Hi. Thank you for the comments. I have developed a special liking for black background. It gives lesser strain to the eyes. I have changed the back ground of my word documents to black. Initially I used white text on black. With a lot of text, it also was giving strain. Now I changed the text to 20% grey. It looks perfect. But has to be careful while taking print outs.

It is a good idea to give various textures and colors to indicate different stress levels. Will try it soon.
Thanks.

Hi. I used the curviloft plugin to make a beam subjected to torsion. The middle beam is subjected to vertical load only. While the right side beam is subjected to Vertical load as well as torsion. The scale of deflection and torsion is very much exaggerated. I also used fredo scale to model the curved arrow, and kerkythea for rendering. Please give your comments.
Thank you.

Actually, it is a dream project. I saw the water materials in the rendering program and wanted to test it. I also wanted to draw a lawn in the shape of a small hill.
The sketchup plugins such as Curviloft and Perpendicular faces are very helpful to make complicated models very easily. My many thanks to all the sketchucation team.

Hi. Here is a model of a residential building using sketchup, kerkythea and gimp. Please give your suggestions.

Yes. I did make it into a component. Also tried to make all pieces of a single floor into a nested component. Then I assigned them to a new layer and turned off that layer while not working on it. All that didn't help to reduce the memory usage.

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I created this model to give as a border to the sunshade of a building. But a large number of pieces are required for the entire length of all the sunshades. This increases the memory requirements for sketchup and the computer froze several times. So I decided not to use it. But I may find use for it in the future for modeling a Chair or a table or other such furniture.

Thank you very much for the suggestions. I really like the techniques given in the site posted by unrealviz. I must also try the various assorted styles inside sketchup as suggested by Adorno. I also like the view point suggested by pbacot. It gives a better view of the building. I hope to make the corrected image soon and come back here and post it. It would be better to hear all opinions before taking the drawings to the clients.

Hi friends,
I made a model of a residential building in sketchup and rendered it in Kerkythea. After editing in gimp, I was playing around with it in Picasa when I saw the 'pencil sketch' feature by chance. I feel that the pencil sketch is really fascinating and I wonder how the clients might feel about it. Please give me your opinion about the images.
Thank you

I agree with you Gaieus. Components are more powerful than Groups. But I had a feeling that all features of Components are not available in Sketchup free version. I am trying to learn more about them.

I would like to share another method that helped me to keep every thing in order. Suppose you are modelling a complicated shape, like a designer window inside one of the rooms in a house. First you turn the window into a group. The window should be at the exact location where you want it to be in the finished model of the house.Move this group a particular distance, say about 300 cms or 10 ft(using multiples of 100 will be easy. Also dont forget this distance) along the blue axis in the upward direction. Now the group is away from the model of the house. Now you can select the house without affecting the window and hide it. This will reduce the load on the computer. The parallel projection mode and front, side or rear view can be used with advantage for selecting the house. Now do the detailing works on the window. After that unhide the house and move the window 300 cms down.