Driven, im surprised. I like very much how i set the button/focus accessibility on my system and havent suspected that feature to interfere with SU. Its like you said: turned off, Su behaves again like expected. Thanks for helping.

Didier Bur has Line2tubes (Just put Precision = 4 for quadrangle, Precision = 6 for have Hexagons etc... But you have to keep the path somewhere! Else it's absolutely easy if you have made your structure with components! Just change the component! Component Replacer by Thomthom! [image: j3u9_replace.gif]

@pilou said: So a chair deformed on an Arc circle ? The Flowify above make that! If it's chair not deformed on an arc you have Component stringer by Chris Fullmer all right, ill check that out…time to play

confusing if su works that way- i will look into it. Dankschön.

Hi TIG, i found one of your (older?) plugins-SectionCutFace.rb Its excellent for my use! …and about your Slicer…speakless. As i like to work very much with carton…

Thanks Renderiza... I thought there was another tool - forgot about you I think yours will do what he wants... PS: I have adjusted your PluginStore listing's description text to include the words 'rename' and 'reorder', so a search for scene rename will find it

best would be if we can kick start the plug in. and in the end plugin would be free and would only pay for the external program. And also developer wouldn't bare the risk of developing plugin none would buy.

Technical. That's very technical work. SketchyPhysics makes use of an existing free library of physics simulation software. And he just plugs it into SU. And even that is an incredible undertaking.

Hi, i made some minor adjustments. 1# ability to create simple bump maps 2# a new workflow between Sketchup-Kerkythea Workflow steps a) drag one of your Sketchup files (*skp) onto Kerkythea starter: this creates a Symbolic link and a Render folder for you, everything organized in 'Desktop/Render Projects/'. Plus, it opens your skp-file in Sub) now, in Su, apply materials and Lights using the bucket fill tool and the Kerkythea plugin`s lights c) export your materials/lights using the Kerkythea plugin and save its file with suffix '*xml' in 'Desktop/Render Projects/Symbolic Link of your Project/@ Render/' to have everything organized d) create bump maps with Kerkythea starter Hope my approach is easy to follow as i feel it it does. I use to save most of my files all near the desktop folder, because its fast, especially in combination with symbolic links. Feedbacks are welcome.

I sent it in a PM as a 'code block', just copy paste, no zip... john

Jolran, ok, then a 3d text. But i asked if somebody knows about a plugin to add scene names as textual elements to the 3d window.

on the go to write a mail… I'm curious about the answer. I'll post their mail to leave a feedback for others who have the same question like me. Just to clarify things from ground up. Fortunately, Kerkythea uses IES too.

Aha… i never used to select or hide groups in the outliner, because it becomes a bit messy in my works. I assign groups to layers rather to particular names, (like: kitchen cabinets, kitchen lamps, ect. instead to name single instances one by one) for the simple reason- i do it faster. However, I'll follow your counsel and try to use the outliner too. Maybe it is a great help, having practice with this tool.

If you want that someone makes a plugin for you post a file SKP (save as V6) with also an image before / after for avoid missunderstood problem Maybe your problem is trivial for a ruby coder, maybe not And this must work for any number of components ?

Norbert, der zweite Anlauf war verständlich; Ich wills ausprobieren, Danke. Tja, auch ich vertippe mich ab und zu-das kommt vom kursiv-schreiben. Mal sehen was die neuen Besitzer von Sketchup für eine Preispolitik betreiben.

Hi, Does anyone have any further insights into this issue? I have encountered a very similar problem: Tooltips do not show when the toolbar is moved to the horizontal position (Mac OSX) This seems to be particular to Mac OSX, but it is happening in both SU7 & SU8. At first I noticed it for the toolbars of a plugin I am developing, but I also tested the Dynamic Components toolbar and the same thing happens. When the toolbar is moved to a horizontal position the tooltips stop appearing. If I move the toolbar back to vertical, then restart Sketchup, tooltips start appearing again. I've trashed the preferences files and still the same thing is happening. I've quarantined all my plugins and it still happens. Any ideas? This is really quite annoying as I want to be able to use tooltips for my plugin and horizontal toolbars are much more convenient. thanks Dave

thanks for your valuable infos, driven

THey developed Layout to help with printing to scale and such. Give it a try!

@tig said: @rv1974 Please complete your profile details so that we might know your version OS, etc... TIG means your profile so you need not repeat it every time someone needs it for help...