Well, if we have already gone off-topic, one would most probably think that a name like "Csaba" (ending with A - generally a sign of female gender in many Indoeuropean languages*) is a female name. I've had experiences... There are exceptions - like Andrea in Italian - but they are generally derivatives of other names (like the Greek Andreas in this case). Oh well, I hope Jim won't notice this OT behaviour...

@fletch said: all my scenes were playing smoothly inside of SU. then I ran the FP2 script to create a 'better' cam path (instead of SU's natural 'pillowing' or 'arcing' effect for the cam transitions) After that I ran the scene timing script... trying to eliminate SU from stopping on each frame. 2 things occured. while it exports smoothly as an .avi, it plays stop-n-go in SU next time I tried to add some SU cams moving along another are of the same model, they were stop-n-go, instead of playing smoothly. Fascinatingly... I opened the file the next day, and the transitions were smooth even with the scenes that were stop-n-go the previous day. I don't know what to tell you, Rick. It's completely unpredictable. I am running SU on a very hi-end graphics card and have 3Gigs of Ram... so am very confused. Hi, I have noticed that animations within SU are smooth and quick, until I start checking and unchecking layer visibilities for each scene. Sketchup 'hiccups' when it has to load or unload layers between the scenes. Could that be what you were experiencing? Does anyone else have this problem?

That sounds like a classic Architects Practice

Fletch, indeed it's always good to meet new friends in your neighborhood! Thanks for the reference to your tut. Very informative. I will definitely review this.

wow this is great!!

http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/EM/ExtrudeAlongPath.rb ? Not exactly but...

I didn't need Fletch's rendering to get me on this bandwagon, but I must say that your render is another inspiration to me as I'm still learning. I for one am glad your here to help and inspire all us KT users. Thanks Fletch :thup:

workaround for selecting hidden lines: turn off 'view hidden geom' select all items you can see turn on 'view hidden geom' use invert selection ruby script you should now have only hidden geometry selected delete selected hidden lines

@matt.gordon320 said: Just in case you guys hadn't come across this...here's the workflow that FormFonts uses to convert all of their Revit models into SketchUp. http://formfonts3dmodels.com/2011/08/24/convert-a-sketchup-3d-model-to-revit/ This is SketchUp to Revit, not other way around...

This is interesting. I'll have a try with FileMaker Pro. I can make it calculate nice squares or even cubes out of the required area data. I'm all for using a text file format like CSV, it can be written in many ways, in emergency even by hand with Notepad. Anssi

Unfortunately the biggest drawback of all these match/group (by)layer/material- they don't work with the complex hierarchy (components nested in components)