@dave r said: Often you'll have less time invested making your own than fixing up a poorly or inefficiently made components drawn by others. true story

I suspect that half of them are NOT SKP files, BUT SKB files. That is a backup file. If you are working on a model and something goes disastrously wrong, then you can rename its SKB as a SKP. It's the version of the model at the point where you did your last save, so you only loose work back to that point in time. If you are no longer working on a model and are happy it's been saved OK, then keeping the SKP but removing the SKB is not an issue. Do you not backup your model files onto another drive etc, so if you have a catastrophic failure your earlier work is safe ?

Here's another one you can try: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=346107#p346107

How do you determine the shapes of the curves? Are they catenaries? If so, you might use the Wire Tool plugin to draw them. Or you might use the Bezier Curve tool from Fredo's Bezier Spline set. Then use Curviloft or TIG's Extrude Edges by Rails to make the surfaces. I'm not able to provide screen shots at the moment so hopefully this will do.

Close the preview pane of explorer before you open the file.

Not easy to do such kind of parametric objects on sketchup... You should try Rhino and Grasshoper.

And you have to practice asking questions here What do you mean with "Parametric design tools"? Do you have an specific problem? If so, upload the model or an image here so that we can see the problem...

Alan, You are correct, for some reason my exported DXF's have extra lines and faces. Your suggestion helped a bunch. Thank you!

Omg - I could kiss you both. That looks SO simple! Thank you so much for the help!

if your maintenance is running you should have received already your SUP 2015 license data by your supplier approx. in November 2014. Be aware, that license data of older SUP versions as e.g. your SUP 2014 won't work with the recent SUP 2015. if you do have the SUP 2015 license data and don't wanna user the SUP 2014 version further, remove the license data in SUP 2014 via "Help > License" and enter your SUP 2015 license data either in the splash dialog resp. "Help > License" at the new system. An active internet connection and a LAN adapter as well as a working MS Internet Explorer v9+ resp. Apple Safari is required for doing this. hth

Thanks guys Both ways work great !

@oceanembers said: I can't help you with the code, I don't know Sketchup's API very well at all, but as for a starting point for learning... http://learnrubythehardway.org/book/ I used this to learn the basics of ruby, and I thoroughly reccomend it. Starting to learn Ruby is on the to-do list once I'm through my current set of deadlines. Thanks for the link and the recommendation. I'll check it out.

cheers Tig, I always position Textures, so I never noticed until I was making a giff to show how to use 'Position Texture' john

you can use alphabetical prefixes to organise your named attributes like a_ b_ for the other DC attributes like LenZ you would have to pass the values from a named attribute like "a_len" or wherever you need to place it like say g_len instead

Set the view like you want then create the comp. Or explode, purge unused, set the view like you want then create the comp. [image: QMCB_comp.gif]

Hmmmm... It worked for me. [image: 2VKe_Screenshot-2_28_201511_55_47AM.png] I attached the SKP file. When you open it, is the image there? Can you import a different image as a Match Photo? PhotoMatch.skp

Ha i found myself the way. I followed your explanation until point 9. Then i opened the path, and copied into the new materials folder the .skm files, re launched Sketchup and it's done!

@atrodler said: Did you ever find a fix for this? I've been going through the same thing, following your (and some others) threads here and on reddit. Extremely frustrating bug. I'm getting the exact same results as you. Currently having to export textures in .dae format anytime I need to edit one. Then re-import, resize, replace, purge old, etc etc etc.

This one-liner copy+pasted into the Ruby Console + <enter> will make a file named 'shortcuts-N.txt' on your Desktop, where '-N' is the SketchUp version, it then opens the file. f=(File.new(t=File.join(ENV['HOME'],'Desktop',"shortcuts-#{Sketchup.version.to_i}.txt"),'w'));f.puts(Sketchup.get_shortcuts.sort);f.close;UI.openURL("file;///#{t}")