thanks

ok Thanks for the tips. I am working on it.

Here's the component I'm working with, just in case it helps. [image: 12mmBalticBirch5x5.png] 12mm Baltic Birch 5'x5'.skp

. That's hilarious.... We figured a fix tho. Docked the M90 to a hi'r-rez monitor and then tweaked it to max rez and lo and behold we could grab the edge and resize. Not sure how it happened, but now I thk I may have to drag the stationary monitor around -- just in case.... Thx again /D

Now this is something! Contributing to some webcomic Looking good, indeed! Make sure to export larger images and resize them later. Or even (before exporting), change the back face colour in the Styles dialog to something dark (say black) so that those light stripes because of antialiasing won't be so apparent.

Did anyone mention turning off Fast Feedback in the OpenGL preferences? I just had a it work for me on a very small file that was acting very slow.

For anyone else looking for it, this plugin still words as of 2023 and does the trick. https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=21155

To solve this problem, you should place all three monitors in a box, as well as the 42' HDTV and mail them to my address immediately so I can have a look!

Chris, Thank you for the link, for the ruby script, and the advice. I applied your suggestions and that has solved my problem. I do recall it being mentioned that one should scale a model up significantly at times, but I never understood why. Now I do! Your script showed me right away where I had issues, and I was able to fix them easily and then use BoolTools successfully. Many thanks! Craig.

Hi folks. On the Mac, there is no OK button. Just choose whatever template you want. If you want one that is not in the Template folder, use the "Browse" button to locate it. Once the template is choose, simply close the Preferences window. It is better to quite SU and then reopen it to have it use the newly selected template. Just ideas.

Thanks for the replys. I have now posted an updated question in the Devellopers Forum. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=24770 /Fredrik

@unknownuser said: ... let's see what HLR stands for? Hyper Lazy Render ? Apparently it stands for Hidden Line Renderer (or similar.) If Sketchup::HLR is a private internal class, meant only to be used by Sketchup itself, it's constructor method should be made private (and/or renamed.) In addition, the API should probably tell us not to mess with it.

I agree Rick, but unfortunately, SU just does not tolerate models that are far from the origin. I use this trick to help though. In my CAD plan, I draw a triangle (or any object really), rather large, to the bottom left of my CAD model. And when I export things from my CAD file, I always use the wblock command. So I select all contours, AND my triangle, and then wblock it out to a separate file. Then I import that into SU, and I force it to ignore the model origin. What this does is it then lines up that object I drew on the SU origin. And everything I export from CAD from then on, I just export that trianlge shape alone with it and it wil always import right where I want it. Or if ever these is a problem, I always have that triangle that gets imported and I can then rotate and scale the new import so it fits perfectly with the existing. Sounds harder than it is and so far it has worked perfectly for me. And I think it might help with your bizarre linework. Chris

Thank you, TIG Your generosity, dedication and Uber Geekness know no bounds. Geo

Thanks Remus, I think I will go with a cad program. There's a feller down the road a spell that deals in computers. He owes some money so in turn he's going to set me up with a seperate pc with 3d cad installed. Thanks again Mac

There is only one kind of inferencing you can turn off - length (and in fact, angle) snapping in Window > Model info > Units. No other inferencing can be turned off. BUT - we can often read this from beginners and believe me, if you really learn to use it, it will be your friend, not an enemy. Also, you would be completely lost without it in SU's virtual 3D space. Maybe it's only annoying with the freehand tool - but use some other application to draw freehand. I may have used that tool like three times over the past 3.5 years.

@don9of11 said: Is there anyway to add folders to the layers panel to group layers? No: BUT you can try to name your layers logically and they'll group when sorted by name [click the Layer Browser's pane bar above the layers' names]. I prefer to use AIA-like layer naming [4 characters, a dash, ad infinitum] as it is logical and makes you keep the layers' names "in line"... For example the first floor layers always start with 0001, those for the second floor 0002... Layers for Walls are WALL, Doors are DOOR, Roofs are ROOF, Furniture is FURN etc etc... So the layer containing the first floor's furniture is called 0001-FURN. The layer containing related text is 0001-FURN-TEXT... All of the first floor's layers stack together starting with 0001- My default skp template has all of these commonly used layer names already premade [and even precolored in 'type-sets'] so then I don't even need to think about what to call them - if I do need new layers then I can just follow the pattern already there: any layers that I don't want can be deleted or purged later... Remember that layers in SUp don't work like in CAD - turning them on/off only changes the visibility of thing on those layers - it does not separate geometry which remains connected to things that might be on layers then made invisible - so erasing a visible edge could cause a non-visible face that's on another layer to disappear unexpectedly ! Almost always* put 'raw geometry' on Layer0 and then place groups/componnet-instances of that on other layers to control their visibility [*only when doing clever tricks of animation etc should you break this layering rule - but that IS the exception...]

TIG: Thanks for the reply. In my first message, I mentioned the "limitations of the program". I failed to mention the limitations of the user. The error was really my doing. Anyway, I was able to complete the exercise by copy rotating a rectangular section to the intervals of a 48 segment circle and meticulously rotating each rectangle 3.75 degrees, so that at each quadrant, the rectangle turned through 45 degrees. After that, I simply connected the corners with lines and diagonals to close the faces. Hardly worth uploading.