Thanks guys. I've tried importing two different images as textures and they look perfect when zoomed in, but as soon as you zoom out, they lose their effect completely and almost look like a flat single colour.

Great, thanks... do you know if it is possible to buy or import additional textures, apart from creating your own?

Hi, is it possible to buy and import additional colors / textures in SketchUp.

I am looking for more realistic grass textures, and i feel the grass textures that come with Sketchup are very pixelated.

Ok, so would updating the existing style not seem like the best option.

I still find this confusing

I guess i should do more research on styles

Thanks all. I still find it confusing as to why it asks these questions especially when i am not changing anything to do with Styles. I am purely only changing the Camera Location, however if i change my camera locations and then click 'Do Nothing' all of my camera locations are not saved when i open the file back up.

So maybe Camera Locations are attached to Styles?

Hi,

My model has 20 scenes. I want to go back and change the camera position on each scene, however when i update the scene, i'm given the following options:

A - Update Selected Style
B - Save As A New Style
C - Do Nothing

I don't really understand what this means.

Q1 - if i choose A, what exactly am i updating in my scene?

Q2 - if i choose B, what are the downfalls of save as a new style?

Q3 - why is the option to 'Do Nothing' here, is this the same as clicking a cancel button?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Thanks guys. I actually re-drew everything. Sometimes it's just quicker to do so

Ok, thanks guys... what is the best way to change these colours so they are all of the same... please don't tell me i have to re-draw all of them

Hi, i've used rectangle boxes to illustrate various zones in my model.

I've used the paint bucket tool to colour in each box, and i've used the same two colours (transparent red and green) on each zone, HOWEVER, as you can see below the colours (reds and greens don't match) don't look the same.

I've coloured all sides of the rectangles (top, sides, bottom) and i've even saved each colour to a pallett so that i can be sure i am using the same red and green.

Can anyone suggest what could be wrong? Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi, i have a created a model of carpark (extension) that is made up of about 100 different groups and components that i need to animate (Section Plane) into the model to show a construction sequence. The car park already has 3 levels built and i am trying to show the animation for the extension of another level on top.

I am not sure what the best method is to use when section planing items, and as you can see in the video i’ve made below, it’s starting to go wrong very early

I plan on spending the full weekend on learning how to do this correctly, so i would greatly appreciate any help that you could give to me on this, thank you.

MY APPROACH / PLAN
01 - i’ve gone and hidden all of the components / groups that makes up the car park level / extension.
02 - when i need to animate (bring in) a component / group:
02.1 - i unhide the component / group in the current scene
02.2 - add two section planes at either end of the component / group
02.3 - set the invisible plane as Active Cut
02.4 - hide the group and update the current scene
02.5 - unhide the group and set the visible plane as Active Cut and update scene

QUESTIONS
01 - should i use a different approach compared to my approach above… someone mentioned on youtube that you should add two section planes to all of your components first, and set the invisible plane on all components as the Active Cut before starting the scene animation… and then just make the visible plane the active cut in each new scene
02 - as seen in the video below… why are some of my components coming in on scenes that they shouldn’t be in (and coming in backwards)
03 - can you go back and add something into a group that you have already section planed in… if so, do i need to update all scenes when i’ve added something to a group that has already been section planed
04 - how do you turn off section panes from your animation / scenes so that they don’t show in your animation when it is playing… i’ve tried turning them off view menu and updating each scene… but they eventually come back again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU9H_PcE-w

Thanks in advance for your help.