Hi Jim Thank you so much for getting this door to work correctly. Having a sizeable door will save me a lot of time when modelling. I'm pretty new at DC's so I really appreciate someone with your expertise helping me. I'll also use this door as a template to build a sizeable drawer front with 1 1/2" rails and 2 1/2" stiles. Thanks again, Woodwork 101

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Sorgesu, thanks for the explanation! I am going to implement that.

That works great pbacot, thanks!

Thanks alot. Yes, we have a big family dinner every Sunday evening so we need it!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaQFpCQS_y4 Section Cuts within groups.

I rework it and now it's a closed shell volume: by these steps I started wuth the car body draw with line tool and close the volume [image: QUms_pic_0157.jpg] I copy and offset scaled by 1/16 inch as before with scaleGroupFloat_dj scaleGroupFloat_dj will create an offset call "shell". the settings shown ealier above 4 ) I then vector push-pull the wheels acoss [image: 9SJc_pic_0158.jpg] 5) right click and used context intersect face to model cut away [image: qXVC_pic_0159.jpg] and then cut the bottom interial face of the car [image: EKWf_pic_0161.jpg] @unknownuser said: by marvins_dad » February 27th, 2013, 9:36 am Is there a ruby out there that will create an offset or "shell". I have a car shell... 1/6" thick lightweight ... The problem is ... the programs won't simply print along a plane with zero thickness. and now marvins The Answer: yes- Use scaleGroupFloat_dj.rb and a vector push-pull tool (=to SU push-pull then one end exploded face move by the move tool) by the process above you get this car+body16_dj.skp

Gerrit is correct. You can't see textures on faces outside of the current context when editing a component or group.

It's OK A friend of mine says "computers ? it's easy : just work with 0 and 1... but sometime there are many mysterious thinks between them..."

@hublan said: Hi Dave- yes there is an intel card and an nvidia card installed on my laptop. jeff Yes, these newer laptops come shipped this way. It's good to have the Intel card for less graphic hungry apps. @hublan said: Thanks again, I appreciate your efforts to answer my question

@pbacot said: Looking back to your first post, if a flat blade is what you are after, and the edges can all be coplanar. Do your drawing on a surface, like the face of a rectangle, to help be sure it is coplanar. Make the component after you've done most of your work making the face. Yeah, I think the 2 arcs were not coplanar AND I didn't create a face. It works now. I just got to make it pretty. Thanks for everyone's help,

Wow that's awesome! Definitely go post that in the gallery. I think lots of people would be interested in seeing that and asking about your workflow. Very cool!

Okay thanks, I will try this out.

Kid's room great! Living needs some pop! Color? I'm just a beginner, so just my opnion. Nice work!

Jerry, did this help?

DareDevil - Thank you for your help I've got it working perfectly now. I can see how I can use this coding for other DC's as well. dukejazz - Thank you for the info on your plugin, I haven't tried it yet but it looks great. Once again thank you to both of you for your help and your quick responses. Woodwork 101

I see. Thank you for opinions and suggestions. Actually, I have several Windows tweaker applications here. Three of them left. Those have that registry checking ability. CCleaner, Advanced System Care and TweakMe, which is do nothing but to use standard windows utility that usually hidden from common user. I always make backups too. Thanks again

Cool Tutorial and very cool use of the tricky plugin of Sdmitch! Random Replacement of Components

All, Thanks for the advice on the .csv file. I'm pretty familiar with excel and its capabilities, and what I have works OK, but I have to do a lot of fiddling with the spreadsheet before I can get it into a useable state. What I found works really well is to pre-format a blank worksheet with all of the headers and column widths the way I want them, then hide the columns that I won't use. I then copy and paste the data from the .csv into the blank (cntrl+shift+end from the first cell of the .csv, then cntrl+V into the first cell of the .xlsx). So, no problem with getting the results I want after a few steps. I was just wondering if a plug-in existed that would do all of that output management up-front so I could export exactly what I want into the spreadsheet and save a few steps. Thanks, again, for your help! Frank

yes but you have an half chance to take end-end segments / against middle-middle of segments and even end-middle!