@anton_s said: Although it still has to be in onUpdate or onTick event. So your one liner would look like this: onUpdate { MSketchyPhysics3.closeControlPanel if frame == 1 }

The normal SketchUp 2d export exports the overlays.

@unknownuser said: However, I found this link on warehouse profile. Is this same link which one should visit to learn about these complex structures? Yes, and if you haven't yet try searching "taff" and you will see a lot of dialogue with the author.....cheers!

I can open in CAD but not SU. When I import from CAD to SU the process is very slow and the scale seems off. That may be the issue, the CAD file scale might be off. the trees drip line looks to be 98 fee across--but I have no knowledge of the original file or units. Check the scale in the CAD file. Anyway exploding the blocks is a good idea.

@dave r said: Still struggling with those screwed up axes from your poorly created CAD file, huh? Yeah, I was running out of time. It was too late to make a fresh cad file with all the axes correct and then do Sketchupping again. That's why I was desperate for the plugin. But phew..I'm done with the work. I made a sketchup model for a 32 acre site which was the largest one I've ever worked upon. The funny part is that I never cared about axes in Autocad for 8 years or so (the same time I've been working with sketchup). And things went really well in sketchup. But now in 2014-15 I faced this really big trouble.

Oh!! Thanks. I should have looked more.

@john2 said: Yes I know sir, I was discussing the possiblity for making a plugin which helps mediocre SketchUp people like me. It sounds like you'd rather stay a "mediocre SketchUp" person, as you describe yourself, and hope someone will make a plugin to overcome that for you.

@dkendig said: Those materials are definitely not very recent. We changed the extension of our material format to .vrmat sometime in the past year or two. We changed from a binary to xml based format about 4 years ago also, which caused some compatibility issues. There were huge archives of user made materials being passed around, before our own material library grew to the size it is today, it's possible that these older materials are from before our switch to xml. Hi, I'm having trouble with the materials I've downloaded from your website. When applied to geometry they display black and all the texture seems to be pointing to "C:\Users\fpedrogo\Documents\V-Ray Materials" Plus where can you download VRay express for SU? Thanks Carlo

If you are disciplined enough you can turn of your auto-save. Before you do, check to see that it is actually the file save slowing you down. It is going to happen if you have complicated geometry and many texture images. Opening another SU session will either crash your box or slow you down to dead stop.

this is an old explanation about observers, but still relevant... @unknownuser said: Observer is one of a set of new Ruby classes provided as part of SketchUp 6.0. "The Ruby Observer Mechanism is designed to allow Ruby scripts to be notified when objects change in the SketchUp application or model. For example, you can create an observer class that "listens" to when SketchUp quits and then performs some action." "Create a Ruby class of a specific observer type, such as AppObserver, override the desired methods, such as onQuit, and add an instance of the observer to the applicable objects in your Ruby script (using the add_observer method for that object). Refer to individual observer interfaces for further information." There are 16 observers, to run routines when various things happen to the model, entities, etc. A lot of plugins use observers to speed up their response time when in use, others monitor your every action and 'take notes'... If a plugin is watching for new materials, new geometry or new layers, etc... it can really slow down any imports... some have 'on save model' observers that check for changes each time you save or autosave your model... if you do a search for 'Sketchup Observers' you'll find lots of posts about issues of clashing and failing... john

@john2 said: I"m making a huge model with lots of levels. The problem I"m getting is with step levels of 300mm driving me crazy in 3d. The model is getting hard to manage. Is there a plugin which does dimensioning of the various levels [i.e. the lowest levels] of huge sized groups in a model? and we can define the size of the groups/components. Color by Z by Chris sir is for raw geometry only. i am also sometimes in this frustating situation, waiting for the computer, when the model is too big what i do is open a second sketchup session, and cut/paste the area i want to work on, in this new session when it is done, i come back to the first session, and paste the aera in place there is a plugin that helps to do that http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42219

@john2 said: and what about the Studio-Roosegaarde-Solar-Bike-Path-Van-Gog image? How is that made in vray? too many lights? That should be pretty simple to do with an emmissive material. Once you have an image of the pattern, just stick it in an emmissive layer. Make sure anything that's not lit is pure black, or else you may end up with some undesired glow. (you could mask the emmissive layer to make sure that doesn't happen.)

Sry. I guess we all figured you knew this and were looking for a better idea!

@dave r said: So the issue is that the component's axes and origin are not within or close to the geometry contained in the wrapper. There isn't any way to click on component axes and get the component open for editing. Perhaps, instead, maybe you could select the component from the Outliner. You'd at least be able to sort out which component axes belong to which component. As you already recognize, the problems you're trying to sort out are due to sloppy work on the front end. Maybe you should consider that there comes a time when you need to cut your losses and start over. You've been chasing this axis thing since last week, I think. Perhaps it would be faster, easier, and less frustrating to start over from the beginning with clean modeling. Or maybe at least you can go back and fix the original CAD file instead. Just a thought. Absolutely true Dave sir. That's what I'm doing now, thanks to thomthom axes tools. I am now building the entire model from almost scratch and manually choosing the axes tools plugin to centrally place the axis. I've been using sketchup since 2006 and never faced this problem because, my architecture site never exceeded the 11 acre mark. Now, I have made serious mistake for the first time and learnt a lot from it. P.S. You're speaking like my 60 year old dad.

Thanks for advising me a great plugin by TIG sir. Thanks for the trumpet . That plugin of TIG sir is way much better and doesn't blow the trumpet of notification about how many faces were made, lines, stats and all the useless stuff for ordinary user like me.

I uninstalled Sketchup 2015 and vray. Ran Ccleaner, cleaned my registry using ccleaner. Then installed both the software. Now everything is fine. I should have waited instead of posting my problems here.

@jim said: The Axes can be fixed using this: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30508 Thanks a lot for this great advice. My headache has been cured finally . I hope this is an evergreen feeling and I wont run into this section cut zoom problem again. And thanks everyone for the advice. I also need an autocad to sketchup workflow tips and tricks so that such headaches and others can be prevented. Is there a complete guide available from autocad to sketchup?

That is why we have a thumbs up button on lower right.