@gaieus said:

See this topic: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=23925

It's caused by too many (or certain) plugins. Not too long, just 5 pages all, so go through and identify which plugin you need to remove/change etc.

Thanks..got it.

@unknownuser said:

Could you upload the file so we could take a look?

Here you Sir..those highlighted in yellow( even those highlighted in black when you click the arrow) are not functioning.

Hi everyone, I just had an issue about the right clicking in sketchup. When I right-click a group object,the edit group was not highlighted or when I right-click a texture, the texture and other commands or plugins was not in highlighted mode. Anybody came across with this issue? I thought of re-installing the program and I did., but still the issue was there.

Thank you for your attention and suggestions. I hope to find an answer..
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@gilles said:

TIG extrusion tools
CF shape bender
follow-me
some_work.rb

You should really decrease the amount of segments of arcs and radius and use components as often as possible ( my model is only 440 KiB and could be reduce).

Just for the pleasure.

Thanks Gilles..hats off man...

Thank you guys for being so kind and generous. I really appreciate your time and effort.

@oganocali said:

For this, Tgi3D's latest released terrain tools can be useful. See topic http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=41062&p=363876&hilit=tgi3d#p363876. Training version and/or 30 day trial is free.
[attachment=1:3emp8abb]<!-- ia1 -->stairs.jpg<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:3emp8abb]

You need to follow mac1's advice too. Make a component from the repetitive blocks of the railing. First draw the railing on flat ground. ( I used Chris Fulmer's component stringer on the small block with the projection of the railing path to the ground plane. The path is also resampled at regular intervals matching component width). Then I drew a surface using channel extrude (you could use follow and keep as well I suppose) and I set that surface as the mapping target. Finally I used map to terrain on the railing using affine mode. The nice thing here is that the component hierarchy is preserved, i.e you can further edit the block component and it will be reflected to the whole of the design (check the attached skp file).

Hi Oganconali, This is beautiful.. amazing..Thank you so much, for your time. Consider this is done, I still need to do few tweaks to match the design.

@mac1 said:

@gidominik said:

@pmolson said:

My favorite tool for curved railing is this plug in.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=16465

it is the follow me and keep plugin.

very easy to use.

p

Thanks P...I like that plug in too. But I need that railing to follow the curve. See the SKP attachment..Thanks

Have not tried to make the railing yet but some observations for your consideration.
The railing has a very high number of groups make from the same entity. You have a possible large model and need to consider how to keep the model size down as you model or you will have some down stream problems with "slowness'. One way to help is to use components as much as you can. Suggest you watch the youtube tuts on that subject and factor that into your model while you have this " early" chance.
Just some thoughts

Thank you Mac1

I didn't realize that I had some hidden groups till you mentioned about it. I did watched some tuts in youtube with some are very informative and useful too in a simple manner.Thank you for your thoughts

@pmolson said:

My favorite tool for curved railing is this plug in.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=16465

it is the follow me and keep plugin.

very easy to use.

p

Thanks P...I like that plug in too. But I need that railing to follow the curve. See the SKP attachment..Thanks

@thomthom said:

Ah! I see it right there, a folder named "QuadFaceTools - (0.4.1)". When downloading the plugins, copy the content of the zip files to the plugins folder, do not let the extracter wrap it in another folder.

I got it right this time... Thank you

@thomthom said:

That's your problem right there. That TT_Lib2 - 2.6.0 should contain a TT_Lib2 folder, and that is the folder which should be in the plugins folder. Note the footprint which is described for both TT_Lib and Bitmap to Mesh.

...though you should have gotten an error message when you loaded SketchUp when Bitmap to Mesh failed to load TT_Lib2. ...unless that also is wrapped in a folder...?

Hi Thom, Problem solved...Thanks so much, one of my favorite plugin....

@tig said:

Doy
Can you post a screen-shot of the folder[s] please...

Hi Tig,

Thanks. see the screen shot.

@thomthom said:

Is the .rb file placed directly in the plugins folder?

Do you have TT_Lib2 installed?

Are you right clicking an Image entity?

Yes Sir, everything was in placed

Thanks Dave, I guess I'm a bit lost here.May I request from you, if you spare your precious moment to show the procedure. Thank you Sir.

Thanks Dave, It's included in the attachment

Hi Thomthom, Just wondering, I installed the plugin to the plugin folder, but it didn't show the cursor, or when I right click the bitmap it didn't show the selection of bitmap to mesh.Any suggestion??

Thanks Bob, I like using follow me tool, but what I need to know is how to follow the the curve if I have a wrought iron railing? Any Idea?

Hello again. I need help creating curved railing to follow the curved staircase. Thank you

stairs7.skp

@tig said:

You haven't made the 'flight' of stairs the right size/form ?
This 'balustrade' - does or span the whole flight or just each tread etc ??
Once you have resolved the flight's form etc, then look at ShapeBender by ChrisFullmer...

Thank you Sir for the quick reply. That balustrade could be every 4 steps or whatever the right proportion is. Assuming that design is possible or I can use other design.
I hope I can get the procedure on how to create in curved or spiral.