@pbacot said: You will also build some value as you build clientele and reputation (oddly, not necessarily skill). Quite right. Skill only helps to be more efficient, so you can charge more for less of your time. Skill does not necessarily bring in the jobs, but does help retain clients. Too many people out there on the internet have beautiful work shown in their portfolio [not always theirs ] so it's VERY hard to compete for new work online. You must work your connections if you are to make a go of it - probably 90 - 95% of my work has been repeat client and through networking. Andy

ArchiCAD for kitchen design sound a bit like using a sledge hammer to crack a nut! Ex ArchiCAD user here. I decided SU was far more fun for designing and modelling and still do; but as you may be reading elsewhere the "pro" Layout aspect has many frustrations, and some benefits. Unfortunately for Layout commercial pressure has taken over and I now export my views as dwg and xref them into AutoCAD LT due to file sharing compatibility issues with dwg (Do a search on "DWG Export" and you will find a list of the issues I had). I really liked a lot about Layout but the frustrations of achieving what I needed to do were costing me, not the client, money. There are alternatives to AutoCAD LT e.g. Dassault Systeme's Draftsight which is free if Layout doesn't meet your 2D requirements.

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Thank you for the insight. These two videos really help: Create Building for Google Earth with Photo Textures http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTcHIwRILxU Cleaning up Streetview Photos for SketchUp Models http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BD5XISz5Yw

Nice job. It's going to be a wild ride! Thanks for the note Jeff. Looking forward to seeing a skate park with "THE SLIDE". Call it "Slide Park". Wish I had the time and smarts to learn Rhino. Looks fun.

Funny, Rich. You mucked it up so it's working pretty fast for me today.

The 0.skb problem is in SU8, the sandbox issue was in SU2013.

@mac1 said: Gm Have you looked at the follow me tool that is part of the SU tool sets. There are also several plugins: pipe along path: tube along path ,or follow me and keep also but follow me should do the job unless you what a rect cross section. It has a tendency to rotate ,so if that is case use follow me and keep. I,ve attached a tutorial Gully (I think) did several years ago that may help you make a decision[attachment=0:km19rhru]<!-- ia0 -->pipe_layout.skp<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:km19rhru] yes thank you i have tried the follow me tool and also the profile builder, i am going to read your link

Thank you.

Nice family picture! No kids though... just heroes and classy/extravagantly oldfashioned people! LOL

I'm not sure if this will do what you need but there's a 15 day free trial...http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/oob-layouts Otherwise why not make the pattern from within a CAD program. I'd imagine most packages have a pattern function.

You can reset the default by renaming the . exe file. Sketchup changes the default exe to sketchup.exe as they expect you to only use one version. If you want SU8 as your daily use but still have su13 for when you need it, navigate to the su13 folder and change the exe to sketchup13.exe This lets you choose the one in the su8 folder as the default open with. This is a workaround and not really the right thing to do, however I haven't found any problems with doing it.

I have the same problem with Sketchup 2014 but on Windows 8.1? any help?

hi William you have to get solar north from the extensions warehouse now.

Thanks, I didn't know about that />bangs head on desk/ (pity the slider doesn't remember it's previous state).