Well, after we'd suffered a while to get you properly in to the forums, I thought you would like to feel that it was worth the effort.

Hi, I would like to contribute somehow; from my experience in Architecture in Chile, when you don't know how tall is a building you could counts their floors. In our normative (Chilean construction law) one floor represents approximately 3 meters. So, If you take a picture of a building in Chile with 3 floors and you don't know its height, you could use this formula: Building's height in Meters= Nº floors x 3 [image: ficha.jpg] e.g. this building in Temuco city (Chile) has approximately 9 meters. my best wishes Vicente Sandoval Chile

@atomik99 said: Question: does Sketchup work like vector programs? SketchUp ISa vector program so it should definitely behave as such. Another tip: there are templates in SU -if you are a ne user and installed SU recently,you had to choose a template at the beginning. Now keep in mind that you can always create your own templates - just modify a new file/model as you wish (this means all style settings, included components like Sang is included in some, even scenes, pre-made layers etc.) AND of course, views in the way how "big" scale you are working. A woodworker would obviously like to start a new model from much "closer" than a landscape architect for instance. When you have set up everything, you can save your model in File > Save as template and then choose this new template to start SU with every time you use it at Window (Skethup on Mac) > Preferences > Templates. Note that always work in "real scale" (1:1) except in very extremely small/large scales. Materials are (and new materials always should be) also "scaled" to real life.

I use SU animation in my work for next day presentations. If you have a PC, this is an example of a exterior study for a house, and [url]later[/url] is an interior video for a small renovation. I had some flashing shadows (bug in SU code) in the interior video, but I cut the bad frames out for the final production. They are constructed by saving scenes, then exporting the animation. Use SU to see the sequence, but save at a minimum of 24 fps. Space the scenes to accomplish the desired transitions time from one to another (insert or delete scenes as necessary). Use 0 delay time between scenes, and duplicate scenes where you want a pause to occur. The animation is created in SU (unrendered) then the avi file is ported into WinMovieMaker for titles and editing. Nothing fancy, but does the job for me.

Hi Radu, Have a look at the Extensions index and search fopr Subdivide and Smooth, Free for deformation, Free scale (some may add more - these are the ones that come to my mind first). Teezer bet me but saying the same actually.

Dear Joe, I seemed to have missed a few replies to requests, and yours was one. Many thanks for the changes. Kind regards, Bob

Hi Joaquin, You can also try here (the direct link to the download page): http://sketchup.google.com/gsu7/download.html I still believe it's some kind of a GPU issue but if you are sure you have an adequate card and up-to-date driver then you can try to reinstall it.

Yeah, it's a glitch that happens (as far as I remember from the bug reports) after you scale something quite extreme in one direction. I haven't tried it now however so my "memory" may get me mistaken.

Hi , Have you tried http://www.indigorenderer.com/home Give it go and see if you like it? You've nothing to lose!!!

Casaba, your icon is freaking me out.

thats just creepy! did you see the fish one, pretty cool.

Hi Jeff and James, Thanks for your feedback. The YouTube segment is very helpful in that it shows the possibility of going back and changing the geometry with the scale tool. It is a pretty elaborate flying wing, and interesting to see it from start to finish. The segment on the wingtips is also very helpful, I will try out the soap bubble ruby. I had previously been to the PushPull site and downloaded most of the scripts there. I still do not know why 3DShapesTool does not persist after the last click. I have not found a tutorial on it. Jeff, your question about my skill level made me try and make a rounded cube. I am not sure how to send the attachment, but am sending it anyway. I need to read up on a bit more on the basic tools, especially using exact input in the VCB that did not seem to work for me. will keep at it. Many thanks for your feedback. Shahid Rounded_Cube.skp

Amen.

Thanks, all. Strange - I kept going there but whenever I scrolled to the bottom all I would see is the following message in red: "[You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.]" It was right where the link should have been. But just now I tried it one last time and "voila" - there was the link instead of the above message. Anyway, I have it properly installed now and it seems to be working. Thanks again.

Nice texture Thxs

Wow! Hi DavidA I'm David_H. I have never been the first to welcome somebody to the Forum before! I'm honored. so . . .um. . .Welcome to the Forum! Here.. .. follow this link. Fredo has a great manual here to tell you how to do it. Free Scale

hi guys, thanks for replies, I must admit, after getting suv8, I havent reloaded this ruby. 'Round corners' does the trick when necessary. Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year, everyone. Baz

Thanks Mitcorb. Hope I didn't confuse too many readers. The only reason I am familiar with this stuff is that I used a solid modeler before switching to SU.

http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2007/08/plugin-unfoldrb.html