Thanks Dave. Bid has been submitted and approved. We are building it. I love my job and Sketchup because we can see all the projects details and then watch it come to life. On top of that I get to build some of it when I have time. I'm building a career from Sketchup and this is my life. I'm grateful to the creators and wizards of this program. Have a good one fellas.

Geometry 'sticks together'. Draw a face. Draw another face that touches it. Select just the first face and Move it. Parts of the connected face will distort as you do so, because they are also connected to the first face. However, had the two touching faces been inside their own groups then they do not interact. As Dave says, you have given the 'slabs' insufficient thicknesses. Walls are anywhere from ~4"/100mm to ~14"/350mm depending on what they are made from and their function. Floors and roofs will be about 1/10 of their 'span', down to about 1/20 depending on their materials and function again...

Some of the questions are difficult to answer beacause it is only possible to choose one option, but a great idea and I'm very interested in the result...

Hi Walter, it's here: http://www.smustard.com/products/ scroll down the page. Please use english in this forum. You can join to the german group if you want.

It's Perfect, thank you.

@rsguernsey said: Is there any hope for me? ... Nope - none at all! Just enjoy!

@dave r said: I'm wondering that, too. How do you deactivate the components in a model? He probably meant 'Plugins'

@anneweinberger said: I'm going to buy the new 21.5" iMac and wonder if I'll get better performance with SU from the more expensive one. yes.. but barely.. you probably wouldn't notice a difference in real world usage… @unknownuser said: Also, looking at 13" MacBook Air. Though it doesn't have a separate video card, I could do some basic operations with it when experimenting in the Apple store, Anybody know if I'll get bogged down when, e.g., importing 3D components from the warehouse? bogging down from importing components? no possible visual glitches? yes.. you might need to turn off hardware acceleration in sketchup in order to use it.. personally, i wouldn't get a MBA but i do a lot of 3D work.. all my laptops have had discreet graphics in there and they've been great.. i often read about problems with the intel cards though.. tough call.. i'd say either try sketchup on the laptop you're looking at buying (extensively if possible) or ask around on some other forums to see if anyone has any hands on experience with the intel4000 and 3D apps.. (macrumors.com forums is really active… maybe post over there) [edit] actually, for accuracy sake, i had a powerbook(2002?) once with onboard graphics.. 64MB AMD card and a motorola processor 1.3ghz(?).. less than a gig of ram... and sketchup ran ok on that...

Thanks Jeff. Much appreciated.

Speaking of skewed lots and buildings. While in college I rented a cheap little house that was built on a circular street (a church was in the center circle). It was a very narrow pie-shaped lot. The main room was pie-shaped. With crossing ceiling beams it was sort an optical illusion, as the room looked bigger or smaller, depending on where you stood. Very funny.

Hi folks. There is more than a straight line that can be used to close a face from ends of arcs. This simplify works by avoiding unnecessary intersections. See this SU file for ideas. Curved face.skp

Thanks Tig, had not thought of the App Data folder. Uninstalled then reinstalled and back to normal (me thinks)

Could you post the model so we can see it? You might try importing the location again into a new SketchUp file and then copy and paste the building from the old file to the new. Maybe you managed to corrupt something when you were working with it the first time.

The problem is solved. It was a texture that unexplainedly increased the file size after processing (mkz file). Thank you for your assistance.

These paths determine the folder in which Sketchup starts - e.g. when you say save_as a component, it first opens your 'default' components folder... You set these up for various 'objects' that you might want to 'export' out of your model, it's just a way of simplifying your navigation to the likely destination folder. If they have never been set [or the folder-path is no longer valid - e.g. you've renamed a folder] then I think that Sketchup assigns your Documents folder as its initial default, and of course you may well wish for your collection of saved-components to be somewhere entirely different...

@dave r said: Well, it was worth a try. You haven't found any other solution yet, have you? I was just trying to help. No, I've pretty much given up on this. Just adding another volume to my Sketchup ScrewUps collection, soon to be available in handsome leather-bound 7-volume sets at your local Barnes and Noble. I very much appreciate your help. Have a nice holiday.

@bob james said: @Gaius Whose guitar music is that??? Super music. I have no clue, Bob. I just grabbed an example from YT.

And you can even ("easily") embed SketchFab models to your site [web 100%,480:1j3xbs5r]http://skfb.ly/ki3fdcba?autostart=0&transparent=0&autospin=0&controls=1&watermark=1[/web:1j3xbs5r]

@cuttingedge said: Anyways, I just learnt that split donut work on multiple selections. That was new to me too, nice!

Thanks! Hovering over an object worked for me. Just a strange SU quirk?