Autodesk also has the free TrueView application that besides having almost all the viewing and printing functionality of full AutoCad can convert newer DWG files to older (even very old) formats. There is a link (the "DWG From Autodesk" button)to the download on the main Autodesk webpage. Anssi

Yes Anssi, you are 100 percent correct. With best regards PRSS

@chrisglasier said: @tig said: You need to make two similar styles - one with and one without the sections ticked - make sure the correct styles are applied to the required scenes... Should then work as expected... Thanks for speedy reply. I didn't know section planes had anything to do with styles; I will investigate that. Any further illumination would be good as I can be quite thick sometimes! Thanks Chris OK found it!

I'm pretty new to Vray myself, but I'm pretty sure that Vray for Su doesn't have a command line and that you can't set the sun position, but I guess I could be wrong. These are the only sun settings I can find in Vray for Su [image: mWoA_Capture.JPG]

I uninstalled GE and cleaned all remains of it. Then I reinstalled the same version (4.3): the problem was not solved. Now I installed GE 5 and the left side of the model is only a little floating (it was really bad before, four times as much). So I will tweak the terrain and accept it. Thanks very much!

Thanks Jim

@eng.basel said: what is SU ? "SU" = "SketchUp" (just abbreviating). @eng.basel said: how i can resize by using it ? 5-8 MB uncompressed JPGE .. Like I also suggested - and you resized (a bit). You can also resize the resolution. I can imagine that these image files have some thousands of pixels side wise. Note that SU won't display better resolution than 1024 pixels (or 2048 pixels if "Use large texture" is set in preferences) anyway so any image bigger than that is useless but taxing your system.

nice !!

Rick, I would guess that the white faces in your model are faces with their front side visible, and the bluish ones are "back" faces. Generally a model should be built so that only the front sides are visible, especially if you plan to use outside rendering apps. See the manual for more explanations. The reason why they are mixed as they are lies either in AutoCad:s sloppy 3DS export or the way SU interprets the vertices of the faces when importing. There is not much you can do about it when importing. If you want to try correcting those, the right-click menu commands "Orient faces" and "reverse faces" are the ones to use. Anssi

The Idea to find a solution for the construction of roads on an terrain within Sketchup does not let me off. I saw in the Forum some nice terrains created by Vue or any other 3D software. But i did not yet see any with inserted models and the accompanying Streets or Roads on a sloped and curved terrain in Sketchup excepted in other 3D software (see example pictures below). Also most of architectural works in Sketchup are done on flat 2D grounds. Ore am i wrong. When i found this "Anadelta Tessera" program, the idea came to me to generate a points cloud file from a Sketchup terrain for studying the road construction in that program. Because till now i couldn't find a Points Cloud ASCII sample file for download. It is perhaps a creazy idea. I hope I do not bore you with my ideas. May be the only possible solution is this Program:http://www.compuneering.com/simuterra.php Karlheinz [image: Em48_roads1.jpg] [image: GEA7_roads2.jpg] [image: ZuCO_roads3.jpg]

Ok Thank you modelhead.

@sfx group said: ...However i seem to have something already in 7 called "Create Face" under "tools>utilities", this worked when i selected all sides, then selected this, a face appeared and i can now make it 3d Yes but it's generally more cumbersome (slower) than just drawing over a line.

Hallelujah! Thank you solo

Dear TIG, A slightly lower poly model using a repeating component, just to prove that I do listen to your good advice. Actually, my last attempt confused file size with number of entities. I now open Model Info when drawing a component to see how I'm doing. Kind regards, Bob corrugation_lowerpoly2.skp

Thanks for the tips, although it seems the Style window does not use standard Windows dialog boxes (which I suppose it's why it's one I can't do alt+space m on, which works for the others). Damn!

Thanks! I'm an idiot. Should really read the instructions some time.

That's true but there are also server licenses (when there are more computers loaded with SU than licenses purchased) or you can imagine a time consuming animation export on one machine while working/modelling on another one...