UI Revit 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye6kq4lFq3U

Have a look here Grizzler, you might be pleasantly surprised with the collection.. Styles Collection

Why are you still using Google SketchUp? What error message are you getting? Since Joint Push/Pull does work with SketchUp 8, it sounds like you may have an installation error.

If the plugin is warning have not been removed I presume its because it still can cause some problems and maybe conflicts with other plugins so it is wise to follow the advice of not installing until it gets fixed. Most of the issues regarding plugins comes when modifying a global variable and not putting your code under unique module so that no other plugins gets affected. I am sure there is more reason though so if you are unsure of a plugin maybe ask in the developers forum if its safe. Also 'SketchUcation plugin store' is great place to find safe and up to date plugin and a very cool feature is to unload plugins you are not using and load them up when you do. Here is a link to that plugin.... http://sketchucation.com/resources/plugin-store-download Cheers!

I use export2d plugin for this kind of thing....one of the plugins that actually works quite well and makes backgrounds transparent in png. Good graphics outputs to date....so real pleased with it

Thank you Gus, very nice

One other little tip to get just the edges, view/face style/wireframe, this way you can select all the edges and paint them in one go and not have to worry about the faces.

@unknownuser said: In my modeling of construction sites I have to show cables running from here to there in the models. You know this plugin: WireTool?

Mine is not so bad on a Mac (using Simon's example). But how can we compare complexity of work? I can say that it is mostly use of plugins that can cause it and I know which ones seem to be doing heavy lifting and sometimes drop the ball so I save before these. But I can definitely get screwed sometimes. Don't get me wrong.

@arthurmoniz said: Not big Forum user. Time to change this! Welcome...

Complete your profile, please. Next, find an example image of what it is you are trying to do and post that. If what you are trying to emulate was shown on a PC, you can't do the same thing with the toolbars on Mac. They don't work the same way.

@gaieus said: Intersection only works in the editing context you are in. So if the top part is a group, you will need to explode it first (or edit the group to get that circle to appear inside the group). As for orbit and pan: you need a three button mouse where you can use the middle button (the wheel) to click with: that's the Orbit tool and if you also press Shift, that's the Pan tool. Once you release the middle mouse button, you'll get back to the tool (Rectangle, Move etc.) that you were using before clicking. Okay...totally makes sense. I think I got it. Also...the 3rd button was what I was missing...I wish there was a keyboard shorcut like in Photoshop, where I could just press and hold the space bar to enter pan mode and release to go back to the tool.

Just a quick question, looking at the sketchup model I'd dropped in earlier, what would be the best way of exporting just the ground plane line work to a new model or would modelling the buildings and then exporting them into the existing model be easier?

Ps and make an transparent PNG image (vertical size of your screen) of your 24 3D objects for input them in one click inside the fabulous Algodoo where they will have tulmutuous "physics 2D" adventures!

Have you also correctly installed the separate required 'Lib' as explained on the tool's download/info page...?

The toolbars that you have 'active' when you close SketchUp should be the toolbars that are 'active' when you restart SketchUp. Is this not the case ?

And that is exactly why I export all of my renders as 2D images, as I do finish them up in Photoshop. For over five years I have done all of my visualizations in Photoshop alone, but the world moves on, and while I still use PS a lot for composities, the time has come to graduate to something more photo-realistic if that makes any sense to you. Compositing when the images sent to you were all taken at different angles can be quite a challenge as well. Puppet warp not withstanding. In addition, making the changes at the drop of a hat, because the client wants to see the room from a different angle is impossible without a 3D image to start out with. And should they want to see that, it would mean having to export the image again from SU at a different angle and then rework the lighting etc., once more in PS. Seems to me like a lot of extra work for no reason. See samples which are the original picture I was sent, and then what I was able to do with it in Photoshop alone. Also bear in mind, that while I would like to do something "pretty" my boss may not want it it to look just "pretty." He is actually quite fanatical about getting the lighting to look exactly as it will during the actual event. It is not like an architectural render where they can put it pretty flowering trees and shrubs that may never actually appear exactly like that once the building has been completed, but looked great in the render. [image: KFbH_ScreenShot2013-05-13at3.04.05PM.png] [image: 3Sbe_ScreenShot2013-05-13at3.16.58PM.png]

That's another way of doing it. I'd not thought if that way. The outliner is a very useful tool in many situations.

I have done it many times: export a dwg/dxf file and import it into SU.