Thanks Gaieus Working just fine now... Even Medium seems to do the trick... Thanks

Awesome.... Thanks!

Thanks for the info TIG Unfortunately its not always possible to find an existing thread where someone is experiencing the same issue as you... Either way I believe my test matrix has covered when this will cause an issue... and like i mentioned it would appear best to create components in a non-geolocated file... As I am in architecture and the geolocation controls the sun, this is not my default workspace... but I have now learned my lesson! It would help if the developers would issue such a warning though and at least build in the option into the component settings which I understand from the thread you pointed to, was something that actually existed in v7. I discovered this whilst trying to make a library of new people and almost blamed your image trimmer! Cheers Dave

Okay... so by a process of elimination I am thinking that its file related. Attached two pics: one from a 'problem' file... I then copied and pasted in place into a new skp file and imported the same view across and no clipping! Incidently I have saved the problem file back to v7 and opened it up in my older version of skp and it still clips, further confirming that it is probably file related... Now I just need to determine if its something I am doing as part of my workflow to cause the 'bug'. Will keep trying to isolate the issue. Standby... Dave [image: aWht_clippingv8.jpg] [image: KGkU_newfile_no_clippingv8.jpg]

Something is happening though. If you adjust the shadow date from 01/01 to 06/22 you go from a light to a darker coloration on the object at the RHS.

@andranaita said: I have the new vray, and i am using sketchup 7 pro, on a Mac OS and i have a problem. Vray doesn't render big models, with materials created with vray material editor. Small models, example objects taken from Warehouse, it doesn't have any complain. But a previously created big model, with lots of groups and materials, it starts to process, and after a few minutes it stops. It doesn't even open the framebuffer. It just stays still, and then nothing happens. I've tried debugging methods form vray, and still nothing. thank you There are many issues that is fixed in the current beta. Contact ASGVis support and report your problems so they can investigate.

Updated as new tool set here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=264130#p264130

Thanks TIG... this is great! As always you guys deliver... keep up the good work. Dave

Dave R Your workflow solution will work just fine i guess... In the meantime I have been thinking about this and figure that there could still be use for a 'paste on layer' in much the same way that components are dropped on the 'current layer' when bringing them in from the component console... That way we would get an object instance and layer change in one easy step. Could be good for bringing in CAD reference info into a model which is often multilayered.... Thanks for sharing the knowledge Dave

On the odd chance you don't need all of Tom's selection tools, you can get Instances from Smustard.

Thanks for the update David. I'll have to check it out. I think it would certainly be worth it. Cheers, Dave