That did it. thanks for the help.

Well spoken, i feel exactly the same way about this forum. You wanna learn Sketchup, you come here

Yes i meant the frustum. No, you can only toggle the layers for "Camera_FOV_Volume" and "Camera_FOV_Lines". But switching these off will not avoid the clipping problems - like any large geometry in sketchup. But i have found another solution now to avoid these problems. I use the ACT-camera only to set up the scene and then i add a normal scene with the same settings and delete the ACT scene...

Hi Jericho, hi folks. Have you tried: View Menu --> Toolbar --> Shadows? Just ideas.

Wow Jean, thanks so much. That is a great tutorial. Luckily we are having winter weather, unlike last year, so I am able to spend some good time just playing with , oh er, I mean working with SketchUp 8 Pro. Your method would work with the free version and Pro, one of the reasons I went with Pro was the "Solid Tools" specifically for the Subtract method of which I have a new challenge. I just posted a new question about Holeshttp://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=50714&e=0. My top surface has some bumps so I cannot just push object one through object two, or I would have to know how to make some dimples on the top inside surface. Thanks once again Jean. Ralph

by dukejazz » Yesterday, 3:54 pm I build it with scaleGroupFloat_dj v1.6.5 bata cumulativeScaler_dj push pull - cumulativeScaler layers -scale frist four frames is meathod 1 )cumulativeScaler layers steps 1X others frames is meathod 2) cumulativeScaler layers steps 7X last two frames is copy invert meathod [image: SJDM_Movie_0099.gif] erase the cut line and bridge line fleur_dj.skp erase the cut line and bridge line [image: uCuH_pic_0086.jpg] top surface can be rounded by follow me tool

Thank you. ALT on the PC did it.

Thats weird... I'm assuming you use SU 8? I had something similar to this happen with LibFredo once, I had upgraded from 4.6 to 4.7, deleted the 4.6 files in the plugins directory, but SU told me I still was using 4.6. I fixed it by simply deleting ALL Fredo6 .rb's and folders from my plugins directory and reinstalling them. You might want to try that, its all I can think of.

Lots of free stuff here: http://www.cgtextures.com/

@unknownuser said: First line : @unknownuser said: SketchUp Pro is 3D modeling software for professionals. Price is so low that for a professional it will be pay off as soon as the first project! And you can sleep as a baby without any problem of legality! That doesn't say that professionals can't use the free version, though. The price is low and will easily be recovered by anyone who is using SketchUp professionally.

@kathryng said: Tried it! Brilliant! No more mumbling under my breath. Thank you ever so much. Cheers No problem

Excellent! I'm glad you got it sorted out and thanks for letting the rest of us know.

This deserves to be included in SketchUp by default ! Thanks

A plugin to count how many plugins you have?

OK, I will give it a go.

It's basically 'back to basics'. Thank you guys this has been most informative. I understand then there is no set way to do this but it is do-able. Cheers.

@dale said: If I remember correctly, when you turn on hidden geometry, you can click on the hidden geometry in question and drill back down into the group and unhide it. Can anyone concur? i concur

Thanks for the responses. I neglected to save the version with the problem, but I think I might have had a tiny corner "nipped" off the lower, front corner that was stopping the face from moving back. Can't know for sure due to my error in saving.