@Dave_R hi Dave, if you could insert links this would be good. i have seen that some RAL libs will be different. the RAL obove based on RGB and ist from RAL.de itself. i know all this is only an orientation important is the RAL-No. i use RAL for visualisation in Simulators like Trainz, T:ANE Trainsimulator 2015 by DoveTaleGame DTG. in this simulator i can´t only simulate RAILWAY/RAILROAD..i could simulate others,too like Roman Lime, Berlin Wall and Inner German Border or what ever.

Thanks Tig, Well not sure what I have done but I have profile builder 2 (PB2) working again with Skup operating as normal. What did I do... well not sure really, however when I reinstalled Skup on Windows 8.1 some weeks ago now, I think I must has install PB2 from a different Extension Warehouse account and then I transferred my assemblies across to the library folded within PB2. I thought I was working with the paid version but was not and yes it did screw things up within Skup when PB2 expired. I found a old email from the extension warehouse advising not to store assembles within the aforementioned folder which I was.( not sure if that relevant to my issue) I deleted the .rb and BP2 folder, ( well moved it out of the way somewhere else) logged onto the other warehouse account, the one I purchased it from and installed it and all looks to be ok ( I had to reset all tool bars for this process). I have moved my assembles else where as instructed. so I think everything is working again. It was strange how it screwed up Skup though. Thanks again Dr Tig.

These are all great suggestions, none of which I've tried. I'm a self-taught Sketchup user, so I don't know many of the tricks. I will give these a shot! In addition to this, is there any hardware upgrades I can do to help speed things up? Is a 285 MB drawing pushing the boundaries of what Sketchup is capable of? Thanks for your insight!

Or try these ones, Bruce. I made them last week in Xara which has some cool options for altering line types.... DASHED-light.style DASHED-Medium.style DASHED-Heavy.style

there is a problem with your version for multiples of 6.5, 13m rounds down to 12, whereas my formula produces the require 3 x 3m and 2 x 2m

@lolo17 said: Hello i am using sketchup make, i create some scènes but nothing happens when i click on the différents scene it show always the last scene . do you have an idea on what i miss to do? I can think of a couple of possibilities: When you created your new scene, did you click on the Update scene button? When you added the new scene and moved the camera, if you do not click the Update Scene button, it will revert back to the original scene settings when you navigate from scene to scene What are you clicking to navigate the scenes? If you click on the scene tab, it should animate from one scene to the next (again assuming you clicked the Update Scene button when you created the scene). If you click on the scene name in the Scene dropdown list, you will continue to see the last scene because you are really not going to that scene you are only navigating through the scene list. Hope this helps you.

@ driven Visualizer looks quick, simple and...now free. Will check LightUp too, and thanks for the clear and concise advice, much appreciated. Also, I sounds like we have to buy SU Pro - if nothing else, on moral grounds. But at least, it now seems like SU Pro + a plugin / render package is the way to go. Thanks for your help. @driven said: on a mac... Visualizer for quick and simple... LightUp for well priced in SU render package... Buy SU pro, as soon as you are charging for it... you could test your renders by reworking old projects in SU and ask the former clients if they like the improvements... john

did you have installed the latest SUP v8 M5 version? did you have the Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 required by SU v8 installed? Systems Requirements of SU v8 did not covered Win 8+.

@mrossk said: I wonder if this is the video you thought you saw? From Aidan's tutorials from some years back : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzOSwaUp_gc No, this was not the video but it was interesting. I liked the thought of the Jigs. If you do something like that on a regular basis it was a good idea.

Thank you all for your input on this. I am aware of the problems caused by not being absolutely precise in making sure lines do meet at a point and not just sort of at a point. Hours spent finding where the offending point was. This raises another query but I will start another thread as it is not related to this. Thanks again

Launch the Solid Solver after each step! For see where you can optimise your process make a little detailed Making Of! (each step on a Scene)

Ok, people. I just figured it out. Instead of using SketchUp, I will go for LayOut (part of SketchUp) and there it is possible to change the thickness of the individual lines. Anyway, thanks!

2D exports only the ProfileEdges and SectionCutEdges. I was hoping that there was a way to export the original layers.

What do you see. Grayed out menus? What happens?

select all, right click, interact with all, should do the trick

@box said: By Solid selection fence I mean the difference between selecting from left to right and right to left. Have a look at this gif and notice the dotted selection fence and the solid selection fence and what they select. Left to right creates a solid framed box which selects everything entirely within that box. Right to left is a dotted line box that selects everything it touches. So in the earlier selection I when left to right and stayed above the back edge line so it selected the whole top. I'm afraid it's not off to bed yet, there is pub time to deal with. In all the time playing with SU I've never realised the selection 'fence' does that! Very useful to know thanks.

Totally, agree, mate. I tend to set depth cue to no more that 3 and when taken into LO change to Hybrid and wind back the Line Weight to about 0.2 [Minimum it will go to is 0.1]. Oh, and a little bit of Fog if I fell the need but the Fog sliders can be tedious to manipulate.