Thanks mate. I"ll have a play with those suggestions.

I have a group (let's say group#1) that is full of components. I have another group#2 that is a simple rectangle (for argument's sake). I need to remove the shapes of group#1 from group#2. ie trim group#2 down by group#1.

Tried using SU's inbuilt solid tools, but it won't let me use group#1 saying it's not a solid. It is.

Tried using OSCoolean plugin, but am getting an error saying it's only for SU 8. I see several others with this error in that plugin's thread here.

Any other plugins or tips on how to achieve this?

[edit] added the SU file as an example

group trim.skp

I'm having the same error also. I'm trying to trim a group with a group full of components, but get the same error with just simple cube groups.

Thanks mate. I had completely disabled ABP while testing and still the ads were blocked. Maybe it was a cache thing.

Bizarre. Different wifi connection and now they're visible. The AdBlock Plus website is back up, so not sure if it's that or caches or something have been flushed. Sorry.

I'm using Chrome on Win7 with AdBlock in place. I know there's threads here about whitelisting sketchucation.com and I had done that previously, and the ads and downloads were visible for a while. But recently something has changed (not sure if it's a filter update or something), but I can't unblock the ads here again now, and I can't see any images or downloads.

Anyone else noticing this? I note that the adblockplus.org website seems to be down, but not sure if coincidence or related.

FYI I have @@http://sketchucation.com/$document in my exception file and that was working.

That's it, Mike. The "Collections" and I was creating my own "Favourites".

TIG, thanks so much for a wonderfully useful plugin.

I was starting to write a DC, then considered using a ruby, to draw 2D lineypes like dashes, centrelines etc. Then it occurred to me that your 2DlinestyleTool almost does what I had in mind, so thought I'd test the waters to see if you were interested in extending its capabilities before I attempted ruby scripting.

I'm a structural engineer. What I'd like to be able to do is model up, say, a structural steel portal frame building in 3D. The columns, rafters etc would all be components showing the true I sections etc, and say the rafters are in layer "rafters". But for roof framing plans we'd typically draft them at, say, 1:100 scale in LO and represent the members as single lines. So I was thinking of a script that drew a line (continuous, dashed, centreline/chain, phantom, whatever) along the centreline of the component and it'd be in a different layer (say "rafters-linetype"). So in model view the full component would be shown, but in the plan scene the 3D layer would be turned off but the linestyle would be on.

The lines would be 2D so only useful in plan view, or perhaps in elevation so maybe the script would detect the camera angle and draw the line thickness orthogonal to the view of the scene. If that makes sense.

And you'd need more options perhaps for the linetypes - pen width, stroke lengths, spacing lengths bit more customisable? Rounded ends rather than just square, or maybe give option?

And another thing I was considering was that if the rafter was at, say, 5deg pitch, you'd want the linetype spacings etc to be adjusted to account for the slope so that on the plan they'd be consistent with horizontal members. Not an issue with continuous linetypes, but might notice for segmented linetypes.

EDIT: I've started writing my own ruby script. We'll see how I go.

Thanks mate. The "paste in place" worked.

I've started building a DC, but realise I need some more subcomponents to make it work. How do you add them?