Dear Chris, thank you for the effort you made for me. That helps me a lot. Thanks Elysium for your answer. Karlheinz

How about adding a ground plane to show some caustics.

@plyrjames791 said: :geek: I have created a plugin that can produce a helix and give it a profile automatically. You can download it here: http://www.freesketchupplugins.co.uk/springtool.php Cool, thanks, James.

This is actually a very good idea! Some plugins are quite complex and have functions that are not (necessarily) apparent for people not using those particular ones so some nice examples can be very useful. Maybe (even if not a full fledged one but) some steps with screenshots and/or videos to show the plugin in action to perform some specific task?

see the new tools of bonzai3d, nurbs. he can create something like this for sketchup? http://www.formz.com/products/bonzai3d/bonzai3dVideo_320.php?startMovie=Nurbs_Surfaces_Blend_Merge_and_Extend_320.flv

oh the humanity! Very Nice~!

For a circle Don't very well understand : why not use copy Rotation by 15° then *23? (with a circle 24 segments by default) [image: VmHh_23.jpg]

Fire Dragon [image: 4031464217_a5ebfb80e2.jpg] [image: 4031464409_71a4bf9007.jpg] [image: 4032217692_560f8d2c82.jpg] [image: 4031464733_9c570c00dd.jpg] [image: 4032218054_2898356b68.jpg] [image: 4031580931_30b9780b68.jpg]

Nice improvement , try adding more segments on the arcs oof the clock face. Also, try using a leather material from this pack of quality materials: http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42&func=fileinfo&id=36

Kerkythea

Very interesting. The second one reminds me, for some reason, of one of the floating cities in Larry Niven's Ringworld Engineers

@haynesc said: What is Twilight ? [image: QKyd_Twilight.jpg]

Hi, Now the Problem disappeared. Karlheinz [image: iKoj_Archologie2.jpg]

@charly2008 said: The idea came to me when i read that Twilight could be a little similar to Kerkythea render machine. It's no secret that Twilight uses the KT SDK (based on Kerkythea 2008 Echo), so you can say that it's KT build into SU with A LOT of things that should make it really easy to use... In the tutorials you can easily learn how to use KT materials directly in Twilight Render...

Hi, I had a closer look to the imported DXF 3D-Mesh and below the result, it looks nice but useless. Karlheinz [image: AWjt_DXF3D-Mesh.jpg]

Hi Tommy, Thankyou for your answer. Than i have switch between the DWG/DXF Viewer and Sketchup during modelling. Karlheinz

I've been using ACME for awhile now and can agree that it works great. You can pick from tons of bricks as well as mortar colors, even add soldier courses. It will also give you an alpha map (basically white=brick black=mortar so it's a great start to a bump map). I've downloaded Beldin's software as well and other than the types of brick which, of course, match up with their particular varieties it's got the exact same interface. Must have been designed by the same software folks. -Brodie