@faust07 said:

@HornOxx: Freudscher Verleser... 😛 😛
@Chipp: great add-on. How much is it?

@ faust07: auaaaahhh! you are right! - not Handspeeder but Landspeeder 😄 😄
@ Chipp: I promise to use my reading glasses more often now 😄 👍

No need UV! ☀

@mike amos said:

When will Blender 2.8 be released? All I have found out so far is that release is delayed.

I'm hearing sometime in Q2-2019..BUT there many people are now using it since it's been in BETA. Beta typically means all the features are locked down but there may still be bugs. I've been using it for a few months now and it's pretty darn robust. As Pete says, you can download it now.

Regarding DL'ing of Blender 2.8. You should consider updating your download every couple of weeks. I know this sounds silly, but it's pretty amazing how robust the daily builds are. I've yet to have to 'revert' to an older version, and I've been doing this for both 2.79 and 2.8 for quite some time now.

Or more sinuous 😄

or free if you are an old user 😄

FormZ Free laks of Sweeps, Loft, and fillets! 😉

Thanks! That does the trick 😄

thanks to Eneroth, i learned that the axis origin of a group can be moved to wherever you need it by right-clicking one of the axis lines in the edit mode and choosing ''place''. you then close, re-open and scale. but to be clear, i am talking about re-sizing - not scaling. although re-sizing can also be construed as re-scaling. clear as mud?

Great! Thanks for such a quick reply.

Ugh. Getting old...

Turns out I commissioned such a plugin from Jim Fultz over 10 years ago and just now discovered it. I created a post on it as well. Vertex tools is better.

https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=64554%26amp;p=592146#p592146

Hey guys, I'm going to continue posting on this project at http://www.alamoreality.com/blog.html and close this thread. Any really interesting stuff, I'll post in the main forum.

Thanks Chip

I am in the habit of selecting the objects before the tool. I didn't realize that the move tool must be selected first for this to work.

Thanks to both of you! Turns out I had FredoTools installed and it does the trick exactly. Much appreciated!

@pilou said:

A little more enlighting! ☀

yes, video is better thqn talk, however there are a lot of steps in the video that could be faster.

I'll try making a little gif after holidays

@pilou said:

hello Chipp! ☀

I have not but someones say that is the best! 😉
Minute 8.47 to the end!

Hi Frenchy,
I have a Space Mouse on my desk and I use it some, but it keeps my left hand off the keyboard I think I'm happier (faster) with it on the keyboard. It is great for 'fine tuning' a scene though. Something which I can't do easily in KeyShot, so sometimes I create the camera view in SU and export to KS.

@chippwalters said:

@caul said:

It's actually quite straight forward to construct a "canonical" entasis in Sketchup for any type of column - smooth or fluted. <snip>

I've done two different tutorials on Flowify and even I had a hard time following this, but it is an ingenious use of the tool!

I've added a highly exaggerated example file to show the basic principle.

entasisII.png

entasis(skp8).zip

Thanks guys for your help! Much appreciated. I'll report back on my eventual workflow...

You can also get the transferring rotated axis if you inference your plane with the rotation tool, and then press one time the down arrow on your keyboard. This blocks that inference in place and lets you put the rotation tool in the position you want.