Noticed another thing. I had selected some faces like this: [image: file.php?id=17984&mode=view] When I minimize and restore, the selected edges are now suddenly smooth. I'm now seeing the opposite effect I saw from the V-Ray light sphere. What gives? Such oddity.

You have to use the email address you created your WH account with. Like with every Google service,the "login name" is always the email address. It's a different issue that SU will recognise your WH "nickname" and when you claim credit for a model, it will automatically write that.

@ella-garden said: Dear SU users,If there are here people using SU for landscape design, let know. It is interesting to exchange experience in designing with SU. Probably, it will be is useful. Ilia. A lot of us landscape architects actually use sketchup. You can check us out further at the land8lounge.

Brian, The best I've been able to do, thus far, is static representations of select direct/reflected rays, using transparent colors: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=c63b8d66ebe146e5b2174b2fd0759d18 [image: j02I_Collector.jpg] As Gaieus wrote, the sun-tracking feature of SketchUp is perfect for this kind of study. You can demonstrate hour/date changes, as well as the effect of changing the latitude/longitude for different locales. Regards, Taff

it's also sometimes necessary to make hidden lines visible when applying textures to odd or curved surfaces. You'll be painting smaller segments but if SU gets confused when painting on curves sometimes this is necessary. -Brodie

I guess you're right, Coen, it's better on than off. Still, but what's the difficulty of programming the option key, as it is programmed in Move, for example? Except keep it sticky, so that once it's engaged it stays that way until turned off.

I think it just might work, plot-paris. Thanks for the suggestion, I will give it a try. Best, Jim

Try renaming (at least temporarily) the sketchup executable, then set it as a default. I tried and it worked. Hope this helps.

Hi Kristoffer, You need no script or anything to be able to make entries into the VCB. One suspicion however; don't click into it - just type as you model (see the typed numbers appear) and hit Enter. Your other question; there are no "native" SU tools to curve or bend eisting geometry - you'd rather create everything to have the final shape.

I think all experienced users draw with the axes always on. As they don't render, I can't think of any reason to turn them off...apart from the very exceptionl case of showing a client a walkthrough of the model. As Chris says, you are much mre likely to spot elementary mistakes if they are visible. For instance, we quite often get questions relating to a mysterious grey shadow hovering above the ground. If the newbie had had the axes on, it would have been immediately obvious that the model was set below the origin; and that the shadow was actually on the ground, as specified in the Shadow dialog box....and that it was the model that was too low, not the shadows that were too high.

perfect solution, jakob. thanks a lot.

Bruce, the Freehand tool is your friend. No need to quit. I found after a bit of searching, the image, below. I used WinTopo to make a DXF file which I then imported into SU. Pilou, you're getting more and more abstract. I like it. We could call it Mona in Ice. [image: lvsU_monalisa_cp.jpg]

@lilleskut said: I just started playing around with sketchup and made a house with a gabled roof like here: http://www.et.byu.edu/groups/cmfac/fenn/CM210/notes/Roof%20Systems/roof%20types.jpg. What I want to achieve now is the following: make the roof to extend beyond the walls on all sides (overhanging) add equally spaced columns at the end of the roof on all four sides of the house. The columns should extend from the ground to the roof and connect to it smoothly. How do I do this? Another, general question I have is: "How do you create a set of objects equally spaced?" Is there a tutorial explaining this? Check this out. Aidan Chopra has a complete set of tuts on YouTube... everything you asked and more! http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sketchup&search=Search

Gotcha. Well, I'm sure DC's should help you out then. A couple other things that come to mind. Make sure your textures aren't too large. The wood textures for the cabinets, for example. As of SU 6 the max you could display was 1024x1024. SU 7 has some sort of high res option in preferences which I'm guessing ups that, though. Anyway, SU will save a copy of the image you use as a texture. So the worst thing you could do is use a 4000x4000 pixel image as a wood texture because you won't see it to the full resolution for one thing, and for another SU will save that whole huge file. Specifics for components... Components could actually help you out quite a bit unless you get into custom stuff a lot w/ your kitchen cabinets. I use to do kitchen design at Menards (like Lowes or Home Depot but only in the Midwest). We had a program where you'd basically pull off specific cabinets and place them in. That could easily be done in SU by just making a library of your standard base and wall cabinet sizes, then just pull them off of your components pull down. I'm getting all sorts of DC ideas too, although I haven't gotten into DC creation yet. You could almost just have a half dozen DC's (base cabinet, wall, drawer base, sink base, tall utility, etc.) that you could stretch and snap to your typical sizes (12, 15, 18, 21, 24...). And then you could use the interact tool to cycle between different knob and door styles and even finishes. Heck you could even use it to toggle the doors open and closed! Lots of possibilities, but now I've gotten way past file size. Basically the benefit would be that all of your doors (of like size) would be the same component, your hinges would be the same component, knobs, drawers, etc. -Brodie

Many thanks, Much appreciated ! Cédric

I was looking at doing something similar to this on our site.. There is an opensource flash library called 'Papervision 3D' which has support for collada files.. so in theory you could create a flash widget which would load a collada version of the 3d model and let you zoom and pan around it at will Obviously this would only work for smaller models, but that is the focus of our site. Maybe sometime soon!

gunarsk, The Hypercosm teleporter plugin let's you export models to be viewed interactively in a web browser. I have tried it and it works nicely, you have to install their software,similar to Flash. Ah, and it's free. http://sketchup.google.com/download/plugins.html

AutoCAD 2010 wants to be Sketchup, scary http://autocadder.blogspot.com/search/label/AutoCAD%202010

@plot-paris said: by the way, wasn't it possible to to save a component (by context click > save as) in SU6? Indeed it was (or actually still is)