http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=6be3e544deece8441191025061735ea3&prevstart=0 This one doesn't seem too bad. Probably could be a bit lower poly but it seems like a fairly clean model. -Brodie

Another possibility is that your model is very large and/or it is very far (miles...) from the SU axes origin point. If it is just far off, the solution is to move everything near the origin. If the model extents are too large (diagnostics: the model seems to vanish if you Zoom to Extents) you should delete all extraneous geometry and move the rest near the origin. Anssi

I agree, if you post here, most beginners won't have any clue about ruby. Post in the ruby discussion group and there are lots of us there who can help. Chris

Gracias Miguel por el tuto y muchas gracias Laf. Saludos.

Really nice one.this is the one i am looking for. Thanks Buddy.Thanks a lot. Regards_______

@duanekemp said: Is there an update on this information.... new tools that transforms triangles into a pure quad mesh? ThomThoms plugin 'CleanUp³' is capable of connecting co-planar faces, for a further processing ThomThoms 'SubD' might be worth a look too. There are several tools available which should be able to remesh triangles to quads as e.g. the commercial 'ZBrush' or '3D-Coat' as well as free 'Instant Meshes' or good ol' 'Meshlab'. btw, resurrecting 10 year old threads should be avoided, just post a new thread instead.

martin, thanks for such a detailed explanation. for what it is worth, i included an image of the kind of organization i use. for every project there is a folder that holds a group of subfolders, each one related to each kind of file related to the project. some are imput files, others are output files. besides numbering different versions of a file, i also put the date on them. as for file synchronization, i use dropbox (very easy to use, free and offers other capabilities to boot). as you can see, i am on mac. [image: GaBa_work_org.png]

The thing is the format, while relatively new, is used by some of the biggest 3d users in the world. I'm not talking about 3d visualization as is common here. I'm talking about Boeing, Siemens, Intel and the likes for sharing their huge amounts of 3d data.

can you find something interesting here ? http://mayang.com/textures/Stone/html/Paving%20Stones/index.html You can read License Terms here http://mayang.com/textures/ on bottom of the page. good day.

problem solved... Michalis was so kind to explain to maybe. I was a bit wrong about OBJ not supporting uv maps. I'll explain the workflow quickly here for people who are intrested: unwrap your object in Modo. make an texture in gimp/photoshop. apply it in modo. export to OBJ. import in blender. export as 3ds in a different folder with the texture in the same map. Remember 3ds files can only contain 3-5 letters. import into SU

Hm... Tom, you are still using version 5 if I am correct... In SU 7, these are the (bit easier) steps: First of all, make the one tree component you want to change unique (otherwise all will change). Right click and make unique. Now edit the component and right click on the face that has the image you want to change and again, make the texture unique now (note that though you have a unique component already, it shares the same image with the original instances). Now right click the face again > Texture > Edit texture image. This will open the image in an external editor (you can define in Preferences > Applications) and you can paint it whatever you want. Upon saving the image, it will instantly reloaded/updated in SU. Note that above I mentioned "faces". If inside the component, anything is in nested components/groups, you will need to enter as deep as to get to single faces.

Well, the above animation was also exported (true that via another plugin which is - on top of all - a photorealistic renderer). Twilight can export animations both from Sketchy Physics (above) and Proper Animation (although they may be able to export it by themselves, too now already).

@anssi said: @unknownuser said: SU seems to be very persnickity about drivers too. May be that when you try 6 or 7 that it might help to update your video card driver as well. On the other hand sometimes the newest drivers aren't the best so if that still doesn't help you can post to see who else has your video card and see what driver they're using. -Brodie My other PC has an old ATI All-in-Wonder card with a driver I downloaded when I bought the card. I wouldn't dream of upgrading the driver that has now run all SU versions from ver.3 OK (if I keep Fast Feedback off). I have tried to keep the "if it works, don't fiddle with it" rule. Anssi If you're one of the few lucky folks who's got an ATI card running SU with any degree of stability then I'd say you're spot on to leave it the heck alone! You've got someone up there looking out for you -Brodie

Im gonna make some more with my graphics tablet and import into SU. kinda swirly/sketchy trees. i'll post here when I'm done

Gaieus. Thats the one! Thanks for the file I was starting to think in that direction and wondering if it would work and your post gave me the answer before I tried it.

I'd try to turn off hardware acceleration in Window > Preferences > OpenGL for a test. Your SU would not be faster for sure but if your video card/driver has anything to do with this, that would indicate it.

Thank you That function obviously illuded me for quite some time.

You make an octagon with the Polygon tool which is a hexagon by default but if you type 8s (for eight segments or sides) and hit Enter, it will become an octagon. The same goes for the circle (24 segments by default) or the arc (12 segments by default) tools. If you want really smooth looking curves, model with higher poly circles/arcs. However note that this will soon tax your computer seriously. This "shot" was made with 96 segmented circles (and respectively, cylinders). [image: JEj1_silencer.png]

I'll give that a try. Thanks again!

Well, it's up to youguys to "populate" that subforum.