Can you post a pic of your result? Glenn

Hi Ryan, hi folks. Maybe the Offset Tool can do that. Can you post an example of what you want to do. Best regards.

On El Capitan it does exactly what you describe: global menu bar and dock hide.

Or maybe here: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=44501

@jenujacob said: Maybe its just me... Perhaps they made it so that it would tax your system resources only when u really need them.. Makes sense if think like that! Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk That is indeed the intention, you build the scene based on settings that ensure fast lag free navigation, you then set up the animation and then you add all the filters/features you need, some even come with real-time on/off switches in case your GPU cannot handle it, which you only switch on in final render mode if that is the case. The ideal solution is to have a 5th or 6th generation i7 and a decent GPU with at least 6Gb ram for it all to work smooth in real time.

I do not know how, but have you read this article? http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000045

@jim said: How about a randomized flat mesh? [attachment=1:arp8nxua]<!-- ia1 -->2015-10_351.png<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:arp8nxua] Yes, I´ve tried using using a mesh, but I just found a tutorial for creating water in Vray, thats the kind of photorealism I´m looking for. Thanks! [image: unclear.jpg]

How do you select and rotate any section plane in the same manner you are speaking of? I select a section plane and it does not rotate in the axis normal to the plane. Rotating in other ways doesn't make sense in this context. Obtaining an orthographic view that is properly rotated to any way you need it should be a part of SketchUp but it's one of those shortcomings. And don't waste time hoping it will improve. You have to buy LayOut so you can rotate a view anyway you want (but without more trickery it will be a rotated rectangular image). Or use the plugin. Pretty easy to know the angle. I do model buildings in separate files than the site file. It saves a lot of trouble-- all my model is components anyway. Making the whole building a component is natural, but in the end what if you want a certain plan view including the site? Still can't be done unless you rotate the site itself and use the North arrow plugin to change the North direction.

This is caused by local axes being very far from the origin. You want to use this for a fast fix: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30508

Vanilla "Solid Inspector" [NOT 2] indicates the issues. "Solid Inspector 2" will fix many issues, but you will need to fix some yourself manually. At the expense of "boiling these cabbages more than once" [Irish saying]... I'll reiterate what a 'Solid' is... A Manifold Solid [at least as far as SketchUp is concerned] has the following properties:- It is a "Container" [i.e. a Group or Component-instance]. If you Select it and the 'Entity Info' top-bar says 'Solid' then it is a 'Solid' [BUT subject to the provisos at the end...] It must contain only Geometry. Geometry is defined as Edges and Faces [Curves/Arcs/Circles are made from Edges, Surfaces are made from Faces]. Although the non-interacting Guide-lines and Guide-points are also "allowed" [and probably would not affect an export to STL or similar], I'd still recommend you avoid including them. So the 'exclusion' list includes nested Groups or Component-instances, Text, Dims etc... [You example does contain some nested parts in the microphone] There are further limitations on its 'Geometry'. Every Edge must support two Faces - no fewer and no more. This means that an Edge CANNOT: be 'faceless' have only one face - e.g. forming a ledge, shelf, hole-perimeter etc be shared by more that two faces - e.g. supporting an internal partition face where it has three or more faces, or a shared edge between to volumes which would otherwise be considered a solid but they'd have four faces There are 'CleanUp' plugins to remove coplanar or stray-edges etc. You can use Xray mode and temporary Section-cuts to access the inside of these forms to tidy them up by Deleting unwanted edges/faces. There are some other issues which might affect 'Solidity'... The Faces of a Solid should be consistently oriented. Use Monochrome mode... Front-faces [Style-dependent, but usually off-white] to the outside, and back-faces [Style-dependent, but usually blue-gray] to the inside. Once you have a Solid, then the Context-menu > Orient will fix this. You can still have a SketchUp 'Solid' Container reported, which is not 3d-printable ! If its Geometry defines a 3d object that cannot exist in the real world it'll fail ! An form like this 'intersects' itself - like a magician who reaches through a solid wall to touch something on the other side. To treble-check for this, you can take a Container and edit it, Select All and Context-menu > Intersect with Context. If you exit the Edit and it's still a Solid in Entity Info all is OK. If it is not then something was wrongs and you need to fix it, as outlined earlier...

hi that's exactly the same way which I'm running my render jobs. Even my render pc is quite similar. The problem is not SkUp on the render pc, but the performance of the Internet connection via VNC in my case. Every click in Skup causes a new image transfer via the internet... Everything appears with delay which can be quite annoying. So I'm trying to fix everything on my workstation for being able to start only the render tasks later. Something else. Not all Skup shortcuts are working via VNC. And a rebooting of the rendering engine (crtl-alt-del) also doesn't work via VNC, if needed...

GeoLocation: That's what happened! Thanks for reading and for helping. This was driving us bonkers.

Yes, to gain access to the vertex, you must be working in the same context as the vertex.

Okay, thanks. It was just that I was looking for a solution that didn't require the user to run a certain script/plugin. (It wasn't meant to be used by me only.) Will think about this...

Thanks Anton that took care of it.

You are correct, terrible job on my part trying to explain; For 32 float, you have 1 sign bit, 8 mantissa bits and 23 significant bits but because way the sign used significant bits is 24. The decimal equivalent digits for 24 bits is 7.2+ digits. Thus you see the basis of the display I was discussing earlier. Using an online converter 0.35 converts to .3499999994039..... and 0.4 to .40000000596046.... and rounding is done for those to read .35...... and .40......... and has nothing to change the precision use internal to the machine. Why the OP machine changes .35 to .40 I can only guess, but if a generic SU issue that would have many more folks flagging the problem so => probably issue with his machine or its operating system. There is zero info provided for it so no further action can be done except by the op.

No I haven't tried that plugin. I'll take a look. Usually I receive dwg files but I can ask for DXF. Peter

Thanks so much for quick response, I was doing it the wrong way around, I understand now though:) you just saved me about an hour per job:) thanks.