Sigh, Thom... Don't draw shapes like that then. But yes, it happens. "As if..." however I'd remembered such a bug / report already - just not sure "where".

I haven't used post processing for landscape and other objects (yet). I do it primarily to adjust, brightness, contrast, and gamma.

Problem is: there's no access to dimensions via the SU API.

my fifth building, Espaço CIEE, located at 3rd Perimetral Avenue, Porto Alegre. You can two of my other buildings (Mercado Publico and IPASE) at the distance, a few km away, in the right. [image: ciee.jpg] and here a photo of 3rd Perimetral Avenue, looking north (cant see downtown in this shot) [image: 3perimetral21.jpg]

I actually purged components and materials (now there were a lot of these) when downloaded but it only shrunk it by about 10%. That motorbike is a killer.

@unknownuser said: Forgive me ..I am not a Mac user...I should probably just shut up but... In our office we just access the library we need on the company shared drive directly through the component/material browser/dialogue....nothing special to do at all. We pick up materials and create our own folders for materials where ever. ....see I told you I should shut up!! Thanks for your response - no need to shut up! You would think that the method you describe would work on a Mac, but, unfortunately, it does not. For some reason, the Mac version of the Sketchup material palette/browser does not allow you to choose the destination of newly created the folders, and won't allow you to browse for external material sources. It IS possible with the Mac version to create shared Component Libraries. Why? I don't know. Again, Thanks anyway. Anyone else have ideas about this? Doug

Thanks for the suggestions and help. I'll probably be bugging you kind folks more as time goes on. -Bob

Hi Mary, File size of a model using images (photos you've taken) can go up to the skies if you don't optimize your images. It is a simple process you do in a 3rd party application (image editor) when you crop everything off that you don't need in the image, resize it to something "reasonable" (definitely somewhere below 1024 pixels which is generally the "limit" of OpenGL display SU uses anyway) and even save it compressed. As for your lockup after importing the GE snapshot - it can even be related to your video card/driver which you haven't said anything yet. If it persists, try to go to Window (menu) in SU > Preferences > OpenGL and unable hardware acceleration. If it "seems" to fix your problem, there's definitely something going on with your graphics system (maybe you don't even have a dedicated card just an integrated chipset).

Your right in thinking you cant use IES profiles in podium or SU, several of the other renderers can, though.

We have one other source of information. Of the people who have download RpWallMaker Free (which runs on both Mac and Windows), 1 in 6 have downloaded the Mac version. (1 Mac download for every 5 Windows downloads). One of the reasons we created these free products (RpTreeMaker Free as well) is to get more information about who uses SketchUp and how to reach out to them. (For instance, it is probably safe to presume that not all SketchUp users participate in this forum)

Thanks man but it doesn't work.I think i can find the problem.Where i have writed the function animate,should be writed a variable,but i dont want to change variable X,i want to call function animate,so X can be changed,but that would be like animation. Thanks

Coolapp. And yeah, what I'm actually planning to do is a kind of interactive walkthrough in my city in its different, historic ages. I've also been thinking about panoramas (rather than "real" 3D walkthrough) because they sem to be streaming better on the internet.

@chris fullmer said: Welcome aboard! Then scale it to -1 (make sure you grab the correct scale handle or else you flip it in more directions than you really want). Or while the copy is selected right click and select 'flip along red/green/blue axis'

What slider? Perhaps you should attach images and models to help explain your problems, thanks! Chris

Thanks remus that helps alot. Seems so simple now in retrospect. Cheers, Derek

If it's an office computer, make sure that SU is allowed to communicate with the Internet (have a check at the firewall settings for instance). Network administrators tend to limit everything as much as possible.

Take a look at this. http://www.smustard.com/scripts/ It's called "Make faces".

Hi MGE, Unfortunately I doubt that you can access the 3D content streaming from GE servers AND not uploaded into the 3D Warehouse - which is generally the case with this "grey box content".

Try starting with this one, Jeff. http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=de3c151d9d1209fc5ef6f8ebfad7f16 And a few youtube vids.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkmnICiHDU0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBI_SXWoOjc Cheers,

When I first came across plugins for SU I looked over the lists of plugins and their description. If the description of what they did appeared to fit my workflow I'd try them out. It's really subjective which plugins will fit you as it depends on your own usage of Sketchup.