goto http://www.youtube.com search for Sketchup tutorials terrain, viola!

You guys are unbelievable! Thanks p

@bob james said: Is there a ruby that will randomly distribute components/groups to avoid the central clustering of Component Sprayer? My Matrix Proximity ?

I tell you my opinion. I have no doubt that you have talent. But I see only a few models that you can sell. The rest is very primitive. You have to make an impression with your models.

TIG, From me to you because your solution has workt perfectly. Now i can manege my over more than 1000 textures.

Sure, turn the window into a component. Now begin to move it (along the green or red axis). Then hold the shift button down. Now it will force inference to that axis so you can moveover to the other side of the house and align to the far window. Its that easy. Chris

If registry entries do not exist, Sketchup creates them. So if it crashes, it might have created the missing entries which you can then edit and restart Sketchup so that it can proceed in the installation process until it works. So it works! This makes me very lucky. If you like to use ruby scripts or plugins, you need to convert the text files from dos format to unix format. There is a terminal program. In the terminal, go to the Sketchup/Plugin folder using cd, and then run the command *dos2unix .rb for converting all ruby files in that folder.

Hello Romain, Welcome ( et bienvenu ), SketchUp is very convenient for your purpose. I often use it , when outside, in countries where communication is sometime difficult. MALAISE

Thanks a lot! I guess its true, sometimes the most simple solution is the correct one?

Great. THANKS for your help and all you do here !

Jean's method is quicker to make any 'lathed' form from scratch. However, if you already have the main shape, or perhaps the 'groove' is not to be a full 360 degrees, or perhaps not parallel to the main form's base etc, then the intersect method is often better...

@tig said: Or make sure that the shadow settings are to NOT cast shadows on the ground plane... That would be my guess, too, if that part is below the ground level. Hard to tell in top view.

So, five years later, SU's handling of toolbars still sucks. What exactly is it we're paying for if the devs ignore user issues with the most basic functionality?

@ThomThom: Not only see, but draw on them. As Chris's 3 lines tool allows. I am in modeling mode at this time, not doing any rendering, where your tool would be very useful.

@numbthumb said: Hi, Something similar to your palm tree can be found here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=14440&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=tree+generator It was made with a different program, but anyway... cool, it's similar, i'll give it a try...thanks

U welcome! @unknownuser said: But I'm still wondering if it's possible to assemble a circle that way ? Yes it is possible if u respect the length and position of ur segments like the first ones u divided. Elisei [image: ZWg3_Glasscomposedwithsegments_EliseiDesign.jpg]

If you can't set the scale on import then you can fix it afterwards... You can group the imported geometry [if not already grouped] and scale it manually... If you know exactly what size one object should be then edit the group and with the Tapemeasure Tool pick the two points on that object [might say 400mm in the VCB] and then immediately type in the correct size + <enter> [say 4mm] - you are then asked if you want to scale everything - say Yes... Everything inside the group is scaled [you can do the rescaling to the whole model but only use this IF there is nothing preexisting that was the right scale already...]

Thanks Remus! Installed it and tried it out. WOW--this works unbelievably well. THANK YOU fred06. -Mark

Thanks for all of the replies. I had a play with some of the plugins and I managed to get it to do what I wanted so thank you for the suggestions. CubeSqaure, thanks for the stairs mate, I will check them out now. Thanks again all!