Yes it does that and it is annoying, I keep V-ray disabled because of it. Which naturally means I use it less and tend to use one that doesn't do this.

Will be impossible if your file is yet very big!

I guess all I can say is good luck. I've seen another example today of a file corrupted beyond recovery because the user was saving his file directly into Drop Box and working on it from there. For files I want to work on with more than one computer, I save them locally and then copy them to a cloud location so they are accessible from the other machine.

There's no setting to prevent textures outside of the context of the component from fading when editing it. What behavior are you wanting that you don't get with an imported image? They can be moved and rotated around the model space, you can infer to their face. The only thing you can't do is extrude it to make a 3D shape.

[image: bu.jpg] Tried the default render settings and wasnt able to make it ok. The image always looked too dark in some detail, as if the contrast was too high. Post rendering photo editing didn't help. Where it was most noticeable was the keyboard so I tested this on the keyboard alone, and here I noticed something weird. I realized that the problem were textured materials. After turning off Linear Workflow on these materials, it rendered as it should. Is this a known bug? Do all the materials with textures have to have linear workflow ticked off? Image of the tests attached.

Triangulate all faces by Tig ? [image: triagulate_all_faces_01.jpg]

This is caused by local axes being very far from the origin. You want to use this for a fast fix: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30508

Having fixed it try Model Info > Statistics > 'Purge unused...' As well as the 'Fix problems...' button... What are you doing when it 'crashes'? What is the manifestation of this 'crash' ?

This is the best method. Glad you figured it out.

The very first version has all sorts of oddities. The newer versions automatically syncs all materials. There is no link or unlink. There was never any unlink though.

and if the reflection is still a bit hazy and blury and mirror material is too dark?

You can quite easily change the location of the sun by selecting the location tab in the Model info pallette under the window menu. see atttached just type in 180 in the box to rotate the sun through 180 degrees or as required. [image: 8Lae_NORTH.jpg]

Yes - the older versions did that. Thought I thought it was only groups. I'm not 100% sure about v1.00 - but with SR1 and SR1.5 all you needed to do was reload the model. The latest, 1.48 doesn't have this problem. (though it still have a few other ones.)

This is called "clipping" and Google offers a few suggestions here: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=36261&topic=9042

I'm with Chris on this one

No - there is no such button. But there's a very easy work around: set your Sketchup style to black and white with lines only, and export a view from SU, then composite it in your favourite graphic application afterwards.

I also have another script called loose geometrry to groups that you mighr find useful. I wrote it specifically for what you are doing. It finds a face, then takes all touching edges and faces and turns that intoa group, then it moves on to the nect face that has not been added to a group and repeats the process. It is handy for quickly making groups of zillions of entire extruded buildings. I wrote it for the same process you are describing, something I was soing a LOT of at the time at work. I also have a snippet of code that I developed that takes a selection of faces and extrudes them by a given height, and a given amount of extrusions. It is used for selecting a bunch of flat building footprints then specifying how many storeys the building will have and how tall each storey is. And I even built in the ability to have the first floor be different than the other floors, since that is a common practice in planning to have a tall bottom floor with shorter upper floors. Let me know if that would be a useful script in your workflow and I'll clean it up and post it on Monday. Chris

This plugin: http://www.smustard.com/script/Drop

If you repair one corner by hand, you will see why the plugin has problems to make it... [image: ft8U_corner2radii.jpg]