[image: O7jF_boatHull_A..png]Here is a concept that may work for you. Probably have two many points on the bezier splines. You choice on how you want the contour to look. Maybe you can get Fredo to include a real b spline curve in his tool

Thanks Dave. For anyone else who might come across this thread in a future search: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=30107

You will need to make that top face of the base into a group or component and also introduce a new layer where you put it like Wodan says. See the file below (open the layer dialog to see what's happening). Also I hid all the edges of the base and top components where they match. The edge now you see in scene 1 is the edge of that new group I created inside the base component. Copanar faces edges issue.skp

As I said, not with skp files. There are a couple of 3rd party applications however that can do a walkthrough kind of presentation from SU - both free and commercial (and there are also 3D PDF solutions but they are best for product views - to rotate "from outside"). Would your boss be interested to spend a couple of hundred dollars for something like that?

I use SketchUp and Google Earth only for having realistic terrain and realistic road network to built ON IT in an other 3D software. I plan to export the FBX 3D mesh for example, merge them all in a global terrain mesh that's why the problems of clipping does not worry me. Also I 'm not going to export anything to GE.

Hi Shri and welcome. Let's see those works so we can comment.

finally this is the gazebo that i made, the second from the left.. what do u think? [image: sumg_CocoonFurniture420111027-SU.JPG] anyway im posting about Healthy and Comfortable Bathroom - Interior 3D Modelling, check it out.. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=40994

Thanks Gaieus Working just fine now... Even Medium seems to do the trick... Thanks

hello my problem is thath i use 2d drawings e don't transform from 3d drawings. in autocad i use the border of my drawing in model space and not in layout. i want drawing in 2d in sketchup and rthen plot to pdf correctly. other problemare layers, if i will convert my drawing....

I've got Windows 7 on my Mac too. It a good operating system, much better than XP (but of not as good, as OSX of course!) 8 gigs is plenty, but if someone is happy to pay for you to go to 16 gigs, go for it! However, watch out for the damn Shockwave Flash plug in. It has a memory leak in it, and if you have a lot of ram, it will eat it if you are running a browser (like Safari or Firefox). Therefore it's wise to get the "Click to Flash" plugin installed to halt Flash in its tracks. I'm pleased your office colleagues had a good experience. I had a very similar experience too. They thought the computer was a hard drive!!! There was complete disbelief when I had it up and running! Tom

Wow so this has being an ongoing topic for some time now, this cant be, why doesnt google do something about this, theres so much more that can be done with sketchup if this feature existed, i dont think google relise how important this is to so many others out there, they should addreas this issue, i know there are other programs out there designed to do these animations like Blender, 3DMAX, but i have created models in sketchup and i would like to keep using sketchup for my creations instead of learning to use another outside program to do so

Downloaded it, did the twist and then used shape bender. Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction! Franka

I just looked at that thread, and yeah, same request as mine. It will be interesting how it turns out. So this thread is considered closed.

I have to try this, Aerilius, thanks for the tip (never heard of it before I have to admit).

Export .obj from Rhino Import .obj to SketchUp using plugin Rhino's .obj exporter is the most robust around so pay attention to export options.

Thank you Chris. Well since it's in inches i'm going to have to use the .mm type of commands. I don't care/need to know what template the user uses, it's just operations would have been simpler.

THANKS Gaieus!!

You want to "bind" the XREF to the drawing before import (do this to a copy of the drawing). Or you can import a dwg of the XREF file separately.

I am also running sketchup 8 on 10.7.2 , but am not having any problems with rubies showing up. or functioning. I did have most of mine installed under Snow Leopard, then upgraded to Lion. Don't know if that makes any difference. Are you installing the rubies into the user level library or into the system level one ? Mine are at the system level and I believe that they need to be. Dan