Great !!! What a strange thing! In this case, it works well ... No changes in the ramp modeling and geometry . Thank you very much. You will have great help to me ...

hi, thanks for your patience and care. unfortunately each step is slightly different, due to curved stringers, therefore the triangular patters will be different on left and right side of the stringers. i think the stairs are consistent, so i have to try your tip to make one cut-out, and try duplicating it along sides. a great idea!

I've used the tool with a preselection of one group with many subgroups, you too? The tool have many different options, I would suggest to watch Fredos video to see the different possibilities...

Try turning on Hidden Geometry. That will make some of the bad stuff show. It might just be easier to start over on the model.

Where did you see these instructions?

It will maybe run and display as a 2d window (just like the video player in the hololens demo), just like you could bring SketchUp on a smart watch (using an x86 emulator with Windows XP) or on a Google Glass (using an emulator or remote desktop) with gesture/touch input translated to single point 2d mouse events. It does not make SketchUp fit to new screen sizes or support new kinds of interactions. It would be interesting to see if (and in what areas) SketchUp takes the chance to innovate again and take up such technologies early (of course it's safer to let the big guys innovate, and follow the latest possible when mainstream has adopted 64bit, multitouch, hidpi, web-technologies). Also I wouldn't expect it to be the hololens, you know they have been working with Project Tango, and Trimble can make things possible…

Cheers Dave, You're a star! Thanks for your help. Dave.

@dave r said: Have you updated it so it makes smoother curves? Yes. On the main menu at the bottom is a dropdown for Quality. Does look much better at higher quality

Rather than use Model Info > Statistics > Purge Unused... try purging in steps. Purge Styles from the Styles Browser dialog. Purge Layers from the Layers Browser dialog. Purge Materials from the Materials Browser dialog. Purge Components from the Components Browser dialog. Purge Layers from the Layers Browser dialog. Purge Materials from the Materials Browser dialog. The reason I suggest you do the steps is there's less to process each step. You need to do Layers and Materials twice, as there might be Layers and Materials only used by unused Components, so after those Components are purged they become purge-able too.

The component axis can easily rotate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfwWseF2XGg

Thank you. In searching for a mirror function, it never occurred to me to look for the word "flip". Thanks for the info.

hi todd, glad it's working for you... btw. the "%x( killall cfprefsd )" bit on the SU forum was from me , I'm not an SU team member... john

Thanks pcmoor, i will download the samples and try at work later today. BTW i posted a link to the 3Dwarehouse where my model is, but it didnt show up. Ill try it again, https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=ud374f307-8802-4ac4-9be6-c7f1bdebf68e Thanks again

I am also trying Revizto right now. Works well on iPad so far with limited testing.

Jim has a ply importer here somewhere...

That worked. Still had to go to the website as the manager connection was slow, but it worked. Thanks again john.

deaneau , nonetheless, thanks for the advice and knowledge. It was still very helpful.

Nothing specific. As I've never run any AMD cards w SU, I just wanted to make sure there are not any GFXCard issues. Thx for your input.

If you do a Google image search "roof" you will find some large photos. Too correct them and make them seamless in Photoshop: Filter/Lens Correction...to get shingles to lie flat Filter/Other/Offset...to create the horizontal and vertical seams Burn or Dodge....to expose the image evenly (flatten) so that shadow/light/dirt are not creating a pattern. There are other ways to flatten...i.e. You can "radial fill" towards the sun source with an opaque mask to reduce shadow. Take a neutral sample from the image. (this is a bit advanced and needs a bit of practice.) After a few tries it is quick solution to make your own and you never need to waste time looking again.