That's it. Thanks a ton Chris.

Sean, if you purge all un-used components, layers, materials, and styles from it, does it get smaller? And how about deleteing all materials. You might have to do both those things to make it small enough to upload somewhere. You can also try to .zip it too. Chris

@unknownuser said: Extrude a selected profile along a path. This tool solves the twisting problem that occurs when using Sketchup's standard followme tool on a sloping path. @TIM You have also 1001bits (video of the tool) A damned good tools box for architects! or other artists

Thanks for the answer and sorry for my late one My first need is for a simple stucture let say a "corrugated" cardbord composition .

Okay, and all of this seems like a lot more work than have an option for "visibility by group" or something like that. I do have a "structural model" that I deleted or stripped unnecessary files from, but all of that requires "parallel updates" which is tedious and mind twisting as to which version goes where etc, once the model is finished and only minor revisions it seems to work okay, I also do alot of working on a copy of a model, usually stripped down version, and get a component or group as I want it and then do a "paste in place". That keeps my "original" file which is burdened with components etc, from being altered or effected by my editing processes. thanks for your insights and creative ideas. I will look at giving them a try. aloha red

nope, that was the floor plan r

Just use triangulate... it should give you what you want. The cloud tools take data from a file that has a list of 3d points in it in various formats - sometime you get these from a surveyor as well as a dwg - if so you don't need the steps of importing the dwg at all as you can bring the points straight in and make a surface without it...

We have just gone from TurboCAD to SketchUp and i will NEVER go back! You can have a similar 'tabbed' setup on SketchUp by making use of the Scenes .... http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39656 may shed some light on it....

Red -- I've complained about this behaviour through the beta testing channels for a while now... they keep saying they've fixed it, but as you've noticed they've done anything but. Check out my posts and my YouTube channel (timdanaher) for examples...

Hi Tig I appreciate your explanation. It is when I measured the house I was compfortable with imperial as that is what I grew up with. But England and my job went metric and I got along fine with it. As I retired 6 years ago and found SU thats when I decided I would model my house. "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" is half right. In work I used metric quite easily and had no problems. But the regular door, window, etc.,sizes I could "see" in my head if they where wrong especially when They where out slightly. But if it was metric its not so obvious so I have to measure it exactly, and keep doing this, (which I would get to know like imperial), i'd have no problem. But the trouble is I am new to SU so I make a load of mistakes which takes time to correct. Thats why, at the moment, I'll stick to imperial. I glad it doesn't matter what it is as long as it comes out OK. But I will go back to metric - honest. Thanks for your reply John

I had looked into it, but the materials used for 3D printing tended to be quite fragile/brittle, as far as I could tell. CNC milling from real materials (i.e. aluminium) seemed the way to go, although more expensive. I also couldn't find anyone capable of printing semi-flexible 3D models (i.e. hard rubber), instead of solid resin. Is this because it is impossible? Thanks for the help AJ

Yup, welcome Sebastian! Stay as long as you'd like, Chris

SU does not have UV mapping gizmos like other apps. If you apply a box UV map in Max, then when imported in SU the UV mapping will not behave the same as in Max when you change the mesh.

Hi Marklavin, hi folks. Why would you want such a behavior ? If it is to insure that the two objects always keep the same spatial relationship and that, if you, for example, rotate one and want the other to rotate as well to effectively maintain this relationship, I would suggest grouping the two objects together. That way, any movement or rotation of the group will affect both objects at the same time. If the purpose is different then, I have no idea unless you give more explanation. Just ideas.

Or, you could use my Selection Toys plugin: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=14975 Personally I've assigned Ctrl+1 to select only Edges and Ctrl+2 to select only faces. Shortcuts I use all the time.

Hi everyone, thanks for your speedy help! I found un-checking 'continue line drawing' seems to have solved my problem. Some one put a suggestion about un-checking 'use fast feedback' in 'OpenGL', but this seems to have vanished. Does this mean it got moerated out, and I should undo this? I seem to use lines more often than not to define a point from which to perform the next action, hence my use of un-connected lines (drawing a peculiar tricycle). Thanks again. Best regards, Tony J.

I updated the driver a few days ago and all is well since then (though the splats had been periodic before, so fingers will remain crossed). On a related issue, it appears the hardware thread fruit is withering on the vine, which is too bad for folks looking for some good input on gearing up to use SU.

I can tell by the sheer speed of the video that you're a professional. Thanks!

Hi, Alex, Personally, I haven´t attempted to model a bag, but with all that great stuff posted here - and I remember seeing something about shoe modeling also - I believe it is quite possible to design bags in SU as well. This may come in handy for pushing/pulling bendy and curvy shapes http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=42783#p42783 And you also shouldn´t miss this one http://www.smustard.com/script/SubdivideAndSmooth Oh, and welcome to the forums!

Thanks for the help. I got decent results by doing the whole dome and then erasing the half of it. And, with this Extrude Edges by Rail plugin it worked just perfect.