Thanks guys! Tig, great plugin it did its job wonderfully. Kerkythea was also something I tried which worked just as well. Thanks for help!

Podium, our only Problem is getting the shadows to cast in the negative space or the spots light would shine through in the perforations. I'm not very familiar with how sketch up reads PNGs does it let light cast through the spaces that appear transparent or read it as a uniform face?

Hey guys,
First off I appreciate the help and support this forum provides, its amazing the things one can learn from a helpful community.

Now for my problem, I am attempting to a image made up of dots (think Andy Warhol stipple) and use it to make a perforated face in sketch up, where the dots would be the perforations. I don't even know if this is possible due to the complexity of the photo (I'll try and post my example soon).

I have tried making the image a .png and rendering it from there but I cannot get the shadow to cast through the negative space of the photo. My last idea is going through and making each perforation a Block in AutoCAD and filling each Block/Component in sketchup then using these as a type of cookie cutter to make my surface.

If anyone has other opinions I'm all ears!

Thanks!