Thanks CHARLIE__V, now it is clear. It is the best way... (Strange, these errors in the resulting patterns - but I can live with it...)

Thank you CHARLIE__V for your idea. What I do not understand: I installed the Hatch Faces plugin (V1.8) and I can now successfully hatch faces - but I do not understand how to select "brick" hatch and how to orient it. Could you make some screenshots ore point me to somewhere I can see what you mean?

Thank you Dave; Well, that is the way I performed it for the screen shots. But however, this is not very handy. I thought that there is an easier way like intersect two groups or something like that.

Dear all

I have a group of areas:

Then I have an area:

How can I crop the group to fit into the area to get this:

I am drawing a floor plan of our new footway tho show to the gardener, how exactly he should put the stones: (the red / yellow areas should be filled with the pattern (in different angles and different sizes).

Since this filling pattern needs to have an exact size (each stone needs to be exactly drawn in the right size), I think that I cannot use a material to fill the area (because this would be an image, on which I can not influence exactly the size, angle, position...)

Does anybody have a solution for that?
Thanks in advance,

• Adrian

Incredible - for all a plugin and such fast answer...
Thank you very much, it is exactly what I was looking for...

Dear All

I am looking for a possibility to enter the length of the segements in an Arc instead of the number.
If we draw an Arc, we can enter e.g. 20s to get 20 segments. But I like to have segments with exactly 1m length (the last segment will probably shorter, if it does not fit exactly).
Is this not possible? Or is there a work around?

Thanks in advance!

• Adrian

Thank you all for your hints. I will try them.

Currently, I have problems installing SplitSausage plugin; even though I downloaded TIG-splitTOOLS-20120219a.rbz and installed it, I have no toolbar; I also tried TIG-splitTOOLS-20120219a.zip and copied it to the plugins folder. After restarting Sketchup 8, nothing has been changed; no toolbar in View->Toolsbars...
Well; I will try to get it or will try another way...

• Adrian

Dear all,

I have again a question. I am still drawing on my house...
now, the new stone path needs to be inserted with a given rise:

The red part should go linearly down to the gateway of the garage.
How can I do that?

The drawing:
http://adrianbader.no-ip.org/misc/sketchup/3/MyHouse.skp

Thanks in advance!

• Adrian

Ah, OK, that it is. Instead of Push/Pull to go back to the face, I can use Move and the down arrow. That is what I was looking for.
Once more: thanks a lot!

Well, pressing Ctrl will keep the whole original body instead of just leaving the face.

Hi Jean Lemire

Thank you too for your drawing and your tipps in the drawing.
I have one question: your lines looks much smoother than mines / i.e. the basic points are not shown in your drawing. This looks pretty bether than mine.
How can I achieve that?

Thank you Gaieus, it is incredible, your fast and excellent help! I will try it in the afternoon!

Of-Topic:
If we have a surface (e.g. created by some lines) on the bottom, then we use push/pull e.g. +2m to build a body: now, if we push/pull it down again by 2m -> the surface is deleted. Can we avoid that? - Or: what is the best way to modify the footprint of this push/pulled body, if we want to apply this new footprint also on top of the body? - I hope you understand, what I mean.

Thanks a lot,

• Adrian

Dear all

I tried to draw our house (http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=50439) and now I need to draw the sourrounding area because we will need a drawing for our gardener to let him make the new stone path / retaining wall and to use the drawing also as annex for the building application.

I really have problems drawing that. We have a lot of faces and flanks on our parcel and I have no idea, how to do that. I tried it with sandbox tool. But it seems not to be the best way or at least I have difficulties.

Some images of our parcel:

A first try:

(I know, I have not yet executed all your tipps from thread http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=50439 - I will do it as soon as I have the time...)
-> The rounded stone path must also be lowered... I know, a lot of work.

Do you have some tipps, how to go about that? - It must not be perfect; I cannot afford a lot of time - some hours, not some days...
Any idea?
Thanks in advance for your help!

• Adrian

Hey, thank you all for your help and comments!! I see, I have to learn a lot...
Especially, thanks to Gaieus for this step by step guide.

And yes, the floor plan is exactly according the drawings. (The house was built in 1961.)

Hello everybody

I am new here and also quite new to Google Sketchup. I am drawing our house to use it later as the base for a building application.

I have problems finishing the roof; it seems to be quite tricky. Can someone help me finish this? - I think it is clear what is missing:

As you can see, the base ground of where the roof is missing is not a simple rectangle...
The roof should be one surface wihtout any bend.

Here is the full design:
http://adrianbader.no-ip.org/misc/MyHouse_PartOfRoofMissing.skp

Can someone help me finish that?

• Thanks in advance!
  Adrian