Thanks Fredo, I was obviously looking in the wrong place. this doesn't happen with my desktop PC so it might be a quirk of this laptop.

@fredo6 said: @floedekage said: Hi Fredo6, I've got Vray version 3.40.02 installed. Thanks for the quick response. I think Animator only supports VRay 4.2 and above. Alright. I've been afraid of updating Vray ever since I set it up exactly as I needed it some years ago. Of course it worked perfectly after updating. Thanks for the help Fredo and I'm sorry if this was written somewhere and I've just completely overlooked it.

@gilliganu said: I think your documentation assumes users are psychic. Let me assure you that VERY few are! Your? Surely you mean 'the' or 'their'? sketchucation.com and sketcup.com are not only different domains but also different entities

Thanks for your reply

never mind it fixed itself!

Thanks a lot Rich! ..I am reporting because it was different since not a long time ago! They must have changed a bit somewhere, unconscius that they were causing this (little) drawback. I was wondering if the behaviour could be switched back

I'll do some more digging and use your comments as a checklist. Thank you for your expertise and patience in the matter.

Did you try Animator? I've used it in the past to animate shadows over time. [image: 7gKxMQs.png] Click image below to play... [image: JKI1_shadow.gif]

@gilliganu said: I don't read the manual when I start using another, I just jump in and check the help file if I have an issue. Your long string of questions makes that obvious. You could go to learn.sketchup.com and go through the SketchUp fundamentals. You could also spend some time going through the Square One videos @gilliganu said: One question: Is it actually possible to disable the stickiness function? No. That's done by creating groups or components to contain the geometry.

Perhaps spending some time learning the basics would help you. https://learn.sketchup.com/

You must display the subtitles to watch the tutorial in English or Spanish. This tutorial, a little old but still valid, explains how to give dimensions with the push pull tool and also how to resize lengths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulBgv3y2vno

this? https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Transformation_Inspector

PEBKAC?

Thanks for your advice, HP support made me reinstall the printer, I installed the latest drivers, I updated the printer firmware, it didn't change anything. They say it's from sketchup, there's nothing they can do. The problem is the same on MAKE 2017 and on 2021 PRO. I don't know what to do anymore, we have a new printer that is useless!

From this particular tutorial beginner can learn how to squander precious time and in the end get geometrically wrong result (this is especially obvious when the bulge of the wall is more pronounced)

I added the chapters in the tutorial, this allows you to directly access the parts you want to see or review.

Thanks again!