Using sketchUp add-on to place furniture looks nice. It will makes work easy and faster.

@bmccall17 said: ...Now, how does it affect multiple images? Does this only apply to the image face that I am working with? It will always scale the whole context you arte in. Like Chris says (as he's just beaten me); when you are NOT in a group (i.e. in the "whole model"), the whole model will be scaled. If you only want to scale certain objects, group them first > edit > and scale it inside their editing context. It will only scale whatever is inside the group/component.

What a weird request. Tell us more. What will the building be used for? Is it for a client? Will it be built or are you just doing a concept? Do you have a picture of a particular ladybird (ladybug?)? I did a quick tut on creating a ladybug shape that might help. [image: o8mW_LadyBugShape.jpg] LadyBugShape.skp

well I tried their .3ds export with 2 simple cubes (components). The plug-in complained that it can't be exported because they're components and I'd explode them before. I uninstalled it instead (which imho is a much more productive idea)

plot-paris just with Your help I solved my problem now I understand why su acting so with my topo Thanks Gaieus for info!

I was just glad to discover that it was not something I caused. I have an incredible talent for hitting the wrong button or putting an inappropriate check in a box related to something and causing bizzare things to happen which require hours of mental anguish to get fixed. I posted back so others like me(if there are any)who might experience the same would just move on without suffering.

Dynamic Table & Chair Components corner error corrected and links re-posted.

Great, thanks Phillip. Those look great! Chris

Hi Larry, Had you had any similar crash before you moved your component libraries? "As if..." I'd read about some similar crash with Mac & the Component browser but I cannot recall where. Also, I'll move your post to the Bug reports subforum...

@clj18 said: Hello, II am trying to display my model as a cross-section, and the building lines need to be thicker than the rest of the lines... thanks so much!!! I take this to mean any part of the building that is cut in the section, and you can control section line thickness under styles / edit in the fifth tab (solid purple cube"modeling settings"), section cut width. However if you are cutting through cabinets etc. and do not wish these to as thick, you're out of luck.

Hi, I took the .jpg file from your s.kp file. I cleaned it up in photoshop (to remove all .jpg compression artifacts). Then opened it in illustrator and used the automated trace feature. Then simplified the linework automatically in illustrator and exported as a .dwg file. I imported that to SU and ran makefaces on it. So now it is a pretty clean SU drawing. Hope that helps. I can explain that whole process in more detail if needed later, just no time right now. The whole thing took about 5 minutes. Chris fllorplan.skp

The method David describes is a good that I've used too when I've had lots of animations to make and didn't want to muck up my model. The idea is to treat the whole model as a component in a blank model. So save your main model and close it. Then open a blank model. File>Import and import your model file. Place it somewhere in the blank model. Now set up your animation scenes. Now if you make changes to your original model file, they do not get updated automatically in the animation file. But you can reload the model manually. So in the animation file, right click on the model (which is still a single large component) and choose "reload" and then choose your model again. It will load in the newly modified version in the exact same spot. Then repeat for all animations. For me it depends what my other animations are though. If I have 4 animations that are identical camera locations but different styles (pure white and shadows with no lines, pure color no lines, pure white with lines and no shadows, inverted fog to act as a z-depth layer). I will set up all camera scenes to only store the camera location and not thet style or shadow info. Then I make 4 scenes that only store style and shadow info. These scenes do not get included in the animation. But it makes it easy to export my animation in a different style over and over until I get all the layers of animation I want. So for me it always depends on what I am trying to export. Hope that helps, Chris

It's because I can only find the simple solutions.

looks interesting,will try it out. much appreciated. thanks guys. peace.

Look at this: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=07256339619360914543&scoring=m

Simplify contours works on contour lines before you make the mesh. Didier's plugin, Terrain reshaper works with already existing meshes.

Matt Interesting that you brought this up, because it has just started to happen to me, and it is only in SketchUp that it seems to want to save to this old file. First place I look though when I can't find the file icon.

@raduteo said: is there a UV mapping plugin or something like that? I searched but didn't find anything but I'm desperately hoping there is, or a 3rd pary UV mapping program that works well with sketchup? Thanks. any luck yet... im thinking of learning to uvmap as well

Gene, You can always save your SketchUp model as a version 6 skp while in SU 7 In order to be compatible with SU7 skps, the update would most likely come from Chief Architect and not from Google. CMD