Oh, I remember these from the old forums, Ross! Lerarnt a lot from those tuts!

Still trying...

Ah, Didier, that is even a more efficient way to assign tranparency. Also, I use groups on just about everything and once you are inside a group the the display of bitmaps "behind" may not be viewable.

Gata: " ... if you softened the out-of-bound mesh from a Sandbox-made grid, then it's one face to select for deletion." This tip will help be out significantly! I will have to download Soap Skin Bubble and install it on my new PC. I had forgotten all about it. Thanks, again. John

A little doctoring of the "weld.rb" might do it. Rick?

I'll have to ask.

I can only reiterate what has been said before. Sketchup for speed in conjunction with Rhino for complexity works very well indeed. The new exporter does a pretty good job too.

TIG, I've made a discovery. Evidently I have a different version of Grow on my machine at work thatn at home. The one at home gives me an arrow to set the center of the grow operation and three different dialog boxes with the second covering scaling including the option to have exponential or linear scaling. The version at work, which I downloaded from Didier's library today doesn't give me those options or the arrow. Hmmm...... Maybe I have an old version at work? But. I have a puzzle about the version I have at home. I'm trying to create a series of circles that get smaller as they go up. In the version at work, I entered a scale of 0.9 (for both X and Y scaling) and the circles got smaller as they went up. The version I have on my home machine makes progressively larger circles with that same 0.9 for X and Y. I tried a -0.9 but that doesn't help either.

JC> Go to this link and pickup this FREE program..It has a Fantastic "bend" function.. http://www.cbmodelpro.com/forum.html ...(You may have to type it in as I can't seem to get links to work..) Richard

Even better. Thanks.

a i missing something as far as i know you can do that already, just right click the image go inot entity info and turn of 'recieve shadows'

Didier, I downloaded from the link above. The attachment shows the active selection (the top-most surface) and the hidden lines I wanted to select so I could delete them. It seems the menu is missing an option for Hidden lines or am I overlooking something? Also, should the Search Through list include "current selection" option? John [image: 7din_HiddenEdges.png]

Thanks for all the replies even though it sounds as though what I want isn't easily obtainable! Yes, I was talking about Didier's ADO plugin. I'll remove the files from my plugins folder as suggested though they didn't get loaded by SU 2015 at all that I could see. Jon

Change the property of these edges so that when their respective faces are delected, the edges remain.

@djh said: @box said: This is a feature request thread from 2007. Was the request granted? No. Alt never did constrain the Orbit tool. In fact, considering what you were asking for in your other thread, Alt is the last thing you want to hold while orbiting. If you can't orbit as you want with a mouse, you should follow the advice given there and get a 3D Connexion device and use it for orbiting.

now thats where i am lost.. i have no idea how to contact this fellow.. he seems to be Japanese...

Do not get into the habit of using /2, since SU has a significant bug: appending /2 works SOMETIMES -but only if you are dividing an integer by 2. If you type "1.5/2" you will not get a .75 radius as you expected. There is no warning in SU v.8; in fact this bug has not been fixed as of the 2014 version. It would not be hard to parse the input line, then one could enter 6+5/16 for the mixed fraction since that's what we really mean for 6 5/16. (As we learned in 7th grade algebra, multiplication and division are always done before addition and subtraction -MDAS "My Dear Aunt Sally" rule). It would be nice to be able to specify relative/absolute references, and variables too.