Thanks Gaieus, works like a charm.

I am not aware of any unit selection involving acres. Probably some script could be written. Maybe check TIG's arsenal of scripts. Or see in Smustard, or Ruby Library Depot.

camera_stats plug : [image: CVJp_Clipboard01.jpg]

So far so good Considering im converting it into metric. Got a little carried away with the painting though [image: CARRIAGESHOT.jpg]

Exactly.

Sorry David I will only find out if they are cropped if I try to photomatch them. I am not technically competent in photography and the image was emailed to me by a client - from a website download. I have modelled it by guesstimating the dimensions. I plan to make a similar bed for the client and she wanted it as close as possible to the image. It was my first attempt at photomatch and I was getting very frustrated at not being able to achieve a good vertical line position when my horizon points were very accurately positioned. Thus the request for help. I have reread your original post on the topic and I just cant match what you are saying to what you have done in the images with the lines. Sorry for not being able to understand this thus my request for further direction on learning more about the subject. Thanks for the reply.

yes, it is an option. i have version 7.

Outliner has some real power behind it, particularly when it comes to big models, and managing groups and components, which you can view in hierarchy, relocate within that hierarchy, Filter, select and delete. I think it is one of the gems of SketchUp that a lot of folks don't take advantage of.

That tree video is pretty sweet.

Lowering the Camera's Field of View can sometimes help; or switching to Parallel Projection where FOV is 0. Clipping

i see.

The "large orange rectangle with arrows" is a Section plane. Anything on the one side of it will be rendered invisible. So you can select the Section plane and hide it, move it, or just delete it to reveal your model.

Hummmm I was sort of hoping that someone might have a script (ruby or otherwise) that would shut the darn thing off. You're right. It's about 95% crap. I knew that when Google purchased SU, that it would loose some class. I mean, for god's sake, I've now got smiling laughing utterly ridiculous icons dancing on this page. Maybe that's okay if you're modeling for the kiddie sandbox. It's way I stopped visiting the forums, stopped, just about everything related to Google.

Sure. You will have to re-adjust your toolbars and what not but this is a solution to the original request.

Sure, of course Dylan!

Thanks guys, its always very inspiring with you! Sorry that I left alone my own thread, but there was a good reason drawing all my attention away: Our son was born on Monday, hooray! (cant wait for him to grow up and show him around here at scf ) Back to topic: I should have explained better what I was looking for. Actually I would not even have asked If I knew about Chris Fullmers Component Stringer. Simon Bonnet has perfectly put together what I was after: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=23616&hilit=plugin+component+stringer&start=90#p232669 + http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=20173&p=232666#p232666 Hope to find some time to another ride on the Vasarely inspiration... cheers alex

ahhhh. the memories.....

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Yet another way; Draw your circle as you would normally Select all (your circle), now select the Rotate tool Click once but do not release the left mouse button but drag it horizontally until you find it aligned to where you want NOW release the mouse, pick another point and start the rotate operation as you would otherwise. I wish the circle and polygon tools worked the same way...

Eric, You might try a more CAD like program for what you want to do, such as DoubleCAD. I haven't used that one personally, but I hear it is good (and free). For what you are suggesting I would import the pdf into my CAD program, but it isn't cheap and it's on the Mac. Try also: eDrawings by SolidWorks. It all depends on what formats the program you use will accept. You may need to translate to another image format to bring the image in and scale it up, to be able to draw over it and measure. Note that bitmap images do not have discrete elements to measure. You need to trace or use your measuring tool over the image--without aid of snapping points or references. Always see if your associates can provide dwg or dxf files, which are vector files that SU and other programs can open, and DO have discrete elements that can be directly measured and manipulated in many programs. Another way to say what TIG and Hono have, I guess. Peter