I like screw.rb from ruby library depot. Just draw a shape and run it once. [image: jea9_ScreenShot2016-04-02at7.28.35AM.png]

@driven said: glad it's working for you... when I first wrote it, my daughter [then 10] said I should charge a penny an icon to repay the time I spend on it... I told her I couldn't because it was a temporary solution and SU would add the ability back in 'any day'... that was v8, I should have heeded her advice... john Absolutely correct. However, I can empathise, since I have long since accepted the fact that I shall not die rich, as I can never seem to charge people for anything that I do, from wedding cakes to digital artwork to assorted types of projects glass to wood and beyond. I do though get great pleasure from just the "doing" and hey! What would I do with all that money anyway - right?

Old. Well, relatively speaking. Win7 64bit SP1 Intel Xeon CPU W3565 6GB Ram Nvidia Quadro FX580. I might mention also that this system does not render some of the link buttons properly and uses some proxy fonts for some of the text on this and other SU pages. For example up at the top of the page, there is the group of buttons for Settings, Messages, Posts etc. The buttons are little boxes with little letters in them. So it is with the Login button at above right. They work, but they don't look right. Actually that is an old problem that I contacted Gabor about in the past. Edit: I use Firefox currently at v42

@unknownuser said: Doing so on my Mac produces no such result however I have not a Mac but on PC that work fine! Do you have not forgotten to click some buttons as shown in the video ? And aespecially this one? (Alt + Click (on PC) on the bulb for Edit it) [image: v7AO_lightup01.jpg] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVcZsiwdMD0

There are many reasons to keep more than one version of an application. I agree, +1 for changing the icon. Seems like a rookie oversight for a software development company. Having to make your own icon or hide a shortcut is just silly.

I'm still trying to find the time to sort out batch mode and the toggle resizing for earlier versions... for me it's easier if everyone else updates to v2015...lol john

Definitely not a crises situation Dave. I was just curious and of course good to know for the future. Checked your bio as I was sure you were in Minnesota and it is very early there to be at work... then saw the Anaesthesia bit. (Spelling - Brit speak) Oh yea... worked myself in a non-clinical area (Well if you call PI/QM and the guardians of JCAHO, now TJC non clinical) of a local health group for fifteen years, so well aware of the medical hours. I am always thrilled for your help as I know you will come up with a solution to my stupidity. And on another note... I don't know how much time you have to view television, but there is a new programme on HGTV called Ellen's Design Challenge - Furniture Designer Competition and being a lover of all things design related and not too bad with a chop saw myself, I am hooked. I know you do woodworking, so you might like it, all the usual TV drama aside. And how I babble on... TTFN

Unbelievable - and a loud responding DUH! Although I had tried that - but on reversing the opposite was face was blank. However... on then applying the material again, this time it was facing the correct way around. Dave to the rescue again! I swear - every time I think I better just take up making chocolate cakes or something, Dave comes to the rescue Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Noooo - it's a Dave!

I don't believe that for a second. "No brain" can't be your name. It's already taken by someone else. Check your PMs. D

@ntxdave said: Sorry to keep coming back but are you saying that Sketchy Physics creates the animated gif file? Not exactly, Sketchy creates the animation within sketchup and I have simply used a screen recorder to capture it. I think the plugin has a way of exporting the animation, but I've not gone into that and I may be wrong. I know it does save animations that you can view from any angle though. Having looked further I see you can export the animation as PNG, JPG or SKP frames. @ntxdave said: Another "learning" question: How do you achieve the indented curve look of your spiral blade? I have never had to do anything like this but when I learn tricks like that from you guys it helps me get a better overall grip of the tool. There are quite a few ways, everyone has their favourite, screw was mentioned a few posts back, curviloft will do it, some of tig's tools etc etc This is one way, Eneroth makes some fantastic plugins but is very quiet about them, better known on the Extension warehouse I think. This is done using her Upright Extruder. [image: Up.gif]

big tip... don't load two renders at the same time, and I will go further to say don't load them unless your rendering... why? they use observers which really effect performance on a mac... some are slightly better than others, but they all create additional computation that when added to 'Autosaves' and "Outliner' updates crash SU... be brutal, only turn them on when YOU want not when they want... john

SU v2015 is working great on Yosemite, I only needed a couple of Plugin updates [that where available]. I know I'm letting people know on every thread that mentions Yosemite, but it is worth upgrading SU if you are running Yosemite... You can keep v8/v13/v14 as well but they'll still have to wait for any 'Text' or 'Atos' patches... john

Thank you. Now just to figure out how to guide the new copies of my plug-ins to the 2014 version of SU. Plug-in of choice and the one I would worry about the most - LightUp. I will check on their forum to make sure I can install a fresh and separate copy on Make 2014 and still maintain my SU8 in it's current state.

Because the back and front of the chair is a curved surface, and is made from 6 separate faces (seat consists of two faces), you will need to map the texture across them. This should help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHsRRLCAOm8 Another thing I noticed with this model is that if you go to edit-->unhide-->all a centre line up the middle of the back of the chair appears. This is what is making it so the two halves select separately. If you right click on this centre line and soften it (or delete it) then turn off the hidden geometry you can then select the back of the chair as a single face which will assist in mapping the texture over it in one go. Hope this helps.

You can also use the Quick Lathe by Trogluddite No more problem of find a perpendicular face,...etc...! Just draw the axe of rotation! Careful select only the surface and not surface + the perimeter! At the end you can move the cap surface with surprise result! A very, very funny plugin! [image: iomk_quicklath.jpg] [image: file.php?id=103961]

Hi, Gosu by Renderiza : http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=51919 This plugin includes some features for replacing complex components with simple ones temporarily. Set:: Proxy(Box) Set:: Proxy(cline) Cleanup by thomthom : http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22920 Optimize your SketchUp model by getting rid of unnecessary elements. Another Sketchup Plus by dukejazz : http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42951 This might help you send only the component that you are working at the moment to another SketchUp and when you finish place it back where it was. Hope this helps, Renderiza

I agreement with Adam on that having just had to render in Lightup some light tubes and gone through the process - LEDS at bottom: put emit on that face within tube, translucent tubes, & then interior point lights, with IES props added to them [image: 4etI_lighttubes.jpg]

this may help http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=472206#p472206 there is another plug in but can't think of it right now. found it http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677

And that is exactly why I export all of my renders as 2D images, as I do finish them up in Photoshop. For over five years I have done all of my visualizations in Photoshop alone, but the world moves on, and while I still use PS a lot for composities, the time has come to graduate to something more photo-realistic if that makes any sense to you. Compositing when the images sent to you were all taken at different angles can be quite a challenge as well. Puppet warp not withstanding. In addition, making the changes at the drop of a hat, because the client wants to see the room from a different angle is impossible without a 3D image to start out with. And should they want to see that, it would mean having to export the image again from SU at a different angle and then rework the lighting etc., once more in PS. Seems to me like a lot of extra work for no reason. See samples which are the original picture I was sent, and then what I was able to do with it in Photoshop alone. Also bear in mind, that while I would like to do something "pretty" my boss may not want it it to look just "pretty." He is actually quite fanatical about getting the lighting to look exactly as it will during the actual event. It is not like an architectural render where they can put it pretty flowering trees and shrubs that may never actually appear exactly like that once the building has been completed, but looked great in the render. [image: KFbH_ScreenShot2013-05-13at3.04.05PM.png] [image: 3Sbe_ScreenShot2013-05-13at3.16.58PM.png]