@wo3dan said: disable 'Use model extents'. That worked, Thanks. @box and @nickchun Thanks for the tips.

@nickchun said: Twilight and Thea were developed from Kerkythea (which is free, but takes longer to learn) Materials from Kerkythea can be used in Twilight, so you can develop your own materials in Kerkythea and use them in Twilight. Twilight is well worth the money but if you are really strapped for cash try Kerkythea first. Twilight uses the render engine from Kerkythea, but Thea render has different core and material system (even the developer is same as with Kerkythea). Thea can import Kerkythea scenes, but it does a one way conversion. About twilight renderfarm, there is one beta (that actually is Thea based and uses Kerkythea to Thea conversion) at http://renderact.com/. Possible other Thea render farms may accept Kerkythea XML scenes http://www.thearender.com/cms/index.php/resources/render-farms.html

Curvishear by Fredo 6? Careful plugin generates only curves! You must use Curviloft (or others) afterfor have surfaces! (in the image top left corner, the 2 curves are the curvy curves! ) [image: file.php?id=50238]

@unknownuser said: @aureus said: I see you guys have some fun here. Betting, eh? Is it legal in all your countries? in the u.s it is.. you just can't call it gambling.. call it casinos, bingo, lottery, etc instead... @unknownuser said: I didn't intend to be involved in criminal activities when I started this topic. sure, i can see that.. but your intent was what exactly? . Modest as I am, I hoped to see some guy from the SU team dropping by with a big smile: "We have pleasure in announcing that next SU version is going to be released on May the 16th 2015..." 2013, sorry. This gambler's addiction is taking more and more of my mind. I think I must go dawn to the bet shop. There's a bunch of good matches this week but the odds are rather odd. Beer for you, Jeff. And for the SU team: Give us Chris Fullmer back, or give us something in return!

Wow that's odd. It doesn't work like that on mine, so it isn't a typical behavior. I would guess this might be a windows malfunction? Or maybe a problem with the multiple monitors? I'll dig around and see if I can find anything on it.

@unknownuser said: @bunnyack said: b) it won't keep the original surface, so I can't archieve my goal of giving the fuselage some thickness. push the <tab> key during jpp (and a few other of fredo's tools) in order to get an options menu.. there you can pick 'thickening' for a solid offset.. Thanks Jeff, saved my day Not only did it keep both faces, it also stopped sketchup from crashing at 79%. Problem solved.

try using a plug-in Solid Quantify by TAK2ATA. author website http://sketchup-onigiri.jimdo.com/plugin-other/

Do you have an image of what you've reached so far?

@liam887 said: @cjryan said: Just out of curiosity, what was the "Windows Experience Index" number? The fact that I don't have SSDs, always has dragged mine down to the mid 5's. Processor, memory, and graphics are in the high 7's. I know this is a more or less arbitrary assignment of numbers, but does the SSD, bring your numbers up to the high 7's? I will check when I get it back to my house, currently in a taxi My number was 8, but I still havent had all the drivers installed and running two 32" Tv's as monitors, not sure how those things can alter the results. Here are a few pics of the machine too. [image: qcUg_1.jpg] [image: hFJK_2.jpg] [image: GSlG_3.jpg] [image: mpIZ_4.jpg] [image: ARXe_1600.jpg]

@unknownuser said: With TIG importer try to put all files OBJ and Mat inside the folder Plugins of Sketchup it is still won't load anything sir.. the loading process is very fast, but no object was created..

It worked! Thanks!!

Jean Lemire you are a true Gem! You have solved 2 of my head scratchers yesterday, and today I will be much more productive!! Thanks for the good help!! Off to make a new wheel! Mark

Thank you. I sent a PM.

Thanks.

Hi Wo3Dan, hi folks. I quitted SU then I changed my decimal separator from the . to the , and the list separator from the , to the ; I restarted SU and it works. I quitted SU and then I reverted back to the . and , and it still works ?!?!?! Strange. Anyway, problem solved. The help is still incorrect unless I goofed somewhere. Best regards.

Like some animation plugins' animation can be rendered in certain rendering apps - even if they cannot be rendered (with the native animation export) in SU itself. Keyframe animation (one which would be ideal for your example) or SketchyPhysics can be rendered as animation in Twilight Render for example.

Very nice. Thank you!