Any other ideas guys?

thanks Alan, looks lovely.

Can I export these into sketchup/vica versa? Thanks for the response.. edit: ZBrush?

Aren't preferences files a Mac thing? In Windows (since 95), they are all in the Registry... Anssi

try looking here

Yeah, hidden line is the way to go. You'll also have to go into your style editor menu and turn off the sky/ground and change the background color to white though. -Brodie

@d12dozr said: Hi Milan, TIG's 2D tools will do that for you. Thank you d12dozr for replying. Milan

@kxi system said: Thanks you guys, I never want to do theat AGAIN I lied, here is another attempt: Thanks for the help guys!

@lusodxb said: Hi im new to this forum and am having problem exporting my model form skp 8 pro to dwg! can anyone help? Thanks If you describe the problem we might.

Hi Whitney, Yes, the Mac way of handling toolbars is totally different from the Windows system. We can have several rows but they get screwed up many times. You have neatly fixed toolbars but cannot display them all at the same time.

To change a Component's name you can select an Instance of it and Get Entity Info [right-click, first item on context-menu to open the E'Info dialog which shows info for anything you select], and you simply change the name in the 'Definition-Name' pane - it will rename the Component with that new name - note that changing the 'Name' pane gives specific names to individual Instances of that Component and not the name of the base definition itself. This Entity Info method is probably easiest, as you have it picked in front of you and therefore know what it should be called. You can also change the name of a Component Definition within the Model-tab of the Component-Browser as suggested below - select the component and change it's Definition-Name, you can also edit the description there too: BUT, this method is OK as long as the components are clearly identifiable - but the E'Info method above avoids any guesswork, when you have perhaps lots of doors called Group#1, Group#2 etc that might look similar in the preview icon, picking one off the model itself is less prone to error...

@mynameismatt89 said: Thanks for the plugin in TIG, I'll have to check it out. Though the ExtrudeEdgesByRails plugin isn't what I am looking for. What I am trying to do is after using the simple loft plugin, or your plugin, I want to edit the hidden geometry of the shape. In all of the images attached to your thread, and in all the shapes that I have created, the hidden geometry is triangulated surfaces. What I am trying to find is a plugin that will allow me to change the hidden geometry from these triangulated surfaces into a different shape (a series of hexagons for example) so that when I convert the hidden geometry to a series of tubes (using a plugin like "convert arcs, circles, curves, lines to cylinders") I am left with a mesh that is made up of a series of hexagons, not triangles. The "Terrain Reshaper" plugin allows something like this, but you can only convert the mesh to a different size and shape triangle, no other shapes. Is something like this possible? I have I not worded what I am looking for properly? Thanks, Matt The 'hidden geometry' is typically smoothed edges. You can make a mesh with my tool that is not initially smoothed but you can 'un-smooth' surfaces by selecting then and using the right-click context-menu smooth and putting the slider to the left so nothing is then smoothed - you can also un-smooth specific edges by having hidden-geometry switched on and using the eraser tool with shift+ctrl held down - any smoothed edges you rub over are made un-smoothed [the eraser tool can also be used to smooth [eraser+ctrl] and hide [eraser+shift] edges - to unhide a hidden edge select it when hidden-geometry is on and right-click context-menu 'unhide']... Many meshes need triangular faces to work because a four [or more] sided shape might have 'coplanar' edges and therefore it cannot have a face - a three-edged shape will always take a face. There are tools to erase coplanar edges - it's an option in EEbyR - using them will take out any unneeded triangulation. You can see if an edge is vital to any faces by erasing it, if faces disappear it is forming a boundary edge and cannot be dispensed with - if all faces remain then it was simply dividing the face into two coplanar pieces and so that edge can be erased safely. My tip on converting smoothed edges back to solid ones then allows you to convert then to tubes with other tools as desired. If you have for example a sphere made of triangles and manually change the edges of hexagonal units you can select those only and make the other inner smoothed part a glazed bubble... If you delete internal edges that are vital to faces you will get a hole as faces cannot survive the amputation... However, if the remaining edges of the hexagon are coplanar you might force a new hexagonal 'flat' face to be created by drawing over some edges, or making one subdivision and smoothing it...[image: FvoG_TrangulatedDome.png]TrangulatedDome.skp

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=22161

Fredo's Sacle Tools has Taper Tool that could do this - is this the type of thing ?[image: VpMg_FredosScaleTools-Taper.png]

Thanks Gaieus, I will play around with that. Yes that works. When you activate the "Measurement" Toolbar then you can put the VCB where you want it.

wow very inspiring tutorial. one of a kind.

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Yep, that solved it Thank you very much

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Thanks Richard, I will investigate both the book and your workflow suggestions. Appreciate your help. I hope to post the outcome (if the client and my boss agree).