interesting and automatically had that texture as a skin

Good tutorial. Another option to consider would be using TIG's Drape Cpoints and Triangulate Cpoints scripts ( http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=21379 ). You'll end up with a uniform level of detail unlike what you have in your tutorial but it may be a tad faster method. -Brodie

Nothing other than my cursor changes to a gray arrow instead of black and the program stop responding to any mouse or keyboard action, until I hit esc. Task manager claims sketchup is responding the whole time. After I hit esc. the program comes back to life.

@box said: 8+ years later there is a paid Extension by Eneroth, I think Visual Merge is the name. Look in the E Warehouse. Thanks Box, I'll look into it. I have unsuccessfully searched multiple times for a plugin to do this over the years and now alas 5 minutes after posting I found another possible plugin (I'll test both!). https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=61842

@unknownuser said: That's it. Little House on the Prairie. Loved that show as a kid. They don't make 'em like that anymore. i love that one too

ah, thank you gilles should have thought of that before i hope no one will comes up and saying, "here's another duh moment" though

Thank you for the quick answer...don't understand why Google couldn't find those, but whatever...trying with the Sandbox, looks like it works best when selecting small entities ,one at a time, instead of applying it to the whole object.It means it takes some time to get the whole thing finished, i think, but it's a start, really. Thanks Paul.

hi, thanks for quick reply! outer edges, where diamod patterns are crossing are awful (i posted and marked as odd effect ) anyway, nice samples best of luck! [image: zujcp1.jpg]

hm... I cannot see why this should be happening at all. But I'm inclined to just remove the break_edges references all together.

I think OP is looking at the Ruby Library Depot download page. It says "How to install: Special, see documentation." Don't confuse "download" with " Install". First download all the files recommended on that page. You should find the documentation you need to install the plugins. But... The page TIG referenced explains: you just need to install other file(s)as well, to make the ruby work.

I use Podium V2 all the time and in terms so speed, ease of use and output quality I think it leads the field. I have a license for Shaderlight and have put quite a bit of time into trying it, but it seems for interior renders, which is primarily what I do, it is very hard to get rid of the noise in the render without taking out a ceiling or walls. I am sure it is doable, but it has not proved easy or intuitive. The improvements in v2 vs v1 are signifiant, far fewer artifacts and hotspots, bump maps are easy to apply, you have spotlights, point lights, and light emitting materials to work with. I have gotten so I can light, adjust textures and render a good quality render in about 3 hours.

and a third quite large folder with the camera 'old' .skps 'FilmAndStage'

Excellent! Thanks for the info!

Another solution: set circle to 12 segments, it will work fine with R= 4,5mm and it decrease the amount of edges.

TIG's plugin makes quick work of it but it can be done manually and it is useful to know how. I use this same method for complex turnings to help keep file size down. Splitting it as I do also makes it possible to hide the seam lines. [image: 5190512797_5e0876427d.jpg] Start with a circle instead of an arc. Split the circle at the midpoints of sides to create the arc of the desired angle. In the example above I split out an arc of 45° but if you use a 90° arc, the half-segments at the end will be at 90° from each other. To make it easy I drag out the circle on axis and then rotate it half the angle between vertices. So if a 24 sided circle is used, rotate it 7.5°.

Jeff Bummer! As I suspected; the hidden-file not loading trick only 'works' on a PC; whereas the renaming the file suffix with a terminal '!' route works for both PC & MAC...

@unknownuser said: Did you mean Windows Recent files, or SketchUp recent files? SketchUp stores its recent files in the Registry: Sketchup files. Ok, about the Registry. Yikes. I don't think I'm that computer tech oriented to go into the Registry. Sounds scary. Oh well, I guess I'll have to maintain a list by hand, like in notepad or something. I work on so many projects, going back to one from last week is difficult to remember I was working on it. Old age memory sucks. But thanks. I appreciate the info anyway.

I uploaded you skp file an open it Took line tool closed the 4 areas check dimension [image: njNU_pic_0026.jpg] resized top 3 areas pushpulled the botttom one Context Intersect with selection [image: tbkM_pic_0027.jpg] Trim and remeasured Tested the volume and smoothed the edges Tranpanency mode [image: 2Sze_pic_0028.jpg] My error was inside material need deleted before runing the test If makring a ring skin then 10) After push-pull smooth the pull volume 11) Context Intersect with selection 12) Make group then explode, use the erase on back edges [image: YVYQ_pic_0035.jpg] 13) Done [image: zdBk_pic_0036.jpg] I hope this may help?

Okay, thanks for your reply. How and when do I resize the SU window to WYSIWUG?

[image: yKv1_pic_0079.jpg] [image: wRzs_pic_0080.jpg] Vertial bar size has to match. That's what I think. Also earlier sketchup horz toolbar can't wrap and if you do you get strange results. Make sure sketchup window is size right. I just noties that the latist SU 8 m2 works just find for wraping. Maybe it's a greyout condition.