Thanks, all. This is exactly what I needed.

@unknownuser said: This kicks in way too early - often on models that the camera could previously easily orbit, zoom without degradation - is there a way to disable it or adjust the settings? In the preferences dialog under OpenGL, disable "Use fast feedback" to stop components degrading to a wireframe representation of their bounding box on camera movement. Disabling this will also increase your view refresh time. I think that both "full_detail_render_delay_min" & "full_detail_render_delay_max" both relate to the fast feedback setting wrt wireframe bounding boxes? Regardless of the fast feedback setting, textures will still turn off and on based on the "full_detail_render_delay_min" & "full_detail_render_delay_max" settings. -niall

Try the 3d warehouse. (file->import->3dwarehouse)

Thanks, everyone for your reply. One more question I'm new in Piranesi, do any of you know how to set up a drawing, the book I have isn't that great. Especially when I want to insert people, objects. Sometime they scale up and down and other times they don't. Plus the book always works in meters.

There is some kind of "tolerance" in SU when first something seems to be on axis but later it turns out that it is not the case. There are endless discussions about such seemingly minor issues but eventually they can become really bothering. In the below file, there is a rectangle of 10m x 10m, edges set to display by axis. All is fine, the edges are red and green and if you PP the rectangle, the verticals will be blue, too despite one corner being just 0,05 mm higher than the others. There is not even an autofold line so SU definitely "adjusts" itself to such small differences. I have to say that these "games" ar most popular on the Beta Forums and SU has been working this way ever since I can remember but we "refresh" these topics every time there is a new version. Nilblo, never mind the critiques; these extreme, little things are that make discovering SU the most exciting thing (and also, plese, guys, be a bit more tolerant with others especially here in the Newbie Forum).

Heres some images from the project. [image: vHc2_wbh_1.jpg] [image: 3ifa_wbh_2.jpg]

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Hi John, Rich is right, SU scenes will not get correctly exported so you have to adjust them in GE. Just navigate to where you think it's all right, right click on the "scene" link in the sidebar and "Snapshot view" (or something like that). The original camera position will now be changed in GE.

Thanks for your sharing,

Thank you honoluludesktop That was what I was trying to do!!

@box said: I know there is the sketchup viewer which you can get people to download and install, but is there a way to make a self viewable file? I'm thinking an emailable version for smaller stuff and something on a CD for larger projects. Eventually I would like to produce a model of a cruise ship and be able to tour through it without having to install any software. eDrawing for Sketchup works great, sends as zip or exe; rotate, zoom bla bla; Is 99 dollars but I received free version somehow on't remember how or where. http://edrawings.geometricglobal.com/Downloads/eDrawings+for+SketchUp/index.aspx

I think you need to be a LinkedIn member to see that discussion, and possibly even a member of that group withing LinkedIn. Moral of the story is, if there are any residential designers out there that would like to participate in the contest, I can give you more details, and put you in touch with the right people. Its a great contest, the show is nice, and the awards ceremony is great as well!

Hmm... i see. But, hey, it seems to be working now. After uninstalling, cleaning thoroughly and reinstalling Firefox, it's all working. Thanks!

hello, the probleme is that the start face and the end face aren t parallele see picture. [image: Q48M_Clipboard01.jpg] first solution : align bottom edge whit top edge : second solution : make a component, copy and scale x10, push pull through the end face, select the end face and the cylinder, intersect whit selected, clean up and erase the big one (component) : [image: Ijby_Clipboard06.jpg] hope it helps Inges_Problem_Orig.skp

Hi Lynn, This definitely sounds like some video subsystem issue. What video card do you have? (Hope not some Intel integrated chipset...) To test this out, go to your Window menu in SU > Preferences > OpenGL settings and disable hardware acceleration. If this "seems" to help, you should either update your video driver or if you do not have a decent, fully OpanGL compliant card, get one. In older SU versions, there was a "Correct reverse picking driver bug" option there, two, which couldbe good for your second issue but that was for some old (nowadays rare) video cards.

@tig said: When you export to fbx [or several other formats like obj] there's an 'Options' button bottom-right of the dialog... that has "export-double-sided-faces" as an option to 'tick' - isn't that what you really want to do ??? facepalm I remember seeing the options button once or twice but each time I focused on something else. Worked perfectly, thank you and sorry for the trouble

I must be going mad because I really thought I used to be able to do this. And I have not used anything other than SU6 & 7.

This is called "clipping" and Google offers a few suggestions here: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=36261&topic=9042

Very interesting!