mirami: The disappearing faces may have something to do with the scale of the model. Small size models with microfacets are a known limitation in Sketchup. The workaround is to scale up by some factor like (10), perform the operations, and then scale down by (0.1). There is a native tool to "repair tiny triangles" in a right click menu after selecting the perimeter edges. If it does not show up, there is also top line menu Tools>Utilities>Create face. This could end up being a lot of "knitting", as I call it. (It may be better for you to direct your questions in the other thread "on designing a shoe".)

I realise it does not run as well in VMWare or Parallels, but for the 2d drawings I am working with, I come across no problems. If things were to get much heavier, I would have to use Bootcamp, but the ease of use of being able to instantly switch between operating systems far out weighs any performance hit for the ACAD drawings I'm currently working with. As honolulu says, try it both ways, although vmware does cost money!

Thanks for the help solo! The system comes with vista home premium so might stick with that as xp pro is a £40 extra! I was originally looking at intel , I currently have a pentium 4 2.93ghz system and hasn't been great for sketch and hasn't intel machine been historically a bad mix with sketch? Do you have any experiamce with a solid state drive for programme booting? Thanks again Daniel

Well, duh, that was easy...lol. Thanks so much...it looks great now! That's why I'm still a newbie:)

And...That! Makes perfect sense..thank you!

Hi Tommy, Thankyou for your answer. Than i have switch between the DWG/DXF Viewer and Sketchup during modelling. Karlheinz

mirami I think you would enjoy this thread, and I hope urgen notices your post, as I believe she is the master of this. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=17233#p17233

thank you so much. they automatically orientate to the next surface. This is nice feature. (How did you do that?)

xrok1, Thanks for the solution. T1000

Hi Phil and welcome! There are a good bunch of landscape architects around so I hope you'll find a good companion.

Thanks

Hi Fred, Thanks a bunch for these!

Google's intent is to support dxf/dwg in the Pro version Collada import is "only" going to be an additional tool for Pro users while it will be a "change" (from dwg/dxf) for Free users.

Hi Faisal and welcome. Although not impossible to model human body in SU, the program essentially is not designed to model organic shapes so you will have a lot to practice before you become satisfied. Nevertheless I hope you will enjoy the process of learning, too, as SU is just fun to use.

Thanks for the solution. Problem now solved.

Which instrument is the best : A sax or a trumpet? The best choice is the one that you like and can/will master as a tool.

@solo said: Fantastic work, I wish I could translate it however... http://www.translate.google.com does a pretty good job - just put in the URL and go Here's the translated page: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fixlrlxi.livejournal.com%2F113673.html&sl=ru&tl=en&history_state0= Thanks for posting, Urgen!!

@pilou said: Draw a diagonal and your quadrangle will be closed! thanks for great help with my dxf imported shapes!!!! they are pain to edit

I would place a section cut somewhere high enough to "reach" the windows, too. Then make a top view scene with this and in the Tray > SU model you can set which scene you want to display. [image: 7uHh_LOView.png] Also see the attached LayOut file and change between Page 1 and 2 to see how different scenes (with different views, camera settings and section cut visibility) of the same model can be inserted like this. (Now if we had dimensioning in LO, it would be perfect!) HouseWithSectio.layout

Wow, speedy response: thanks Remus. I'll see if Grow does the trick FWIW Jim's Mover2 is nearly what I need, except it doesn't do multiple iterations, or scales as the name implies. Pretty good apart from the sticky 'copy' toggle which needs to be a radio button I think. http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2007/08/plugin-mover-2.html