Nice one! I am a sperical panorama hobbyist photographer and like your virtual panoramas therefore. I'm looking forward to your tutorial ...

Component stringer (Chris Fullmer) maybe also helpful:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=23616#p200751

@gaieus said:

Turn AA off and export at a much bigger size.

In SketchUp the limit is 9999 pixels... bigger export is possible with Layout (as Gaieus mentioned before)

The "alt"-key (or alternatively the arrow up (blue axis)) will force the needed autofold, see here:
http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94865

A glider...

and some scarce steps of the making of...

cotty_glider.skp

@pbacot said:

Would like to see some steps towards the proxy. Is that all free form joining of edges, say for carafe?

Here are some of the first steps, I will make a more detailed "making of" for the next example...

The glass carafe ...

cotty_glasscarafe.skp

You got me

@utiler said:

I'm with you nicholas; cotty you bring joy to my day when I've seen what you're doing with Artisan....

Thank you! Here is the next one: "The hand" (anatomically questionable ) ...

cotty_hand.skp

@iichiversii said:

Ok there is a freeware program called "make human", u can google it and get a download from there, that's 1 option, but you will need meshlab and autodesks fbx converter to import into SU, both are freewares also, hope this helps

Nice program! I've tried it and was able to export a collada-file and import in SU without other converters...

@leminilab said:

Seriously, I'm having a blast seeing you enjoying what you do that much!

I like!

Thank you! And you are right, I enjoy these little Artisan practices

A footprint ...

footprint.skp

A simple washbasin...

cotty_washbasin.skp

...or with Artisan...

• Tools on surface
• arcs
• Curviloft (Skinning)
  ...

@dave r said:

I've made one or two styles of my own. Here are a few examples.

Have a look at these great collections...
http://www.sketchupartists.org/presentations/sketchup-styles/

If the intersections lead to very small edges and/or faces, you can try to scale the model (e.g. x1000) before the intersections...

@tig said:

...the weir itself runs somewhat diagonally across the river too

I think I found it in the map!? http://goo.gl/maps/KTld

@zacchia said:

Checking the box in attachment does not make any changes...

This checkbox only controls the active section plane (if there are more than one) and not their visibility.
(edit: see this video for an application of this)
The visibility is controlled by the style dialog:

(One way to get two styles is described in Daves answer)

With the (commercial) "path select tool" you can double click one of the lines and the path will be selected...