Thanks David, for some dumb reason it didn't dawned on me that the front part of the roof was a different pitch and I'm not sure what exactly it does in the back. I will have to do some more investigation in to that! But really thanks a lot cause that had me stumped for some reason and I was a dang good draftsman at one time. been out of the game for about a year now maybe losing my touch?

Don't know if this was the right place to post this but here here it is. I'm out of my element a little and having trouble figuring out the deal with the roof, so if anyone here would be so kind get give some advice or show/tell me what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciate!I know there are a lot of great architects here so please don't laugh!

House plans

Thank you very much Plugin Creators, I probably wouldn't use SU as much if it wasn't for the great plugins that has been created by you guys!

Awesome! How lone before our (American) military has them strapped down with guns of some sort and all over Afghanistan

@cadfather said:

ok, wrong lines have been changed - hope it still works.

Is there something I can do to fix this or do I need to uninstall it? It still works but is aggravating !

I get this error after installing the power toolbar. Did I do something wrong, is there something else I need?

I understand completely about the file size believe me but they wanted me to do the first one like this. Once we are granted permission to use SU I will look into using textures in a lot more things even like the roof and wall panels. I also understand that the screw is not prefect by no means but it’s all I was able to do in the time I was allowed. I wish there were a screw dynamic component likes the bolt component I was able to fine and use in this drawing. Maybe with time and a lot of reading I could try to take on that one, one day? These drawings will not be used for anything but to help younger draftsmen understand a little more about what they are doing is all and I think SU is way better than AutoCAD in that aspect! We use AutoCAD and its all 2D and it’s hard for some to visualize what is going on in say like a hipped roof or a skewed wall so I said why not SU and their giving me a chance . Thanks for all the advice!

Kurts Self Drilling Screw.skp

I want to use these screws on a metal building project I'm doing. Trying to show how useful SU would be for all our company's draftsmen to have. Well at least the free version for now. I want to use as much detail as possible is why I’m trying to draw the screws. Maybe to overwhelm them into letting my fellow draftsmen use it while at work to help them on the more difficult buildings. Hips, Valleys, facades, crane-beams, skewed building all can get tricky sometimes in 2D! I’m not understanding how I could make it have less entities and where are you seeing this information? Thanks Kurt

My final drawing of the screws!

Screws.skp

Think I found what I needed?

Self-drilling Screw.skp

Does anyone know where I could find any quality self-drilling 3d screw drawing like the ones in the picture?

I was thinking maybe a simple American flag but it has a made in china tag on it so thats no good!

Must be going to an American school?

Thanks pdacot,like I said though most all this was done just playing around in Sketchup.The stuff I did with working out the roof angels were for some friends of mine that I worked with in the drafting office at the time.They were having trouble seeing and understanding how to calculate valley and hip flashing degs so I drew a simple drawing to give them a little step by step to help them along their way.

Hey thanks Speaker,I checked out some of your work and it proves my point I'm just an infant when it comes to working with SU and making little movies but dang its fun and rewarding when you're done even though some may even thinks it sucks.I made this with SU scenes and Camtasia Studio so I'm not sure what you meant about using a plug-in but I'm sure there are thousands of ways to do it I guess.If you don't mind telling, what do you use to make your videos? I'm really am AutoCad man and just started messing with SU for fun and thats what it is, alot of fun! Thanks again

Got bored and thought I would share something here.In no way does this come close to some of the stuff I've seen on this forum but thanks to this forum and it's members I'm learning something new about SU almost every day, so thanks to everyone! Plus I love this song and what better way to let people hear it?[flash=600,600:14ekhx5s]http://www.youtube.com/v/E-S6zpbbXfE&hl=en_US&fs=1[/flash:14ekhx5s]

Has anyone thought about the movie coming out (Splice)? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfFI0xdwMyw

I come here every day to learn more and more about sketchup but little do I know it teaches me more and more about life each time I visit!Wonderful forum!

See camera on the main toolbar and pick parallel projection.Hope I read your question right.

So very true!