@cadfather said:

(perhaps something to do with observers)

I was writing a response having this thought, but I deleted it, when you posted yours . I'm inclined to think the same... maybe there are plugins that have observers active for watching the cursor position, or chanve view, edit/create/delete geometry... and maybe that ones are using so much CPU

It happened to me once with a model, that SU was using a entire core at maximum I wasn't doing anything, only opened the model. It was a model that had to be cleaned. After I reworked the geometry it went back to normal.
The model was a dwg import... so, strange things happen. But 6% of CPU is not something to worry about. As thomthom said, is normal. The only way your CPU to not work at all is to unplug the PC from power line (because turning it off might not work every time, as there is LAN wake up and other stuff that trigger BIOS to send signals to CPU)

@mitcorb said:

Wow! I'd say that clutch assembly is way beyond the call of duty. He knows how to model. Where to put the fine detail and where not to.

I don't know what to say... everything is insane detailed ... I can't see parts with less details than something that is prepared for production.

It's just sick !

Nice one! And useful !
It would be neat to have some visual clues about where is the selected "thing", like thomthom's Solid Inspector. In this way, it would me much easier to navigate in the place. On a large model, to hide everything is a time-consuming operation. Also, to unhide everything after that is nasty, if there are a lot of nested entities.

Thank you, Jörg ! Today I had the occasion to use the updated version of the plugin, as I had to export some sketchup drawings as DXF for CNC. Despite it turns some arcs in AutoCAD, they are right oriented in CNC Software, and that is what I'm interested in.
You made me very happy here! Good luck with the improvements

@liam887 said:

You have done well with the seat but I feel the legs let it down. its not the mechanism as I appreciate that, but the clean white of the seat makes the legs look 'odd and out of place'?

Oh, you just killed it
The white of the seat is because there is no texture (i wasn't so interested in that). The "catch" should be the legs . I started from the idea that they shouldn't be symmetrical, but as strange as possible (but to offer stability).
Maybe just not my brightest idea - i have my excuse: it was late night.

@mitcorb - if I delete the scene, I can't keep camera position. So, is not an option (i tried ).

Thank You! I looked there but my window wasn't expanded and it didn't occurred to me
Thanks again, you saved me.

I'm in a bit of trouble... I made something using photomatch and I want to export a image with the model, but without matched photo. Is any way to keep the camera position, but discard the photo ?
Thanks.

I just got an idea today and wanted to see how it would look-like.
comments and criticisms are welcome

tomsdesk 2.5tree rendered in Maxwell. SL = 8 (aprox. 20min)
-shape OK
-texture OK
-shadows OK

Your trees render OK

@chris fullmer said:

Wait, so is that one of Tom's trees or not?

He asked to render his trees? Sorry ...I don't have any of his models.

Here is my test. Model quickly grabbed from 3dwarehouse, textures from cgtexturse.com

Actually, what exactly is what you are asking? Maxwell renders any model and it doesn't cough if you have many polygons. Or you are worried about materials? Maxwell "knows" sss for dingle faced geometry, so you can benefit of that for leafs.

@jim said:

Therapy.

You can say that. I model when I'm angry , it takes my attention from things I'm angry at.

I'll not post here the usual uses, but what is less predictable:

-i used it to make anniversary cards for some friends. See them below

Very sad news
I never imagined that the death of a person I didn't knew personally will affect me . It did. Was he that old?
I learned a lot from this community and I'm not talking about sketchup, but about dedication, about selflessness. Let's just hope we will not get such news in near future.

Rest in peace!

PROBLEM SOLVED !! I had a set.rb file in Plugins folder, which is needed for a SVG export plugin. That messed up something in SketchUp. I renamed it and everything went fine.
Sorry for putting you on fire.

@tig said:

dereeei

Edit the .rb file at lines #55-56 using Notepad or similar plain text editor

Thank you very much. All is fine.