View your model in Monochrome mode using a Style that has a distinctive color for the back-face material [usually a 'bluish' color in most standard styles]. This will show which way round faces are. Most renderers will use the front-material you set, but render 'backs' of visible faces as a default black [or sometimes white] color. Your model should have all of its faces correctly oriented so you see no 'backs'. To reverse a face [or faces] select and right-click context-menu 'Reverse Faces'... the face will 'flip' to be the right way round... Now it will render with correct material as applied to its 'front' face. Even a sheet of glass is not a single 'face' in the real world - IF your window is ever going to be viewed from both sides then you need to make the pane of glass with a thickness - 6-25mm say. With both faces of the pane correctly oriented it should then be rendered transparent in both directions. You might find your particular renderer has a requirement to use special types of transparent materials - you'll need to read up on it - as it's beyond the scope of SUp modeling and SCF's advice...

Thanks, Dave. Just lack of practice, no excuse.

@anarchist86ed said: I think it's going OK. Given my inferior level of knowledge. Anyway... See the blue line? I don't like it. I messed up along the way and can't figure out how to straighten it up. Short of rebuilding the whole thing... Look at some of your earlier pics. It is not the line ( plane edge) but the flat area you have added some way and obviously the two will not be planar. You can hide that edge.

Seams to work only with Blender and 3D Max is that true?

I have seen something similar at tgi3d. Not sure if these figures specifically can be done.

Tricia, Check out the Construction drawings thread in the LO section of the forum. You might try making a floor plan that is at the height you want the symbols to be, then hide it when not placing symbols, or to review, showing the final plan below. This way you have a plane to work on. Z-fighting is a fact but I usually see edges OK in a situation like this (I couldn't replicate your effect). Peter

Thank you Gaieus! That did the trick. I then drew lines to define the portion that protruded and deleted everything above. Thanks again - you have saved me numerous hours of trial and error travelnbake

There is a link to an 'earlier version' on the download page.... BUT the latest version should be very similar, both time-wise and it now avoids issues with flipped instances etc...

http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=clf_arc_centerpoint_finder

@espadrille said: Hello everybody ! Sorry for up this old topic but I'm new and I'm very interesting in this special technique... But I need your help. I'm french and I don't understand few words in this tutorial, and when I try to translate them, it gives me a very bad traduction. In the first point, I don't understand "rubbed out heaps" what do we have to do in photoshop ? What does it mean ? And again in the third point "deleted heaps" Then in the second point, what is "jitter lines" in skechup ? Thank you for your answer. Rich beat me to it, but since I had already typed this... I repeat... Translation: 'Rubbed out' is a way of saying 'Erased' [effacé]. 'Heaps' is a way of saying 'A Lot' or 'Lots' [beaucoup]. So 'Rubbed out heaps' - is 'Erased a lot' [effacé beaucoup]. 'Deleted heaps' is much [image: 2vmF_Capture.PNG]the same [effacé beaucoup]. 'Jitter Lines' is a 'Style' setting in Sketchup - not sure what the French phrase is... This technique also uses 'Endpoints' set in 'Style' too...

Here you go guys: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=57638

" But yes, if a mother component/group is on a hidden layer, you won't be able to see the nested components/groups, regardless of their layer. " I understand how layers are supposed to work in SU, and there are some advantages to the implementation. But I find this aspect can cause issues, even when following the good advice above. For example if I have a large project, organised into groups and components it is often needed to bring new elements of a cad import (raw geometry on layer 0) into groups / components to update them. It would be useful to be able to isolate (visually) the different parts of the cad import by a layer regardless of the groups i've put them into but the system seems to prevent this. Is there a script to ignore nesting and show visibility just by selected layer or does the way SU separates groups make this undoable? Thanks for the help.

ok... it was this Faucet Component 6340_v2 deleting it fixed the error.

Hi Adam, 1 - Yes. After SketchUp is finished loading, open the Ruby Console from the Windows menu. Type in: require_all("e:/plugins") (Assuming your portable plugins are on a device named e:\plugins.) 2 - Not exactly. You should be able to save and restore your toolbar positions on the school computer. After you load your portable plugins and organize your toolbars, use the Save Toolbar Positions item in the View > Toolbars menu. Then next time you load your portable plugins, you can use the Restore Toolbar Positions item. Note: not all plugins will work correctly from a location outside SketchUp's default plugins folder.

Found it TIG and yes that is exactly what is needed.... I DO hope you work for Google. Thank you for all that you do.

@joemaffei said: There were a couple of line discontinuities, which obviously turned into a surface once I filled the gaps. But around the edges of the holes on the side there were no apparent discontinuities, and I zoomed in pretty close to find them. I have checked it with SuSolid and repaired it with only 2 clicks (see photo). [image: GI4w_small_hole.JPG]

You may have a look at Hole(s) on Solid there http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=41582#p368373 it could be useful in somme cases.

Hi folks. Don't use a mouse with a scroll wheel that has a super soft click because you may inadvertently click the wheel while rolling it. This may put you in orbit mode instead of zoom mode. The best is to try before you buy. I know that, today, with everything in plastic wrap, this becomes difficult. Personnaly, at the office, I use a Dell mouse that behaves well with SketchUp. Just ideas.