Thanks Solo! I will continue studying the Subdivide and Smooth for a day to make these modeling! Thank you!

You need Ortho projection. Turn this on with the menu item Camera > Parallel Projection and view you image from the top. The slant you are seeing is only present in Perspective view.

I'm starting to comprehend what you're getting at and I'm remembering why I gave up using outliner for scene management. I do recall that what gets hidden in there over-rides the scenes layers settings. That is also why I never select an object and hide it using the hide and unhide options. I only hide things using layer management. I am not sure how it would work, but it would be ideal if there was a better link between all of this.

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@johnsenior1973 said: Just put it on the Gallery. Label it as a WIP. Update the thread as you work on it. thank you )

Actually, I just found another problem. When the SketchUP scenes are imported into Kerkythea, every camera is identical. I assume this is a problem with importing axonometric views -- does anyone know if there is a work-around for this?

For some reason, it took me a couple of tries to load your model - it locked up SU one time and crashed it without warning the other. I did get it loaded on the third attempt and my first action was to use Thomthom's Cleanup script on it. The script found and erased 63 lonely edges - I have no idea if this was a cause of my problems or yours but as far as I can tell, Outliner is working fine on the cleaned-up model.

Thanks Remus. I'll give it a try. By the way, I'm working on a Mac... don't know if that makes a difference or not.

@alpro said: I would just start with a circle with however many segments you needed, which would depend on how closely the model is gonna be viewed. The view below was zoomed in pretty close, the more that you move the view out the less noticable the difference between the two circles is. Mike That might be the best way - Hey, If I'm already striping 6 segments why not 48. Once I cook it all in Podium it will probably look just fine. UPDATE EDIT: Here's how I finally did it... DREW a 16 segment circle - PULLED to 4" - Turned on GEOMETRY to determine vertical segments. Used LINE DRAW to bisect each of the 16 Segments. GROUPED, COPIED and PASTED on top - ROTATED to line up stripes. COPIED these two and placed on top - REPEATED until it was the height I wanted. MADE IT A COMPONENT. Edited and painted the stripes. Did a quickee PODIUM render and it looks okay. Thanks for the help.

@davidboulder said: I haven't read all of the posts, so maybe someone has suggested this. Have you tried (on a copy of the file) make texture unique, and then purge the model. This will make things a lot smaller. However, I think this would have to be one texture at a time, but I suppose you could write a script for that. tried it (and tons of other things ) ... doesn't work valkama, i'm still puzzled but glad you found a work around.. if i import via the method you described, i can still do 3ds exports no problem

Oldish topic but just want to say thank you Tom . I promised I would buy it, bit late but I did . They look great! Edit: Some quick tests on Vray [image: 1-8.jpg] [image: 2-6.jpg]

I work with similar models in the landscaping industry, What works for me is to have your terrain that you created with your sandbox tool (make sure its exploded - not a group) Then make your road a group, edit the group and use your pull tool and pull your road up past and through your terrain. Then exit out of your group and select both you terrain and road ground and then use the interest with selected tool. Hope this helps

Yes, sorry.

thanks! i'll give it a try and try to remember to report back. i have traditionally changed isolated parking stripes in autocad, convert to plines, give them a width, them wblock out for import to sketchup which works well enough. trying to avoid cadwork thought and streamline the process in SU. ALSO, Vali Architects, "Instant Road NUI" has great many features including "Striping" which will take SU lines, convert them to faces and drape them onto a surface mesh. thanks, bob

@tomot said: Its possible absolutely , via Virtual box. Make a small version of xp sp3, running nLite: Make a bootable SDHC card, 2GB will do, (this is quite a challenging process) Install XP sp3 from cd rom to the bootable SDHC card. Boot XP sp3 from the SDHC USB drive Install Sketchup to the XP sp3 OS Boot Ubuntu from HDD, run XP SP3 via virtual box, within Ubuntu Run Sketchup Viola! now isn't that cool! Yes you are right tomot. I'm using Linux just 3 year and i'm run my windows XP in VMware workstation ....... It's too good about Virtual box you try it ........... Thanks ........

That looks like a neat program! I haven't used it, but you can get it right here for a cool $550(professional license) Here is a recent demo using Sketchup to form the original mesh, then exporting to GEM [flash=853,505:2jb7r26m]http://www.youtube.com/v/ijynb4bNbDc&fs=1[/flash:2jb7r26m]

Dear Rclub24, Brilliant! Thank you. Don't know how I missed that one.... Cheers, Bruce

@tig said: http://mysticcoder.net/mysticthumbs/ I've talked to the developer of that software. I gave him the info I knew about the .skp file format and he has already implemented .skp support. When he release it I encourage people to give him a little donation for his work.

The reason I asked is because one of our CAD persons was watching me build some structures with Arches and Domes in SU (we use a lot of piping and tanks in our models). They conceded that it was probably easier some to create some of these structures in SU rather than in AutoCAD. They were wondering if we could develop a workflow where I could create some models that he could import and use in his AutoCAD 3D sites. But on our first try, a many-sided cylinder didn't display correctly. The CAD person is relatively new to 3D cad, so I thought there might be some default settings in AutoCAD or specific commands that need to be done that they were unaware of.