To replace the miss-named component. place an instant in a new drawing, then right click and delete the incorrectly named file from the browser, and then right click and save the instance to the name you want.

What's probably causing it is this: C:/Program Files/e-on software/LumenRT 4 Studio/LumenRT/Export/Skp/Ruby/extend_string [The string might be curtailed by the error-report ? it probably ends with .rb or .rbs ??] Which is probably failing to load in a 'require'... Does it exist ? Is that path in the $: ? What plugin is trying to load it ? Do you have a 'LumenRT' plugin/extension loading from one of your Plugins folders ? - if so try Disabling it in the SketchUcation Manager and restart SketchUp... The Extensions Manager has a combined list of all Extensions, irrespective of their loading RB's location. If you have multiple Plugins folders setup remember to use the dropdown list in the Plugins Manager, as these are listed separately 'by-folder'... Can you type $: in the Ruby Console to see the array of available folders, from which other Ruby's can 'required'... If the C:/Program Files/e-on software/LumenRT 4 Studio/LumenRT/Export/Skp/Ruby folder is NOT there it cannot require/load a file like ' extend_string.rb' Have you recently messed about with the LumenRT installation ?

Fantastic! Thanks you so much TIG. Most helpful and informative. New rules to work by

I have been drawing a big amount of good 3D objects with SketchUp Version 8. You just have to make things correctly. I use Netfabb basic to check my errors or close holes. NFB helps me a lot! Scaling or not halving 0.1 mm makes things easier. I have found Sketchup easy to learn and my drawings are getting better all the time. You can try purely mathematical program OpenScad.

You can use Jim's Get Dimensions http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=jf_get_dimensions it gives you the bounding box dimensions.

@fabienm said: Hi pbacot, thanks for you help, it's interest to deform the text, but i'searching more a solution with projection and intersection with faces, or maybe the possibility to join 2 faces of the same object ( identical numbers of lines... ) in two different sizes and orientations, and after intersect this new volume with the faces. @ Dave R : I don't known what is ThomThom ? Edit : Ok, it's a developper but i don't find some plugin to divert. Edit : Another way is to extrude longer the text, go inside and select the front side and rescale, like this the text is extrude in pyramid. I think that's what I said. [image: muRG_ScreenShot2014-12-10at2.47.29PM.png]

@dave r said: I did miss that. What happens if you turn off Auto Render in LO? Auto Render in LayOut isn't really the right answer to the problem. If you simply switch to a different style in SketchUp, or "reload" the style you're on, the temporary style changes are forgotten and you're good to go. It's just that if you make temporary changes to the style, and save your model as-is, you'll get into trouble. It's a good trap for people who don't know what's happening. Because once you open SketchUp again to check your model, your first instinct is to go click on the style to make sure the settings are correct, and sure enough, they will be. So it's confusing.

@pbacot said: ... I've never seen a cache of files like SU produces. I think it's based on the windows concept, but they have never fully explained it... If you do a save at the wrong moment, SU appears to update current model, update the backup and update the Autosave all at the same time... that can easily cause beach-balling... that's why I abandoned it... john

@unknownuser said: To suggest 3 days is going to get you satisfactory results is not realistic. I guess that was a pretty accurate statement. I don't expect you had much luck with this. I certainly wouldn't expect you to. I think it is a testimony to how difficult it is to find off the shelf animation that can do anything reasonable with water. It's doesn't seem to be available.

@3dita said: @john2 said: thanks . And how to give a vertical incline as seen in the photo? Try skewing the vertical lines after cutting and before shape-bending (use Fredo scale Oh yeah! Thanks, So many plugins I have but not the wisdom to use them .

I hope you can get it sorted out.

You can also just change one dimension in scaling. If you have a 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 3' box, you can pull to scale in the 3' direction and write 8', for example, leaving the other dimensions where they were.

Alright, thanks a lot for the swift reply

agreed, dave. came in useful for creating an arrary of vertical curtain wall louvres w/ random offsets! error occurs w/ edges both hidden and not hidden.

@hellnbak said: Well, I gave it a try. Exported it at higher resolution with anti-aliasing turned off, and it really looked bad. the fence and tower were all screwed up..... I should have said you need to export at least 4x the desired resolution if you have AA turned off, 6 or 8x is better. (and png format is preferable - jpg has pretty awful compression from SU) Glad you figured out your video card settings, much simpler solution

"So for you example above, one way is." I found out what I did wrong when selecting the section underneath. Now I only had to delete a couple of lines.

I suppose whoever made them did that. Maybe the extra layer came in from some other app that was used to draw draw them in the same way layers come in from CAD files when they are imported. If you don't want the added layer, I guess you can get rid of it.

the type of component that would explode to form a solid would be one that cuts an opening. So pin pointing those particular components and their influence to explode would be necessary before outer shelling. Using the outliner and selecting, right click exploding would be the quickest. Grouping and naming such geometry would help (you would have to pass the required attributes through of course). like plates with a set of holes would be grouped to Ax_"name" like Ax_plate1, Ax_plate2....so easy to reference the "A" would be a place holder, "x" for explode I believe you would need some kind of naming convention, for a ruby script to seek out and destroy once you have establish a simple method, then you can build a ruby script, or course with help from the gurus. EDIT: just realised that nesting down more than one level is causing your problem as you wrote, However the same principle applies.... use outliner, open(+) to require nested group, can use control to select more than one,right click to context menu....explode

Ah! The first thing I did was start to filter by author but did not look further than E

unscientific observation regarding the poll: people who were voting in the wee hours EST (1-3a.m.) tend to use emoticons/netspeak.. (the vote was 6to1 at one point) now that we're in 'normal' hours, the vote is leveling out.