UPDATE: Ive just bought a ASUS Nvidea EN9400GT (1Gb RAM), was cheap (UK £40), installed and working, has corrected my "selection" problem and is now super fast.... I was on an Intel Board which that inbuilt unit was 512Mb RAM (so wasnt a slow unit) however seems to be all about the OpenGL componant of the graphics board. Many Thanks @sfx group said: Hi Same problem, its your Graphics card.... I have an Nvidia on a P3 850Mhz (0.8Ghz) and it runs way faster than my Core2DUO at 2.4Ghz with the intel board. 90% of the software relies on openGL to work correctly, i am just researching cards now, however NVidia seem to support openGL fully... The card i tested it on was a GeForce4 Ti which runs like a rocket. Many Thanks Ashley

Hi, The same problem occurs when I try to scroll up the plugins toolbar. I may be ever so careful with the arrow, but it happens anyway. Karlheinz [image: s1He_Scrollup.jpg] [image: 0A86_Mess.jpg]

UPDATE: Ive just bought a ASUS Nvidea EN9400GT (1Gb RAM), was cheap (UK £40), installed and working, has corrected my "selection" problem and is now super fast.... I was on an Intel Board which that inbuilt unit was 512Mb RAM (so wasnt a slow unit) however seems to be all about the OpenGL componant of the graphics board. Many Thanks

Forget it, I figured it out Those then AREN'T components yet but groups, lol. So: Right-click Make Component first, then it can be saved normally

I want to thank everyone for there input. I was finally able to create the pulls although they were not as clean as the examples. I'll need some more practice. Thanks again, Jack

Hi SFX Group, hi folks. It is called Sampling a material and is well explained on page 144 of the downloadable User Guide in PDF format. The manuals or guides for each application and each platform (PC or Mac) are listed on this page: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=36213&cbid=-us87m8efyd6u&src=cb&lev=answer Just ideas.

@dmatho said: ... The Polygon Tool then works as it should, but that's not what's described in the Help/Knowledge Center... I don't know what the help center says but the story is: Either with the 'Circle' tool, the 'Polygon' tool or the 'Arc' tool, when first selecting the tool you see "sides" as the expected input at the 'Measurements' box. Only at this time you can omit the s for sides. Right after the first click you'll need to include that s when you would like to change the number of sides used by these tools. You'll see radius (or length/bulge for arcs) but this is ignored due to adding the s. The order of entering radius and sides does not matter. The included s is important for SketchUp. After drawing the entity you can still change your mind for both radius or sides. With the arc you can still change bulge or radius (include r) and sides (include s) in any order. After selecting anything else the story is over.

i found out myself. they were to the left of my primary display. i put them there when i had my secondary display to the left of my primary one, and thats where SU saved their position

That's the "classical" clipping issue. Indeed, the model (physical) extent, like being far away from the origin is one of the main culprits - but there can be other reasons as well. Check out the link and possible troubleshooting/workarounds for the future.

UPDATE: Ive just bought a ASUS Nvidea EN9400GT (1Gb RAM), was cheap (UK £40), installed and working, has corrected my "selection" problem and is now super fast.... I was on an Intel Board which that inbuilt unit was 512Mb RAM (so wasnt a slow unit) however seems to be all about the OpenGL componant of the graphics board. Many Thanks @donaldaugustsson said: ok, i have ATI Radeon graphiccard and it have been alot of problem with that card... what card do you recommend, cause i am tired of a the problem

Also, in the Component browser window, you can right click on any component and select "Properties" which will pop up the same dialog as you get when creating a component. Now here you can set any gluing/cutting attribute without exploding the component first to "remake" it. Note that not every changes made here will seem to affect the components already in place so you might re-insert them into the model.

My hatching tool takes any .JPG you put in 2D's Hatching folder and makes it into a new Material - you can then export these from a Model as .SKM files if needed... The .PAT files posted are just special format text files instructing AutoCAD how to draw the bits of lines to make the pattern. You need to use these in CAD as Hatching then, export a .JPG 'web-format' plot and edit that JPG so that it can be used as a tile-able iamge via 2D Hatching...

There is Podium (commercial but with an Eval version with 500x500 pixel output limit). This works fine from within SU. Then there is IDX Renditioner which - similarly to Podium - works within SU, is commercial but also has a trial version with image size output limit (640x480) Finally there's LightUp which works a bit different; you "change" the whole model into a rendered one and export only afterwards (Adam, the developer may correct me on this "brief description" - I haven't used it yet though planning to try out for sure). Also commercial - with a time limit but (AFAIK) fully functional trial version.

Not just me then, that what i couldnt find, theres not "measurements" without exploding then selecting that bar OR using the ruler (measure tool), however i have found it way quicker to just make the object again in most cases now i know i can type the figures in i need Many Thanks @pbacot said: I wish SU at least would give the dimensions of a rectangle not just the area. You need to click on a bounding line to see the length of a side. The "entity" window" could be more forthcoming with information.

Thank you very much. I think i got it now. Hoeg

My plan is to do all mechanical modeling in SU, import it in Zbrush and subdivide it without the smooth option on, make the texture and add surface details.

Hi everyone, i had the same problem, with google sketchup 7, free version, i downloaded one week ago, (7.0.11018) i had the APPCRASH problem, with the same secure32.dll i dont understand that type of information, i didnt knew how to solved that. But what i know is that one week ago, i formatted mi cpu, and before that, i had GU installed, and i was working perfectly with it, even thought my computer wasnt in good conditions, so thats why i formatted it. But then i download the GU7, and it doesnt work, i try to download a NET framework, and that isnt the problem, what i thought, is that before i formatted, i hasnt have the NORTON INTERNET SECURITY CENTER, but after the format, it comes by default, so i erase it, and bingo! my sketchup is working fine... Norton always make thins so complicated.! [imgfile:///C:/Users/Familia%20Pacheco/Desktop/Dibujo.jpgimg] I want add the pic where it appears the norton, in the add/remove programs, but i dont know how to do it. so you can see the norton that i had! or maybe isnt neccesary! you are smarter guys... hope this norton things can solve the problem for all you...

thanks for the quick response gaieus, i'm gonna try that on my model, i'll be posting the results of that, thanks again