Oh killer, thanks for all the info! Will defo look into that! Cheers

Thanks Charly, that was tried Thanks Dave, the style revert worked. Before you posted that reply I found I could copy & paste to a new Sketchup window and the problem goes away. I realize now that was because the model was using a fresh uncorrupted style.

Thanks Rodman....I looked at it, and I am using Hole Punching by TIG. It works great.

Have you tried reinstalling SketchUp?

ty i found out how - right click on the place of tool bar and make it appear from there

Dave R what he said Hey Quick Draw you all right. [image: wEpD_Capture2.PNG]

Thanks Gabor...

Glad you got it figured out. Looks like you do have a 1 gig card. here's our two cards compared. remember that I have two of them and that mine are like 4-5 years old and pretty outdated. if you have an extra $300 bucks laying around, a GTX 770 would be smokin fast. Your Card @unknownuser said: GPU Engine Specs CUDA Cores - 48 Graphics Clock (MHz) - 810 Processor Clock (MHz) - 1620 Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) - 6.5 Memory Specs Memory Clock - 900 MHz (DDR3) Standard Memory Config - 1024 MB (DDR3) Memory Interface - DDR3 Memory Interface Width - 64-bit Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) - 14.4 Feature Support OpenGL - 4.2 Bus Support - PCI-E 2.0 x16 Supported Technologies DirectX 11, CUDA, PhysX Display Support Multi Monitor - Yes Maximum Digital Resolution - 2560x1600 Maximum VGA Resolution - 2048x1536 Standard Display Connectors Dual Link DVI-I HDMI VGA (optional) HDMI1 - Yes My Card @unknownuser said: GPU Engine Specs CUDA Cores - 448 Graphics Clock (MHz) - 607 MHz Processor Clock (MHz) - 1215 MHz Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) - 34.0 Memory Specs Memory Clock - 1674 MHz (3348 data rate) Standard Memory Config - 1280 MB Memory Interface - GDDR5 Memory Interface Width 320-bit Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) - 133.9 GB/sec Feature Support OpenGL - 4.2 Bus Support - PCI-E 2.0 x16 Supported Technologies 3D Vision Surround, SLI, DirectX 11, CUDA, 3D Vision, PhysX SLI Options1 2-way 3-way Display Support Multi Monitor - Yes Maximum Digital Resolution - 2560x1600 Maximum VGA Resolution - 2048x1536 Standard Display Connectors Two Dual Link DVI Mini HDMI HDMI Yes

@tellnuhu said: @rafferty94 said: Have a look at http://cgtextures.com/ They have some decent textures. As for the resolution of such. Look around at different renders. I use Maxwell myself (It's aesthetically pleasing and it allows "bump" values to be changed). Or you can export your model to a different program such as Blender and use their node editor to combine Normals/Bump/Displacement/AO can u help me create d textures to Maxwell materials please....thanks in advance I'm just a beginner when it comes to texturing. Have a look here aswell if you don't want to create them. Hundreds of textures specifically for Maxwell all for free.

I've had what sounds like a similar problem over the years. Mainly when I zoom in close to an object. Large file size makes it more likely. One fix appears to be: Zoom Extends. And then reset the field of view. The problem is more likely with wide angle of view.

perfect!! thanks

@cotty said: You can save as SU8 in SU2013... Thanks for that as well. I see now that you can "Save As" all the way back to V3!

I was able to export the model, but in pieces. What confounds me about this particular model it uses almost all the same materials I use in other models which I have had no problem exporting with the extension OBJexporter. I do appreciate all the help and suggestions. This is a wonderful community! Thank you. Jo Ann

The colored background is a style setting, not a JPG that can be replaced. You might use your image as a watermark or you could draw a large surface in the background and add the image as a texture.

I have made some good progress to clean up most of the auto folds in the orginal post. One major issue is keeping an on face inference for the windows especially when trying to array across a large surface. Also the material browser is reporting four faces in some cases=> not good. If I get any thing close to useable will send this pm, XMAS shop time now. Make sure you understand and use the su inference engine so things are keep planar etc. it maybe the program for the skin gives su some inference poblems. Make sure you lock the on face inference

Wouldn't the most straight forward way be to, shape the sphere then take one longitudinal segment as a starting point and draw the shapes you want, extrude them and subdivide/smooth. Make that a component and rotate array it.

Select all and use the scale tool.

Happened to me also. Try changing the icon by right click. Didn't work but all of sudden one day it came back. Not much help but you're not alone.