Wow, this is great! Two more tools to use in the hunt, both of which worked to find the internal face, and an excellent explanation. Big thanks to all. kupono

Just for the record: I reinstalled SU 2013 and directly after installing (before running SU at all) I ran "winetricks ie8" and now the overall GUI experience is better. Don't know whether that makes a difference or the fact that I had SU 8 installed between the installations, but, well, it is better now... Magic Winedows...

I suggest that it is best to have 'snapping' set to be OFF in Model Info > Units. Start the PushPull 'drag' and then type in the desired dimension + <enter> to make it 'extrude' that exact distance. OR click the cursor onto any object that is at that known distance away - e.g. other geometry, a correctly offset guide-line etc...

Does this help to solve your problem?

Scaling it does seem to work now. Interesting. I swear it didn't work the other day.

@kupono said: and mutter affirmations and incantations. Of course.

[image: OTLV_aqua.jpg] On the left is your model as you sent it. On the right is what happens after exploding the image so it is a material painted on the face. This is the same thing Box is talking about. It looks like you are being inconsistent about how you are bringing in the images you are using. Or trying to use. BTW, this was just a quick render in Kerkythea.

Push/Pull and Offset distances are not remembered from one SketchUp session to the next. If you've closed the SketchUp file and reopened it, the offset and push/pull distances from yesterday have been forgotten.

@dave r said: See if this helps. Thanks Dave, that was ideal. I updated my profile - just downloaded make yesterday. That post would be very useful as part of a sticky about differences for Mac users, seeing as even the Trimble tutorials don't seem to cover them. Cheers, Paul.

Looks like you might be able to cast your full computer monitor to the TV, not just the chrome browser. http://www.techhive.com/article/2045755/7-browser-tricks-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-chromecast.html See tip 4. It is listed as experimental. Looks cool Chris

Hi Dave, Must be electron magic. It has happened to me on several occasions on two separate models. It doesn't happen every time, but often enough to be quite annoying. I found that the autosave feature was very useful in these instances. I'll keep an eye on it, and I'll start reporting this to the Sketchup folks. Thanks for your help!

Some renderers don't render back faces even if they are painted with materials. This is one of the reasons it is a good idea to stay on top of the face orientation in your model as you work.

hi and thanx to all of you, i just contacted chuck vali and will buy the script, since this one is really fantastic and even the free version managed a really complicated mesh. regards stan and thanx again for helping me!

Sorry a little late to the party, but I ran across this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qge1YH7A4gI Now that looks almost just like this- [image: rokbox.jpg] So might be some ideas there.Just thought I'd throw it in.

Did this get resolved? Same problem with 2016, 3d text tool freezes everything. Can free up with Esc. Was working fine until this morning. Any fixes? Should I reinstall? Thanks Dell Inspiron 7550 Win 10,I7, 16G ram, NVidia GeForce960

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You're welcome.

This scene is so simple, yet amazingly realistic!! I'm searching for programs, processes, and procedures to turn my poopy renders into something that looks more like your results. I probably shouldn't be posting this here, but if it makes more sense, I'll repost in a relevant forum and reference this thread, if you don't mind. I've included my best attempts, and what I feel is lacking in each they were done with twilight, vray and shaderlight, in that order [image: k3Mf_slantroof.jpg] [image: MGub_PoolSemifinalsmall.jpg] [image: S3uS_interiorrender01.jpg]