Trying to learn Blender myself. 1st thing I do is switch selection from Right-click to Left-click. I watched a good video last week on making a chest that was not bad at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICBP-7x7Chc&t=1255s

@l i am said: @majid said: The smart way would be using a shit of light emitter material instead of a thousand LEDs... this is the trick mostly used to simulate lighting facades such as shopping or facades... Based on your render engine there are different tips and tricks. to have an overview of the technique please search :"apartment night texture" Also this may give you some ideas: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2954 Hi Majid that,s what I did, the LED's are octagons (red) which were made into light emitters. I am interested in what you thought the Led's were? I completely understood you, you modeled all the lights and then replaced them with instances that does not produced remarkable saved time... am I right? I mean a totally different approach, or sort of trick. the same trick that is used to simulate a fire: an image from fire flame ( that is also emitter) + an opacity mask.. You can mimic all the lights you have in a single texture like that and using the appropriate opacity mask, eliminate unnecessary parts and this way reduce emitter faces as much as possible... a bit tricky but time saving.

@slbaumgartner said: @sketch3d.de said: Installing SU v2017 again should fix this behaviour anyhow. Although that should work, you really shouldn't need to do an reinstall, just to fix up the "file association". See, for example https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-change-file-associations-in-windows-2624477 It works only in theory. In practice, Windows always opens with the latest exe. @Liam: you should download appropriate file version (<= 2017). then right click on file icon and choose open with Sketchup 2017. Alternatively, if you are not buying v2018, just uninstall it.

Hi Guys thank you so much for your thoughts. The 1940's bar requiring the "scars' and nuance of a war effected economy and the sketchup forum link (with some interesting suggestions that may have merit) and little big house ( I need to research that) all sound really interesting and I hope the inspire and challenge others. Thing is I failed to communicate my thoughts well at all I am trying to build a portfolio and gain experience in Architectural Visualisation. So am looking for a brief in that sphere. Atm I am plagiarising other peoples architectural concepts and putting my own spin on it or designing out of my head and working with spontaneous variations and atmospherics. My most successful stuff has been watching a movie and finding an image within the movie that inspires, and doing a model/render trying to recreate and putting a spin on it that makes it mine. But without referencing that image further than my original mental snapshot (see attached image as an example of a mental screenshot from "The Martian 2015) The result looks very different from the inspiring screenshot once I referenced it on completion of the render, As I added people and changed it to look more contemporary. Sorry about the ramble but that was my way of giving ideas for inspiration to others. And in light of that asking for other ideas/brief/conceptual start point specifically something that may impress Architects requiring an architectural visualisations, especially building exteriors. Any further input and ideas welcome. OK I just read that back and it sounded a bit Blah... Blah....Blah. Hope it is understandable to others [image: Ie2x_HiTechRoom1.png]

Thanks Box, you must be an owl. I awoke to find the printer guy fixed it with a program that "fixes" geometry.

Here you go. https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/sketchup-stl

Oh it is scaled up by a factor of 10

And to you, Sir. Looks like we will see more like the above image.

Unless you saved the file at some point to create an initial SKP file, I don't think the autosaved untitled file gets saved.

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@pilou said: In how many time have you paint the Van Gogh that I see on the right? Not sure what you mean pilou, but that was the first image that was on 3D warehouse. If I had the time, Whisteler, Homer or Belows would have been a better choice

Hello, When SU takes longer than I expected,and when I did not save (especially for intersections), I open the autosaved version in a new window. I kept the autosave every 5 minutes in preferences, even if it's annoying while working on 100Mb+ files. This way I can work on my model while the first one is still working. (SU only uses one Core, so it shouldn't slow your PC even if it's working) You'll then get an AutoSave_AutoSave_filename.skp and so on. Just check the last autosave file's time or even open it in a new window like I do to check what you would lose in case you chose to force quit an hanging SU. Sometimes it's faster to lose 5 min work and find a workaround, SU beeing able to hang for hours !

More advanced plugin for things like this https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/s4u-components

Hi L i am, did any of the responses solve your issue? If not, can you share the model?

Mike, You should put your own custome collections in the User directory and not in the applications. You can access collections from the materials window on the Mac. I'll make some screen shots showing how when I get home and have access to my Mac. d

@hornoxx said: @hellnbak said: It's moody. I like moody. Very nice work ... same for me - a great result - especially with the described effort. My only proposal here: Because the mood reminds me of a wet, misty and cold November day, I would use people cutouts with warmer/thicker clothes, which fit better to this (guessed!) season... Thanks and fair comment HornOxx. Truth is they were the closest people I had. I will try to get some more, more appropriate people and try again.

Left that bit out of my text Cotty. I did right click and chose spherical.............ok i did it again and it works now.......wierd. Thank you.

[image: nVNk_Ztest1.jpg][image: faeB_Ztest2.jpg]Hi Numberosis, I think I know the issue. I found I offset the image by 1mm does work, of course, but the graffiti image did not show up in SU therefore I assumed it would not show up in the render if it did not show up in SU. I have attached images showing firstly the view in SU and the result of that same view in the render.

Simple is good Dave:)

Your a champ Pixero, thank you.