Import Bluprint as picture. Draw the kontour on the picture Remove the rest. With followMe around the circle. [image: cMf3_Bild1.jpg] [image: 0jBi_Bild2.jpg] [image: D4Dg_Bild3.jpg] [image: eijs_Bottle11.jpg] [image: NcqE_Bottle1.jpg]

@jkristoph said: Can I push "hollow out the planter" in relation to those angles? I think there's an easier way. Rectangle the bottom. oFFset in the width of the sides. PushPull up a hollow, rectangular planter. Double-click to Select the top face and edges. Use the Scale tool on a corner, Ctrl held down to scale about center, and pull the top out a bit. If your modeling seems like work you're working too hard.

except I'm talking about not having all these features at all in the "stripped down" version for the Photorealists.

Hi tsaG, if you want to weld your lines then I suggest you to try this plugin.

Thanks man.. nice texture (díky chlape...pěkná textura) CZECH

For the time being, as long as you are only working in SketchUp, there is not much difference; you can texture front faces as well as back faces and they will both look alike. But once you decide to export it to some third party application (for rendering for instance), you may experience serious problems because many other applications cannot interpret back faces. Best is to get used to modelling correctly right at the beginning.

If anyone is familiar with 3ds MAXSCRIPT, here's a Quadrulate script someone made. Granted it's not much use for SketchUp, but maybe some of the concepts in it will help someone find a ruby solution for SketchUp. http://www.scriptspot.com/scripts/web_upload/Gene%20Crucean/quadrangulate.mzp (*.mzp is just a zip file for Max)

@unknownuser said: If it's a ring that's parallel with the top/bottom copy the top's edges - select+move+ctrl-key, constrain copying in axis using shift-key... a new edges ring will be made. thank you, this is nice

With current versions of SketchUp if should not be appearing unless you have absolutely every plugin under the sun loading at startup ans making commands. SketchUp has a top limit on the number of commands it can hold in it's head at any one time - a bit like a woman ... When it gets full it starts dumping existing commands and there menu entries gray-out... This limit was increased dramatically some years ago as more plugins came on the scene and more commands were getting used. There have been no reports of 'gray-outs' for a long time... BUT recently one or two tools have been published that deal with many 'commands' and it was suspected that they were inadvertently adding multiple copies of existing commands and thereby filling up SketchUp's limited brain... Once this was realized the tool's code were quickly reworked by their author and updates issued, there have been no 'gray-out' reports in recent weeks/months... Perhaps you have got early versions of some of these and so you need to update them urgently ? The main suspected-culprit was Aerilius 'LaunchUp' and the two other suspects were the 'Toolbar' manager tools... If you have bloated SketchUp with a surfeit of plugins then I suggest you get/use the 'SketchUcation Plugin Store' and its 'Managers' - the 'Plugins Manager' lets you easily disable plugins you rarely use, so on a restart of SketchUp they don't load... that way you can have a core set of plugins that always load and others that are usually disabled. The disabled ones can always be loaded using the manager - a permanent load adds it back into the core set, while a temporary load adds it to the available tools for that session only - on a restart it is again disabled... This way SketchUp starts up much quicker and your menus are not cluttered with rarely used tools... The 'Plugin Store' let's you keep up to date with the latest versions of your favorite plugins too...

@unknownuser said: yeah, what marcus said.. here's a crude visual.... Your visual was anything but crude, Jeff. How did you do it? Also, check a screw head. Your screw just ruined my best #1 Phillips. (But don't worry. It was a SketchUp screwdriver. I'll model another one.)

thanks, velvia. would you have, by any chance, good concrete textures in which the formwork shows?

Here is a first shot at this. I made everything 50% reflective, and added 3 lights on the ceiling, and a room around it. First, the wide model (left to right) makes it hard to show good results on a forum. It might be better to reposition things so the overall scene is more square. I did this to make a better image. You can upload the new model here: kitchen3.skp [image: mffA_kitchen2.jpg] The obvious problems are: The three lights in the ceiling add some highlights, but the reflections would probably be more impressive with a more interesting ceiling, walls, etc. Bronze phone has white highlights rather than bronze nightlights. Teapot looks too plastic I wanted the top of the coffee pot to have a chrome look. Lets see what we can do to improve this.

Well, let me know when you are around, and you'll get that beer. A promise is a promise (and, who knows, I might have more problems with SU by then)!

The resetting of your MAC's plugins folder's permissions to FULL Read/Write has been covered many times in the forums... Here's a good one http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=468689#p468689

SU makes a career out of making people write plugins for things that are pretty basic and should already be there. specially by a version 7!!!! this is more like a version 3 software IMO since there hasn't been a major change of tools since then. if you add up all the new stuff since ver3 you may have an excuse to call it ver3.5, maybe. anyway, sorry i couldn't help.

OK, I managed NOT to crash SU a couple of times now but still get weird results. Here, on one side of the column, the texture is messed up (like as if it was rotated vertically or something) [image: NUIX_StoneColumn1.jpg]Stone Column1.skp Then I cut the whole thing into half and morrored but of course, this doesn't lead to anywhere because that symmetry line if too ugly. [image: Db7n_StoneColumn.jpg]Stone Column.skp

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=16909 This thread shows how they work and where they are

@tim said: @jcharltoncarp said: Hi Tim, Sorry, I didn't want to step on any toes. I very rarely use parallels and it mostly serves to remind me why I have a Mac. Lol