Your beam does not need to be so poly-heavy! You can achieve details like that in a render using a mix of normal/bump and displacement maps, with only enough geometry detail to define the silhouette. It doesn't matter so much for this model, maybe, but if you created an entire scene like this, I'd not be surprised if your computer gave up the ghost.

Look like a well built tool This Retouch3D tool and Dremel tool may be all we need

hi all , i have the same problem with faces when i import the tree in obj file , so i use plugin "UV toolkit2" from tomtom .... 1 select the object /2 go to extention uvtoolkit select "front face material to back face" wait 2 minutes and the tree is OK - but u have to do materials yourself (bump and specular)(i use vray 2.0) but it's easy all the maps are included... enjoy

Daniel : http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15%26amp;t=61391 I think it's for general design knowledge and misc. stage sets.

Hi Dave R, Thanks for the clear observation and helpful tips. I will improve my next tutorial videos using your tips. Thanks again. btw, I was lil bit excited that I figured out how to model it. it took me a while to figure it out. that's why I shared it as a tutorial.

So, remove that plugin and try to contact its author about the error message. Many plugin authors no longer support SketchUp v8.

Nice job SU team!

http://www.3darcstudio.com/downloads-files.html

DWG 2d export always makes everything out of lines, including arcs/circles/curves. To get true ACAD arcs/circles etc you need to use the 3d export. Then it retains them as arcs/circles/polylines... If you set the 3d export options to include faces in the export you get a polymesh inside a group [you could explode the SKP group before exporting ?] If you set the 3d export to be edges only you will get any edges which you have 'welded' as 'curves' appearing a 'polylines' in the CAD file. You could also thick about 'welding' the whole perimeter of the face into one curve - which would then export as a single polyline ? See the attached examples... Fräskontur Tischplatte-PolyMesh.dxf Fräskontur Tischplatte-PolyLines.dxf

What I left out of the mix is Apple's 'auto restore window' functionality... I think this can come into play if switching between models in the same session... I have no hard evidence of when or if this occurs, but it would explain some of the seemingly odd folders that pop up... Like many, I no longer use 'AutoSave' or 'Save Backup' and prefer 'Save Copy As' over 'Save As' and religiously use S... even with this I get caught out... john

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Thanks guys ... that fixed it.

Seems Dave has made a perfect cool DVD about wood Working! Not sure that is also an EBook (?) About Design itself Dave will give you better advice than me! [image: sketchup-basics-.jpg]

dynamic texture or seamless texture?

You need to modify the template you are using as the default. Open a fresh SketchUp session. Make the desired changes to Profiles (set them to 1 if you don't like the heavy edges but leave Profiles turned on) and change colors to suit. I'm not sure what you are referring to as yellow and bluish but all colors can be modified. Make sure you update the style by clicking on its thumbnail in the upper left corner of the Styles window. Then use File>save as template... to save the new template. Make sure Use as default is ticked. From then on, when you open SketchUp, it should look the way you want it to look.