@deanlegg said: Hi all Anyone recommend a good chair while designing , mine makes me hunch my back I seem to try and get in the screen Are blow up gym balls any good? Thanks dean Hand to elbow straight. Arm at 90 degrees. Top 3/4 of the LCd should be at the eye level. Memorize shortcuts without looking at keyboard. Get a good mouse with many buttons on it so you can assign it for shortcuts. Chair should have good back support and legs should not be dangling from chair. 90 degrees is best. If you are getting lower back pain, then ball is good. upper back then the tips above will help. Never tried that chair , looks interesting but his position is all wrong. You shouldnt be looking that down. Oh, and pls for the love of good try to refrain from using a laptop for drawing ,etc. Get an adjustable height CAD LCD screen.

@3ddetailer said: Maybe I'm missing something, but I never get any "notification" emails that tell me someone has replied to my thread. Hm. That's weird. Are they not trashed by your email system? Make sure to add @sketchucation.com to your trusted domains or whatever they are called (I promise we won't spam you more than once a month with those CatchUp Newsletters). Just FYI: you can usually expect an answer here in minutes but in a couple of hours, almost certainly.

Just tried uploading a simple, 20 second model and everything went as normal. I remember my only problems in the past with uploading models were with my virus protection software. SU wasn't authorised to upload to the internet and that was causing the problem.

You have also inside the forum itself the advanced search

Artisan is the best tool to 'smooth forms' - it lets you define 'sharp' edges too... but there are non-$ alternatives like 'subdivide and smooth' [also try a search at Smustard.com for a very simple one]. Without a screenshot or SKP it's hard to tell the extent of the issues...

@unknownuser said: Seems you have also the last plugin of Fredo 6! ThruPaint Oh I forgot about this one! Thank you Pilou!!!

It sounds like you've got it. And, yes, even though Layer 0 is shown as visible, the primitives won't show if the component/group "wrappers" have different layer associations and those layers are turned off. Think of a Romulan Bird of Prey with its cloaking device turned on. The ship is still there. You just don't see it. And a sure way to drive yourself crazy is to make other layers active.

Unfortunately only some exporters accept a hash as arguments. To the best of my knowledge DXF is not one of them. The last options set manually are always used irrespective of the passed arguments...

Hi JC, They re called "Face me components" (actually they do not face "me" but the camera as you said). Here is a video I made once: [flash=600,480:1rb5s2uz]http://www.youtube.com/v/VvI6A7Njw4k[/flash:1rb5s2uz] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvI6A7Njw4k

http://www.autotracer.org/ - nice option, I have tryed some other web based tools, but these works super fast. I will use it in future. FreeDxf importer- could be very useful for free SU users. Tig trim plug, will test it, looks interesting. Thank you very much. Very helpfull like always. Best support. One more reason why SU is good choice

Bricks are a pain. Mason is a bigger pain. Using TGI and Artisan UV spraying helps. Including SU texture alignment option. Oh and pink cows do exist! [image: BhkC_Pinkpig1.jpg] [image: A0jj_Pinkpig2.jpg] [image: A7ap_pinkcow.jpg]

It's so funny how that page gives a bit of a twisted view on plugins, especially on the photorealistic rendering. Just putting in an alphabetic list isn't the way to go.. I mean: Arielvision? Caravagio Render? lol ... They look like ray tracers of the nineties . When a Sketchup user is noob to rendering, they will get all lost in that list.

@notareal said: Worth to read http://www.sketchupartists.org/tutorials/sketchup-and-kerkythea/sketchup-and-kerkythea-fast-start-4architects/ and naturally classic KT tutorials master list http://www.kerkythea.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=5720 (probably you find most answers to your question in the topic) Thanks very much notareal! Every little bit helps.

Some guys have paypal links within the plugin code. Just open the plugin with a text editor like Notepad. Other have links in the menu system. I'm sure a PM to those you want to donate to will clear things up. Paypal won't allow charges to be made to your card after donating in case you're worried, unless you sign up/subscribe to some recurring charge.

Acrobat Pro also saves directly to .jpg, .png or .tif. If it's a vector .pdf, I use Illustrator as well to convert to .dwg.

In Ruby, sub-routines are refered to as methods and are defined by "def method_name" as the first line and "end" as the last line. Modules contain any number of methods and are defined by "module Module_Name" as the first line and "end" as the last line. When a method is placed inside a module, it is normally coded def self.method_name where self. refers to the module containing it. Two modules can contain methods with same name but do different things and there is no conflict because the modules will have different names. You should get a Ruby programming reference book if you ever expect to read and understand what the various code statements mean.

Thank you kingsi! Well i've been working on a scene that i think is finally going the right direction, i still need to polish lots of details. What rendering engine do you use?

thanks. ECLATE-DEPLACE works just fine. Manyally take stoo much time.

Today I updated to 8.0.11751 - on my iMac, the popup stopped We must ask the Sketchup team about this small but but annoying issue. /michael

In terms of making models, the 'solid tools' are the only extra in SU Pro. If you find yourself doing lots of intersecting geometry (and them deleting the 'offcuts'), they can be very useful - but the intersection method can almost always achieve the same things (if you don't mind the extra work required for the 'cleaning up'). There is also a plugin "Bool Tools", available for only $10 that can add pretty much the same features to SU 'Free' - though I have not used it myself, so can't comment on its effectiveness or compatability. If your models are only for your own reference, then Layout and Style builder are probably of little use to you. They are designed to make the process of producing documents with multiple views and 'artistic impressions' easier - so are really just for making 'pretty' documents for showing to customers, or drawings for sending to the 'shop floor' when someone else is doing the manufacture for you.