Well I was thinking about curtains, light caps, vases, and things like that! Thanks for answering so quickly Gai and of course for the links! I was aware about the TGI plugin but I was looking more for a free one cause if I download the trial I am sure I ll be tempted to buy it! . by the way the workflow is quite simple, as it seems!!! Thank U both. Cheers

The Mac can render only 1024x1024 bitmaps in HW. SU tile renders the scene and then puts the tiles together into the final bitmap. There's a bug where text that spans tile boundaries will get clipped (what you're seeing). Insert your models into LayOut and add your text in the LayOut document.

I really hate advertising my own topics/posts but have a look at this tutorial about texturing arches with ThomThom's new version of UV Toolkit. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=34072 If your friend has already made that arch"ing" texture, how about posting the file here?

You didn't answer my questions. @unknownuser said: Do you have any plugins loaded? Are you sending the Bug Splats to Google?

OK then, you have two choices. Wait till someone more knowledgeable at Kerky than me chimes in here - or go to the KT Forums and (hopefully) get a more prompt but even more importantly; precise answer there.

Something is happening though. If you adjust the shadow date from 01/01 to 06/22 you go from a light to a darker coloration on the object at the RHS.

@scostumatu said: never mind - figured it out... i had to de select the forground option in the styles menu under match photo... it was making it lag That seems to solve the problem of the unbearable slowness. It appears it is a bug then, cause in previous versions - sketchup 8 - that problem didn't exist. You could freely work with the forground option on and with transparencies both of the model and of the photomatched photo. Anyone aware of this bug?

Blender has this - to make a mesh from a picture "displace-modifier" Blender is lighter even than SketchUP and this carving modeling is by nature manual work. So, You can start with displace-modifier and tweak it with excellent blender mesh modeling tools which SketchUP lacks. http://www.davidjarvis.ca/dave/blender/tutorial-16.shtml http://www.gotmyidea.com/67998-blender-tutorial-displace-modifier.php http://www.blendercookie.com/2010/04/06/tip-adding-extra-detail-with-a-displace-modifier/ http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=31339&hilit=Rhino&start=15 http://www.blendermasters.com/cms/en/materials/displacement-maps-3d-objects-based-on-2d-maps-3.html Stick with Blender - if You insist to learn the basics they will became your second nature - I'm a Blender newbie and even made my keyboard shortcuts in SketchUp as in Blender. http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Blender-Source-Modeling-Animation/dp/1430231262

Good explanation Al.

Yes it does, check your export options tab, you probably do not have it selected.

More of one of my models. [image: J0XZ_Tesla_Model_04.jpg]

@pilotbroberts said: will this program alow me to "let's say" make a skyscraper, including the floor plans of floor by floor and add actual windows? Architecture is Sketchup's middle name, if you can't make a skyscraper with it then nothing will do. Just an example. YouTube - SketchUp for Construction Drawing Part 1.mp4 [flash=480,385:1uhvjwpn]http://www.youtube.com/v/tPVJHfAOjMY?fs=1&hl=en_GB[/flash:1uhvjwpn]

You may want to repost this in the developer's forum, or even the plugins forum. Those nuts and bolts guys would be most likely to be able to help. -Brodie

If you export an object with ArchDesign or Vray materials as an FBX and import it into SU, does it maintain the textures? -Brodie

SketchUp does not run in the cloud. The above example "Roozz" was scamware. It messed with the local install of SketchUp because it did install SketchUp locally into 'Program Files'. "Spoon" is at least as clever to install unobtrusively into '%USER%\Local Settings', but it doesn't succeed to display the application inside the browser (it's displayed in a normal window). Running a local app in a browser is really not the point of cloud computing (we do already run media plugins or pdf viewers in the browser; there exist plugins that can put any application inside firefox, also SketchUp). Those plugins Roozz/Spoon don't give platform-interoperability. In the best case, such a plugin would create a VCN connection to a computer/server that runs those applications on a real Windows/OS X. I think Google did good to remove SketchUp from Roozz (which is dangerous) and possibly the same for Spoon. On the other side, Google likes web applications and confirmed that they keep an eye on a future SketchUp Web App, when the technology is ready: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=39d42ddba38c76b3&hl=en

Its interesting to see these solutions in sketchup, but this kind of thing is so much easier in rhino where there are dedicated tools for these sort of transformations. For example, this took less than a minute in rhino using twist and fillet... Personally, i find rhino and sketchup to be an excellent combination - rhino can read and write sketchup files, so it is very easy to simply import things from rhino into your sketchup model. cheers rabbit [image: jwqr_twistampfillet.jpg]

Same idea in my post It's also the French approaching Phonetic accent for @Mail--> Mail-->Melle

Bienvenue "Mamzelle" There is a French Section here! User Control Panel (en haut à gauche) / User Group/ Français

This is too cool. Thanks all. You are the best.