@gaieus said: You can also do special sharing in the 3D Warehouse but what I "smell" here is that Laucity doesn't want the studentsto play around with editing the stuff. I thought the same,so tried one of my docs by changing to public, no edit and then used link and signed in as non owner. I had the option to download which it did as a .htm file and by changing the extension to skip I could open and edit So much for hair brain ideas May thinking is Google Docs protection may depend on what file system is used. If NTFS is used maybe?? I can also download one of Cat's posting as a "regular" user ( no edit) , save, and then edit.

Actually you should try the button "Update subsurface" or see if u have checked the "Auto-update" button.

TIG, you always manage to say things with fewer words than I do.

profile builder would help with more complex paths...

Well I found some (little) time to play a bit with JPP and ........ After about 10 minutes playing with JPP, I did a simulated fuselage nose skin section, and then pulled the outer surface in an inch (thicken) in under 10 seconds. Took me over an hour to do that before using the copy, scale in 3 axis, join the edges, then tweak it into shape. Sticking a door into the fuselage (which is 3 inches thick with a window) took a minute to draw it in and 15 seconds to make the door group, versus over an hour before to get that same shape, but with many minor errors. This has got to be one of the 10 all time best plug-ins for SU, and really should be an integral part of the next SU version release. Now I gotta spend some time with it, and tweak some defaults as described in the thread and documentation, which incidentally is also the best written for a plug-in I've seen yet. Now my biggest problem is whether I go back and redo many of my airplane models and rid them of my manual error ridden thick panels. In one major case that's a 90% redraw, but probably worth it. Fredo.... THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

@laucity0513 said: THANKS!!! You really help me a lot! Can I give you a thumb up or thank or reputation or anything in this forum? Your appreciation is thanks enough. I am sure there are other ways of achieving this shape too.

THANKS GUYS!!! You all really helps me a lot! Really appreciate. I will try both to see which one suit my model. Thanks!

Turn on Hidden Geometry in the View menu, then Right click -> Unhide

Hi, thanks a lot... although I don't quite get what do you mean. Haha. I will try the intersect options anyway. Thanks! Will update here after that.

The 'part' of the 'box' you have pointed to as 'not being able to delete' looks like it is not Intersected with the face it passes through. If the face and the 'box' are in the same 'context' then simply select the penetrated face and Intersect [with model/context] it should form cut-lines around the penetrating 'box', you then delete the unwanted parts. If the penetrating 'box' is a group or component then double-click it to edit it, select-all and Intersect with model to form the cut lines inside the edit context, now delete the unwanted parts, finally exit the edit; you also need to select the pierced face and use Intersect with context/model to give it cut-lines of its own - then you erase the 'hole' where it joins to the 'box' element... If the face AND box are groups/components then running Intersect outside of an edit session will put the cut-lines within the current context and not the two objects themselves. Sometimes you might want this but usually you will want to be in an edit context so that the cut-lines form within the same set of connected geometry......... PS: If you are editing a component any changes you make to it will also affect other instances of it - if you want to avoid this use 'Make Unique' on it before the edit so other versions are not changed...

I managed to create what I want! Thanks for telling me the plugin line2cyl.rb.

Using SDS, which I do not have, you would want to save/copy your geometry at each step before doing a major transformation. I think it is: form a cuboidal proxy/primitive, save make a copy or group or component and move it out of the way, so that you can move to the next level of complexity. Perform the subdivision and or smoothing to some level, save this as a group or component, then proceed with another level of subdivision and or smoothing if necessary. I am not sure if the form shrinks smaller each time. Whatever you do, you need to start with a fairly "large" form so that tiny triangles do not disappear. I started with a 2d amorphous closed curve on the xy plane and pushpulled it up to a thickness of about 10% of its "diameter". If you make a component of the form you can copy this and scale the copy independently say up 10%-15% maybe use TIG's Centroid plugin to locate the geometric center and move the two examples to this centroid to form the double walled figure. Otherwise, set up some reference lines for defining the centroids. The channels connecting the chambers are another matter to contend with. I know this-- if you are fairly new to the program, you have not yet developed expectations or predictions of the results of your modeling actions. In other words, it does take time to learn the idiosyncracies of Sketchup, let alone SDS.

hey guys, thanks!! i will check out the tool and try to construct it. haha. ya i know it should be quite labor intensive but i need it for my project. hopefully i can create something similar. thanks anyway. have a nice day.