thank you very much, problem solved!

FYI: With all materials removed model size is 7.98MB

Thanks very much.

Ah thankyou

It works for me also. Hit Enter after you type the new radius.

Thx, amazing wood's world!

You have a funny Plugin by TIG Split Saussage! Just draw the first segment anywhere between the 2 offsets! Seems you will obtain Quads [image: file.php?id=83045&t=1]

While the faces round the rim and on the inside bottom are missing because they're too small for SU to create them, the face on the bottom isn't missing for that reason. It is missing because Follow Me is subtractive when there's already geometry at the location. You left the face of the circle for the path after drawing it. Since there's a face there already, it gets deleted during the FM action. Delete the circle first and then run Follow Me. You'll find that the bottom of your bowl is then made just fin. If you're going to scale up and scale back down, there's no need to make the thing a group first. I frequently draw small details that require scaling to get faces to complete. I make a component of the entire geometry, copy it and scale it up as needed. Don't open the component for editing before scaling. Then I work on the large version and when I've finished, I close the large copy and delete it. This leaves the original in its original location with all the tiny faces created. [image: Avg4_L_1.png] This is after scaling a copy of your profile up by a factor of 10 which was enough to get faces made. Leaving the original in place and working on a copy is especially useful when the original is already placed where you need it because you don't have to spend time putting it back. This idea is useful for more than just Follow Me operations and you don't always have to scale the copy up.

@peebo22 said: Is there a faster way with other software? Can you give examples, if you have cloud format, which software you use to manage it? I know you posted this a while ago, but did you ever have any luck with this? I'm trying to get my head around doing the same using my FARO .las files. Best advice I've had is using the Cloudv8 plugin, but as you've said it's not nearly as fast as what the pointools plugin was. Can you let me know what you think is the best way? Thanks in advance

When you toggle zoom extents the program will display the total model with some parts you do not realize you made. It could be a very short line you cannot even see. Suggest you select the model( double click), change the rendering mode to wire frame and hide it. Then do a select all and delete. Un-hide your model and then do the zoom extents again. Hidden wire frame is not selectable so this will only delete the items you do not want. Save your model first, this works through Su8 I've not check if it is ok for 2013

Hi Can set up a 2D shape with a cutting plane, Place one top, one bottom, plus a rim, refer to my DC,s @ pcmoor in the warehouse (plate with holes, cylinder / column) It is also possible to have multiple cutters that activate on exploding the parent, leaving the children and grand kids etc, refer to the multi-cut wall opening Philip

I used to suffer from BugSplats when using SU5 on a pc years ago. Switched to Mac in 2008 and never had a problem since until this week whilst using 2013 Pro when it has crashed twice whilst doing simple floor plans. The only plugin I've loaded so far is SU Podium which I used to use on previous versions but used my licence key to download the latest version. teething problems with SU2013 Pro maybe?

Thank you jorlan and Pilou. As an illustration of the task I'm trying to optimize see attached image. Resulting image was made by manually placing copy of the circle on the rectangular face. I'm hoping there is a plugin/ruby script to calculate/place maximum possible number of shapes (in this case circles) on given face. Thank you for your time. [image: krNd_shapesonface1.jpg]

Hello Brian, First, my condolences on the loss of your friend. We did something similar to your problem with SAT (SimFonIA animation Tool). The fly datas were from Flight-simulator. http://youtu.be/XWsI7oR3kdc Regards, SimFonIA teal

I found the problem: menu SETTINGS>PREFERENCIES and there OPEN_GL and there choose setting with SHADOWS YES. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=44020&p=392583&hilit=shadows+faces#p392583

Hey guys, thanks heaps for the tips. Was able to fix it!

Nice IF you can use the .bro format.

Wow that has grown since my previous installation! Thanks for the pointer Rich and Thomas for programming.