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@krisidious said: I think a Guru would know that SU would being crashing momentarily because of the huge number of double plugins and outdated plugins he had installed at any given time... I agree a Guru would have a sixth sense for when a plugin is going to make SU hang till eternity.

Isn't loading time more a function of hard drive, and bus speed? I have a slow 3 ghz, 2 core machine that loads about 30 plugins in under 10 seconds the first time.

I'm with you Kris. Nothing say thank you like a gift at christmas..... Not easy to do though i wouldn't expect..... Good on you for threading this mate.

ok I think it has something to do with the right click bug because it works now that I restarted... phew that scared me.

got two more e-mails today... both identical, with my key info... @unknownuser said: "Hi Kristoff, Thanks for contacting Google SketchUp. We regret to hear you never received your license information via email. Our records show that your license was sent out automatically following your purchase. Please note that the license information template we send out contains executable links to our product download and may be getting flagged as spam by your internet service provider. Below is the license information again without the links. We recommend adding our email address domain of @sketchup.com to your white list to ensure you receive future emails from the SketchUp team." yeah I knew that it may be flagged as spam, but I actively and daily check my spam folders because lots of things I want go in there... and it never came. what irks me is they had a specific box to declare an e-mail addy that I wanted the license info sent to along with whatever addy they had on file... and I filled it in. I expect more from Google, they're too big to make these little mistakes. thanks for listening to me vent. so anyway... all is well in my world and I'm now SketchUp 8 Pro... now I'll be hitting a couple of Plugin Developer's donation boxes to complete my Christmas support of the modeling world.

@krisidious said: can you work on a group in a group? because I was inside a group working on a group from the outside. It should work. My point on the toplevel geometry (which is a known problem) was becquse in the picture you posted it seems to me that the selection was not enclosed in a group. Fredo

@krisidious said: Plugin Request? Copy Along Path with Orientation I have tried the current copy along a path plugins (the 1001bit pro & power bar)neither seem to hold orientationand what's more require a continuous line. %(#008000)[I would like to use this for copying symbols like electrical outlets and such among other things. (image)...is it possible to do this already?] I haven't used the plugin mentioned but... 'Face Me' components keep their orientation in copy operations, although related to your view/screen. (try rotate/copy array) %(#008000)[Use a dummy 'Face Me' component to 'copy along path' or whatever copy plugin/workflow you think suites you best. Next select them all and replace with 'NON-face me' symbol component of your choice. They now have the same orientation.(*) (*) you may need to orbit/tweak your view to get the dummy aligned correct in your model. A preset little dummy face that you can select and 'Align View' to helps you to do so in a split second. It's all just a few steps extra.] Although a choice to keep orientation in a plugin is usefull, no doubt.

DacaD i second your response, alex roman is in a different league, forget avatar he's a real game changer for the cg industry. I might also add he wrote and performed the music on third&seventh aswell... he's the full package.

Version 3 will have a new UI with better explanations of the different options. (No estimate on when it's done though.)

excellent Gaieus... I thought you would fix it.

Hmm- always read the small print & legal stuff! Looks like the site owners, take your copyright as soon as you upload anything. Buy David instead.

Fractals and Sketchup http://www.youtube.com/user/KitoRaupp Regards, Bob

We have a built in plugin for Ivy now... Let me find it. Here it is... http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36882

ahhh thank you thank you... I searched forever....

very interesting... thanks for the input.

@dave r said: There's an echo in here. What? There's other people here? I thought it was post an answer, then read the question.