I made this little component a while back. Just import into your model and scale as needed. Use it for any images you want to face the camera. It's sized for people PNGs, but you can use it for whatever. FaceMeBlank.skp

Yes, I can see where such a script would definitely be a hit. Just got the older version of Housebuilder working (with no beeping?). Such a plugin would compliment it tremendously. Paul

@pbacot said: I have another. For working by sections. This requires placing cross sections (all from resizing one shape) and skinning the result. You can reshape the cross sections before skinning to account for shallows etc. Actual placement: might be good to draw lines across first to decide where sections go. Question is what gives a model that can look like real river conditions. This one comes out looking like a skate park. Nice! curviloft seems to do a better job than sandbox. I think one of the key criteria for a river is to have shallow inside bends and deeper outside bends, and of course some natural variability! So my original example trying to extrude a standard cross-section probably wasn't the right way to start! Cheers - Mick

If the transactions between the two scripts are in one session without any need to remember things for the next session then why not make the two scripts within the same module and pass @arrays between them ? module Mojaki def self.script1() ... @faces<<face...etc ... end end#module AND in another file module Mojaki def self.script2() ... @faces.each{|f|...etc ... end end#module You run the scripts as Mojaki.script1() etc as needed... The @faces array is remembered/accessible between the two scripts because it's in the same Module... So as script1 makes/changes it, script2 can read it...

I've looked at automating this but my suggested fix seems to fail when resetting the component's attributes.... So I won't be adding it to PurgeAll any time soon

@jaceguay said: Do you have a notebook with optimus? This can indeed be a problem. These newer laptops come with an integrated video chipset ( ) and a dedicated card but you have to manually set either the global preferences or certain apps to use the "real" one. My system is in Hungarian but I hope the screenshots in this post hopefully help.

If you had read the script's instructions carefully [first page in its thread] you might have seen that align_2d appears in the Tools menu not the Plugins menu as you 'assumed'... and it is in fact designed to be used with the right-click context-menu when you have suitable objects selected... @unknownuser said: Make a selection (other objects than groups or components are ignored) Select " Align 2D" in the context menu or in the Tools menu Click 2 points that define a line for the alignment. A construction line is temporarily drawn and a dialog box is displayed Choose your options: horizontally align all groups/components along X axis at the intersection with the cline vertically align all groups/components along Y axis at the intersection with the cline perpendicularly align all groups/components along a perpendicular virtual line at the intersection with the cline. Other options self-explanatory

A quick trick is to Window>Materials>scroll down to Translucent and use maybe the aqua colored glass. You can also edit this base material for preferred color if you like.

Thank you for the answer, about those circles, once you extrude them to become cylinders, will Rhino then make them into polygons as well? Because, in that case, I can easily use cylinder from Sketchup right? And about 3D max, does that work in the same way as Rhino, or does it also use circles/cylinders, made of polygons? Thank you

I don't scale the copy back down, though. I just close it after editing it and delete it. The original at its original size remains with its faces intact.

The size issue is good to keep in mind. Bill

Thanks guys.

@rose123 said: BTW, it doesn't seem like I have a file uploading option. Do you have to have a certain # of posts before you can do that? New members have a bit of limitations (first couple of posts moderated) but nothing with attachments so you should be able to upload even with the very first post.

Please see attached files. See the closest red handle. Notice the line extending back and the far red handle. The little yellow info box that says "Red scale about opposite point" did not show in the screen shot. This handle will mean the shape's edges will move on the near side line only, and only straight out along the red axis. The grid of hidden lines does become stretched uniformly In the other direction scaling, the shape will not be exactly the same. Since it has a curve in it, it will stretch that curve some--straight out, but the high/low points and the relative shape should be the same. I assume this stretch is inconsequential for the purposes of showing your terrain. [image: 3d4N_Screenshot2012-07-17at11.40.11AM.png] [image: 2hDR_Screenshot2012-07-17at11.58.15AM.png]

Menu Window /Styles /Edit and disable some cases : maybe Extension, EndPpoints...

How about using Fredo´s Box Tapering instead (FredoScale - http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=17948)?

@tig said: It is known that SketchyPhysics is implicated in ill-advisedly messing with some native base classes like 'Group', but I've never heard of it messing with DCs before Other 'rogue tools' include DrivingDimensions, SunPosition, Matchbox and some versions of Podium... I can now confirm that SketchyPhysics3 caused the problem. The problem was corrected after removing the sketchyphysics.rb and sketchysolids.rb files from the SU plugins directory on two different machines and operating systems: TOSHIBA TECRA, WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL SP3, 32 BITS APPLE PRO 8 NUCLEI, WINDOWS 7 PROFESSIONAL, 64 BITS (BOOTCAMP INSTALLATION) I hope this may be useful if someone runs into the same problem.

Ahh very tricky : must make a little training before fluent result! It's a pity that this midlle dont' exist by default!

thanks for your explanations TIG