I nearly forgot about this and almost didn't read this thread now I find that I have won I am glad you enjoyed my gingerbread Thanks

Hi Charlie Back from my holiday in Nice, France hence the delay in replying. What weather and what a lovely location. Will certainly be returning. Thanks for the comments about the models. Sketchup certainly does the job for me. With regard to the Japanese marking knife section. Originally there was a link to those pages but since I have been paid by British Woodworking for the information I felt that it would be wrong of me to then provide the information for free. The method of using the front edge of the knife I came upon by pure accident whilst working away one day. For me it is the most efficient method of marking a shoulder line. If you want further info on this I would happy send the stuff through via private email. cheers Alan

Hehe, admittedly SU isn't very good at it compared to, say, ZBrush., but it can do it.

or you can buy for $3 a script called PageExIm (smustard.com). it allows you to export and import all the scenes you may wish. i did it and am very happy with it. p.s.: i am no smustard sales rep, just a satisfied customer.

Thanks, Ron!

welcome to the fold... lettme see your sketchup...

As Tom says, the view of angle (and the area covered by the "largest" third of the co-ordinate system) will allow you to draw on any of the 3 default planes. You can also use one of the standard views (top, left-right or front-back) to draw on the blue, red or the green axis (just push the button and it gets you there then push the "back" button in the camera menu bar to get back where you were previously). However this is mostly a handy way when there isnt too much geometry around to which the circle tool tends to snap easily. And also it is a kind of a matter of workflow - whatever you get used to (first). Eventually you can even rotate a circle into a desired alighnment.

Thank you Jim! These are great collections!

thanks for the info - it worked I was able to un-select the component Yep - I will lose the handle and possible beef up the bottom plate with 1/2" steel thanks again ~ian

Thanks Kris, I was scaling the individual shakes to about 10" x 7" and the original image didn't seem to be changing, but scale the original image x 10 and... life is good. thanks I appreciate all the help and time.

With respect to your model size of 7 meg or so, be advised that the file size saved on disk is not a true index of your model complexitiy when you have multiple component instances. When you are actually working in sketchup all those trees are in memory -- a better index of true file size can be found under model info/statistics (with show nested components checked) -- namely the number of edges and faces. Some time back Alan Fraser posted a famous example of a model with 100 corinthian column components -- only 100 K or so "file size" but would bring the most powerful computer to a crawl or freeze. That said, the advice to put your trees on a layer and hide that layer when working is sound, along with keeping shadows and textures turned off until you are ready to render.

ahhhhh fantastic, so glad you're up and running... now let's see some of what you're working on.

Hi Gai.. You could try this for any dead links? Youve probably sorted this by now! http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm cheers Jeff

All I did to straighten your foundation was: 1, Draw a line on the blue from the corner of the building. 2, Use a construction line to mark the point. 3, select the whole base face (double-click on the face) 4, Use the move tool and hold shift to keep it on green and you should be able to snap to the end point of the con-line. Hope this helps [image: Steps.jpg]

o_O Mange takk!

BINGO! That did it, thank you so much:) I will go chase down a driver...thanks a lot:) P: Hanna

I don't know of a "crust" ruby. But you've sure got me curious.

Sorry I meant to say SU pro. But your answer makes everything make sense, thanks for clarifying this. I do have pro, but used to have google SU 5 and remembered not finding anything. @gaieus said: You are saying you have Google pro (what "google" anyway?). and then asking if you need pro for your purposes. If you mean SU Pro (v.6) - then you don't need the pro versiopn for this. In SU 5 the sandbox tools were confined to the pro version but they are available in the free version since v.6 was released. P: jectionpro

share the love... wheres the file... I've modeled millions of miles wide... so scale should not be the issue. you may not be "seeing" you imported file. share it with us and maybe we can help.