when you run a profile around an arc of the same or smaller radius. Here is my way to avoid this: Cube_with_Radiused_Edges.skp [image: qYaV_Cube_with_Radiused_Edges.jpg]

@goggin said: Hey, that was the first time I gave advice, as opposed to asking for it, on this MB! That's the way it is... First you (I mean most of the people in general) just lurk then ask finally return what you received to the community. Knowledge is one of those few things that the more you give away, the more you yourself will have (I hope my "Hunglish" is understandable )

Very handy! Thanks for sharing.

Ah! Thanks for taking the time to explain, it's one heck of a workflow that must have taken time to get comfortable with. Your work is mind blowing in it's detail, thanks once again for sharing...

a warm welcome from India!!! (even though i am not there now.... )

Thank you Jean! They are lovely