Copying the project into a new one help a lot, thanks.

Leave the section cut faces in place on the model so the model behind the section cut can be seen, too. Make a scene for each section cut view. To show those views, you can easily place the scenes as viewports next to each other in LayOut. As for something more structured, that part is up to you. You just have to develop a structured work flow.

You could also take a look at Indigo which can be used free for non-commercial work, renders are then limited to 0.7MP and has the Indigo watermark.

Yes it's a good habit to manage your textures when you have thousand of them!

@garystan said: I noticed the "Place in line" button. What is that option ? Thanks............garystan It uses the phpBB BBcode to embed images into your posts like this... [image: 5IQp_loop-example-tig.gif] You can see when your are drafting your posts it wraps the image in BBcode... [attachment=0]loop-example-tig.gif[/attachment] Make reading your posts that bit more cleaner.

There is an old one called massmaterialimporter which may work. I'm sure someone can update it if it does not. Edit - it stil works in 2017.

@otb designworks said: @mike amos said: I also find the additional reference points when drawing to be a thorough nuisance rather than helping. I have to agree with this statement. I feel like the "improvements" to the inference engine over the last two releases have done nothing but make the modeling process more cumbersome and confusing. I agree with both you and Trimble in this regard. More inferences are very useful but things need to be fine tuned to a point that they work flawlessly. I'll add that some of these inferences are, in fact, only visual cues. Those are, imho, useless.

@stshuting said: Hello pbacot! Oh ok! Thanks for the details procedures! I shall try them! And I didn't know that smoothing object makes it easier to edit!! Wow that's good to know! Many thanks again. And wishing you a very happy new year and all the best for 2017! Best regards, Shu Ting Makes it easier to surfaces at time, I guess I mean.

Beware, I have used this data in the latest version of Lumion and it's not really that great. Seems to have no 3D topo information and the buildings heights are limited or non existent for most areas.

I agree with Dave. If you put the line and curve on the xy plane and aligned with the x axis, it works everytime.

I'm glad that helped. Notifying nVidia may or may not help. They are always releasing new drivers so the next release might take care of the issue. If you didn't manually download and install the driver update before, be on the lookout for it to get updated again. Or turn off auto updates.

Version 2017 introduce yet another signing regime, which means unless you use an 'Unrestricted' loading policy you might get issues if it's not been re-signed for v2017, if an extension or plugin is 'unsigned' it should usually work when 'Unrestricted'. However, some unexpected changes in the way that SketchUp v2017 deals with an entity's ID etc have meant that some extension are now broken in v2017. Sadly one of these is my Extension-Tools... I am working on fixes, but a few of the tools are proving particularly recalcitrant... Watch for updates... If you find any tools which have been installed from their latest RBZ, and which seem not to work in v2017 please report them to that tool's author in its main thread. Please remember to provide any Ruby Console messages or on-load messages as might be relevant...

when I write 'quick and dirty' tests I tend to check for methods using Ruby :methods method... that can expose 'undocumented' methods that I have no idea of the owner of... I must of had ACT on when I first wrote this one [ I don't normally ]... good thing you found it, I'll find and change my snippet... john

This tool fails in v2017 [like several others]. It also has several longstanding coding deficiencies, which would require wide-ranging recoding... Fixing it won't be an easy task...

Thank You Jim! So how about if I wanted to find out if the string "SINGLE" exists anywhere in the string?

OK, I think I figured out what was causing the problem. When you type double quotes into the dynamic component (at least in Sketchup for Mac) the double quotes are sometimes changed from " to “ causing the formula to throw an error. Thanks nonetheless for your help Jim!

I thought that was the point of having 'Create Group from Slice'... then explode to get the edges in context... [image: M3hs_slice.gif] john

@john2 said: I haven't done any of the financial activities as far as the eps or pdf outputs of sketchup are concerned. The output is taken from a software called Adobe Illustrator. everything created with SketchUp, regardless if further processed with another application, is bound to the license terms agreed by you, transfering to another application for the final, commercially used export is obviously a commercial usage too

sorry I wasn't clear... what I was suggesting is you save the base geometry as a new separate component... in the topo model it will still have layers, but not in the component... you would need two components if water and land are separate entities... if you upload a simple example we would understand your goal better... john