The key to installing projection tools is to follow instructions .
Just incase someone else runs into this problem, read instruction carefully before unzipping rubies in folder. Instruction say to delete several other scripts before installing. This was the problem. Other scripts which should be erased were in conflict with projection tools.

huh!

Thanks Todd,

Your talking over my head now.

Did you see my comments above? It was a result of the projection scripts. There were several rb's project_*.rb I remove from the plugin folder. Everything seem to work fine after this. I may have unzipped some things in the wrong folder. I will go back and explore.

I have version "projection_v6.zip". Is this the latest?

I think I found the problem. It was the projection rubies. Is this a known bug? The projection tools are great. I would hate to have to give up its functionality.

Thanks Solo, but those were not the problem. I put out a request for help on the Ruby forum.
I almost 100% sure it's a recently downloaded ruby if I could only remember

See link below, thanks!
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10589&p=70731#p70731

Yep,
It's definitley a ruby script. I dumped all my ruby's in a temp folder. reopened Su, worked fine. Now it's a matter of which one of 258 Ruby is the culprit?

Might anyone have a solution to this problem? The context won't remain highlighted after picking. Therefore I'm not able to perform operations after picking. Ruby god's help!!!

Yeah, that's the first thing that I did. Then resorted to rebooting. Tested in several files. No luck so far. Maybe ruby script or hardware related?

Edit: I'm almost certain it's software related to su. I went back to an older version of su and it works fine. It must be ruby related.

Some how I can not get the contextural right click to work anymore on components or groups.
My suspecion is that its a ruby that I recently downloaded. Unable to debug. Has anyone else had this happen? I rebooted my comupter thinking that might work, but no luck.

I'll have to tell you guy's as much as you tell people about ruby's or even show them, they still have no idea how important it is to use them; about the value you get when in increasing productivity and enabling better techniques in model building. As with many here though, we look at the forum constantly to check for the latest and the greatest with frequent suprises. If you are going to use sketchup's power it's a must to read and understand how rubies imapct your process.

I think it's part of the projection.rb ruby script.

Danny,

You must have known how to draw bikes before su, every pcs looks good and in place. Did you model all the pieces. Nice model and nice rendering as well.

kwist, I'm a fan of your work also.
You seem to nail the texture and color combo everytime. Your forms are nice too.
Good work.

THIS IS REALLY NICE DUDE I will have to buy this program FFD

Ok, I meant subdivide

To Whaat it must be all just a bunch of 1's and 0's.
You are the man

ofcourse, lyle azado a football player, man your old like me

I guess as I was thinking, a powerful use for 3d would be using it to actually displace difficult to model textures i.e. frieze detail on ancient structures. But this may be overmodeling depending on how close you are to the model.

Thanks Rick, I see we are takling about different things here. I was referring to the bakcside of the frame itself. Not the inset from the face of the wall. I have always created the inside face of the frame by manually pushpulling making sure the "+" signh is showing during pushpull.

Yes, as Jacob says, the trick is to do a cut and then group, then cut within group.
Takes several steps to do this. I think a ruby script could perhaps be done:

1. cut section
2. specify depth of section via vcb or picking, done!

After you take a section cut, is it possible to define the depth of field if you will, or the clip out whats in the background up to a defined distance. It would be nice to be able to define the distance of view in the section plane with a push pulling of the section cut itself. Then one could type the magnitude of the view say from 0'- 4' beyond.