Nice Eric

Well, note that may of the attributes of DC's are set to the axes so when it comes to working with DC's, it is more important to watch the axes than ever.

Thankyou very much, cant believe I forgot about that tool! i hang my head in shame ; ( ; )

cduscher,, Boofredlay,,,, Holly Crud!!!!! Neat stuff!! Not only will this take care of "crown" it will do a bunch more for me. Boofredlay, the follow me tool does the drawing and cduscher the video takes care of breaking apart the model and making separate components. Can't get much better! Thank you guys, Mike

@double espresso said: FBG... Info about your OS would be helpful. DE Windows XP I got the model re-done during a bout of insomnia went pretty quick since I already did it once and had already made all the mistakes. I think it must be because I had it Intersecting a whole model as the power failed. Bad timing I would say. Anyway I got it rebuilt now I can start on the next one.

my advice would be to just give it a go. Make sure youve got frdo06's tools on surface plugin (you can find it in the ruby forum) and then just model away.

Thank you very much. I have spent hours trying to figure it out and it was right under my nose. Thanks a lot.

Jim, this looks like EXACTLY what I want. Thank you so very much. How did I miss this?

Note that transparency on a skydome can be a very good thing. It allows you to adjust the look of the sky by simply adjusting SketchUp's own Sky or Background colour settings. It makes the skydome far more versatile. You might be able to brighten, darken, or even achieve sunset or night effects all with the same skydome. Regards, Ross

Yes, broomstick,,, I learned that hard way that the "hand" had to be somewhere on the "drawing object" to move it around. Not on the drawing plane....... Even now sometimes I forget and try to move the object by clicking on the drawing surface,,, then I get to old "beach ball" and I get to grin at myself.... See ya,,,,,,,,

Hi Jeff, (and Gaieus) when you're fine with hand stitching you can also use plugins to do that for you on larger models. Like this one http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/skin23.zip I tested it on your boat and it works just fine. You could result in more facets than by hand and of course it will increase your file size. But the aspect of your curved surface is smoother. Just unhide the geometry to see the difference.

Hi Alpmeadow, I think this would be agood idea. My interest is in making models for GE. I find the discussions of organic modeling, rendering, architechture, etc. interesting, but they don't relate directly to my area of particular interest. I've already suggested to Google that the 3DWH should have a seperate catagory only for GE models (and those aimed at GE.) Tom

thanks remus, i think i'll go back to su6 unless i find a work around.

I used to work for the Windows Firewall team in my previous job. I guess I had an advantage on this one, it sounded very familiar to me. I am glad it worked. Simone.

@barrington said: I have just installed SU7 and sometimes I can't select edges or faces. The push/pull tool works sometimes, then it stops when I cannot select. If I select with a right to left marquee, that always selects whatever it crosses!! In fact, selecting is a problem with SU 7 for me, I have tried the same processes in SU 6 with no problems at all. We have the same issue, you can fix it by following these steps Select all ( Ctrl + A) Go in menu Edit , go to the end of the column, you will see some thing like "1 component", "1 group" or a "number" with groups or component Go inside this selection to chose Expode You may have to repeat this 3 steps until u can select, and then you can regroup these elements Good Luck NGUYEN

hi, im back. sorry i havent got back with my other posts. been really busy. right now i really need to put my finger on proper animation. i still dont understand how to use it. can u explain again step by step? thanks.

Indeed the FM tool (as well as intersect) has issues with creating faces whose edges are about 1mm or 1/16". It used to have this problem in V 5 and 6 as well. The general workaround is to temporarily scale everything up (say by 10), do the FM then scale back.

Hello Jeff, Actually i found this video tutorial that's not for creating a cork, but maybe you can get the idea: Another way to creating Spirals hope that help.

The model will also be much more manageable and the face/edge count will be halved if you substitute 2D face-me components for the trees, flowers and shrubs. (from about 600000 to less than 300000 edges, for instance) There is also the other problem with the 3D plants you are using. To save disk space, they are divided into many subcomponents that themselves have subcomponents etc (like leaf, branch, etc). This added complexity is also slowing SU down. Anssi

Here is a good video from the BaseCamp series. It is "advanced" but it will give you some good ideas about how the tool is used in models. http://sites.google.com/site/3dbasecamp2008/all-sessions-2008/working-with-terrain-and-other-irregular-surfaces