Nice job, Dave. Good instruction!

Thanks for the responses! I will try and get two classes (3 hours). I will show them where to get help and I will definitely send them here gaieus... I will also tell them that I will always be available to help with individual questions. Can't wait to start on my own design Thnx again, Max

it may be that unless the view is close enough to notice individual bristles, just making a texture which simulates it will suffice. i've been playing with rendering a large lounge space which was originally going to use bristle tiles but when viewing the room, all the minute details simply blurred together after rendering and anti-aliasing for 20 hours, so a texture replaced it and the rendering time was then reasonable and the results were ok. we've since moved on in terms of aesthetics. recommendation - you'll have to play with different views to determine if complex geometry and materials does it, or simply seamless texture.

I believe that maybe the best for fill something between 2 arcs (or any curves) or more in the 3D space is Curviloft by Fredo6 (first tool: loft junction ) Call the tool, click arc1, arc 2, arc n , Enter that's all (curve 1, curve 2, curve n) And you will have a bunch of post parameters: Increase or decrease number of facets etc... Have fun curvilofting! (click image for zoom [image: i2ph_Curvi.jpg]

@cheneymax said: On another note...what would be the best forum to post a Maxwell for Sketchup question (It's another error ) Thanks again, Max I think Jason and myself both scan the extensions forum on a regular basis for maxwell questions -Brodie

Complex shapes need to be built with basic ones or use staticmesh, but that as the name reveals always stays static. When you get stuck on something it's best to upload the model so we can see how things are put together. machine.skp