@gaieus said: No way; it's glued to the plane you drew it on - Doh! I must be getting old, I was convinced it was just me making inappropriate glue settings while "sleep-drawing"! Shame there isn't e.g. a different colour selection highlight etc. to indicate glued items - or at least it could show up in the entity info dialogue.

OMG...Living proof there's more than one way to skin an ellipse. Thanks a million. That's great. fitZ

While I am in complete agreement with all the suggestions (keep model clean and consistent), I understand that there are cases of course, when one needs to quit the "rules". So ThomThoms UV toolkit will do the job for you - even keeping all the UV co-ordintes. [image: 5Yra_uv-toolkit.png] Also, there are a bunch of "reverse faces" plugins that will do the same. FrontFace is by Tomasz and while it is reversing the faces (even through group and component wrappers), it copies the material (until then applied to the back face) onto the front face - also keeping UV's.

No special problem of Import STL file on y French modern computer with accents (with V8 free)

TIG, Thanks for the tip. I had been searching for a ruby to do the job

Read that tutorial again. If you combine them into a new, upper level component and also set a gluing/cutting plane for this, you can handle the two together, insert them etc. from the component browser and explode them at the end (so there are two, opposite ones now on the opposite faces - do not explode these). Here is an example model. http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=a7960f12cf33423c9c6e1dd67923b5cd

Or more subtil and speedy I believe that exist a Ligh design like your first stage of Paper Timed! Load it and use the Crazzy Fredo Scale! Else Some idea with the Fredo Scale Twist Bend and then repeat with some parts...etc... [image: 6TYn_torsades.jpg]

Hi Tig, hi folks. Sorry for the error, I edited my previous post. Thanks and best regards.

@erentumer said: Hi , I need to create section on my model and render it with vray.I am using "slice model at selection" but I have a problem that if model is detailed ahen I use slice model , sketchup shut downs..does anyone knows a solution for that problem ? I find this with large models from time to time. My solution is to isolate and group the section you need to work on, copy it into a different document (paste in place) and then put back in the master file. I have to do this a lot when intersecting. There may be other methods but this always works for me.

After some time, I'm back with the same problem. I was trying cca 60x and then came here... and now I tried the same as in the images and... does not work. Why? Maybe you could just add one more detail to the image (copy and CLICK). So when I tried just "move the copy and position and then type" or "copy, move and type and then click", it does not work. So now I understand that I must "move the copy, position, CLICK, and then type..." BTW: Why did you decolored the icons of edit box? This looks so ugly and bad for orientation.

@snicolo said: Workaround: If you do not pre-select the face when doing the offset the crash does not happens. It is a known crash and hopefully we will address it soon. Good advice, however I have always preselected the face (habit) and as far as I can recall, SU never crashed before like this, until recently. Also, lately, I've had 3+ "Splat-less" crashes just selecting other tools, last 2 were "Joint-push-pull". In that case, I opened 2 SU sessions, copied the "problem" comp over, and it worked OK in session 2. Copied back the edited comp and session 1 was normal since, even with JPP. Again, this crashing seems more prevalent when my models get well over 200,000 lines, but I also have a few very stable 500K+ models. And as I said before, it seems more prevalent since I installed Simfonia, but I haven't used SAT for several weeks, and never in those "splat-less" models.

Glad you found a solution of sorts. For future readers - my solution only applies to Microsoft products. I should have made that more clear.

here's an example: room modelled in su and rendered in twilight. person rendered in poser. merged together in photoshop [image: Q8b1_abl-001.jpg] [image: CWkT_abl-002.png] [image: XBbV_abl-003.jpg]

I can report that having the Components Window pane closed while fiddling with the Outliner dramatically reduces the likelihood of crashes. I had been getting crashes in relatively small models too, so I think there is a problem with the code somewhere. I use a Mac also.

Using your idea, I've done something similar for UK bricks, forum post here. Thanks for the insperation.

Thanks I'll try to update it.

I think the model will be extensive and will not suite GE criterions... As I understand street view project, they want the buildings to be as simple as possible. But in my project I try to do it as nice as possible. Hence my model will cost a lot of space (on disk).

Thanks for the responses! I will try and get two classes (3 hours). I will show them where to get help and I will definitely send them here gaieus... I will also tell them that I will always be available to help with individual questions. Can't wait to start on my own design Thnx again, Max