Hi Jim, Thank you for a very nice Christmas gift! Been struggeling with this for a while now. ..I was close but missed on this part; =Parent!HevSenk+67.64 Thank you again and have a Merry Christmas to you and your family. Merry Christmas also to all followers in this thread!! @jim said: You will have better luck working outside-in, or top-down. Put the onClick animation at the highest logical level, and pass the animation attribute down to any components that need it. Attributes can only be "seen" by direct parents or children, so if you have more levels of components that need access to the animation attribute, you need to reference the attribute at each level. ` Top-Level Component OnClick(animate("anim", 0, 100) anim: 0 Child-Component anim: =Parent!anim Child-of-Child-Component anim: =Parent!anim`

Almost all 3D printing machines use STL as their input files. The software that coverts the STL and drives the machines (mostly by G-code) is almost always proprietary and is supplied by the machine vendor. The meshes of complex STL files often do have flaws which need to be repaired, for this there is netfabb which is free for the basic program. hth, Norbert

I have never had good results with shadows on in any model. Maybe I am doing something wrong. I never understood why people insist on working with shadows on anyhow. Every model I have downloaded has shadows on! Its kind of annoying.

Here's what I ended up doing..[image: pYSZ_speaker.png]

Thanks very much! As I have just started learning how to do DC, I just posted another model in a new thread to seek solution. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=48529 Please take a look to see if you have any idea. DedongC

Hi Tandem, Could you please PM me the email address you used when you purchased the product? Or maybe your PayPal account email address? I could not find the email address you are registered with at SketchUcation among the shop purchases. Thank you.

Thank you for your reply. It's nice to know that this problem has a name. I just realized that my problem is actually mathematical not with sketchup -- you are right, I am trying to have two planes occupy the same space! No wonder sketchup can't decide. I started making this model because I had trouble visualizing it myself, and then what comes up with sketchup is so close to looking like something that "should" be regular that I thought I knew what it was supposed to look like -- but five wedges arranged around a point cannot alternate between two colors. Those wedges are both colors.... So I think what I will do is change the coloring to two lighter colors and then explode the model and paint the faces where they intersect a darker color. In hindsight, the issue now seems obvious, sigh..... but I appreciate that you helped me get the answer, even if I didn't really ask the right question.... very interesting....

The more easy is this one Weebly

This is exactly, what I was searching for! Thanks for sharing the tip!

@alien_killer said: where do i get the plugin to save archicad 16 file as sketchup file You didn't look at the ArchiCAD site or check the ArchiCAD Help files?

Find Chris Fullmer's Shape Bender tool in the Plugins Index... - read its download/installation/usage instructions very carefully... Please note how you must also get/install the ' progressbar.rb' helper file that you must download and install separately...

Mike, Here is the file. You may need help from others as I don't have experience in some of this geometry--so you might combine these methods with exact layout methods. I took the dimensions given as being on the axis. I did the whole model at 100 times scale and then scaled all of it down (including earlier steps), but I made a new method for some of this at the lower scale and that worked OK. You may want to keep it all at 100 times scale until final output. Save copies of various steps in case you need to backtrack. I put dimensions in the above picture via LayOut but can dimension with SU or draw temporary lines or guides to check. Just SU dimensioning is difficult for something like this. I also know NADA about requirements for 3d printing, so others can help you there. You mention other things that need to be done to the shape. I have to see if I understand those first. IDK if this shape can be made a "solid" but that could help for more "cutting". Also you mention being able to resize. Might be done. I think perhaps the pitch of the spiral changes if you keep all the other dimensions and change the diameter--if that's OK. [EDIT: It is not shown in the file. I used the standard method shown in the above videos to create the first spiral: draw a circle (save a copy below for your cylinder etc.), explode the circle, pull up one vertex on blue axis with the move tool. Keep one angled edge, erase the rest. Radial duplicate the angled edge in a complete circle by the segment angle, and move-duplicate all enough times straight up for a complete revolution, choose (triple click) one spiral and erase the rest. "Recurve" the spiral into a curve and scale down to correct vertical interval. If the above videos aren't enough, I can show this too.] [EDIT: I'm posting a better method, showing minute steps. The outcome is a solid group. And noting here that Screw.rb turns out to work well with this shape and saves a lot of work...but here's the more or less "native" version.] @gilles said: With no plugin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT5r3AQZBnw? With plugin: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=122603#p122603 Have good days with SU. TUBE.skp

I opened them both up in Photoshop (instead of the scaled down version on screen) and looking at a 1:1 crop and even a 4:1 crop, i think your new card looks way better. so, i actually disagree with you i think the new card looks better. Not sure what to tell you

Hi John, hi folks. For this to work you need two things: 1 - That the two face defining your wall are perfectly parallel to each other. If the wall has been created by pulling up a rectangle with the Push/Pulltool, this should not be a problem. 2 - That you stop the pushing action exactly on the opposite wall. If you use an inference from any endpoint or edge or the face itself of this opposite wall, this should not be a problem either. Remember that you can orbit, pan, zoom, change view, change rendering mode, change scene, etc. even in the midle of any drawing, moving, rotating, scaling, etc. operation. In short, you can start pusing the rectangle for the opening on one face of the wall and then, while the pushing action is still in progress, orbit so that you are now seeing the opposite face of the wall and then complete the pushing operation using an inference from this face. Just ideas.

Hey Thanks Dave, but after doing some research over the weekend, I have narrowed it down to, Sony Movie Studio Platinum Suite 12 and Cyber Link Power Director 11 Ultra.