@cyalumina109 said: Hey TIG I have the same problem now, it crashes just after opening it Crashes immediately after opening are typically related to issues with the graphics drivers. With SketchUp 2017 and later, the graphics card must be up to the task of properly supporting OpenGL. What is the graphics card? Try updating the graphics drivers. If the graphics card is not up to the task, you may need to go back to SketchUp 2016 which has the option to dump rendering duties to the CPU. When you installed SketchUp, did you right click on the installer file and select Run as administrator from the context menu?

Thank you for looking, I will try changing the transparency settings but I don't think it is the driver as the textures worked fine originally. Will let you know how I get on with the transparency settings!

The official forum to post a bug. Looking to other posts on this forum... I have not the impression that the SU team is on this forum. My bug report on the official SU forum : https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!category-topic/sketchup/sketchup-pro/ZEGIk9xpp6U On sketchucation : http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11%26amp;t=57365%26amp;p=521587#p521587

Hey guys thanks so much. Chris: I was afraid you would say that. I would have preferred a script that does everything at render time and not messing with geometry. I'm just afraid that one time its going to mess something up or texture mapping might get messed up. Definitely worth a shot though. TIG: Thanks for making this. I will have to try it out! Getting the vertical to scale properly will be necessary so thanks for the tip.

@dominicm143 said: i've saved my old model as a component, and now it won't ... ~dominic muscatella Exactly how? I don't know what's in your model, but try this technique which I'll explain as if you've modeled a house. Explode. Delete everything but the top story and roof. Save as 'attic'. Reload. Delete everything above ground. Save as 'basement'. Continue until you have a collection of tractable pieces. You can now delete the original. (Well, save to another name: my_old_model_that_I_may_not_need.skp.) To rebuild, File/New, then import the parts one at a time, clicking the origin. They should assemble correctly if you import each to the origin. That will give you a collection of small, easy-to-use models. One other technique. If you move everything in the 'attic' model into a layer named 'attic', when you import you will have a single component named 'attic' in a layer named 'attic'. Very handy for SketchUp animations.

looks like he is a hitch hiker... got his free ride and disappeared.

Maybe another hotkey combination for "close component" would help if he esc key has hangups according to tools etc.. Works for me to assign another hotkey.

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I would, however my employer's firewall is preventing me from going to that forum. Not sure why but it is. Can you possibly provide a link to this discussion in that forum for me. I'm pretty much desperate at this point. Pathetic, I know, but as you can see from the model, I'm pretty committed at this point to finding a solution to this challenge.

The definitely looks like a case where the buildings are slightly lower than the groundplane. You can right click on the axis and choose "reset" if its an option. And that will show you where the true groundplane is. Two ways to fix it. Move all geometry up above the groundplane. OR open the shadows info dialog box and uncheck the box at the bottom for "On Ground". Then SU won't display shadows on the groundplane. Good luck, Chris

Sorry, but I don't understand your problem. The plugin has two options to choose from: "copy to path nodes" will place your components on every node of your path indipendently from the distance; "copy to spacing" will place your components each other at the input distance indipendently from the nodes. [image: ow6l_Cattura.JPG]

One have to set aspect ratio explicitly in SU2Thea and it has a option to revert back to SU default view. But true it wont notify about side effect if one tries to print while aspect ratio is changed.

For objects smaller than about a foot across, the "use model extents" checkbox causes the print to be split on many pages, so the way to print to 1:1 is to zoom in close so that the object to be printed fills the screen. Or then scale the model up by 10 and print to 1:10 scale Anssi

And the last version of the Component Spray by Didier Bur

Excellent news! Glad to hear it!

@unknownuser said: how to draw on a curved surface. About that try Tools on surface by Fredo 6 @unknownuser said: is there a way to flatten a curved surface? About that try Fredoscale by Fredo6

In my case I did a Save As after I got that error. And when I reloaded the old file it had not saved. But the one I had done with Save As worked.