@gaieus said: Mind if I move it to the Bug reports division above? Sure - at least we can put it on the list to get fixed.

hello again, watch this video from 'The SketchUp Show' It might help http://www.go-2-school.com/media/view/1

Just realised you can right-click and choose Edit Text from there.

It´s about 400 cm in diameter. Unless this means that the model is seriously messed up, I can get over it. But I guess that this affects the texturing also?

And as I said in the topic linked by Simon: @gaieus said: ...I'm removing this topic from the bug reports if you don't mind...

I've had some complex terrains which took over an hour to process.

Those renders are great!

I already covered this for 3D trees in V-Ray last week. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=20102 It's the same for cut-outs.

seems to have sorted it out now, Thanks

I have Jing, too (seeing your videos I had to try ) For videos however (for the same "first try first stuck" reason) I still use AutoScreenRecorder (Free edition). I used to have a Camtasia 3 license they were giving out free during Christmas time in 2007 but then had a HW crash and they don't recover those "giveaway" licenses by support. Pity because Camtasia is a cool app but currently I don't need it so badly to pay some $ 300 (or so) for it - true that it would be version 6 already.

Seems the place there are the must and more free plugins is here Ruby Librairy Depot by Didier Bur

congrats, looking good. baz

@jql said: I just said that with my SSD AND without thumbnails, I don't get 2 secs saves. I don't even notice saving anymore. @unknownuser said: I understand that but if you need your render to look nice you need to import some complex models ( flowers, vase, figurines etc.. ) and these really hit sketchup hard. You should use proxies for that sort of stuff. @unknownuser said: Check the remaining time for just merging faces : Merging faces is not saving a model, it's a complex face operation like explode or import. My problem is not the rendering, I can render relatively quickly. But the problem with Sketchup itself. I have been trying to load a 118 MB skp file into sketchup but it took over 6 hours. What's funny is that 3DS Max could load it in 2 mins. We can't deny that Sketchup is slow, really slow and I refuse to leave it for basic modeling as it has a lot of potential to compete with the big 5 but then we need a major update.. maybe a complete re-written Sketchup. [image: 594ff8247346cbb22599d244f39c1cb5.png]

Keep asking. Just keep posting the progress of your work.

I think speed vs. size of model is very important. For large models bring down space navigators speed (most of the time I have it on the 3rd or 4th tick). Oh, and my first klick after opening sketchup is on Camera Mode. Flying around is 100x easier for me this way. Like MuseumMaker said, you'll never ever want to model without it once you get used to it.

Hello, i look forward to seeing your work

If you question was about how to round quickly the corners of 2d shapes then you can use the "2d fillet" plugin that you can find here http://www.ohyeahcad.com/download/. Select all the shapes you want than just input a fillet radius.

That model is very "heavy" I think the photo textures are making it very slow. You should be able to move it, try deleting the Google earth layers that came with it. (both layers) to lighten the model. You will need to right click and unlock them, delete, then purge the model to get rid of the textures. You should be able to move it, for some reason that model is very slow to work with. I hope this helps.

7-zip official site.