I should downgrade to beginner!

Could you post a component or two? Or, if you don't want to share publicly, do you want to PM them to me? I'll see what I can see.

@aarondietzen said: Hi all, So over in another area of the forum it has been revealed that there was a bug in SketchUp related to materials and observers. It looks like they will be fixing it in the near future. We have been looking into this an working directly with SketchUp in an effort to get this fixed the right way (as opposed to us creating a monster of a solution to get around the problem). It is great to see that they are on it! Thanks! Aaron Now we will see if Trimble's idea of "On It" is the same as Google's.

You can use Selection Toys to select faces of the same orientation. I use that often for such task you describe.

funso, I've moved your last post in a new thread.

@rodman100 said: Try these... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCEoIcBfcw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AIzFNB9C2A or this series showing importing CAD dwgs, aligning plans & elevations to respective levels by robyn shrestha... https://vimeo.com/20773126 These links are great references. Thanks! For those after me, the first has audio, and the Robyn Shrestha series is detailed but no audio.

Thanks every one, it appears that there is hope. @unknownuser said: Also it would be a good thing if you tell us what you want to create, it is difficult to advise you if we don't know where we go. gilles my original question has the .skp with the complete project and some pictures. I have been using SuSolid and have it down to just 5 or 6 errors, all of the obvious problems have been fixed. Possible with Solid Inspector and SolidSolver I can finish cleaning it up. Boy, I am going to have to start making some more donations, wish I had a income maybe I can make my 3D printer pay. Thanks again, I really appreciate the help and obviously need it, but I am getting there. Ralph

.. killed the cat .

Thanks for your reply's again.. i had not thort of breaking it up.. i did solve the problem of massive size of final animation by exporting the animation as a png. rather than an avi and then used ImagesToVideo to combine to make the vid. (i did this with another model) but i tried exporting in both ways- 1 way was the avi and the other in png the avi file was 1.2 gig while the png that once converted was only 60 mb.. also the png exporting was alot faster. I will defiantly look at breaking up the animation into parts and try it that way and also look at the sphere background around the model

@thomthom said: I generally find that parallel view often produce clipping glitches. Thanks It's good to know it's not a problem inherent to my machine.

Cheers TIG, can't believe i missed that, all this time. That little bit of info is worth its weight in gold, should save lots of time now. Thanks for the codes too, they should provide some good avenues for me to explore ruby coding.

lines are turned off? can you post the model?

Merci a vous pour la réponse rapide! Effectivement, cela semble refonctionner désormais. Je vais donc aller regarder tout cela. Merci encore.

Box, I'm so glad i joined in on this thread, I had given up on orbiting with the MMB, but after talking with you and trying different approaches, I finally got the right one, and IT WORKS, I'm orbiting with MMB. Thanks box, thanks all. In case it might help someone else, the mouse is Logitech model MX310(an old one), go to Start, control panel, mouse properties,set point settings, select button, select middle button, set task to "other", when prompt comes up, select middle button. Good luck

Thank you Gaieus: i configured my adblocking, and it's work fine now. Regards Pedro

Thanks for comments!

Thanks for answers! I did not know the thing about hide inside a group/component... I understand now! Thanks!

Once you sort out your face orientation you may find TIG's Section Cut Face plug works as expected. The only edit I usually need to apply is to delete unwanted faces which obscure the room, all my other voids close as expected.