Yes, obviously one great advantage of png files is that they support transparency so whenever you apply them on a surface there can be areas where you can "see through". Open your materials browser and check out the "Fence" materials. They are all (?) partly transparent png files and using them will let you have those fences without the need of modelling all that stuff and loading your model with heavy geometry. also a lot of the 2D plants work with these transparent png's Yet there are drawbacks; this "transparency" does not support shadows - i.e. the whole face will cast the shadow as a big "block". Mostly you would turn off the "cast shadow" feature of the entzity... But this is already OT - on a mobile phone you need not cast shadows...

Script published here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=3848 Hope it helps,

now thats where i am lost.. i have no idea how to contact this fellow.. he seems to be Japanese...

@pmiller said: once you start to add windows, vents, doors, etc. you will probably end up with a lot of unique components anyway. Not to mention the off-module oddballs and the inside corners. Nevertheless, I like your approach since it permits one to array the tops along the slope and the bottoms along a level plane, and I would not have to go in and adjust every panel individually. Also, I think that just a few component styles would take care of 90% of the panels on any one project, even on the large-for-me 200,000 sq. ft. buildings.

Yes Tom, indeed it's possible (after all that's what they do in the warehouse; link the KMZ file to the link).

We had so much spam in the Wiki that we had to shut it down to manual registrations.o Send me you email address, and desired screen name and I will add you as a user.

Thanks guys, followed your help and lo and behold, there it is. Easy when you know how

hiya! we can introduce lights with the help of external render softwares.... but i am sure u knew that! u might be interested in this lil thread here!

Very nice.

sorry to revive such an old topic, but i reckon i should just finish it off, and seeing as not many people submitted models, everyones a winner!! well done everyone.

Do not get into the habit of using /2, since SU has a significant bug: appending /2 works SOMETIMES -but only if you are dividing an integer by 2. If you type "1.5/2" you will not get a .75 radius as you expected. There is no warning in SU v.8; in fact this bug has not been fixed as of the 2014 version. It would not be hard to parse the input line, then one could enter 6+5/16 for the mixed fraction since that's what we really mean for 6 5/16. (As we learned in 7th grade algebra, multiplication and division are always done before addition and subtraction -MDAS "My Dear Aunt Sally" rule). It would be nice to be able to specify relative/absolute references, and variables too.

Hopefully some Mac guru will drop into the discussion here and give you some suggestions See what the help center article says about such issues: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=39694

@rhankc said: I can see where the layer 0 is in the .skb, After writing the list in notepad do you just paste it in at the layer 0 end? And thanks for the extra layer ext rb. I'll give it a shot. The skb file is just a backup of the skp file. Writing or pasting stuff manually into the model's file without deeeeeeeep knowledge of what you are doing WILL mess up the model completely ! Don't be tempted to try it... unless you read and write binary code - it's NOT a simple text format... Use my LayerExIm.rb script tool to import a list of layer names via the Ruby API interface - it knows how to make new layers/names and insert them into the data base properly. You can first export a list from an existing skp that has the layer names you need, or simply write a notepad.exe based text list of the layer names - one per line, normal charcters, no tabs... (start with it called MyLayers.txt BUT afterwards change the file's suffix to MyLayers.layers when you've done so the importer can see it... Then use my Layer Import tool, select the list and the layers will appear in the model. If that model file were put into the Templates folder and its name selected under Preferences as the default template then you'll always start with that set of layers in any new skp. Purging the model will remove any layers that are 'empty'. If you want to get them back reimport the .layers list... You can have different 'layers' lists to suit different stages of your work, just as you can have different templates or styles for different types of modelling...

Luckily, I got all my layers to stick, by using the notepad technique. I didn't have to add entities to each layer.

Thank you indeed.. Urgen for your valuable article. I need to contact you but I can't see and contact details. Waiting for your reply sooner. Bye

Thanks Mike, its not actually my issue though, the initial person who posted was someone else. I saying that I think their problem was cured in a new patch released by SU a while back. Then I was asking you if you had a similar problem, or if you were just trying to help troubleshoot. So I see you're just helping, and not experiencing a similar dilema. So all's well that ends well. I am guessing thier problem has been fixed. If anyone else has similar troubles, make sure you are using the most recent version of SU available. Thanks Mike, Chris Fullmer

Yes, Watermark is the way to do it. Thank you very much Wo3Dan. Maximum appreciation.

Thanks for your help...That was it..Now looks good upon import.

Thanxs Marcus.. merry christmas and a happy sketching New Year.