Thank you.

Thanks Gaieus, this plugin I had completely forgotten.

Thank you guys. "Cpoint at Camera Eye" is what I'm looking for. Kind regards Alain

In case of this particular material, probably a simple, planar projection would work well. Can you post the file? (That pipe would just do).

@jean lemire said: Hi folks. See this SU file for ideas: Thanks a lot Jean! That's very helpful! What a lovely community

@tig said: Very tiny geometry causes problem for Sketchup and OpenGL so you are getting near the limit here... Scale everything up x10 before doing the intersect, scale back down afterwards... Here's a simple step-by-step...[attachment=0:2d9t1ibc]<!-- ia0 -->Capture.PNG<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2d9t1ibc] Thank you so much TIG. The "drawing" wasa great help Best regards from jacktar

There are a number of methods and it depends on what you're doing for the most part and what sorts of changes you're making. No option is great however, so you'll want to avoid, as much as possible, going back and forth. You can import a .skp directly, of course and maintain all of your components and such which can make geometry edits easier but it tends to make later revisions in SU more complicated to integrate. My preferred method currently is to save a temporary version of my file where I explode everything and put everything into a single group. Then import that into Max which creates a single object with a multi/sub material. I'll then replace those with vray or maxwell materials. Having 1 huge material isn't ideal for editing geometry but I don't do any of that in Max so I don't worry about it. When a change comes later on I repeat the process but now I've already got my multi/sub material in Max which has all the correct vray/maxwell materials in it. So all I need to do is apply that to my new object once it's brought in. Note that if you've added/deleted materials from the SU object during the changes it may require a bit of editing to your multi/sub material to make sure it matches up. -Brodie

@mdhelmi84 said: how to make dotted-line bounding box bigger than usual? the idea is to highlight the selected component by using edit group feature..without dotted-line bounding box being seen somebody said use ruby console but dont know how to use it If you are the same person who asked in Google SketchUp Help Forum (see: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=5bab09c14b74fa86&hl=en ) that hint I made about using the ruby console is purely speculation. I don't know (as mentioned) if such a command line is possible at all. One of the ruby scripters here might know. What I ment was to (if possible) disable displaying the bounding box by code. It would be like disabling the screen texts Top / Front / etc. for standard views. See/open SU's menu Window > Ruby Console and copy next sentence: Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options["ShowViewName"] = false in the console and [Enter] From now on Top etc. isn't shown on screen. (paste: Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options["ShowViewName"] = true to enable again.) Once again, there might exist something similar for the bounding box. Although I'm far from sure about it. The purely SketchUp solution with fog is a (not so elegant) workaround.

Did you try applying the translucent texture/color to both faces? Or, is this not relevant, here?

Last time I checked these plugins install 2 files ( extensions.rb and sketchup.rb) in the Plugins folder which do not belong there. (They go all the way back to SketchUp 5.) These files should already exist in the Tools folder, and if you really want to use these "power" toolbars, you should delete extensions.rb and sketchup.rb from the Plugins folder (but not the Tools folder) unless you are actually using SketchUp 5.

Thanks!

Welcome, zuter: As you may know, you can read a lot of back pages and search by keywords to locate discussions that may be related to a question. If you have questions related to Sketchup, a specific rendering application, or a script/plugin, there are many here who can answer or point you in the right direction. If you have been using Sketchup since version 3, you may have insight for others, so, don't be a stranger.

Thanks Dave, much apppreciated.

Hi, Jim: Yes,it would make it easier to read if organized the way you have shown above. I tested the your latest version on my laptop. I noticed that if I select the component and manually scale it, the totally length does not update. If re-enter a value in the dialog and press enter or click the Apply button, then all fields update correctly. In one of the previous versions of the component I believe the total length would automatically update. I have been having some performance issues with my laptop so maybe that is the issue?

Well no. Is that like Fortran? Kidding aside, we will talk. It seems this ideas could use some help from Ruby. Peter

thanks Dale ,I hope you like this , also as an small new year gift pine 2web.skp[image: fEDj_1.jpg] another Thea render ,same trees [image: 0mkM_res1.png]

@scozzarella said: "Shortcut_31": "0 0 0 X /Modifica/Menu contestuale a comparsa/Esplodi", SharedPreferences.json This is the problem. If I add : the it works. But next restart the json file is again buggy. "Shortcut_31": "0 0 0 X /Modifica/Menu contestuale a comparsa/Esplodi :", Help! That is odd! On my SharedPreferences.json, I see a colon at the end of most shortcuts that invoke built-in commands rather than ones from extensions, but not on any that involve the flyout context menu. For example, compare these two lines from my file: "Shortcut_58": "0 0 1 U /Edit/Context Menu Flyout/Explode", "Shortcut_6": "0 0 0 R selectRectangleTool:", The first one is my shortcut for explode from the context menu - no colon. The second is the way the json file captures the command that shows as "Draw/Shapes/Rectangle" in the preferences shortcuts panel. Note how it has been converted to "selectRectangleTool:" in the json. I wonder if there is a bug in this conversion in the Italian version? The SharedPreferences file is rewritten each time SketchUp exits, so if SketchUp is mishandling the conversion of this command, that's why it won't work when you restart. I can only suggest that you refer this problem to SketchUp support, as it shouldn't be happening. I created a topic over on the public SketchUp forum on the chance that the developers are more likely to notice it there than here.

You can split plugins to different sketchups by runing more than one. check out tip 5 5 tips in runing more than one sketchup http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=40254 set; one for input/output one for creating objects one for color and textures one for animations one for no plugin for large file layouts of objects one for optional efferent uses

Got it...thanks for the help, TIG

Have patience there are people working on it...