In addition to what @pbacot suggests, this is an operation where you may run into SketchUp's well-known issue with very small Faces. You may have to scale your objects up, do the operation, and then scale them back down to avoid creating holes or gaps.

@steve maybe it was another by aeilius, jim or didier, never needed it myself... there was a thread about GE models that I vaguely recall, but can't find... john

@d12dozr said: Nicely done, Anita! Did you use the automatic Image trace function, or just trace by hand? Thanks Marcus. Can't really take the credit though, it was your expert advice that was the starting point! I traced it very quickly by hand Anita

It sounds to me as if you're drawing the B-spline across other lines. those lines would automatically split the B-spline and those lines would prevent weld from welding the spline back together. If you make groups or components of the other lines, you can prevent the B-spline from being split. If you need parts of the B-spline to be inside those groups/components, there are simple ways to do that but I'd want to see an example of model before going into it.

The Dynamic Component Attribute dialog is probably designed for single selection. Depending on where exactly the attributes are stored (component attributes, sub-entities etc.) you may have success with the Attribute Inspector extension. Like SketchUp's Entity Inspector, it works with multiple selection. First select one component and find the attribute to change. Then select all and set the same attribute.

Thats right Sir and i know the last humanfrieldly person is eath a long time (Nicola Tesla) Sketchup helps alot people make the day and survive This hard Times i also try to make money with content. But some drawers outsite the stupid ones like me uploading free quality models. just search for autors and excluding some autors in the warehouse can help a lot. Please Sir think about it with your developers The normal Sketchup User Way is : Try out Sketchup with simple Tools and downloading the most models First profesional drawings , more Plugins installet and mabee trying to make some money with Sketchup. 3.Buy Sketchup Pro and some Tools from this moment the people making money and buy everything Models , Treelines , High speed trees ...... Please remember your first days with Sketchup 5 esense3d

Thank you, Dave! I completely forgot about Styles window.

@tspco said: I tried turning off the hardware acceleration with 2014, no difference. Yes I can post a skp give me a few Maybe you didn't restart SketchUp at first, thus no changes in the behavior. Once you restarted the program (at certain time) you'd notice changes from turning off 'Use hardware acceleration. Just a guess. To see if this is true, enable 'Use hardware acceleration' again and restart SketchUp. Do you have the same display issue again? If so, find another driver for your graphics card to better support OpenGL. Why? You do want to benefit working with that card (and not just the CPU) to run SketchUp at full speed.

I've not seen that. Could you post a SKP file that exhibits the behavior? Maybe it has to do with the file?

Perfect! Could it be any easier. Thanks.

Much prefer the older version, the new interactive version just fights against me all the time!

I've not used it, but I built my own somewhat similar system that uses lights to read commands from my head movement. While I and most use it for simulators it could be used for a myriad of systems. http://www.free-track.net/english/

You can see the way I handle drawing smaller pieces with Follow Me here.

Thanks very much for the replies, most helpful! A

Thank you for the assistance! I think its been you answering all my questions over the course of this year. I greatly appreciate your time and effort.

another one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7oyL7bEF4&list=UUD7pELbgsWu74mjGb2jmTmw

Actually I don't usually turn transparency on at all. Either I want the background if there is one or it doesn't come into play at all because the background is white. When combining images using Multiply, the white background acts as transparent anyway.

Alright, great thanks! Makes sense

The OpenGL settings unfortunately didn't really help. Just as I figured, a style change might be the best thing available currently. I whipped up some styles for my main template and a few plugins that switch between a normal display mode and some construction modes, that's gonna have to do I guess.