Box & Rich, thank you both guys, you are lifesavers! I just tried it and it works perfect!

28secs ain't too bad. I remember >2mins startups with SU7 when 1001bits was installed.

Wow guys, i wish I'd joined this forum far sooner! Thanks to Rich 0 Brien & Pilou Those ideas worked magnificently. I didn't use Gilles' method, but thanks very much too for showing another way Edit: Finished item [image: 18741335_10155108127700837_1026135825_n.jpg?oh=a25ee15fa850d0fb3fc794ea6d04919a&oe=5928F0C6]

Jim Here is the link to what you are looking for and the one I have too. Good deal @$163US and very nice. http://www.gearbest.com/3d-printers-3d-printer-kits/pp_343643.html dtr

I don't have money to buy v.ray for blender.... is there any affordable animation plugin in sketchup that is compatible with v-ray?

If you deleted guides in SketchUp, those lines for your footings would be gone. When you update the reference in LO, the viewport will show the state of the SketchUp model when it was last saved. We should talk.

@unknownuser said: That would have taken us a long time to guess. Yeah, I think so too . However TIG put me on the right track somehow. Thank you all for your help and being such a fine community!

@paolo said: Dave thank you for your reply, I understand your facts but that doesn't mean that I and many others which have been using SU for many years are wrong to be deeply disappointed... I understand that you are disappointed but it doesn't change the facts. Google removed access to their Maps API so versions of SketchUp that used Google Maps for Geo-Location no longer have anything to access. @paolo said: Don't want to be rude but by the way how much will it cost to follow your suggestions for such a basic feature (probably you don't need it if doing "woodworking"). You'll need to check with the Placemaker folks. The extension doesn't come for free and neither does the high res imagery they offer. Digital Globe doesn't supply their data for free. I expect their employees insist on getting paid for their work and the required infrastructure doesn't come out of thin air. You're right. I don't need that sort of stuff for most woodworking projects but I do a lot more with SketchUp than just woodworking projects. If I need high res location imagery I'll use Placemaker, though. Their imagery for most areas is better than Google's offering was anyhow. @paolo said: Perhaps is time to learn Blender or why not Rhino. I think it's a good idea to keep learning. Helps to keep senility at bay. What do Blender and Rhino use for geo-location data?

yep all up to date OS X el capitan 10.11.6

The faces cannot and should not be removed. They are the diffuse color of a material. It's probably a jpg image. That material should also have a clip or alpha map. Which can also be a jpg image. That clip/alpha is black and white image where black goes for the empty space and white the leaf itself. What you can do is create a png image based on the diffuse+alpha maps in an image editor. Use the diffuse jpg as base image and insert the clip/alpha as mask. Then save it as png. Go to Sketchup material editor and replace the texture by this png.

The general trick! You must subdivide your cylinder in multiple objects (group(s)) then group them! ( here a group of 4 groups! + a box group ) [image: xVGl_GIF_cylinder.gif] (if there are no news functions created! I don't follow aespecially this sort of very tricky program) cylinder_ms.skp

Ohh, sorry, it's true it's late in Sydney , here in italy we are still on the 21 Anyway, I erroneously thought that it would have been the same to use the original model instead than the one with only the copy-pasted part. You rightly showed me I was wrong. Soo, uhm uhm, I'll try to work on a copy-paste part on another file and reimport it on the original mode.. But that's a really crappy bug, since I am always careful to my geometry and I clean and verify my model often. Thank you Box!

Maybe the problem isn't shading caused by faulty normals but just a visual effect of all the dashed lines. What happens if you do the Unity equivalent of SketchUp's hide hidden geometry?

@rich o brien said: Export materials to .csv? Yes to .csv or .xlsx

Happy boss....? oxymoron if you ask me...and I am my boss so I should know.

@unknownuser said: Let me see if I can save the model in V6 You can save as V6 in any version ! (of course not from the V5 ! [image: 4bOV_from2017.jpg]

Search one of Fredo's plugins with key word 'coplanar'. One click cure.

@whitelock said: no I'm on 2017 can't work out how to change my profile thing any help with that would be good. I always put "I'm on Mac Version 2017 pro user etc" at the top of my posts now. Click on Settings. [image: JJpb_Screenshot-5_19_20175_20_34AM.png] Under Edit Profile, scroll down a bit to find SketchUp version. Make any other changes and then click on Submit. [image: 25vJ_Screenshot-5_19_20175_22_18AM.png]

The first thing you should do is quit copying extensions/plugins from an older version installation. Always install fresh from the source. You created problems for yourself by doing the things you've described. If you use the Sketchucation Extension Store extension to install the extensions and plugins from here, a bundle will be created. The next time you update SketchUp, install the SCF Extension store from a fresh download. Then let it install your bundle of extension with the freshest copies. They'll get installed in the right place and you won't waste time trying to troubleshoot problems. Your signature line indicates you are using Vray 2.0. If that's correct, you'll find it problematic with SU2017. Vray version 3 is designed to work with SU2017.