Thank you!

I'm glad you liked it, please feel free to use it commercially or in your visualization... allanx

I am not sure why sketchup does not like faces with too many sides. Modifications on such a face takes forever. A single face with 65K edges is on the too much side. You can always add redundant softened planar edges to divide the whole face to faces with each one having manageable number of faces.

@nolamikey said: ...that Sketchup uses a third party library for its ACAD import capability, and that there was a bug in the Mac version of that library. SU uses (as many other CAx apps) the Teigha Toolkit from the Open Design Alliance for exchanging DXF/DWG files. The support for embedded solids using the ACIS format (by Spatial, a Dassault division) may depend on the Teigha revision and platform. SU2013 Win uses the Teigha version 3.3 (libs starting with "TD_"), recent is v3.9... time to update maybe for M2 Norbert

It's worth pointing out that a Component would be better for multiples than a Group.

I've split this into its own topic, as it didn't sit well in 'welcome'... You have too many facets for such a small object. It could be a lot simpler with less geometry. The curved elements are modeled inside out and need their faces reversing [they should look 'blue']. There are many inner facets that are never seen and do nothing except bloat the geometry total unnecessarily - there are over 10,000 entities in one group - some entire models have less] Here's how to slice a part off any group... [image: aSyy_Capture.PNG]

That's the only setting there.

If you have made your various 'parts' as groups or component-instances [i.e. the 'right way' to set up a model] you can then set View > Component Edit toggles, to hide the rest of the model and/or similar components while you edit - in this way clutter can be reduced. Also using Layers for these various parts allows you to 'switch off' objects that are not needed immediately and so open up what can be seen. Having some Scene tabs set that remember a View and its Layer settings lets you quickly go back to the previous state. Also if you want to get inside single objects, then a Section-Plane placed on a main face can give you uncluttered access to the object's insides...

Get an earlier version of Sketchup that still includes dwg/dxf import/export options in free and pro. You can have more than one version installed. There are good download links in several posts on the forums here - search... Hint: http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60107

it's not bad at all using vanilla tools… for that theater, i think you'd just need to do a few sections then mirror them etc… here's a step_by_step .skp: theater_seating.skp [image: FW6s_theater_seating.jpg] good luck.

Just set the path as a string path = "C:/Users/Usuario/then_any/valid_path/to a/Folder/MyLovelyPony.skp" If you use / as the file separator the path can be inside '' or "". But if it's \ then use '' ... OR escape the \ as \ inside ""... Loading from a file-path or from a url are handled different as set out in the API docs... Note you can use File methods to find the model's folder or a file's basename or filetype... model_path=File.dirname(model.path) model_name=File.basename(model.path, ".*") model_ext=File.extname(model.path) You can also make new file-paths using output=File.join(model_path, "MyOutputFile.txt") For example this would make a txt file with the model, into which you could write some data...

@teamsda said: If I make all the groups in the DC into components everything works great. Yes I think this second workflow is normal,.. because only Sketchup::ComponentInstance class objects can have dynamic attribute dictionaries, that the DC extension can work with. (Meaning, that there is no such thing as dynamic groups.)

Thanks for the tip Jeff. Been banging my head for the past hour trying to fix these callouts. Grouping worked. I should always know to check here first!!

Gilles thanks for the tip. TIG thanks for yet another great plug-in - it worked exactly as advertised. In my situation it works as a great cleanup tool. If the smooving is done with appropriate care to get it approximately right, when Drop Vertices is applied, the smooth curves created by smoove aren't disrupted to0 much and it comes out nice. thankyou Mick [image: Jae2_smoove2.jpg]

I'm working at the moment on some very small components and...yes sketchup is not accurate. When I draw some lines, sketchup grabs the lines from different lines,changes lengths,creates some other lines, hides lines.. as it's no able to work with small faces. Beside that, orbiting or zooming in in small components it's a pain- the clipping/ disappearing objects issue makes i even harder . Edited : Sorry guys ! There was a similar thread about accuracy , and i haven't read all the posts above. My post wasn't meant for this thread !