Emerald15, I don't visit Sketchucation as much as I used to - hence the late reply to your question. ......... The doorway can be found at The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh. Well worth a visit if you get a chance. .......... Howard L'

Easy mistake: easy fix. Select All Scale Start to scale up in Z [blue] direction. Type -1 +<enter> It should now get fixed to be correctly oriented ? Change your view to see it so that Z [solid=blue] is 'up' !

You'll have to redraw the path and add more segments. If the path is being drawn with the Arc tool, you can change the number of segments before you start drawing it. If you are drawing that path some other way, you'll have to use a different method to set the number of segments. As for the vertices, you can that your curved path is made up of a series of line segments. Where they meet there's a vertex. This is a place where you extrusion changes direction so the profile won't be exactly the same size as the rest of the rail. Think about in reality, take a rod and cut an angled end for a miter. The face will be larger than if you cut square across. If you've drawn the rail so it is the same diameter as the hole in the bracket, the rail will be slightly wider at the vertices. It is entirely possible to make your model with high precision but you might want to consider the application for the model. If the audience for whom you are making this drawing is only going to look at the overall bar, these little details you're working on won't show. Maybe there's not much point in spending a lot of time on this foot rail. Will what you've drawn convey the needed information? Ifso, move on to some other part of the drawing. The bracket is probably going to be an off-the-shelf thing and the rail will be stock to fit. Unless you need a manufacturing drawing for the bracket and the rail, you might want to say it's close enough.

I too am wondering if you can mess around with the geo locations mesh detail like give it more vertices before showing the terrain for a more precise terrain

Thanks for the suggestions! I´ll try this tips...hope some day will be a pluggin for this, it will improve the productivity.

well the flaws of "faked" ao vs true raytraced solutions is known i guess... nevertheless some advanced display options would be cool in su, may there be ao or bump mapping or whatever opengl has to offer=)

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You're welcome. It's a moderator thing.

Cheers, glad that helped

This has been covered repeatedly here on SCF. You shouldn't just copy plugins from SU2013 to the SU2014 installation. Many plugins required updates to meet Ruby 2.0 standards. Probably the best thing you could do is delete the plugins you pasted into the the SU2014 Plugins folder and start from scratch. Using the SCF Plugin Store's tools will make that easier.

Thanks Rich! I'm happy to answer any questions you all have about the book in this thread.

He not done is he? Look like he needs to make four more for the set of five in the frame picture. And again he could make them life size too.

Try clearing the cache of internet explorer and make sure you have the most up to date version and that it isn't blocked. It doesn't matter what browser you use normally, SU uses IE to access the internet.

@unknownuser said: Maybe some answers here ? I downloaded the trial and I am looking at the tutorials. Thanks for the response.

I have a copy of Draftsight and use it on occasion along with AutoCAD. Very similar feel and functions. I can transfer .dwg drawing files both ways and have not found any significant degradation in data. I have found it very useful if someone sends me an Acad file saved in a newer version than mine. What my Acad will not open, Draftsight will. To answer Ands43 I agree with JGA, from experience that you can import and re-use your title blocks from Acad. There is another free 2D program, DoubleCad XT5 which is a product from IMSI. It has two big brothers, TurboCAD LTE 6 and TurboCAD LTE Pro 6 which have a low cost, but function very much like Acad LT. DC has a builtin opening screen with many size drawing templates. Both work well with Sketchup

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