very nice, very grateful!

thanks wind-borne for the pointer and muchos thanks to our great coders who once again provide a solution!

i may well be overlooking something but this seems like a basic flaw in functionality within SU?

i mean, world axes are world axes - if you change them, then everything relating to them should surely change accordingly?

discovered this issue recently while working on a site where the buildings don't all have the same orientation. when i tried to produce the usual ortho views of one particular building ... oh oh

thanks - real life-saver!

@unknownuser said:

Works fine for export to Blender 2.55 !

hey pilou, could you get the materials into 2.55?

very nice!

thanks dave

thanks for this discussion, it has made the situation very clear.

SU will be perfect for my friend's needs. he is a creative guy, part artist as well, but not too computer savvy, so the friendly appeal of SU will suit him much more than a harder autocad type feeling. i can see what you are saying dedmin - in my arch work also, i could not use SU as my sole cad tool, even with layout. but as a creative development and visualization tool it is excellent.

dave, i like the advice about not buying pro straight away - it will be a while before he can model proficiently anyway. he is doing one off pieces to be made by himself, so i think the basic SU dimensioning tools will be fine. also if each part is modeled as a component, then it is easy to produce simple shop drawings. also with all the great plugins available like shape bender, simple loft, booltools and others, it's possible to model just about anything that can be modeled with a non-nurbs application

dave, i will certainly plug him (and myself) into your great website - an amazing resource

@unknownuser said:

I can also get an accurate report from SU or a cut list faster than I can get a sip of coffee from the cup in front of my keyboard.

i'm curious about how this is done. i'm sure you have explained it before - is there a link you can give?

excellent, thanks dave, that's what i was hoping to hear! Don't know why i asked really:)

my work is architectural, but of course the modeling principles are the same

shop drawings and cut lists ... does that mean you are using layout?

hi woodworkers

i have a friend who is a very skilled pro furniture maker/general woodworker. he is keen to start modeling for design purposes and also for presentation to clients

so i have offered to get him started with SU which i know pretty well.

then it occurs to me to ask whether SU is good ("the best") for this type of work, or if there is some more specific app out there? i'm pretty sure it's a dumb question, especially to ask here

nice, thanks pilou

just an observation about using k-tools to extend/intersect lines. if you extend a line to meet another line and you are working within a group, the second line will be redrawn outside of the group.