Im wondering if there is a plugin/tool that allows me to extrude a contoured (non flat) face from a terrain.

Currently I am using a line extrude command, then copying up the face to that height.

Or I am intersecting a 'flat' extruded face between to levels of the contoured terrain. These are very time consuming. (hope this makes sense)

Anything out there?

I have found another thread on here that says if you enter this into ruby:

"Sketchup.send_action(10624)"

it brings up a dialogue box that gives you the horizontal reading of FOV as opposed to the vertical reading available in the command window in sketchup. from this I could work out that entering a 67.7 degree FOV (vertically) woudl give me a 90 degree width image.

I think there should be an easy way of specifying which orientation the FOV refers to, or if not, at least let us know that we are in fact entering the vertical measurement on the command line!!

I want to create a 90 degree wide image, but have discovered that when inputting 90 degrees into 'field of view', this in fact controls the vertical field of view. through trial and error (drawing 90 degree extent lines in model) I have found the actual 'field of View' input of 68 degrees to in fact give me a 90 degree wide view.

Is there a way of inputting the correct data to acheive a 90 degree wide view, or at least a formula to work out what vertical degree i need to put in?

Also, I have tried changing this to Windows 7...adn it works also!

but now i get a bugsplat every time i close SU???

I have found a resolution to my problem.

I have right clicked the sketchup 7 icon and gone to properties/compatibility then ticked ‘run this program in compatibility mode for:’ Windows XP (service pack 3) as in the attached image. Now I can use drape successfully when SU podium V2 plugin is installed.

haha...Dont get me started!

We have an IT Help desk to log complaints, which i cannot log into at present...so they cant even hear me problems, let alone deal with them....

Do you know off the top of your head how much a SU8 upgrade is?

I think its that they make it cheaper! Unles syou are saying that SUpro 8 is a free upgrade?

Unfortunatly I cannot get SU8 (wrok IT wont allow). I have told the Podium people, they say get the latest update of Podium V2, which i have. No fix as yet

Have just done so.

This is very annoying. Both are extremely important to my job!

Someone out there must have Podium V2.1 and witnessed the same problem?

Cheers TIG.

I have done all you said and after some detective work, it looks like its my 'SU_Podium_V2.rbs' file which is causing the problem. I presume without this I cannot use podium V2?

So has there ever been a conflict with Podium V2.1 and Drape?