Hi Romin, There can be several causes for a 3ds file not exporting properly. Make sure that all faces you apply the materials are front faces (whitish) not back faces (bluish-grey). Then also, make sure that your material names do not contain any other characters than the English ones (not even spaces are allowed) and they are only 8 character long with the three character extension (I doubt you can remember when every file had this limitation).

Hi Kriss, Is it not the same bug as here? http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=23925 I could also reproduce it eventually but not with Paste in place.

So you are saying, Tomasz, that you are not such a novice to unintentionally purge your layers. Hm... It seems that scripters do this via ruby.

@jefferyaustin said: ...where to start...? http://www.aidanchopra.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/SketchUpVideo http://sites.google.com/site/3dbasecamp2008/all-sessions-2008 Start by getting the basics down...there are some good leads Happy sketching!

Hey Guys Push came to shove and I managed to figure this out. As soon as I made the first guideline, I remembered during Gaieus lessons, he showed me how to use them and that's exactly what I did, used it to align each item and print it individually to PDF, all worked perfectly well. Thanks Regards D0me

Hi Rick, How about scaling by 5 along the Z axis? Update: group it first so if eventually you need it to reset, just right click and reset scale

Hi Jeff (and welcome) Those are not "layers" but faces on the exact same plane therefore they cause a sort of "Z-fighting". In real world, everything has some thickness but SU faces have practically zero thickness therefore if you place two faces on top of each other (and they cannot merge because one is in a group like in your picture), SU cannot "decide" which one to display and does this. You should give some thickness to your faces (or intersect them and delete some part of the lower one). Are you making this model for Google Earth?

Hi Dekade, hi folks. It would be easier having a look at the SKP file to see how the model is made. I suspect that your woodpieces are not separately grouped or componentised (sorry for that word). Keep in mind that, in SU, layers are not used as in CAD softwares. They do not separate geometries. They only serve to control the visibility of objects. To separate geometries, you must use groups or, for repetitive elements, components if you want to save in file size. See attached SU file for ideas. Textures and rotation.skp

Thank you for your help. Regards Fred

I can imagine that the GE sea bed is even more inaccurate as the terrain - so I would think it is possible.

Well, I tend not to use too many materials - and often I just use colours (which are obviously not as slow) as for some materials in a final render (in 3rd party software) you do not necessarily need image materials or you can swap them easily if UV mapping is not an issue. But again - I can imagine serious differences between PC's and Mac's and even within these categories, between individual machines.

great answer TIG

No problems at all, TIG, Gaieus, I did think it was extremely dodgy and had no intention of buying from them if they we're illegal (like they looked). Idiots.

@gaieus said: Yes, this is a good idea - maybe that's the problem. You can also right click > Unglue if this is the case. This issue was driving me crazy! Thanks for the tip... 5 years ago! For Italian users, the "unglue" option in the popup menu is named "scollega". The more complex procedure described here is translated into italian below: "Open the Component Browser and select the Model tab [small-house icon] and then highlight the Component in question. Select the Edit tab. Under the 'Glue to:' list change it's setting to suit - perhaps to 'Any' in your case, as you want it to 'glue' to any face ?" Menu Finestra --> Componenti Cliccare sul pulsante con la "casetta" nella linguetta "Seleziona" Selezionare il componente che non si "attacca" all'asse blue Selezionare la linguetta "modifica" Nella listbox "incolla a" selezionare l'opzione desiderata, che in questo caso dovrebbe essere "Tutti"

You should be able to download it. What is the card brand and the processor speed?

I found it! Thank you so much for the help. I'll install it and start playing tomorrow. Tas

Dear Anssi, "Textures and shadows are raster effects that cannot be exported in a vector form." Has there been any progress in this issue from five years ago?

Yes ! I have missed this one in speedy pressing "No's Buttons" and want to make publicity for ThomThom tools And this can be post production PS can you consider the 4 curves (2 profiles + 2 rails )of the EEbR as a Coons creator surface or it's another thing?

Mine took 2 mins, no hints- excluding making the png.[image: RBIe_FloorTIG.png]

Great! If you use the results with a rendering product, lets see what you get. I will be interested in whether it make textures tileable problems automatically?