This was driving me nuts! This forum never let's me down!! : ) Many thanks TIG

Thanks to both of you. I did check those after your recommendations and appreciate the suggestion as this is something I will now be more aware of in the future. It turns out there was a guideline I could not see that off the screen and this is one part of the problem. The other part of the problem was SketchUp itself misbehaving and not properly unhiding everything nor purging unused properly. Even select all was not showing the offending objects. Outliner finally worked properly and I was able to erase the unused. After 5 tries doing all of the above steps, the model was finally purged of unused and imported cleanly. Thanks again for the help.

Maybe this will help.

Hi folks. After you have purged your file, save it as a template so the next time you start SketchUp, you will have a very lean file.

There's a lot of hidden geometry in your groups... [image: Kuc0_flowifyhidden.JPG]

A "trick" I use when I have to have high poly models in SU is to set the view to wireframe select all edges and hide them. It makes it a bit faster since SU doesn't have to draw every edge in the viewport.

Try this from Sketchup school https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcOrlX5wgLE

@box said: Dave, he gave you the link directly to it in his post. Yes, that is what I used to get the plugin.

I'd start here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice The 'fair' ones are... Platonic solids, the five regular polyhedra: 4, 6, 8, 12, 20 sides then the less 'fair' ones... Catalan solids, the duals of the 13 Archimedean solids: 12, 24, 30, 48, 60, 120 sides Bipyramids, the duals of the infinite set of prisms, with triangle faces: any even number above 4, and usually divisible by 4 so that a face will face up Trapezohedrons, the duals of the infinite set of antiprisms, with kite faces: any even number above 4 Disphenoids, an infinite set of tetrahedra made from congruent non-regular triangles: 4 sides So you need to determine the shape of the 'fairest' facets for any number of facets you propose... Once you have done that there's som Math to determine their angles and so on... Here's some more info on 'irregular but fair' dice... http://mathoverflow.net/questions/46684/fair-but-irregular-polyhedral-dice

Two parts video from winning with sketchup on YouTube, regarding box and rich answer that I just watched today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWjVrL0oetQ

Happy that got you straightened out.

I suspect SU keeps refreshing its window as the file loads, and Win 10 jumps to it. I say this because I have noticed on big file loads (most of mine) the window flickers every now and then, although nothing changes. I don't switch windows during the file load so I have not seen the jump or pop-up as you stated.

You are right, if you don't take human error into account. It is very easy to innadvertedly click on the wrong answer and the mess is done. You can always fix it throgh a second use of the dialog or, more easily with styles manager. For me the accurate method is to use both scenes and styles managers for this kind of operation as they offer more control and a lot more possibilities. Both methods are valid though and the other person might like to be aware of more options.

@garry k said: As a plugin developer I have been running many versions of Sketchup with Windows 10. All versions since 7 7, 8, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 No problems Garry K : Thanks. garystan

@pbacot said: Thanks Mitch! Anyway I do like to have the wrappers the default color--and I still want to keep the texture which has been applied on the faces as well. So color by layer and purging the texture don't necessarily help. I think the component color is added by the plugin which made the components--it also textured the faces--which is what I want. This may be happening every time I use the plugin and I notice some problem with UV --I wanted to eliminate this factor for sorting this out in the futer. Removing the 'wrapper' color should have no effect on any texture that has been applied to the faces inside the component.

I've always drawn to the correct scale, and for any complex operations such as intersecting curved shapes (which always seems to confuse SU at small scale) I just make a duplicate component and scale it up by 100 times, before editing the larger component. All the changes are correctly duplicated in the correct scale model. The oversized model can then be deleted. Just saves having to scale back down again which I find is not always 100% accurate, dimension-wise.