David - Differing lines thicknesses can be sort of done in (I think) three ways. a) line weight in the LO 'Sketchup model>styles' palette, but that appears to scale the thickness of all the lines derived from the model b) obviously SU styles can do their thing with line weight, wobbliness, scratchiness etc. BUT to use them in LO requires using raster or hybrid rendering which can make your LO files and pdf output huuuuuuuuuuuuuge. Since I'm making working drawings to be printed at 24x36" for builders, I didn't bother with artistically scribbled lines. c) the profile, depth cue and section cut line thicknesses can be set in the styles anyway LO can do more with lines created with its tools but obviously they are not involved directly in the model. I've used them for a few added details in the drawings - I think all of the ones I added happen to be dashed lines in this case. Oh - one more small variation I just thought of - it you use the 'add section cut face' plugin, the edges of the added faces can be given a thickness. Red - You can insert a variety of files into an LO doc (not exactly sure of the list, I've used jpegs, text and pdf so far) and LO will spot updates in the same way as it does for skp files. It's not quote automagic but pretty useful. So use excel or Numbers to make your table and print to pdf (unless LO can handle csvs or excel files?) and insert away. I'm sure someone that is familiar with ruby and the SU api (not me; I spent 25 years programming Smalltalk and damned if I'm going to descend to mere ordinary languages now) could find components marked in some fashion, derive details and produce a table to be inserted. The cutlist plugin used by many woodworkers (including me) does something related. It's just a question of finding a victim - I mean 'interested programmer' - and beating them with a stick - er, 'motivating them' - correctly. Money often works, or so I'm told.

Great, thanks for posting that here. Glad you got an official answer, Chris

FIXED! thanks guys.

Cool, good luck Pat. Let me know if you have questions. Chris

Well, at least we seem to share the same interest of " making a little game". And more or less no idea of how to do this, whatsoever. " Something interactive " would also be cool, especially if it includes .50 cal machine gun ( just joking ). Anyway, I am glad you´re here - loking forward to seeing more of your work. Cheers!

Thanks Dave Followed your advice and did a quickie... [image: cJrK_R44.jpg] Helicopter_Robinson_R44_Beta.skp

@martinrinehart said: Off topic: My wife's best friend came from Pecs. Expert tapestry restorer. Hehe... Everyone who is worth something is leaving here. I'm also packing my things soon.

Hi, i don't know if it was posted before, i found at the Spiral Graphics page a free Viewer with a high resulation texture library. The textures can also be modified. In the free version the resolution is limited to 2048 x 2048 pixel, but i think that enough. The terrain texture in the image below is from this´viewer. http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/viewer/index.htm Karlheinz [image: PE2c_Burg.jpg]

Good news; I just realised that SU 7.1 fixed this problem. You get so used to seeing something that occasionally it takes a nudge to notice it has changed.... It makes for a nice improvement in my house plans, so thanks SketchUpGuys!

simply: yes You can do that with nearly all tools in Sketchup. Try it for the move tool: Select an object, move it while holding down ie. the left arrow key. After dropping it, type in "2m", enter, and then "5x", enter.

Yes I know, I read one more time your posts and I resolved my issue with the help of its. About my video card, I give the model in a precedent post but, no problem, I repeat : "About my video card, I get a ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series." Thank a lot for your help Laszlo

argh , ok , thanks for the information

Hi folks. Yes I reported this quite a few times. The funny part is that I use the coma as a decimal separator on my work PC and also on my home Mac and that it works OK on the Mac and not on the PC. Yes, I can type the dot key on the numerical keypad of the Mac and get a coma in Excel and a dot in SU. On the PC with Windows, no way. Where is the bug ? In Windows or in SU ? I dont know. Just ideas.

@unknownuser said: If you like space stuff, I highly recommend checking out the Google Earth Moon. The narrated tours are pretty cool. The exact models they used to fake the whole thing!!! And back then they were on Univacs!

Hm. I don't know those apps but they sound interesting. Anything that is more interactive than a video file is interesting nowadays.

@hpw said: One thing I observed on my DWG Imports, is that Sketchup does make a diffence between front and backside of 3D-faces. So are the faces missing or does they look different, because you look on the default-color of a backside? I had to optimize my 3D-Face-Blocks in autocad to look good in SU. Not sure if a revit-export write a proper face-orieatation to the DWG format. That could be a reason. As I am not a Autocad user (I was always happy to use Vectorworks previously), could you point out where I can find the 3D-Face-Blocks optimise command(s) in Autocad? Thanks. And about Revit in general,I think the trouble with it is that the learning curve is just a bit too high. In our office, this results in people being unhappy using it as they need to focus 70% of their time on the tool, instead of being able to focus on the matter at hand, i.e the design. Only a few people in the office know how to edit families properly...all the rest just paddles around with half ass'ed files. Revit is supposed to make the Cad part of the design easier, but it actually makes the whole workflow chaotic and unproductive. I think Autodesk really needs to try to implement more 'direct editing' into the Revit software. More intuitiveness, the thing what is Sketchup's major strength.

If the cylnders are made into components, their axes can be moved such that the origins are at the centers of an end. Then the components can be brought in from the In Model Components Library. You'll have hold of them by the origin of their axes and can use inferencing to place the cylinders. http://www.flickr.com/photos/8294157@N08/3755831438/