Very nice!

Aw, shucks.

The circumference of a glass base is always larger or equal to its height for that reason. You will look at some glasses and doubt it but it's true

@jbjdesigns said: @omikron said: Nice rendering and composition. The texture of the chair on the left seems to be a bit too large. The rest of it is great work. Hi! and thanks for commenting. I was "rendered-out" when I finished this one last evening... I noticed it too but didn't think it was too bad... Guess I need to render again!!! It's good. Only when you look straight at the texture gets noticed.

@rob d said: Hi Jo. Thanks for posting! I think your outdoor scenes would look really great of you rendered the house in either in a diffuse grey/white (called a clay render), or if you composited a sketchy edged monochrome version of your sketchup model over the Vue scene. What do you think? Thanks Rob! I'll have to try your suggestion! Thanks for commenting!!! Jo

I was able to export the model, but in pieces. What confounds me about this particular model it uses almost all the same materials I use in other models which I have had no problem exporting with the extension OBJexporter. I do appreciate all the help and suggestions. This is a wonderful community! Thank you. Jo Ann

The menus are indeed not very customizable. And all what plugins could do about it (better nothing) would be more hacky than manually editing the files. One could either load less plugins from start (only on demand) or adopt to some toolbars. Unused toolbars can be hidden, whereas menus can't. there are also several custom toolbar plugins (Jim's, Rick's and mine). The last resort if you can't find anything is a menu/toolbar search like LaunchUp.

Many thanks to the people who helped resolve the SketchUp file preview problem. I just downloaded the latest version and once again all is well throughout the SketchUp universe! Thank you!!!!

Thank you Dave! I was able to straighten out the issue yesterday. Also, thank you TIG. I have all the resources downloaded and installed properly. Many thanks for all your input! Jo Ann

@jbjdesigns said: Thank you Gaieus for the 2 tutorials! I tried them both out. Although the second tutorial (subject line) was geared towards SketchUp Pro, I was able to create 3 arched windows in a curved wall following the instructions in the first tutorial (Window in a Round Wall). Here is my results. Thanks again! Jo Ann I would not say it was "geared" towards SU Pro - but the method of intersecting and cleaning up is the same as in the first one - so I just would not "bother" to repeat myself (with no bad taste in the "bother" word). I even mentioned this in the second tutorial (the method is always the same - from now on, it is just our fantasy to prepare the scenes to get the desired result after the operation - no matter with which boolean tool we do that last part).

Dave has shown you how to use move and autofold beautifully, you could also use "scale" in this case too. I'll let you think about how. People sometimes miss the intricacies of scale. You don't just use it to modify whole pieces, you can use it on a single face to modify a shape. Scale one face of a cube and you can create various shapes with the variety of scale options. [image: F3AP_Simplescale.PNG] It's well worth pointing out that it's easy to get a bit plugin blind. Many of them are so good you often don't need the basic tools, but that can lead to problems. If you don't understand what the plugin is really doing you can tie yourself in knots unnecessarily. Being able to make your models in "longhand" is crucial. Using plugins to speed up and perform repetitive tasks is what we all should aim to do. I guess it comes from my time as an apprentice and then having many apprentices of my own, the rules were always the same, once you prove you can do it manually I will let you use a "Tool". If you are old enough to remember letraset, we had to show that we could do the lettering by hand before we were allowed to touch one sheet.

Great (and thanks for confirming)