@unknownuser said: It looks like that plugin works pretty well, albeit with some caveats. As I've said before, converting models from one native 3D model format to another is kind of like performing a machine translation from one language to another. Sometimes it works well (for example, translating from spanish to french). Sometimes it works less well (for example, translating chinese to hungarian) Think of COLLADA as your "esperanto", with all the possibilities and limitations that that implies. john .

How can i change all the pictures to one picture?

thank you TIG for your info. dean @tig said: Also remember that Sketchup/OpenGL doesn't like to make tiny faces <0.1mm or so, so FollowMe and similar tools can fail at these sizes. If you Scale up by 10 do the 'small faces' and Scale down by 0.1 it should make and remain OK afterwards - it's the 'making' not the 'existing' that's the bottom size limit.

I usually have a 'hidden' layer setup by default, and place all those boundary lines on that and just turn it off.

The problem with simply hiding them is that the connecting face can also bleed through. nr, under the OpenGL settings, is there any better antialias setting? Not as if any could do wonders with this (from a distance, they would bleed through even with a roof thickness) just asking...

Of course I didn't think about going back to previous scenes! I've used exterior materials brick, stone, wood, and yes some 3d trees. I will try purging components but have been quite careful to delete what's not needed. Its almost finished now as I don't think it can cope with much more. Thanks again I found your suggestions useful.

I had some other minor conflicts with the embedded drivers, so I recently updated EVERYTHING in my pc. Now I have the latest for almost all my software and hardware, both drivers and software version

I've now got it. Thanks TIG (and additional gratitude/ kudos for you ruby plugins and contributions). Thanks also J Bacus, Gaieus. For some reason, it's been a bit af a learning curve - I'm probably still dumb, but less ignorant thanks to you all and the forum! TIG, the process you describe was pretty much the way I went about my first attempt. The breakthrough came when I read John Bacus' comment aand realised that by zooming in close I could improve the image quality, and that the new "Add more imagery" system allows me to quilt together a terrain. I work mostly with golf holes and imagery needs to be long and thin, so with a single image in SU7, the orientation was important. In SU8 this is no longer true. BTW Gaieus, thanks for your suggestion for SU7, I had tried it but had more reliable results for the GTS method. But hopefully, its one for the history books.

All done, and all the better for the experience. [image: 6BV8_image1.jpg]

They are concentric. They were grouped, which must have been why they didn't snap. Thanks for the workarounds. Jim

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Does it mean it worked? (I was actually just stabbing in the dark a bit - only relying on experience but without the file itself, I could not be sure...)

Hi Ricci, Yes, if you want to place text on the floor of a 3D Floorplan, you should indeed use 3D Text (as sceen text is always stuck to the screen itself). When creating the 3D Text, in the dialog, uncheck "Extruded" and it wion't be 3D just faces (grouped) you can paint as you like. Now open the group, under View > Face style change to wireframe mode, with a selection box, select all the edges and hide them. This will prevent the text looking awful from a certain distance (edges are always displayed at 1 pixel - even if the face they surround is already smaller on the screen itself). When done, change your face style back to shaded with textures or whatever you were previously working in. I hope this would solve your edges colouring need, too, but you can still do it under File > Styles > In model (small house) > Edit > Edge settings - at the bottom, set it "By material".

Hi Aaron (and welcome)! There are some patterns shared in this topic: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=19139

Thanks for the tips guys, I'm progressing in this model and I'll show a pic or two as soon as I have something to show.

Thanks Gaieus, got it. @gaieus said: Hi Andy, Create a 3rd layer for the top face of the ground floor walls. Now open that group, double click on the top face and copy it on the clipboard (Ctrl+C). While that top face+its bounding edges are still selected, right click and hide. Now close the group and paste the copied top face in place (Edit menu). Make it a group, too, and set the visibility to be ONLY visible in Scene 1 (with groundfloor) while hidden in Scene 2 (with second floor, too). Now open the second floor group, too, double click on its bottom face and hide that, too. See attached file for ideas...

I second Unity! Just export an fbx file from SU, then make a folder called "models" in Unity, drag and drop the fbx folder, then drag and drop that same folder into the main model view window in Unity. Add a collision mesh and a First Person Controller, and that's it! So simple, I could cry with joy!! Oh yes, you need to make a floor, or you will keep falling off the edge of the world- which I suppose is a bit like falling off a 1750ft transmission tower- but with less pain!

Mack, the styles in SketchUp are raster images "overlaid" on the model. The lines you see aren't really part of the model.

@tig said: [ensure you haven't got adjusted axes by right-click over them and 'reset'] Oh crap !!!! That never occurred to me. That's because I are a noobie. Couldn't figure out how I could have moved and rotated the entire model "accidentally". Of course I also can't figure out how I managed to "accidentally" adjust the axes, but doing that would have been much easier to do. I normally turn off the axes unless I need them for something, guess I should stop doing that so I could maybe notice sooner if I screw them up again somehow. I was anticipating having to redo all the changes, and all it took was two clicks of my mouse Anyhow, that fixed it, all better now (picture here a smiley doing cartwheels, and fireworks, and smiling till his face splits in two). Thanks a million (the check is in the mail, really!) I know, way too many smilie thingies , but hey, they're cheap and you've made me so happy with your words of wisdom.

@anirudh said: jim, its a part of my research. i am trying to understand other gestures that could help sketchup in future. thats why. center could be 0,0 or arbitrary . I want to be able to draw using keyboard shortcuts. any ideas? learn ruby then. i don't know it but i'm pretty sure what you're trying to accomplish should be relatively easy to do.. that said, what you're trying to accomplish (at least the examples in the op) is very easy with sketchup itself but hey, i won't try to talk you out of your quest