oh boy.... i was searching "3 point" NOT "3pt" thanks for taking the time to compensate for my, eh..lack of sleep I installed Pixero's 3pt rectangle and error is gone. STILL i have to wonder if it wasn't installed, why was i getting the error in the first place? I used LAUNCHER to search installed plugins within sketchup also using all sorts of relevant keywords but nothing had come up. Oh well. Solved for now. Thanks!! Bob

Wait, why can't you use follow-me?

See Copying and multiplying geometry with the Move tool at this link: https://help.sketchup.com/en/sketchup/copying-what-youve-already-drawn

@dave r said: I haven't used the extension but there appear to be some instructions here. Have you tried following them? You could also e-mail the author and see if he can give you some idea. Probably need to send the SKP file to him, too. Thank you Dave. I feel like it’s the axis’ that I didn’t set up correctly, yes I know where to download the plugin only I don’t have a paypal, I’ll work with trial version for now. This plugin the ‘Lines to Component’ requires a face and line(s), I had the line(s) turned to component when I set a line to be component, just couldn’t get the correct direction - my model component is horizontal, but plugin turned component is vertical... I prob should set the XYZ axis the exact as the sketch up origins.

Pretty cool idea. Slapped together a quick example.... The drawings are 24" x 36". Drew a 4" grid across the sheet. Used FredoScale > Radial Bend to start with and added more "crinkles" with Vertex tools. You can go as crazy as you'd like with this part. Imported a couple of generic plan images I had on file. Used ThruPaint to apply the images to the sheets. Brought in the first house model I came to and scaled it down to suit. Turned on shadows and there you have it. Edit - I have no life .... added a third sheet with more curl to the end. Be sure to check out Box's tutorials. [image: mL5J_archicard.jpg] [image: e5hp_archicard2.jpg]

Yes, Blender has gotten rid of "remove doubles" and now relies solely on "merge by distance" now. Never did fix the collada export issues, but doesn't matter as I'm only using Enscape and not rendering in Blender lately.

... I will ask this from the professionals, but do not believe in a script from there - but if I learn anything new worth knowing, i will inform you here of course

@lurch23 said: Please help, I am an absolute newbie with Sketchup so I really don't have any clue as to what I am doing. I am trying to import an obj file with its mtl file and textures but all it keeps loading is just the obj file without the textures. This is what I am trying to import with,TIG: Import OBJ with Materials v2.2[/b], I have also tried the obj importer from Simlab. You should have two files named **xxx**.OBJ and **xxx**.MTL, and a subfolder of texture image files - named ' **xxx**', or sometimes perhaps ' **xxx**_Textures'. It's usual to have all three with a common name and all located in the same folder... Depending on where you got the OBJ file from, you might need to edit the files with Notepad++ [or equivalent plain-text editor on MAC] and check the format of those files is correct. Some downloaded OBJ's are badly formatted and files/images can be missing ! The OBJ file will have a line near its start, looking for the MTL file: mtllib **xxx.mtl** Ensure it is looking for the correctly named MTL file, in the same location as the OBJ itself. The MTL file will in turn be looking for the necessary image files, so again also ensure that the subfolder's paths in the file are correct, the paths will occur once for each texture's image so you might need to edit several lines - or perhaps rename the images' subfolder to match the MTL text - whichever is the simplest ! Also check that the image files that are listed have the correctly named equivalent files in the subfolder... Typical MTL line example: map_Kd **xxx/**MyLovelyTexture1.jpg After editing the files, save and close, and retry the importing...

@rsekar24 said: @pcmoor said: Hi you can make each face a group, then paint them directly or with formula Have the parent reference them with a custom attribute which you can add to your report, so all in same context Thanks to u, will try and let u know. Hi ., i am getting the output like the attached file and not i expected as in single line for the side panel DC as intended in the earlier post. Attached herewith the skp file for your review. Advice, where i am making error. Thanks & Regards., R.Sekar [image: tVZA_Capture.JPG] Paint.skp

Not many textures, but 10 different buildings on a vastly changing 4.71 acre site - 200 MB.

Glad you got it sorted. @jgillick said: The geometry was hidden in another layer. The penny drops! Another good example of why the rule about leaving Layer 0 as the active layer and keeping all geometry on Layer 0 should be followed. Bookmarked for the next time someone isn't convinced from reading the help articles on layer usage in SketchUp.

@tig said: This alternative one-liner will process all selected component-instances, making those instances take the material of the first face found within the component's definition. ms=[];mod=Sketchup.active_model;mod.selection.grep(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance).each{|i|d=i.definition;d.entities.grep(Sketchup;;Face).each{|f|ms<<f.material};m=ms.compact[0];i.material=m}; To make a menu item of such simple commands you can try the following. It's not difficult - just take care... Use a plain-text editor, like Notepad++ [or TextWrangler on a MAC], and add a new file into your Plugins folder*** named say 'MyOneLiners.rb' - ensure that its encoding is set to UTF-8. Add this line to the very start of the file to be on the safe side: # encoding: UTF-8 Then add the following line for each 'one-liner'... UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("TITLE"){CODE} Substituting your desired 'name' for your command in place of TITLE [keeping the paired ""], and also copy and paste the full code into where it says CODE [leaving the pair of enclosing {} ] Do a new line for each command you want. Save the RB file, and restart SketchUp to see your new command[s] listed under the SketchUp Extensions menu [previously called Plugins]... ***To open your Plugins folder [which is hidden by default] just copy+paste+enter this one-liner into the Ruby Console: UI.openURL("file;///#{Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')}") You could even add that command to your menu items, as say "OpenMyPluginsFolder" ! Work fine thanks for the help !!

It'a a great plugin and it works.

@pbacot said: I'm assuming you are doing 2d graphic export. You'll have to unsoften all the visible edges for the export of the view. Turn on "View/ hidden geometry". Use the soften/smooth edges dialog. Turn the slider down all the way. This worked!!! Thank you so much...

@box said: There can be various reasons for slow performance, from inefficient workflow to some flaw in the computer settings. Without seeing an example of your work we can only guess. A large file size doesn't always mean slow, I was working on a 415mb file only yesterday on a very low end laptop without any stutter. And I can create a 100kb file that will bring the best PC to it's knees. A model to look at would help us to understand if it is your workflow or your system that would benefit from some tweaking. Here's the model that I'm working on. Let me know if I can optimize it any more.

Here is how I do it from another thread: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=68246&p=624733&hilit=3dsmax+to+sketchup#p624726

You didn't provide much of the information that would be needed to help you. For example: what Mac hardware (including any external monitors) and macOS version? SketchUp can become confused about where to place dialogs if you use monitors with different resolutions. Also, there is no guarantee the SketchUp 8 will run correctly on newer versions of macOS (though it might...). where did you obtain the copy of SketchUp 8? It has not been available directly from Trimble for some years, and who knows whether the one you obtained is intact... does any part of SketchUp 8 work correctly? Said the other way, are these dialogs the only issues you encounter?

no 2018, pretty poor that sketchups own "fix model" is what broke the file to a point where its completely gone... plus a driver update is as good of an answer and switching it off and on again, its the file not the computer thats the problem. broken file

It's not a bug. It's just the way SketchUp is designed to work. Personaly I've never found it a big problem or unproductive to enter radii instead of diameters. I'm fairly new to SketchUp though with only about 16 years under my belt. Pilou has provided some extensions that would help you out. FWIW, since you are using SketchUp for your business, you need to be using SketchUp Pro, not SketchUp Make as you have listed in your profile.