A wonderful share, thank you so much Leo

You're welcome

Wow, just two more posts and I hit the magic 1,000! (well, one more after I post this one) And in a couple of weeks it'll be my two-year anniversary here at Sketchucation. Seems strange that I've only been doing this for two years, seems like maybe ten.

File > Import... In the dialog choose 'All supported image type' in the file type dropdown Check 'Use as texture' and pick your image to use, click open

Don't know what I missed. I recreated the dp_cdrh component and everything works fine, now... I attached the file if you want to check out. Door and frame, fixed

Unless the components are not that big, I doubt is anything wrong with any of them ! Sketchup is not a big performance eater (it works only on one cpu and not more than 3gb ram) .Sketchup is also known for his slowness regarding copying big stuff ( http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=47739 ) . There are some kind of performance tests here( http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=20076 ). I don't exactly know how accurate they might be ! Hope you can figure it out somehow !

Thanks, Shall consider Mountain Lion & run the suggested tests for Autosave. Normally do rename files etc but will be a little more diligent in the future! Much appreciate the level of input.

That answers my question...thanks so much. I like to export at hi res, like 8000 wide, so it makes sense that the lines are so light.

Coplanar things only intersect if "intersect selected" is chosen. You cannot (obviously) select all inside the group context AND outside of it. Try with this file (created in version 6 where "auto intersect" was not introduced). Select all and perform an intersect with model. Nothing happens. Now select all and intersect with selected: it will intersect the two rectangles. intersect.skp

If you want to physically cut the model in half and discard a part of it then you need Zorro2. You can use this tool in conjunction with a section-plane and SectionCutFace to split your model in half and add faces to the cuts... Search in the Plugins Index for these tools... There are several SCF threads discussing how to do this very thing... do a Search...

Huh? Could you make your question more clear? The transition from Google to Trimble should have been seamless as far as licenses were concerned.

You could import the image as a texture and apply it to a face placed outside the window in the correct location.

@trogluddite said: The classic example of course, is coming across an item in a menu with a name you've never seen before. "Oooh, it's in the same menu as the tools I use loads, could be a useful time-saver." - clicks help file... "Discombobulationator - use this tool for discombobulationating." Thanks a bunch! (Corel in particular seem good at this trick). Years ago, before I discovered SU, I picked up a little freebee drafting app from TUCOWS. It seemed simple enough and was aimed at drawing flow charts, which I needed at the time. One of the first things I did was click on HELP, then "Documentation". Here is a short extract as I remember it........ Drawing Tools. LINE Use this tool to draw lines CIRCLE Use this tool to draw circles BOX Use this tool to draw boxes You get the gist.... Then at the bottom of HELP was the "On-line website Help file" So I clicked on it......... It opened a page that was IDENTICAL to the Help documentation. I guess my first clue should have been the web address..... ending in .RU It was pretty good at drawing flow charts, but a bitch to edit anything, especially text. Scrappo after 3 hours of frustration.

Yes - it is in the latest version of IRender nXt. We are still waiting for some client feedback - e.g. what additional lights or mirrors they would like. The trees are useful even without IRender nXt, since they make 2D trees with shadows in SketchUp, You can try the trees here: IRender Ready Trees [image: download?mid=9f5aa31dc3ee00ef6c134b68c36309b4&rtyp=st&ctyp=other&ts=1348625380000] Also, Rich has added the .exe to convert the 3D warehouse models to SU 6 or SU7 (as needed). (I see in another thread that some people are converting to SU 8 just so they can still use many SU8 only 3D Warehouse models) Also, we are adding the same 3D Warehouse browsing feature to SpaceDesign, for use by people who want to make it easy for people to download other collections into SketchUp.

While all this info is well and good, and much appreciated, the thing is, I've done hundreds of mirror reverse components (at least), all done exactly the same way, and this is the first time this problem has reared it's ugly head. If it was something I had tried for the first time or if I had done something even a little different, that might explain it. But by now doing this is second nature to me, so all of the possible explanations offered up simply (IMO) do not apply. There's nothing different about this simple and very basic model that should or could explain that accursed white line down the middle of the steering wheel horn. But I've put this behind me, and until it happens again I'll just add it to the ever-increasing list of weird things that happen in SU that you just have to live with

Pilou, I followed your example about exploding the components to first be positioned far enough out of view of the final drawing area. Great idea! I managed to complete my animation exactly the way I wanted to using your suggestions. The .avi file appears differently than the .skp file after I export the animation. How can I fix this? Since this is a new topic, I will post it as a new one. Thank you. David http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSCPA5d52Cc&feature=youtu.be Shaker-style, 2-step stool V6.skp

"His" meaning he made/wrote the plugin. If you can turn off some (irrelevant for SketchUp) layers in CA, that's the best. In SU, you can also delete layers - just make sure to select "delete content" when doing so. You could actually keep them in there and just hide but almost certainly you will not need them (unless you want to display a cross section of such a layered wall)

Hi Dave, hi folks. To avoid the problem of multiple images I choose the multi scenes skptutorial files. This means that I have to upload only one file. Just ideas.