@thekeymaster said: I tried just making a round wall around my model and then making a new texture out of the image that I generate and putting it on the wall as a back drop but it just tiles it so small it just looks like a solid color. Have you tried skp file from my drop link? There is a sphere with google panorama mapped on it. You just have to change it.

There's nothing wrong. There's nothing to fix. It isn't painting the back faces when you paint the component/group container. You shouldn't be painting the component/group container. You should be painting the faces. If you do, all of the container will show the material. Also, if you paint the container you won't have the option to adjust the orientation of the material. You must paint the faces to have that ability.

Oh God! Such an idiot. I'm going to kill myself. And I've been painting and repainting, exploding and grouping for like 40 minutes. I feel like such a fool now. And I'll post in v6 from now on, update my profile etc. Thanks Box, thanks Pilou.

Yes please. Sketchup's current inability to automatically collapse unused tray space is the main reason why Sketchup's old windowed UI behaviour is still preferable.

Well the way I make a surface a plane is to use the rotated rectangle, pick three points that should lay on the same plane. This makes a rectangle that is a least a flat plane to three of the points. Then I offset the rectangle until it covers the area I wish to cover, then intersect with model, and pesto, a flat plane. Note, if the flat plane does not connect to all the edges, you will need to move the plane to connect to all the other surfaces, or modify the surfaces that don't connect to the plane. Ken

@juju said: Personally, I'm always super careful to supply the actual models / CAD files to work as it may lead to unintended use thereof. There is a plugin that ruins the model without looking like it's ruined. It triangulates it and moves every vertex a tiny bit around randomly so a pushpull can no longer be performed or every edge is out of place just enough that moving is awkward and it renders the model useless for anything else but display and measure. That might be handy on those scenarios: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=163921#p163921

With many roofing patterns I found the material was made correctly in the first place. Just a "Reset position" under Texture in the contextual menu will will set it right

why not continue at the according thread?

There is no native SVG export from SketchUp.

You know that may be the case. However, it was working then after not using it for a couple of days it stopped. Anyway, hope the answer helps some other user. Thanks for the info. Ken

They are definitely guidelines. However, I solved the problem by changing to the wireframe option in the Styles menu, select all, then View>Hide and switching back to the default styles. Lines gone.

No, what I mean is either you do as rich suggested, which is the proper 3d way, or you do it with a line (axis) and it rotates 180 around that axis.

It can be done without a plugin or extension. First, the material needs to be applied to the faces and not the group or component. Expose Hidden Geometry, right click on a single face and choose Texture>Position. Rotate it as needed. Then turn off Hidden Geometry, use the Materials eye dropper to sample the material where you just rotate it and then immediately click the paint bucket on the surface to apply that material orientation. Alternatively, you can apply the material to another face in the model that would get the same orientation and sample that before applying it to the curved surface. I used these methods for the rush seat on the chairs and the legs on the table. [image: 11416850996_695e552ea0_z.jpg] And on the curved surfaces on this post. [image: 8511785423_9b3ca804d5_z.jpg]

2017 VERSION, ITS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE I UPDATED ON DAY ONE OF 2017 BEING AVAILABLE. LAST WEEK I UPDATED TO LATEST VERSION AS HOPED THIS WOULD SOLVE IT BUT IT HASNT. NOT WORKED OUT HOW TO CHANGE PROFILE DONT COME ON HERE THAT OFTEN ANYMORE. NO NEW PLUGINS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED.

@kbendewald said: ...I'm aware of the Angular Dimension but not able to get it to work how I'd like. I'm sure this is a user error. Any help is appreciated. Please clarify what you mean by "how I'd like". I'm the author of the Angular Dimension and co-author of Angular Dimension 2 both available in the plugin store here, so I may be able to help once I know what you need.

Merci pour tout et bonne journée

You also need View > Hidden Geometry ON so that you can see the 'smoothed' lines and the individual facets forming the surface are shown, and thereby also made selectable separately...

My "Clip or Trim Terrain Mesh" should do that for you.

Mystery to me. So far when I use SU everything I select goes into a group. Otherwise I think I'd go mad. I especially like "Group and delete" to clean up drawings and usually the edges are contacting non-selected geometry.