I'd do roads with upright extruder...

Excellent Plugin Tig! Thanks pilou for the direction... will follow. Now on to my next problem... Is it possible to move and resize a hole once created? I see in my top view that the front hole is ~1/64+- off the 3/8 on center that I want it (like the back hole). Or do I just have to redraw/punch new set? Strt-Solid-With Holes-TS position holes.skp I see a slight skew (from perpendicular to curved face) between front & back holes. Something I can, reluctantly, live with-but being a Virgo...

Search for "z fighting". There's a lot of information on this. You can a face slightly above the edges. Due to the size of the model space and your graphics card, the edges underneath are showing through sometimes.

That is beautiful. I actually had the tool collection but there were so many of them that I missed this one. And the function i needed only scratches the surface (pardon the pun) of Thrupaint and that only scratches the surface of the collection. Amazing. Thanks, and thanks Fredo

Put the form on the origine! Else does this normal ? [image: XUgg_projected.jpg] projected.skp

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This could be extremelly good news. I just don't like the assumption leveraged on the article about the focus being on Revit. It's very welcome that Sketchup and Revit work well in a BIM workflow, but still, most of the world is using 2D dwg files for both work and documentation and both Sketchup and Layout would benefit much more from the vast Autocad userbase, than Sketchup alone on Revit's growing but still behind userbase. Also the amount of CAD software that adheres to the Autocad standard is something to take acount for, Revit has a more specific target group.

@box said: You're on the sketchucation forum, have you looked in the Plugin store right here for Tig's Mirror. Thank you so much Box, worked brilliantly. Happy days . Regards P

Nope nothing?

Well I played with it a while on my son's Chomebook and I must say it was pretty smooth. I built a small house exterior and noticed no slow down at all. I will do a bit more playing with it but so far it seems to be a great addition.

Also as far as scaling up, there is the DaveR component trick. By making your small part a component then select it, and use move/copy. Pull it off to the side well away from everything else. Then scaling it up 1K to 10K, do the modifications ~ tweaks you need to do while it is opened for editing. When your done just close it and delete it. Hit zoom extends and the original will be replicated but still in the smaller size you require. All the changes to the large copy are shared back because of the components attributes. ...Peace.....

Thanks JQL and others! I appreciate the assistance. I definitely need a lot more practice on the basics.

Hi you can set up multiple trays simultaneously. So I made a tray for layers only and one for materials only. Whatever tray is active as soon as I click "B" the material tray moves to the front. This way I avoid to scroll too much, instead of having all the used windows together in just the default tray. I prefer this method, if I just work on the small laptop monitor for example... In addition, you can decide whether you want to have individual trays flowing as single windows on the screen (like in older SkUp versions) or if you want to combine these trays as shown below. I hope this helps [image: 5tzI_Trays.jpg]

Ah! Ok, was a stupid question. Apparently I am still dependent on the way 2D programs work usually (select is moving, too). I'll look into how to change the move icon to an arrow, then Thanks for the heads-up!

nice advice, even I have to add some other object (1line) book too thx a lot

Thanks a lot Frenchy

Are you exporting as a 3D model or as a 2D graphic? SketchUp always exports all of a model when you select 3D model. To export only a part of a model, you can cut and paste the desired entities to a new model window and then export the new model. For a 2D graphic export, SketchUp generates essentially a snapshot of the current view. So, anything not visible on the current view will be omitted. But also the graphic will capture the as-displayed view including effects such as zoom, foreshortening and perspective, not true coordinates of points.

No one any idea ?? Mark