Thanks Guy's, But I'm aware of most of what you all are suggesting and have done what has been suggested but no luck. I know the problems but there are no easy solutions that I've found. Sketch up does not handle hatch well. The plan was done in autocad first. Correction for Terry - Autocad is the most used software amongst architectural firms here in the US interms of doing construction docs. Terry Dont get me wrong. Autocad is a necessary evil in my industry. Until we can find somethiing better or the majority of the industry dumps it we will have to use it in our workflow. I'm trying to stream line and take advatage of lines already drawn by someone else on acad. It would be perhaps best to re-texture the surface in sketchup to match the grid pattern in autocad. If someone has a better way let me know. I already know the problem which to this point I am not to convinced of a good solution. Ultimately the lines were to show up in a Kerkythea rendering using a wire porcederal shader. What was the method Ithil used to do his floor? I'm sure it was in a CAD program, no. The pattern I'm showing should be a piece of cake. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=32677&p=293887&hilit=Ithil#p293887 Thanks, Lapx

A few other thoughts.... Does the building have a handy balcony or roof access? Either would be quite useful. Have you checked Panoramio to see if anyone's already done your work for you? Terry

@lapx said: edit:Found It! http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=30506 Thanks! yeah, that's the best one nowadays (imo).. it deals with all the different variations (arcs,circles,exploded, etc) + other cpoint tools all in one package.

great thank you gain

I PMed you Jim.

I have a technical construction question regarding the metal or gold decorative motif in the executive suite office above. We are in the process of construction and I need to give some direction to the carpenter. Has anyone had any experience in making this type of construction? Would the emblem be overlayed or routed into the wood? The emblem is a metal with a gold look. I'm looking for the best method in achieving this look. Would CNC be involved? Thanks

Thanks Chris! I know you are busy.

Seems Radial Lenght by TIg makes that!

It looks as if your virus program is flagging buysellads.com, which is where the banner ads on the forum are being served from.

Thanks guy's! I did a search and deleted it. Works fine now.

Thanks Guy's I couldnt remeber what it was so I deleted all the related files which got rid of the error messages. Thanks for the link Cj, if I decided to use it I'll relosad it more carefully.

"Intersect with context" worked. Dont know why it worked and "intersect with mode" did not:?

great find. Thats exactly what i ended up doing, used the poly segmenter.

@thomthom said: Bulk select layers..? Doh!

Hi folks. If you would like to try it without plugins, just to get to know native SU capabilities, see this SU file for ideas. Arc_extend.skp Note that this file was made with SU 4.0. Now, with the autocutting of line, introduced with version 6, a couple of steps can be avoided. Best regards.

The edges 'you can't see' on a sphere are NOT "hidden" lines - they are smooth / soft lines - a 'hidden' object is just not visible - just substitute these types into the code like this... Sketchup.active_model.entities.to_a.each{|e|if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge;e.hidden=false if e.hidden?;e.soft=false if e.soft?;e.smooth=false if e.smooth?;end} This makes all of the model's hidden/soft/smooth lines into normal ones. If you want to change the entities inside groups/components use then this... Sketchup.active_model.definitions.each{|d|d.entities.to_a.each{|e|if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge;e.hidden=false if e.hidden?;e.soft=false if e.soft?;e.smooth=false if e.smooth?;end}} Copy/Paste these lines into the Ruby Console + <enter> to effect the changes... I have also removed all 'code' hat was expecting something to be defined earlier - like 'model'... If you want to make it with a one-step undo then add this snippet to the start of the line of code Sketchup.active_model.start_operation("MakeLinesVisible"); and this to the end ;Sketchup.active_model.commit_operation

Thanks again Alan, Gaieus this will come in handy.

Author's website and download is here: http://www.photometricviewer.com/

I've been looking for that link for the past hour n gave up. Was a there a ruby script that was a temporary fix until google gets their act together? Your, right I didnt notice it until SU 6 which is what I'm using the majority of the time.