Hi Patrick and welcome! I would be honest with the little geeks explaining that you have just got this job and practically speaking this will be a common learning curve. Believe me, they will appreciate it much more than anything when it turns out that you do not know a detail. Certainly you can (and should) be a bit ahead of them. Here (below the boring forum stuff) is a couple of links to various tutorials and videos (some links are outdated a bit but you will discover): http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=1398 Another thing: do not "ban" them from online resources. If just one is interested in the material, will eventually find this forum and you - so that honesty would pay twice; instead, encourage them to visit online resources (including these forums). People are generally patient with newbies (and especially youngsters) here so there should not be any issue (and if there is any, here are the moderators and me to kick butts)

I'd be surprised if the engines themselves were really different. I'd suspect that at least most of the time the quality difference is part user and part modeling program. Sketchup has a lot more novice users than 3ds max. Max is a beast to learn and is crazy expensive so is scares off most of the hobbyists. Also, you can add a level of detail in Max that is rarly seen in SU, and often those details make all the difference in renderings. -brodie

Oh yes we do, TIG. http://www.formfonts.com/viewModel.php?view=1&id=15191&config=1

@wozabee said: It works just absolutely spot-on now!! ...now to re-learn some Keyframe animation & such, and see if I can put this chap through his paces. Thanks so much again Kwok! Woz, you're welcome. Would love to see the animation, when you are done.

Well I found a way that seems to work - will test more after church. I printed the object in SU using the free CutePDF client at high quality with HLR checked; saved it as a PDF. Illustrator (and Flash versions 8 or older) opens this fine and the strokes remain strokes so you can edit them. All the corners came in perfect.

@tintin99 said: Did you find the solution ? Yes that was the solution. And I am very grateful for the help, however embarrassed. The gluing function made it impossible to put the objects side by side. They were put in the model on a face. I don't know if one moved once the face's layer was off. But that is the problem, without that layer on they cannot be put in the side by side position. Thanks to all, Peter

@probuild said: what about the onClick? yeah, you can do that too using SET() in this case, i just added an onClick behavior to the parent then entered Set("door_vis",0,1) (and if you prefer, you can use TRUE or FALSE instead of 0 and 1) so now, in this example, the door can be hidden via the Component Options window's dropdown list OR with the onClick dc_parEx_withOnClick.skp

@unknownuser said: you said "14,549" plugins and rubies it's not 1 454 ? Or you count sub folders files ! okay . ..So I underestimated the number a bit. I didn't want to sound like I was exaggerating!

What am I in the middle of?

Yeah, that option is on Mac too but occasionally, the SU entity info will get this little glitch in it and some of the info is seeming stuck to the edge. Expanding the dialog box doesn't help.

@jjbrown said: PLEASE HELP ! ! AM running OS 10.11.06 sketchup pro 2018 an trying to load libfredo6 an for some reason its not loading in extension warehouse ... ive even tried loading it into sk 2017 with no luck . just cant figure this out ..... Download the latest version from our PluginStore, https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=LibFredo6 The RBZ should then be found where you specified - usually your Downloads folder ? Use the native Extension Manager > Install Extension, find the RBZ file and install it. Remember that LibFredo does nothing much if installed on its own. It is however required by most of Fredo's Extensions...

@gaieus said: You can also do special sharing in the 3D Warehouse but what I "smell" here is that Laucity doesn't want the studentsto play around with editing the stuff. I thought the same,so tried one of my docs by changing to public, no edit and then used link and signed in as non owner. I had the option to download which it did as a .htm file and by changing the extension to skip I could open and edit So much for hair brain ideas May thinking is Google Docs protection may depend on what file system is used. If NTFS is used maybe?? I can also download one of Cat's posting as a "regular" user ( no edit) , save, and then edit.

Thanks Tig, just needed a little lateral thinking. The workflow I was using was to create the walls with dline.rb, which obviously doesn't create the floor slab, I was then telling myself I needed to trace the room boundary. Using what you have suggested it is easy enough to open the wall group, redraw one of the inner edges of the wall to create the face that forms the floor. Select the face WITHOUT the boundary edges and edit>cut. If you select the face AND boundaries the edit>cut will destroy the original geometry. Close the wall group and then paste in place to create the floor which can then be pushpulled, grouped & layered as required.

thanks i will give it a try

I've been having troubles closing the files. Everytime I close one it hangs and says the program does not respond (I work in spanish so I don't know the equivalent in english). I'd say this started when I installed SU8 without deleting SU7. But I need them both!

@tig said: To be a solid the object's edges must have two faces - no more and no fewer. Very "solid" definition, thanks! I have never thought of this approach (only the "long list" way what a solid has to and must not consist of)

@box said: Does anyone know of a similar system/application that will work this way on an Android device? I mean as a viewer. This is a really good Android app for viewing Skp models, http://limitlesscomputing.com/sightspace

I've made this with those tools, but it's slow and unprecise.