Different operating system. Jason is showing the Materials window on a Windows machine. On Mac they use the native OS-supplied colors window doodad. As to the material showing as a flat color, you must be in shaded face style instead of shaded with Textures. Change that under the view menu orin the Styles Edit tab and you should see it.

Hi SU fly, hi folks. As explained by Gaieus, you must plan the camera path carefully. See this SU file for ideas. Camera path to avoid passing through walls.skp

Thanks, pbacot. That did the trick.

@krisidious said: Shouldn't you two be working on your tree models... instead of trying to figure out who's is longer? whose what? snake? i was just joking last night by the way.. there's no software capable of zooming like that i put an easter egg link in my last post but nobody found it.. anyway, i was just looking around for more views of the carving in hopes of finding something to make a heightfield out of.. http://www.custommade.com/carved-wall-artsculpture/by/chrysaliswoodworks/ didn't find anything regarding a heightfield but found the guy's site which has a decently interesting explanation of the piece..

I do not exactly know how network licenses work at the moment but you cannot have SU free and Pro installed on the same computer. They are practically the same program - with some additional tools for the Pro version. So I guess it would be a tedious workflow keeping to install/uninstall the two versions. Previously, if there was no available license on the network (or even single installation of the Pro version), it fell back to the free version making it an ideal tool for such offices as they only needed to buy a few seats. I guess this is exactly why they changed this behaviour - to encourage sales...

Now that really is weird. It must be a bug. Thanks Jim, I never thought of importing to Layer0...but see no logical reason why that should make any difference.

the plugins are great but don't get in the habit of relying on plugins to fix sloppy modeling.

This probably wouldn't be quick, however if you're interested in modelling traffic paraphernalia to detail out your scene I've found most D.O.T. sites have a raft of standard details in CAD format for gantries, crash barriers, lamps etc. http://www.dot.state.tx.us/business/standardplanfiles.htm Example: ftp://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/cmd/cserve/standard/traffic/stds66.pdf

Hi Chris! Absolutely no problems with it now, since I've been matching the start/end positions, its working absolutly fine. The plug-in is great and is saving me a whole load of time/calculations... a great bit of work there Chris Many thanks for the response - I fear it was my lack of reading on the plug-in that caused the problem in the first place being the impatient person that I am. Deadlines wait for no man (or woman). All the best, Matt.

hi, i did a quick model of metal fence with authomatic gate, but the photographs ( i was given ) wasn´t good quality, and without proper angles to use it for photomaching. when i get the final one, i´ll post it. i´m a bit shy, to show my simple models among unique and amazing artist works around here. thanks for understanding best of luck [image: zujcp1.jpg]

i would say make an extrusion (follow me or curviloft) of a triangle shape along the spline path (bezier spline and maybe Curvizard) and then scale it a bit along the z-axis - eventually using the FFD plugin since it seems to be more distorted on the upper part.

@mrossk said: SketchUp window by clicking the "Maximize" button, That's what it was. Looked full screen but actually wasn't. Thanks mrossk

@glitchdesign said: Hi, I found this thread because i have the QL helper issue too. I've tried the ql manage steps listed above. I can't say for sure if .skp is the only thing that makes ql go nuts, but there's no doubt that it is a trigger. I've never come across anything like the quicklook generator posted above, will it help specifically with this problem, or is it more just for being able to view files before opening them? Where should i put the .qlgenerator file? I'm afraid i'm not too experienced with this stuff... So far as I know, nobody ever conclusively proved the cause of this problem, so there is no guarantee of what will work. My theory was that it could be due to SketchUp not registering the .skp extension correctly with Mac OS X, which would cause Finder's preview to scan the file trying to decide how to display it and could clog up the quick look cache. I am sure that SU 8 did not register .skp, but I haven't checked on 2013. Unzip the qlgenerator into ~/Library/QuickLook and the ruby into your plugins folder (the path varies depending on SU version). You may have to run "qlmanage -r" from a console window before the quick look daemon will pick up the new generator. You also have to save a file once before you will get a preview image instead of the sketchup logo.

Thanks Dave. This is what I did try, and I think it betters the effect for the most part. I don't move the sliders all the way to the ends as the few colors in the model begin to look strange.

Hi, Maurice: Sorry about the slow response since your first post. Welcome to Sketchucation, on behalf of everybody else. Martin included.

Anyone? Any ideas? Please.

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Material Broswer: Texture Size settings... Click the chain to toggle it from unbroken/broken. With an unbroken chain the edited sizes change in proportion, e.g. make one twice as big the other one changes to twice its size to match. With a broken chain you can change edit one size and the other size will remain as it is. Making the chain unbroken again will re-link them ,and once again they change in proportion; although at this point you may well have got two unequal sizes they will still be changing 'proportionally' - e.g. twice the size...

Not all of us have appple quick time to run untitled.mov I did this gif as a aid to your posted format, Dave Most of the time I think Apple has a better video output I started with apple long ago but never made it to the mac so I dont know all the in and outs of is Mac OS Now answering Peter's question from a pc point of view? I have 3 thoughts to add 1} I think, in his case, it maybe the 3d setting of the graph card, if his frame is 10 fps and above for a video 1032 x 774. [image: oJXp_pic_0077.jpg] 2) or he may not have the right video grabber or using the right movie format for getting a constant 10fps and above. [image: SZvS_pic_0079.jpg] 3) or if its random and drop frame when he records his machine maybe doing things in the background Task Manager Change your SU or Recorder, set priority, to high or real time [image: pi6T_pic_0080.jpg]