Well I loaded and unloaded scripts until the date error disappeared. However, right now I forget what script was the cause. I know that does not help much. I remember that I could not find out what the offending script did. I will look into my old scripts directory when I get home to see if I can find the offending script. Should be home by middle of June. One thing I did learn, that removing a script might make the problem go away, however, reloading the script may not bring back the problem. Right now, I am having problems with and error on components making, I have went though all my scripts, and found that a section of five scripts may remove the problem, note, it doesn't seem to be the same 5 scripts, but removing each one of the five will not give the same results, in other words make the problem go away. It is hard to track down an offending script. Right now, I need to get something done, so I just make sure I make the entry into a group before I make it into a component. My work around this problem. Ken

@unknownuser said: I have a problem: when importing objects from wings 3d and blender that are exported in 3ds form, they show up incomplete! sometimes i get a simple fragment, and others, it looks like a machine gun bearing nut blasted it to bits. It has holes everywhere! Help Please! Possibly the models you are importing consist of very small surfaces. SU cannot fill faces that are smaller than about 1 mm square. You could try importing the model at a larger scale unit(like Centimeters instead of Millimeters or Feet instead of Inches) and then scaling the model down once in SU. Anssi

OK, i figured it out... I had USB Overdrive competing with Logitec Control Center competing with SteerMouse... OSX was paying attention to USB Overdrive only. Thanks for all the help! haha

@wo3dan said: Thomas, Couldn't you simply create your arc(s) tangent to the "parent" edges, adjust their radii and finally move to the intersection/vertex. It's just one step extra, the move operation. See attached file. Yea I could do that. I do all sorts of 'tricks' to draw the arches correct. I just hoped there might be a secret SU thing, a 'Duh!' thing which I might have missed.

understood

Hola, Jeanpi! Hombre, me hubieras visitado y te explicaba. Mañana te llamo, ahorita ya es muy tarde. Voy a poner una alarma en el celular para acordarme. ---------For English speakers: I'll call him tomorrow, he's an old friend of mine.

Oh, I see it now. just turn on all layers to see the faces. I think you should be able to make it work by using some careful intersect with model on the meshes. Might have to explode them first. And carefully go through and delete the unwanted geometry. And again, booltools might be helpful here. I have not used it to know its strengths and weaknesses though. Chris

Wow, I could not highlight it, therefore it made it difficult to find. I went back to the outliner, and found it, probably as you have. The organizer seems a key component in making the model work efficiently, I am still trying to figure how to do that. thanks so very much for you help and insights. If you have any outliner insights I would be most interested in furthering my knowledge. aloha red

yes... thank you. All very good points also!

Thanks for your recommendations. It might be best to hold off until the E+ is fully developed. I'll be following it. In the mean time I'll probably stick with the code recognized tools that don't involve SketchUp. Thanks again, Mark

The problem is that V-Ray only recognizes the geometry as it is in the very first scene. Hidden geometry, layer visibility, and Face-Me component's direction in the following scenes are ignored. The animation is basically limited to camera position. Check out the ASGVis forum for more info on V-Ray animation. I've never really given it a go. You might find some useful info there.

Glad i could help.

@remus said: Sounds like it could be a grphics problem. As a temporary measure, try going window->preferences->openGL and turn off hardware acceleration. Thanks remus, your help is working! Sorry for can not response quickly, got internet connection problem here THANKS

That's right, forgot completely about that since I typically provide the background in a render. Don't forget to select SU ground with no transparency. Sorry no foreground in the example. [image: tlco_temp.jpg]

That's what I was afraid of. I suppose this should go to the Wishlist...

So restarting helped... Interesting (one would expect that from Windows...) Well, at least you solved it - glad to hear.

Yes, for some clients interactive 3D is like a dark art or something like that, they're just amazed when they see something orbiting.

Tom - I am getting excited! I see huge potential with this... as soon as the planting plan gets finished I am going to try a full landscape with you ground covers, shrubs, and trees... look for it in a week or so!