ouch me! - you meant the original page, of course. I had already updated the link to your new page and the obvious disappeared from my perception [image: 1710699092904-3162056d-18f8-4f56-a6f5-42194ebec02f-image-resized.png] many thanks!

...thanks again - and yes, it is probably a miserable codec. It's a shame that Sketchup is willing to accept that a laborious task (by man and machine) is useless by this shortcoming. Luckily you introduced and remembered me to the "single frame method" I put the frame bundles directly into my timeline within Adobe Premiere Pro and it worked perfectly and above all in the quality to be expected right from the start...

Most excellent !

Nice! The end result looks like another photo to me! Well done!

@HornOxx I have free credis on Meshy. Feel free to ask me if you need a model

Nice work. I bet you can think of other applications for images with transparency. I did this template a while back for work for a specific client. The white background is actually a white to transparent gradient png I made in PaintDotNet and inserted onto the bottom-most layer in the layers stack. It can be easily edited if I need to change it or I can remove or replace it altogether. The cyan line above the logo is just there as a guide to prevent me from putting model related content below it. The line's layer gets turned off before export to PDF. [image: tpYE_Screenshot-9_1_20233_31_54PM.png]

Just edit in a new file and paste it back if needed

thank you All and I appreciate your comments

Happy new year to all.

These are both amazing.

Like that alot. Nice work.

thanks a lot Bryan and Mike !

Top notch!

nice project, cool render!

again - thanks a lot All for your interesting and sympathetic comments on this coincidentally so well fitting model-mix of my Cruiser and Hellnbak's cool plane and even cooler plane engine...

PB would build build assemblies/profiles along multiple paths. Search "profile builder sketchup" on youtube

I do not know how I missed this one mate. very nice work

Box is correct. If the image is left as an image, it will remain visible when you are editing a group or component. If you import it as a material (or import as an image and immediately explode the image which converts it to a material) the material won't be visible if it is outside the context of the group/component being edited. I've seen some tutorials showing the importing of images to use as references where the advise it to immediately explode the image and then group the geometry. I've never understood the reasoning for the added steps, especially if the image is only a reference and will not be used as a material.

@hornoxx said: L i am and Mike Amos - ouch! - ok, I finally got it Nice, yes thats where my head was at

Thanks Tig for your additional explanation - well, we are a decentralised company and I am always connected to the servers in this company with my computer. I load my files from these servers and save them there as well. When I am in the office, I have the server right around the corner. At the moment, however, I have been in home office for a few months. (as already mentioned, before SkUp 2021, this phenomenon never occurred for me)