HI, you were correct in that I had to complete my lines. I was able to fix it up without redrawing. thanks @dave r said: Eric, in a nutshell, making a component (or group) of the walls is akin to wrapping them up in Saran wrap. You can see them but the "wrapper" protects them from being modified and protects other geometry from being affected by that geometry inside the wrapper. If you do need to make changes to the contents of the component/group, you open it for editing and do your thing. Think adding a slice of cheese to a sandwich wrapped in the cling wrap. It may actually be better to start over in this case. You have some parallel nearly coincident lines in a few places. Shoot for a single face for all connected walls. No lines crossing from one side of the wall to the other. If you plan to make the walls 3D at some point, this will make it a lot easier. It'll go faster next time, too.

Because the back and front of the chair is a curved surface, and is made from 6 separate faces (seat consists of two faces), you will need to map the texture across them. This should help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHsRRLCAOm8 Another thing I noticed with this model is that if you go to edit-->unhide-->all a centre line up the middle of the back of the chair appears. This is what is making it so the two halves select separately. If you right click on this centre line and soften it (or delete it) then turn off the hidden geometry you can then select the back of the chair as a single face which will assist in mapping the texture over it in one go. Hope this helps.

Or open up the ruby window and type Sketchup.break_edges=false (case sensitive). It'll return "false" but the lines won't intereract and break like they did.

@sketchuh said: I couldn't open a file in sketchup 2013 make, because that file has "many" imported 3d models in it. Yes sketchup make crashes many times on me. I wonder does Pro version run faster?! No.

Sure.

What exactly are you trying to achieve? Could you post a screen shot or better a model?

Hmmm... I reviewed the stadium as it stands (according to a sketchup warehouse model that seems to be very close to the pictures I could find, the 2010 original poster's proposal, and the youtube video of the new design (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bza_mEkYALg). I do see some similarities. It especially seems that both the 2010 proposal and the new design seem to pull the end seats closer to the field, but there are significant differences, also. For instance, the 2010 proposal uses the existing building basically as is, replacing the roof over it. The new design significantly adds to the building. Also, some of the "design elements" highlighted in the original pictures are actually what the stadium looks like now, and both the 2010 proposal and the new design utilize them. [image: s01.jpg] I would be surprised if the person or persons doing the schematic design didn't see the 2010 proposal, but there is a lot of work that was done. The roof lines are very similar, but that seems to be more a matter of form following function. It looks like there has been some engineering for the new design roof, and the new design uses a different support system. [image: s02.jpg] Most strikingly the interior has a much different look: [image: s03.jpg] The pillar spacing seems to be the same, but I am not sure if that is a function of design or engineering. So, in my opinion, while some areas seem to be inspired by the 2010 proposal that was in the warehouse, the new proposal has significant differences and seems to have a lot more engineering in the roof supports. I suspect that the similarities that do exist are functional, not design, and probably would not support a legal action. Of course, the laws in Europe may differ significantly from the laws in the US, and that might make a difference.

here she is

David, it was most certainly my pleasure. I envy your year at College of the Redwoods. I expect you've been designing and making some very nice furniture. Congratulations on the path you are following. Back to your printing problem, what do you get if you export a JPG or PNG instead of trying to print the view?

I think "default layer geometry" does all that needs to be done. Then all geometry is on Layer0 where it belongs, and you can assign components, including nested groups or components to whatever layer is required.

One of my plugins was mentioned in a book and no permission was sought. Use of logos and trademarks need permission

I actually used Tig's Extrude tools, but Curviloft would certainly do it.

When You select print there is a section that allows you to select what scenes to print. However you can only do a range like 2 thu 6 etc.

The problem comes from my hard disk(I believe) as it went out of power(loose connecter perhaps) and then when I made it to work back this problem occurred with both these files(The folder they are in was open when the hard disk stopped working). The .skb gives the same error ! The weird thing is that I can see the preview of the large one but it won't open.

Not me.... I don't sleep on beds that monsters can live under...

1001bittools pro has a face tool that might do it... otherwise you might try making the tile the right size and then using fredo scale to twist and squish it into the right shape...

I moved my tool pallettes to the top bar to alleviate the problem lol only to find the same problem exists. This should be fixed immediately. Unless they cannot, its also a pain when sketchup crashes. When sketchup relaunches it takes its time to open the previous file without toolbars argghghhhhghghghghgghhhhhhh the horror.

Just a head's up if you decide to go forward with using SketchyPhysics...it's on the Quarantine list because it interferes and modifies some things about SketchUp. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=47371&p=456723&hilit=quarantine#p456723 You can of course still install and use it, just know that you might get some funky behavior and busted tools/behavior. I didn't know this when I first used it, and it gave me a lot of headaches.

No, I was talking about something different than the clipping bug. There are steps to take to keep the clipping bug at bay. Search the forum for the clipping bug.

Would you be able to post the model and reference photos?