thanks a lot appreciate it!

@dave r said: Good luck getting it sorted. Not sure I "got it sorted" but my resolution was to add a scene that duplicated the one that is not showing up and all is fine for the client. As long as they are satisfied, so am I

Could you isolate the wall with the rectangle and post it as a SketchUp file so we can see exactly what's going on?

What do you mean by the possibility of hiding the photograph has disappeared. You can certainly do that. Just go to the Edit tab of Styles and click on the blue cube icon. Modify the style to hide what you need to hide.

@shrockfab said: What if I want to texture uniquely like I did for the treads but they are a component. They will all change. Ahh.. that's the hard part, you have to make multiple textures of the wood grain. There's no easy workflow for that though, especially if you want to create render ready materials. Better be prepared for some hours of work.

Perfect, thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for! Cheers

It's a prairie dog but I suppose they're related.

I wonder if you've got a permissions issue with the parent folder of your components folder. You might look into that and make sure you have full permissions granted. The reversed faces thing is a fundamental concept in SketchUp. Faces have a front and a back face. The blue color is your current style's back face color. Select those faces, context click and choose Reverse faces to correct the orientation. [image: L2Tc_Screenshot-2_15_20146_47_27PM.png] What's with this weird bit at the ends of that long bar? Both ends show this misalignment.

I made it symmetrical about the Y axis [green] plane so the two halves ARE matching and 'consistent': based on the right-side which I sliced off and copied/mirrored. It may be that you didn't model the right-half exactly axially, so the parts are askew. Certainly the two sides has slight variations, but so slight it looked like sloppy modeling and not a minor variant on one side only... Since no one but you can know what you think it ought to look like, then I suggest you adjust the SKP I have given you to suit your desires. You can easily rotate its geometry so that the right side is say axial on the red X plane, or any way you want it to be. Then draw a large temporary face as a vertical plane on the Y axis [green] and intersect to make the cut line and erase the geometry from unwanted skewed half and the temporary plane/cutter. Then make a copy of the 'good' half [Move+Ctrl], set well off to the left side, and use Scale -1 on it to mirror it as the new left hand part. Snap the left part onto the right part. Now you have a solid object, that's reconfigured so its two symmetrical sides are arranged as YOU wish... You have spent more time discussing this that it would have taken to re-model it from scratch, entirely within SketchUp...

What he said...

Good luck with it.

Cheers Jeff, I know about the checkbox in preferences and checked it a long time ago. However sketch up is the only application that still exhibits this behaviour. Its like its immune from it. Any other ideas?

@ricp55 said: These videos are great for creating a floor plan from an image. I am looking to draft a floor plan from my own ideas for a home. Thanks! Then you can just start by drawing the rectangles to scale. Usually begin making the exterior wall line myself. You can just draw lines, but sometimes drawing rectangles and joining them up is faster. Then you you can offset the lines for the walls. People usually group walls, floors, and ceilings separately so that you can assign them to different layers and hide them separately while working. It is common to also group the exterior walls separate from the interior walls. Use the tape measure tool to help in laying out walls and openings as you go. It might be good practice to work on the 2d plan (as it sounds like you are hoping to do) first before you go into modeling the heights.

Thanks Daniel, but no... I have the old software and all the textures from it converted. I was just hoping for upgraded stuff and more interested in any models they were providing. The jpgs are pretty easy to convert with the material importer.

I would try the following: Export out at 2560x1440 (twice the resolution of 1280x720) 30 fps (I know everyone says anything over 24 is overkill, but I get better results at 30 YMMV) antialias on png image sequence. (no compression and relatively small file sizes) Open the image sequence in Quicktime 7 Pro and export out at high quality, H.264, 30fps, 1280x720HD. Exporting at twice the resolution and using Quicktime to scale it down will give you much crisper linework. If you are using a style without edges, then you can probably get by with just 1280x720. I would use a scratch disk as we are talking 10's of gig of raw images. MAKE SURE you save the images into a new folder (I call mine source images) or you will end up with thousands of images in a folder or the desktop (yikes!) Also, try to minimize big camera moves with lots of side to side head movement as this will cause jaggies. Nice, smooth choreography with gentle pans will give you smoother and cleaner final output.

there's also a Align&Distribute plugin which will help you do this (get even spacing in between objects) if different size components are being used.. it's probably a bit overboard for your current scenario as i understand it. http://sdmitch.blogspot.fr video: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw8zdmaKDWIfdGJYbVBabEcxdlE/edit

You are more than welcome

Thanks Cotty, I got what i want.

thank you all! huge help!!!