geez thanks to you guys! being a member of a very active forum like this would really make me hooked up.. thanks a lot admins! i'll start looking within the links.

@malaise said: Thanks for the trick Pilou @ ChrisG , effectively I have to work around group to understand why not all the groups are'nt diplayed MALAISE On the face of it I cannot see any logic - e.g some components from the warehouse show some don't; similarly for those made by me and for groups. Maybe it has something to do with layers? Also the colors are quite different. Sorry not to be able to be more helpful ... Chris

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Hi Jeff, This definitely shouldn't be happening with dimensions. Could you share a couple of snapshots?

Yes it's a tricky edge to deal with. To date Pilou's solution is the most clean and customizable.

Hi UPDATE: Working, thanks to the learning curve, was a conjuction between non welded vector line for "follow me" and the fact the "resolution" was to high, slighty concerned that it isnt true vector with circles (using the vector beziers storage methods), however the fact i now know this and the methods to get around it is good. Many Thanks

@tasman said: Hi Tim I note you are using a Mac. I am having the same trouble, login OK through web browser, and can download etc. but unable to upload as SU does not make the connection. I think this is a Mac specific problem, and I too would like to see it fixed if anybody has any ideas. Tasman My problem has been resolved. I believe it was a proxy issue with our servers. I was always able to download models via access to the warehouse by SketchUp. I wasn't able to upload models. All is well now.

have a read of this thread: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10750 Plenty of useful info there.

The style of this house would work with a hip roof. Added bonus, you can make a hip roof fit almost anything. Of course you could use a flat roof with a parapet and be done with it. Another way is designing the whole form of the house at once, instead of one part then another.

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@gaieus said: Imagine a case like you send a file (with certain style AND preferences settings) to someone and your file overwrites his preferences (paths to component folders, shortcuts, image editor etc.). Yes now I know what I wanted to say before sleepiness overcame me. Please refer to this thread about exporting scenes. Here I changed TIG's destination File.dirname(model.path) (same as Rick W's I think) to a fixed directory. I knew this was not the final solution but please consider this: I want to send Nero a set of models for him to build from. I want to give him the opportunity to have "working" images something like this: [image: f259_Shortsectionliving.jpg] (the sort of sketches we often make to interpret/understand/filter orthogonal working drawings - cut out the middle man eh!). So I can make a lot of scenes for him or he can make his own if my plans for a scene controller work out. But he won't thank me if all 100 or 200 jpg files (as well-named as they would be) add to what would become the great bulk of his model folder. I could though ask him via the web dialog for his project preferences files and use some script (?) to pick them up for the export. I guess some similar arrangement should be made to share styles, materials, scenes (via js controller records) and so on. On the otherhand perhaps I should just go back to bed. Chris

It wasn't the 3d warehouse dialog, but a webdialog I put together with some small functions for a specific task. One of the tasks was selecting and replacing a whole lot of instances. The dialog went away after I wrapped some of my functions in start_operation/commit_operation.

it seems your right, strangely i didnt turn it on, thankyou!

Have a look at fred's tools on surface plugin. I imagine that could make it quite easy when combined with joint pushpull.

Guys thanks a lot for your tips! I'll try your advices and see if it works! Great video! Thank you both.

Hey, i found the problem - whenever i search for a key word in the shortcut - it doesn't find it, when i input the location of the actual menu it doesn't see it either, but when i put the first letter of a word in the plugin it shows only one function of the plugin (rotate around blue, rotate around red, rotate around green)...it shows up when I put the word re in the search menu, but nothing else works. its a bit odd. I wonder why that is?

To center an object exactly on the x,y,z - there are 2 (at least) ruby scripts that do this, and they each do it slightly differently. Move To Origin This script will move a component or group to the origin. It places the component axis on the model origin. This was written by Todd Burch and is hosted on smustard.com. Center on Origin This move a group/component to the origin, but it placed the very centerpoint of the group/component onto the origin. I wrote this for someone making objects for games that needed to have their centerpoint's located on the origin. So they are slightly different, but both work well. For scaling, use the tape measure tool. It works like this: Measure something that you know how big it should be. As soon as you measure it, type in the desired length and hit enter. It will rescale the entire model! If you don't want the entire model to be rescaled, then turn your object into a group/component first. Double click on it to "edit" it. Then do the measuring tool scaling trick. It will scale all objects within that component only - not the entire model. Hope that helps, Chris

The last time I looked, Podiun didn't render 2 pt perspectives of a panned/zoomed scene. Go here for help. I am able however, to render the entire model as a zoom extents 2 pt perspective scene, and produce a image that can be cropped.

Now it looks more realistic Karlheinz Alpen41-2.skp [image: olQs_Alpen41-2.jpg]