Wow, sounds like an marriage!!

Okay, so I think my last post was a bit overkill - I will try to break my problems down! I want to create a tent where the user can choose between predefined heights. The tent must not be resized, as the sizes of the subcomponents need to stay the same. But, as in the real life version, the upper part of the tent (roof and upper part of the tent legs) need to slide up or down on the lower part of the leg. I can do this quite easily if I click on the subcomponent "tent_upper". There I can define the position of the subcomponent. BUT: in order to do so I need to click on the component "tent" and then click on the subcomponent "tent_upper". But this is not intuitiv. I'm looking therefore for an option to click on the component and get to choose the different heights. I tried using LenZ on the tent and locking the subcomponent LenZ in the hope SketchUp would keep the height of the subcomponents as they are and just change their position. tl;dr: How can I change the position of a subcomponent in a DC by just selecting its parent component? I hope this clears things up a bit!

Can someone calculate the optimum sinewave formation for each of the individual nine tails used to flog this particular dead horse, please show all your working.

Very likely the Materials window had gotten moved off screen. If it happens again, try this: go to Preferences>Workspace and click on Reset Workspace. Then try opening the Materials window again.

Better late than never Thanks for the reply.

Version of @Box's - but with a solid mesh object [for simplicity, here I used a sphere] cut with a face... [image: iKUF_Capture.PNG]

@Box - Can you see the bright red glow on my face....that short video is what I needed to get me started. I really appreciate it............... OK - Here is a start...... [image: wcQJ_QFT-Glass.png] Wow, the file size it huge. Need to make sure you always have the low poly version available

@ridation said: another question is : I have to make a 3dsmax export to render it from , because my render guy do not know SU very well . You can simply import the skp directly into max. It should come in incl. all layers, materials, texturing and scene settings. To be able to work on the geometry later in max you should weld vertices in max. In my opinion the easiest way to texture curved surfaces is ThruPaint.

http://wrap-r.com/

Thanks i'm trying again

@icapture said: ...Whenever I do that my Sketchup (Pro 2016 OS X) freezes. ... did you try it with 'Outliner' closed? in-fact it's best if all updatable panels are closed... Using a Section Plane and Zorro2 should take seconds on a mac... john

Thanks I must of over looked that

There's something to learn here.

@maryamr said: i meant the code u suggested is it for Ruby or C/C++ SDK ? Ruby

@dcbluemoon said: This tool appears the have great potential. An chance there is a tutorial, as I am have trouble introducing Lat.,Long. values into the model? I think I'm missing something simple. After a quick look, I think you would need to create a text file containing the Lat,Long,Elev data, one point per line, and use the Plugins>Coords Tags>Import Coords Tags from CSV.

Thanks everyone, made my colleague happy.. Only Im having trouble keeping the texture on the backside. I used UV toolkit to project the texture to backside...But once I hit 'Cntl S'. it disappears! For me, I did with both Fredo tools and Sketch UV. Cant make the map spread to the edges perfectly.. I guess We need a proper UV unwrap inside SU...

the file association has been 'lost' by 'Finder' and a 'Alt + Right Click' >> 'Relaunch' on it's Dock Icon may fix this issue... If not, 'Right Click' on one of .skp file and 'Get Info' >> 'Open With' [browse to SketchUp.app] + 'Change All' john

Have you tried, Preferences > Extensions > Install Extension... button Choose the RBZ, answer 'Yes'... and it installs... You question thus far is not clear. Rich's RBZ >>> ZIP only allows you to see the contents. BUT the RBZ format has been a round since v8M2 and lets you install the contents automatically - thus avoiding user-generated-balls-ups...