@gidon yuval said:

By the way guys, there is now a wood-working sub-forum that you can find at the bottom of the Board index under 'special interest groups'.

I must be blind. I can find Special Interest forums at all.

Gidon, if you want to do it, go right ahead. I generally don't draw furniture with the intent that it'll be used as a component in a larger model. I guess I'd need to modify every one of my pieces before posting them, then.

Thank you. I added the Slate style in the Styles section. I'll upload the Papyrus style when I get home from work.

Here's another one with the Old Paper style. I added some Screen Text using a font called Architect Bold.

This reminds me a bit of the photographed drawings from the Greene and Greene Virtual Archive. Like this detail of a drawing for a silver tray in the Blacker house.

I need to find a font closer to the lettering in this image.

This image got a little bit of a contrast increase and some added sharpness.

Done! Thank you.

Here are a couple of others I was playing with.

A papyrus texture.

And the same table drawn on slate.

Styles could be uploaded if there's interest.

Thank you. I'm glad you like it. At Eric's request, here's a similar one with darker lines.

Here is a subtle variation on the Old Paper style I uploaded yesterday in the Request/Styles setting section. If anyone wants this newer version, I'll post it.

Straight from SketchUp

This is after increasing "Shadows" in Picasa

Maybe the writer meant "grove"? Maybe indicating that there would be trees.

Thank you, sir. I like them, too.

Here's another one.

Here's another style I've been playing with.

Shown here with a Limbert Table

Enjoy.

Stain Paper 1.style
Stained Paper Style

Thank you all for the kind words. Paul, your images are great.

I've been trying to improve it and came up with an idea to make the sky and ground color black with no gradation. I can make the sky black using Jan's Background Color script. I'm hoping that after he gets his household moved, he'll have time to add control for the ground. I think this will improve the contrast some.

Unfortunately changing the background color doesn't do the same thing as changing the sky and background.

Here's an example.

Rectangle with a color applied. Shadows turned on.

Picture 1: Opacity set to 70. Shadow Visible.

Picture 2: Face selected and threshold set to .5.

Picture 3: Opacity slider set to 69. Shadow gone.

I did. I applied a color to a face. I selected it and then tried setting the threshold to .5 and then adjusted the opacity slider in the Edit materials box. As soon as the opacity dropped to 69 the shadow disappeared.

But apparently not with texture/materials applied to geometry in SketchUp?

So, in other words this doesn't change the opacity level at which materials/textures applied in SU cast shadows. Instead it would be used to prevent the transparent parts of components from casting shadows. Maybe like in the case of the 2D trees?

Jan, Thank you for this but I must be doing it wrong.

I drew a vertical rectangle so that it would cast a shadow on the ground. I applied a texture to it and made it a group. I've tried setting the threshold to .5 but I still don't get a shadow when the opacity slider is set below 70. Or is this only functional on textures imported with transparency?

Jim, no, I didn't try them. I have the Pro version and of course the toolbars work fine. A question was asked of my regarding these toolbar sets by someone else. I was just trying to find the answer. I was told in the past that free versions of SU didn't support the add on toolbars but either that wasn't correct or the staus changed at some point.

Looks like I posted a stumper.

I'm wondering if the the free version of SU6 supports the extension scripts like Projection and House Builder? It seems to me the previous free version didn't but I don't know if that changed with SU6.