Hehe... Well, the can always use some pillars to hold the building of course. In a nearby shopping mall they preserved (and incorporated in the building) a whole big, public Roman bath. On another project I also worked, the Roman early Christian church was partly under a late Baroque, late 18th - early 19th century, three storey plebendary and chapters building so when we excavated it (and the protection building and visitors' centre was being built), they had to dig down to about 8-10 metres section by section to "undermine" the foundetions and fill it up with concrete. Well, surely it was a big project; about 13 K cubic metres and € 6 million spent over almost three years.

thank you, kwistenbiebel. just came back from a one week trip to Amsterdam. and in many hours of brooding (quite relaxed on the sun lit cobblestone streets of the city centre) I got some ideas for dear old SketchUp. sometimes, when the limitations become painful, I start looking for something else. but I always come back in the end

Az "Edge settings" a legelső kis ikon az Edit fül alatt.

..... and don't forget to have ANOTHER look at Layout, now Layout2! http://sketchup.google.com/product/layout.html I think Layout has now grown up and will be adopted by many professionals with a need to communicate their design ideas to clients.

@unknownuser said: If only I knew what's going on there!

Just 5000 dollars for the software... is cheap

True and that's also a nice site. Very interesting art work!! I was at the Festival of Lights in Lyon a couple years ago (it's always/generally at the firt wee-end of December). Good business, too; about 1 million tourists visit Lyon at a time tourism is really down (before Christmas)

Egy jó nagy UP a tutorial-oknak.

C'mon, Marian!

Finally, a definitive answer to a question I am always pondering.

Beautiful. Well done. Thanks. Allen

In the meanwhile, Jakob (Plot Pris) has also joined as a collaborator. I also made some changes - there were some typos in the description - see the history page how it records the revisions [image: qJWB_ScreenShot019.jpg]

There is a more professional piece of software available called Lamina which is also designed to unfold geometry. It allows you to input the real thickness of the material being unfolded, and then it prepares a cutting sheet with numbers and even tabs if you want them. You can save the output as a DXF cutting path for use with laser or plasma cutters or a waterjet/waterknife. http://laminadesign.com/index.html It's pricy...$395, but it's aimed at fabricators and rapid prototyping shops. I bought a copy after learning that some sculptors were using it for preparing sheetmetal for assembly...it does a nice job making complexly curved surfaces developable (not that's a situation you often see with SketchUp models...with Rhino, it's inevitable).

I've been looking for this everywhere, actually! Thank you so much for posting this!! You did save my life with that. I'm an LO user and I haven't quite figured out how to work with a transparent background so I'm glad that I found your tutorial on that!

if they can make a single exe out of .skp and the runtime than it will be a good way to distribute your model via web or CD/DVD

You can reproduce the bug even in 2D: draw a rectangle, move a point of the rectangle so that two edges cross, you'll get a triangular face and an emtpy triangle: [image: mAsW_Image8.jpg] now select all and intersect, if you delete any side of the empty triangle the triangular face that has apparently nothing to do gets deleted too. I think that SU still considers all those edges as bounding edges of the face. SU still considers all the edges as a single polygon that just happens to have a point that gets used twice. Try for instance to place the point you moved to its initial position and then select the face: you'll notice that there is just one face: [image: AdSP_Image10.jpg] hope this helps somehow.

now there are 9021 memebers..21 people in 24 hours...good numbers

http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/hosted_apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210200469 Seems everyone wants to use it! They would probably charge a ridiculous price for this if they sold it as a stand alone package...