@L-i-am it's a nice image. I would reduce the brightness of the lamps on the poles significantly. The tree to the left of the steps need to be moved toward the right so it's a syymetrical with the right side and the far right lamp needs to move to the right to match the spacing of the lamps on the left. I would try a render without the tree on the far left to eliminate that shadow. Maybe raise the camera slightly or reduce the height of the lamp posts so the lamps aren't at the same height as the horizontal overhang on the building.

@PeterLustiger good deal and I'm glad it helped. It's good that you found an older version that is viable so you don't have to start from the beginning.

@PeterLustiger there's a fairly large chunk of data missing from your .skp file. Where have you been saving it while working on it? This sort of corruption seems to be fairly common when working on files saved directly to external drives, network locations, or directly to the cloud. the best advice is to make sure you are saving to an internal drive while working on the file and, since you have a subscription for SketchUp, save a backup to your Trimble Connect storage regularly. Each time you save the file to Trimble Connect it is an incremental save meaning you can always go back to an earlier version if needed. Normally you'll work on the internally saved file, though.

I wouldn't hold my breath but you could put in a support ticket with SketchUp Customer Support and ask them if they can recover anything from your file ,however they wouldn't get your request until Monday at the earliest. They are unlikely to be able to recover the entire model file but they might get something. Depending on your schedule it might just be faster for you to start over.

Thank you.

@Rich-O-Brien no, it's not 100% SketchUp. It's a cobination of exported images over an image of paper with stains. It does use one of my sketchy line styles for the edges. The paper image could be used as a watermark but that is kind of limiting when it comes time to edit the image in the image editor.

@majid thank you. As I showed you on the other forum the hatching was done in Foto Sketcher.

@majid thank you.

The hatches are limited to the model because that's all there is in the image to apply the hatches, to. The background in the image with the hatching is white.

Experimenting with creating a vintage illustration style for my SketchUp models. The flywheel is based on dimensioned drawings in a textbook from 1897.

@flywheel try using the 3D dxf exporter instead of the 2D exporter.

@Bryan-K thank you very much, sir.

@SilentFart If you use the Sketchucation ExtensionStore to install Fredo6's extensions, including LibFredo6, you can use it to help you keep track ofupdates when they come and update them. You have to have the ExtensionStore installed for management of the extension licenses so you might as well use it to install the extensions.

In addition to helping you track and update extensions, you'll create a bundle of extensions from Sketchucation that you can install automatically if you switch computers or when you update to the next version of SketchUp.

Edit to add:

Fredo6 just released an update to LibFredo6. The Sketchucation ExtensionStore shows the update is available.

The red bell indicates there's an updated extension.

Clicking on it reveals the extension needing to be updated.

Clicking on the red download button updates the extension.

What are you looking for in the Tools menu? Note what it says in Usage.

@mtanure1234 you can use the native Materials tools.

@fransko what stl file? If you are referring to the one for the clips I showed in my first post, no, I don't give away my model files. Sorry.

A model done while waiting on dinner to cook. A pulley on a hook. This is based on dimensions in another edition of the technical drawing books from Spain.

@Rich-O-Brien thank you. At least this time I didn't go overboard with screw threads. I still need to add some studs and hex nuts.

I'd love to be able to make illustrations with the feel of those old lithographs.

Another in my series of machinist's models. This engine is powered by water, not steam. Water goes into the opening visible near the bottom of the engine and out on the far end. I believe the copper colored cylinder is just filled with air which gets compressed by the water and provides some pressure for exhausting the water.

For a scale reference, the flywheel on this model has a diameter of 159 mm.

Here's a grab of the illustration of the original full-size engine showing the valve arrangement

@Christian_33 what version of SketchUp are you using? Can you show an image of the sort of thing you are trying to create?

My first thought is to use Curviloft with a centerline and the shapes at the ends for profiles. Might be other options, too.

With Curviloft.

@Lozza944 did you do what the message tells you to do?

@a4jp-com Nope. I think this is a one of a kind.

@a4jp-com said in MSPhysics 1.0.3 (16 October 2017):

Will this work with SketchUp 2024?

No. If you read this thread you'll see the last version it worked with is 2017.