Not really, its a good idea to keep all entities of your model grouped in case you need to edit them later. For example, you may decide to change that simple profile for a different one down the road - if its grouped just delete the group and draw the new one, if its not grouped, you have to delete every line of the old profile before drawing the new one. Grouping also will make it easier to texture and organize your model, especially important as your models get more complex...

Any idea how I would use component spray in that way? Let's say I have cylinder that I want to scatter some components inside of. I can select the cylinder and do a spray by selection, but that won't distribute the components inside the cylinder will it?

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Ok, first thing I'd do is do a clean install using 9.10 and start over. There were a LOT of improvements in 9.10 over 9.04 that solved SU compatibility issues... Including video driver updates, etc. Don't do an "upgrade" as it tends to leave some of the old libs and files around, messing things up. Ask me how I know... Your WINE is the latest I'm aware of. It "should" load the ia32 libs for you by default, but you can always check using Synaptic. You HAVE to have the ia32 libs because even though you're using WINE, it relies on some 32-bit libs to interact with the LINUX environment. About the only thing I've loaded as "extras" in WINE using winetricks were a few fonts and a couple of MS runtime libs. FWIW, I run Xubuntu 9.10 64-bit with an Intel driver, SU 7.1, Twilight Renderer and SketchyPhysics all under WINE 1.1.39 without any issues at all so I know you should be able to as well... Cheers.

Hi Phoenix, that glue tool is a Layout's tool, a program that comes with SU pro. About your question, if you have two simple shapes like in your example, move them together and then delete the touching lines between coplanar faces. You can also have a look at BoolTools for more complex union operations.

Hi Gai, forgot about that one

Well, are you familiar with the "walk" tool? If not please get familiar with it. As for your idea, do you mean in real life like a hologram or VIA the computer? (apparently 3-D printers got me too excited now) So basicly your saying you want kids to go on the computer and look and walk around a model of whatever, first of all I think you personally can make one yourself easily with help from us. Like I said, get familiar with the walk tool first then come back to this, go ahead and try it out. By the way, you won't mind if I ask what grade are you teaching?

Thanks - knew I was missing something!

David; thanks a bunch really. I will definitely go through and try every bit - and then "report" back there.

Find it here http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=9078813

Hello there Toon Material might be helpful if you want a clay render with wireframe However,in 3.4 beta you can have another option called edge texture might also be helpful Regards

You have just turned 79 I assume. Do you live in Chiang Mai by any chance. You are going to provide Sketchup profiles and models for the warehouse? ... that would be appreciated by many I believe. Cheers

I guess that was clipping. Also, I have added you to the French UG so you can now see and post in the French Forum (you can sign up for any usergroups in your User Control Panel somewhere at the top left).

Thankyou Tig. I knew I was missing something.

Me too - is it possible to add or create new styles without skp pro?

thanks guys for all of the advice fortunately i'd already figured out groups and layers...i was hoping there were other ways of increasing performance in high detail models @jean lemire said: The idea to keep a fluid modeling is to minimize the workload on the graphic card. mmm...that seems to be the only way to increase performance...

Hi, During the latest redesign of the GUI it was decided to do without the category search. To be perfectly honest, categories is not the best way of finding anything; it's much better simply to use the search box. For instance, every photo billboard of a person I have ever uploaded has had to be categogorised at "Specialty" because there simply wasn't any category for images such as lifeform or people...and specialty was the closest match avaiable. So finding people any other way than using the Search facility was pretty near impossible.

@unknownuser said: Is this what you mean? [attachment=0:2dothqcn]<!-- ia0 -->Tube Mitre.skp<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2dothqcn] AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!! How could it be so EASY???!!!!! That is frustrating to work on it for HOURS, not getting anywhere, then do it in 45 seconds. Good news is, I know how to do it now. And thats all that matters. Thank you rclub24 for helping me stay sane. Well, as close to sane as I'll ever get.

No worries guys. More models to come as I am now freelancing more. Scott

ahha. Nice. They look as good as they do in the shop...and alot less expensive.