@notareal said: And after understanding dpi, you can figure needed image resolution in pixels based on needed quality for different distances: http://www.kerkythea.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=68702#68702 This link was very helpful...thanks, notareal! Rafa's explanation and graphs show the ideal DPI at a viewing distance of 3 meters(which is probably what the average viewing distance will be) to be 50 dpi...this is similar what I have seen now when searching -- billboards can be 36PPI or even 10PPI as Brodie says. Thanks to all who answered, Gaieus' explanation especially made it simple to understand If I find out more relevant info, I will post back here.

Related to this if you want a non rotated plan view right click on one of your current axes, and choose align view. Then save that view as a scene to easily jump back to it.

Thanks for the advise. I found what I ws looking for in the new features manual. Gives just enough info to get a handle on the rest of it.

Sorry to be a pessimist, but if you have a reasonably modern Nvidia graphics card (as you seem to, if it has 512 Mb of memory) I would guess that getting a new one will not create a jump in SU performance. When you make big models, the first thing that gets overworked is your CPU - SU is very CPU-intensive, and as it is single-threaded, adding more processor cores will not help either. Anssi

Excellent. Just tried it and it works. Thanks for the rapid reply.

OK! THEY'RE PERFECT! THANK YOU VERY MUCH BYE

Carlsen See this link for concept of what I think you want but need to hear from you http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=24a74ef603a753e19f30f02514717f00. The cone is like a stack of pancakes with decreasing dias. It was drawn using a story stick divided using the line tool divide option 1/10 the height for each step . Each face of the stack was created by staring a new face when the staring circle was extruded up to next step( hit ctrl), the edge at each step was scaled based on the radius at that level on the story stick ( used the entity info box for that to make the cone. The surface png in your original OP was the used to create the texture, see this link for that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVYYdWYRqrg&feature=channel ( watch the video all the way the part you want occurs late). This is just a concept and once you decided on a final geometry then it can be refined Hope this maybe remotely close to what you are looking for

I believe that SU8 broke some stipple abilities with construction lines - at least that is what is reported here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=32730

Dear Fredo6, Have tried every which way to download Lib Fredo6 with no results. Have auto downloaded from this website and Sketchup Warehouse. Have unloaded "all" your plugins and re installed latest version, but to no avail. Round corner and Visihole tool bars do not appear. Very frustrated after spending several hours attempting to reolve this problem. [image: Y2Vv_Capture.PNG]

I reported it to Google ages ago when v8 was in diapers. I haven't heard that they've fixed it...

@unknownuser said: and I surely forgot about it. Easy to do - SketchUp is complex, regardless of what the marketing team says.

The value of LenX which is returned is in inches, even when the model is in centimetres. So you need to compare with LenX * 2.54 e.g.: =NEAREST(CURRENT("LenX")*2.54,350,450,820,900)

Kevin, thank you for that history and information. I've seen photos of the bulldozers hauling the boats above the tide. Amazing stuff. Good luck with the drawing work. I'll be interested to see how you get one. Cheers, Dave

@glro said: plugins using ruby lines of code moving components, or screening of special types of components among all objects in the model, seem to be much slower on sketchup 15 compared to sketchup 8 Do you have code examples with timing to demonstrate this?

I don't know if this would help but the following Input uses a single attribute to set the value taken from Input_val; if less than Min then Min is used, if more than Max then Max is used, otherwise the Input_val is used - not ideal but it might help reduce your code a bit: =IF(Input_val<Min_val,1,0)*Min_val+IF(Input_val>Max_val,1,0)Max_val+Input_valIF(Input_val>=Min_val,1,0)*IF(Input_val<=Max_val,1,0) Regards, S

If you enter a value (without an = sign), in the Component Attributes dialogue, just before you Save the Component it will be 'remembered' when the component is placed and will remain visible until changed by the user; is this what you mean?

Thanks for responding. I'm a kitchen designer and a very experienced SU user. I use it 4-5 hrs a day for the last 5 years. All that being said, it's working now, 6 hours later. Nothing has changed except the time. I have no idea what is different or what happened. Do you think it could be operating system issue? When this all began,I checked the copy/paste function in a Word doc and it was fine. Anyway, thanks again for trying to help-whatever you did, it worked!

@youngosg said: @tig said: If the face[s] and the rectangle that won't 'cut' are indeed coplanar select them both and "Intersect" them. they will now break... [it works I tried it... ] if i want use sketchup api to do this,how should i do? thanks! http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/entities#intersect_with Read up on it - it is one of the most complicated methods. You need to get transformations and get/set containers etc... However, there are many example scripts to crib from...

Mass elements are not standard Autocad objects, but special AEC objects created by AutoCad Architecture (formerly Architectural Desktop). These can only be read or manipulated by the originating application, or AutoCad supplied with the appropriate object enabler add-on. To get these into SU in 3D, you will have to use the Export to Autocad function in AutoCad Architecture from a viewport that has a 3D view on. This will convert the Mass elements to standard 3D objects (solids or meshes, I don't know which). The same applies to all Autocad Architecture objects like walls, doors, windows, roofs etc. Anssi