I sped watched one of the other tutorials. You obviously have a firm grasp of using SketchUp and Extensions. My only suggestion would be the pay attention the segment number on curves, arcs and circles. In some instances you are creating denese geometry for no gain. Bezier Spline is a great tool but using 20 segments on a curve is overboard is places.

Pres, I always resize them, usually to 2000 pix wide, I do this to get rid of the jaggies. But I'll play around with your suggestions about the line weight! I've never messed around with the depth cue before so I'll give that a try too. Thanks for that advice!

Oh course thanks

anyone know how to do this on a Mac? [image: aqRP_2016-12-3122.34.552.jpg]

Cplassais has made a very cool plug for align objects! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZp4yuImVhQ

If I use "use high accuracy HLR", dimensions show, but now texture don't...

@dave r said: Have you tried contacting Indigo as it says to do in the message? We might be able to give you a useful answer if we could see the SKP file. https://ufile.io/a7edc

Please explain the 3rd item in this (attached pic) dialog box. When I export images and go thru the process of making a video, the end result is a movie with a duration of about 100 time longer than I expected. In other words, the clip should be about 12 seconds, not 10 hours long. I used both Movie Maker and MakeAvi with the same results. The you tube tutorials I can find, only casually mention the process. [image: ptkM_Dialog-MSP.jpg]

You can add a table in LayOut.

Thank you! It was driving me nuts. I've played with Sketchup a bit but never downloaded any plug ins. Now maybe I can figure out how to use it.

Yes, load comp, (re)name it, save as. If the filename is there already, then replace. Just did 85 of the important ones. Ideally, there should be a choice to either - rename the comp same as filename or rename filename same as comp name. But this works well if renaming just a few. Thanks again.

To bad for me. I know I don't use sketchup in a totally "normal" way.. I's very important for my project to go from a very large country view to very detail view... I wonder if there is another 3D soft as easy as Skecthup able to do that kind of things and better in animations... At least with your answer I can stop dreaming and crying and jump to the two files solution I was pushing away... Thank you (so) very much. ++

I'm not sure a plugin could do this but you certainly don't need one to do that. You can edit the other materials and make them darker. Here's a quick example. [image: K8Db_Untitled2.png]

Thanks, this is something new to me.

Hi - Everything above SU2013 will still get supported

It's clear from the various posts that you have many options when adding a roof over these walls. The last poster's suggestion is to ignore the masonry walls and make an orthogonal roof over them with parallel eaves and ridges, but with varying soffit dimensions. If this is acceptable to you then you might have as a simple roof structure and finish as you could. Otherwise if you must have parallel eaves and ridges you must either accept a roof surface that is not in one simple plane, with twisted facets are needed to achieve the form, or a piece of 'flat' roof at the ridge to fill in the inevitable gap between the two single-plane roofs that meet there. In these cases you need to consider the complexity of making the non-conventional roof structure and its finishes. If parallel eaves and ridges are not a must, but single plane roof for each section are still preferable, then you need to decide it you are to slope the various ridges or the various eaves. The former is probably the more conventional structurally - it's effectively a very shallow hip construction with the normally horizontal ridge-board becoming in effect a sloping hip-tree - the roofing material is easily trimmed and covered by the ridge capping: otherwise sloping the eaves means non-conventional sloping wall-plates, odd-walling etc, and probably ugly weirdness at the lower edges of the roof, where material at the eaves would need cutting and finishing oddly - somewhat like a shallow valley gutter...