@rv1974 said: google artisan sketchup Hello there! Thanks for the recommendation! I did find this plugin, but I guess I skipped it because I dont remember seeing any videos about directly making an object out of PNG. Would give the free trial a try!

More segments can be better if you want smoother curves and such. It can also result in file bloat which can adversely affect the model so you have to be wise about it.

I believe there is only this one ? Vertex Tools by Thomthom

Good deal. You can go to your Trimble Account Manager Portal and remove all users freeing up all the seats if you ever need to do that. Then you just sign in again as needed.

Plugin Import Export STL by Didier Bur!

I use Ultimate Unwrap 3D to open them and export them to SU. I use it for UV unwrapping and this part is a plus for me, also you could use Blender to open ti and export it to obj.

Thanks so much pbacot! It's a great sulution indeed! I have posted on the tool's post - a question on how to get the segmentation right. Maybe you'll have an insight as well: https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=43371 Thanks again!!

perfect thanks for this

. ► Display the subtitles to watch the tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5sL1t2wcM

A toute fin utile on peut encore trouver la version 2017 Make (gratuite) dans toutes langues sur ce lien! https://www.sketchup.com/download/all# Il suffit de se connecter chez Trimble avec par exemple un Compte Gmail de chez Google! Pour les formats DXF il y a des plugins dans la section https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?listtype=1&author=0&category=0&search=dxf&submit=%3F ou en passant par le free PCon Planner Bonnes fêtes! (avec l'incroyable et gratuit https://app.wombo.art ) [image: LazKDUES_o.jpg]

Wow! That's a pretty clumsy way to deal with an expired subscription! You might want to contact MindSight Studios and see if they are aware of this.

@bouwe said: but sometimes it happen. so thats why i asked if there is a plugin for it . TIG's plugin for which I provided the link will fix it.

Thanks TIG, I’ll try your RB. I guess this has been reported to Trimble.

This really isn't a feature request, it's a bug report. Here is a visual of what Rosketch is talking about. Two components in SU, the right one has been flipped along the red. When exported as an .stl the resulting file is unprintable, as shown here in red. [image: 6iYs_Stlexportfail..gif]

Thanks. I had looked at the style setting and just didn't see it. Now, to finish my work.

thank you Dave R.

UPDATE this a chronic problem with the right mouse button click to save changes to componenent or group edit.I have done 2 installs, but when I uninstalled I guess it didnt do a complete uninstall because with the new install, the extensions prefernces and such that I had loaded came back rather than a fresh out of the box do-over. which if or the most part okay cuz I dont like re-loading all of that stuff. Funny. . .This was working fine yesterday, and I am not sure if I have a conflict with an extension. I hadn't loaded that many. Just enough to get me up and running in 2020. I unstialled most of them other than the "commercial" ones, etc. I dunno. If anybody out there has some ideas, I'd be grateful. D

This is a change to the way Hide works that was made to make it possible to use Hide instead of controlling visibility with tags. You can now hide and show objects through Outliner because of this. It does make this a scene property, too. Look at the Properties to Save options in the Scenes panel. Like all other Properties to Save, if you change one of those properties for a scene, you have to update the scene. Tags are still a good way to control visibility but with the separation between hidden objects and hidden geometry, you now have much finer control of what is shown in a scene without having to have so many tags. You might have a read through the Release Notes for SU2020 especially under What's New in Sketchup 2020.0>Hidden Objects. This is not a bug so I moved your thread.

Ha !! I know what i did - as this wasn't happening in other models - i cut and paste into another clean scene. It came in on its side - I'd Altered the Axes just before saving (obviously in a rush) Blue wasn't vertical. Hence when the model looked right in the viewport i was orbiting around the blue axex which was at a crazy angle !!!! NumbNuts! I'll leave this here for people who may do this in the future and prevent them 1hr of frustration - thank you for the speedy response BOX Cheers C

There are a couple of options for doing this. One version would be to use Zorro 2 to cut through in one go and then I'd use Fixit 101 to repair the missing faces. The components will all become unique, note I grouped them to contain the cut within the group, otherwise it will slice through your whole model. I has three goes at showing the context menu for Fixit correctly, so ignore the extra clicking. [image: toAFYCL.gif]