If they are good, then the office will pay for it. So far I've not found anything free or commercial that's been good enough, or fitting. First glance to Dosch looks promising. Will look more tomorrow. -Thanks!

Hi Jindrich, Maybe (maybe) you are in monochrome or "simply" shaded mode. Try to change your face style settings to "Shaded with texture" under View > Face style

It works OK for me, BUT don't tick 'model-extents'... and under 'properties' set your page orientation to landscape ?

@unknownuser said: p.s. Cut a horizontal section so you can see the doors. [image: jHNR_parallelprojection003.png]

This could be done in flash actually. Render your scene and then add a video overlay (or how they call it there). Look at this example - although it is an interactive panorama, obviously it could be done with a still even easier (not as if I personally could do it of course): http://flashpanoramas.com/blog/2007/05/23/add-some-life-to-panoramas/ Or... this one: http://www.azlan.com/vt/index.htm

Yes, you can place images on top of each other in LayOut but the ultimate (read easiest and most straightforward) solution here is indeed Jim's plugin that TIG suggested.

Thanks for the info! It all worked out in the end Cheers

@gaieus said: Still it seems that the texture is scaled with that cabinet door. Are there two, separate texture images with the model? If not, try to right click on that component and "Scale definition". If it were a native SU model, this would fix the texture scaling issue. There was only one texture for the wood but I did right-click and make unique texture and scale that one so I found a work around just wanted to see if anyone else had seen this before. Thanks

We drift off topic into the sunset.........

Hi folks. Another possibility is to search for a picture of books on a book shelf and then to paste in on a surface slightly recessed in the front of the actual shelves of the model. If no suitable picture is available and you have a digital camera, why not take a picture of an actual array of books and paste that. Not only will it look pretty, it may also save on file size. Just ideas.

@lebeginner said: Hello, I would like to draws screws for a mechanical system. I found the screw_21.rb that allow me to draw the basic shape, but I can't finish the screw with a flat face (as in a normal stainless screw. I tried to make en intersection with a disk, but it doesn't not work. can someone help me please ? Do a Forum Search [look at the top right of the screen] for Screw Tutorial, it returns 23 hits - although the first one is of no use because it's a tutorial for a dome and 'screw up' is used in the sense of 'to mess up', the remainder are probably what you are looking for... Effectuez une Recherche dans le Forum [regardez en haut à droite de l'écran] pour Screw Tutorial, il retourne 23 coups - bien que le premier n'est d'aucune utilité parce que c'est un tutoriel pour un dôme, et «screw up» est utilisé dans le sens de «mettre en désordre», le reste est probablement ce que vous cherchez ...

@d12dozr said: @jgb said: Now if only SU allowed mouse button shortcuts, I can make use of the many extra buttons on my mouse without interfering with other apps use of those buttons. Ditto that! heads off to Wishlist Good idea, good thing I thought of it. Kidding.... Posting it there now.

Hi all, A big THANK-YOU for all your help - I have now sorted and have spent the last hour or so sorting out my model and it is now a much more manageable 1.1mb. I have taken on board everything taht has been said and I have learnt lots - future models will be a doddle now! Maybe! Thanks again Gaieus, I totally understand what you're saying, it makes perfect sense now, I will remember for the future, sorry for misconstruing what you suggested. Thank you everyone. All the best,

due to the dread Caliche soil here in Austin: it shifts everything so what you put down does not stay there. A good fabric base will just slide about on the ground (and hopefully the sides will stay up). I am sorry I was not more clear about stating my needs. I need to make one and set it up, then find out just how practical it is. Thanks for the help, I will try the spiral-on-a-cone one (sounds like something you get at Dairy Queen.)

Here is link to Mac quickcard for SU7 http://dl.google.com/sketchup/gsu7/docs/en/SketchUp7RefcardMac.pdf

Alan, you need to model a lawn mower.

Skindigo is the Indigo renderer, with a SketchUp plugin written by Whaat (Dale Martens) who is a regular on this forum. There are many who love it. Indigo is currently in the process of becoming a non-free renderer. I think they said the old version will always be free, but the new version is not cheap 595 euros starting February 1st.