@eidam655 said: thanks i think i will use the Ruby console instead of paying $5 for the same functionality. and furthermore i found a videotutorial by AIA on SketchUp, where i've been given some tips on modelling from CAD plans; suddenly, i don't need this toggle anymore well, at least for now. thanks for the answers How much does that AIA video cost, or can you share? (usually can't afford anything "AIA"). Any help in that process is welcome.

on the Microsoft Mouse 4000 (or other blue track mice) you need to set the wheel button to "middle click" and also use a top to front push on the wheel button to make it work in orbit mode. straight down or front to back push won't work reliably since the new devices are "game ready". once you get used to the new push action with your finger it all works as expected.

Sounds like a one liner require_all("/any/folder") is all you need (defined in sketchup.rb.) But as TIG said, not all scripts are made to work from any folder.

Gaieus you are my hero, I was editing png's in photoshop for hours and didn't realize this simple setting. Cheers mate!

The second half of my tutorial will cover scripting, from beginning to advanced. Too bad it's not available yet! Actually, if you look on my site you'll see that several chapters have been posted. The ones that you really want are 11-14, which start with a big "not yet!" warning. That should come off before the week is out. If you haven't learned Ruby yet, Chris Pine's tutorial is excellent, tho not SketchUp specific.

Trying to do a simple trial animation just to make a box rotate. Am using the time slider rather than a tour. Obviously doing something wrong because it "swings" around an origin that is a long way from the model rather than rotating on its axis. I read the bit above about creating it at the origin, not moving the axes, but it still does not seem to help. I am wondering if it could be to do with georeferencing. Here is what I have done, along with numerous other things: Started Sketchup Drew a box centred on the origin Displayed the model in GE. It appeared somewhere over Sydney, floating about 50m above the ground. Saved the model to KMZ Opened it with Winzip and extracted the KML Duplicated the model placemark 3 times Added the timespan and heading fields to each one Copied the KML back into the KMZ Deleted the old model from temporary places and opened the new one. Clicked the time slider to start. The model rotates around a point that is about 300m from the centre of the box. I have attached the KMZ. The next issue once I get that working is how to do the animation with an existing model, where the origin obviously is not at the midpoint of the object that needs to be animated. If one selects the whole model and moves it so that is centred on the origin then the model will no longer be correctly located in GE. So presumably I copy each piece and paste it into a new model centred on the origin...? KMZ containing the timespan and heading changes

@martinrinehart said: You might find hiding very useful when stuff is in the way. Hide, fixup stuff blocked by the hidden stuff, unhide. Ooops! You just brought back geometry you never wanted to see again. I admit, that's happened to me, but now I use the Edit>Unhide>Last function; or turn on hidden geometry, select the geometry, and Edit>Unhide>Selected. Thanks for the tip!

Thank you Nacholo, this ivy will come in handy and I agree it is very light. As long as it isn't in a really close up view it will be perfect.

@alan fraser said: Edson, You seem to have changed the sky to black. Instead of that, leave the sky turned off, turn the background to black and have the ground turned on, but a light grey. thanks, alan. as they say here: easier than stealing from the blind.

And to explain your unsuccessful way to set it by the template - templates do not set the tool selected but are actually model files themselves.

Thanks Gaieus

Yeah-yeah-yeah... I Know. I did not. Patience, please.

no, but look closely to that ''surface operations'' toolbar. It's not part of the row, it's acting like a dialog box. I can move it around. That's how mac treats it. go to view -> toolbars and choose the toolbar you want to see. I'm pretty sure that sketchup will open a toolbar that's a dialog box. Try that. edit: just read your post again, so ignore the post above. Then again, you can rearrange the toolbars so that it looks like the windows version, even though it doesn't stick. For that double-up thing, I'm sure mac has a large tool set. Go to view -> toolbars -> large tool set. I think the large toolset doubles up

Simon, can I download this model to look at?

I'm glad I could help.

Maybe like this Move aside first the 2 faces along x y then you can push/pull the 3 faces in the 3 directions x y z Then Intersect all then erase Et voilà [image: Z5cl_intersect.jpg]

Hello i`m a newbie on this forum. But i do SU for 6 months now. I need to improve my knowledge about SU and hope i can learning something. Thx