Great Idea, I'll give it a shot.

I hope it works alright for you that way. I think it would save you a lot of time and it will certainly help you keep the file size down. I don't know enough about ACAD but is there a way to automatically apply hatchings based on some parameters?

Thanks Boofredlay! You really helped me to help someone else with the model you made. I took your shape and traced the bottom form with some follow me bristles. It's not truly optimized, I should have only made one bristol and deformed all the other copies to keep file size down. But it did not dawn on me to do so until I was almost done. Oh well another drawing for another day! Anyway Thanks again! Matte (Present Progress Attached) Broom

Not sure if this helps, but I have been using SU on an external hard drive for a few years now. When I reconnect the drive, I often have to go into the drive directory to use the application (as opposed to the start menu) but otherwise it works just fine.

Thanks, That should do the trick!

TIG has answered your inquiry in your No Plot Layer question.

See my post ref your question ref Wood Worker fourm. Dave R will give you lots of help Good Luck

Matthew, I responded to you on the Plugins forum.

Matte If you are thinking about using SU for modeling here are a couple of good links I use. Sure there are many more http://www.finewoodworking.com/blog/design-click-build/page/4. this is a blog an has many short How -to's posted http://www.srww.com. For this one look for the SU link Joe has an 8 part series on the design of a bed side table that will get you up to speed quickly Good Luck

Matt, There is no "best inside SU renderer under $200". IMO, aside from "features", most rendering applications use the same math, and primarily differentiate themselves by their interface. Each of us are vested in a application by some form of ownership. After you have spent some time with a particular application, it is unlikely that you will attempt to learn something new unless the return is justified.

Great news good luck with the new post!

Matte, Perhaps you can take a look at the set of videos I made explaining some of my workflow from Sketchup to Max/Vray. It may be helpful as a place to start as I tried to keep it as simple as possible. - http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=21825

Hello, I haven't determined if its a file size or poly count problem. My file that is having a problem is: Size: 43 MB Edges: 1,508,474 Faces: 51,451 I'm going to try a 3DS export to C:\ and see if that changes anything.

Hi. Kerkythea has options to make flythru animations. You can setup a lot of things directly inside Sketchup, and if you need some others in Kerkythea itself. Imho its verey a verey interesting option. I would recomend give it another try. Indigo its an interesting option too, and its tuned inside Sketchup. (And if cash its not an issue consider donate a little to the free render engine you choose )

Thanks Jon, Actually there was one on the warehouse that should work for now, thanks for the directions to the other sites, if the boss wants to buy one I know where to go Matte

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