This is just.. just... i mean...

@chris fullmer said:

Hey Faruk, its been a while since our work on the wiki! Good to see you again.

Yeah, like, over 2 years! Sad to see the wiki neglected, but it was bound to be rendered useless due to the enormous amount of video tutorials spawned i guess.

Well, back to the subject: you misunderstood. What i wanted to know about scaling wasn't particularly about your model. Say you have a DC with limited scaling handles (like yours), but you want to scale it the good old way (with stretching); how do you temporarily skip over it's "dynamic-ness", if you ever can?

@unknownuser said:

Works fine
Trivial question
How make a "normal scale" of the component?
There is the Shift but it's always Uniform
Must explode all levels ?

Oh, and yeah, i'd like to know the answer to that too..

Great start, Chris.
I wanna get down onto DC's too but once i saw the spreadsheets and fuctions etc... i was overwhelmed. Now i'm convinced to spend my time away building multiple boring households, thanks to you

Thanks Ilya, it worked like a charm. I wonder why it doesn't work from the Plugins menu though.

Didier,

Another excellent plugin. What a time saver!
But i have a problem with the window option (door option works flawlessly). It simply does nothing. I tried various "window height" and "sill height" combinations but no success. Do you have any idea what might be the problem?

@ely862me said:

i don t know how this should woork but for me it doesn t
first i create a shape and when i clicked polyreduce it cuted half of the polys
then i take a hood of a car and i clicked polyreduce and it start counting something and doing nothing it says like that : colapsed (i wait until)2 milion from 98 edges

Same here

Dale,

We're gonna make you rich!

Gaeieus is right about always drawing on Layer0 and then moving the entity to another layer only when made into a group or a component. But even if you're a veteran SketchUpper, you'll have to deal with files that have zillions of layers, each with different entities in them which are distributed in various "depth levels". So i guess you could use one of the layer manager ruby plugins. Check out the Ruby Library Depot's dedicated page here. I'd advice C.Grant's "PutOnLayer_bmw.rb" which, when run from the context menu,"puts all primitive and encapsulated geometry on Layer0. Only the top-level components and groups will move to the specified layer".

Been away from the SU community for a long time now, so yesterday I decided to check if there was any new toys around and saw this one: It definitely looks, and works great!

Good work as usual, Didier...and nice guide too.