Thanks Thomas, I appreciate that. I don't want to be a pain in the rear, I know all modeling programs have some sort of long term bug.

Just a quick View of AN accuracy problem. The arc start point was placed carefully, waiting for the green point suggesting an end point has been selected, and it turns out not to have done so.

Something that might help would be the ability to choose where the lines or curve start/end at. A common problem is where I want to end a line/curve at the end of another line/curve and as I am clicking the button to finish, the end point moves, or I find the end point wanting to snap to the green/red/blue alignment instead of where I want it to go. It is also a nnoying whenaccuracy is insufficient to place the start finish point properly.

Thanks for the reply, I do not always catch it which is a pain, I take it this will not be fixed for a while. Right or wrong?

I find that sketchup adds an additional process when I copy a component or group, and at other randomly generated points during the model making process.

I do not ask for this to be done and I find it a pita, especially as this process undoes any smoothing done prior to the flipping or moving operation. I cannot see any time where this may be an advantage.

Apparently it IS set by default, at least according to Chris on the team (now). After setting up profiles for a group or component and then finding that the accuracy settings are inadequate too, I am at the stage of those of us who need to move on from sketchup (and then some). I find it remarkable that basic functionality like accuracy of scale and movement is so hit and miss. How this translates is that each line and arc intersection have a 'tolerance' that more or less guatantees failure of components/group from profiles/arcs/lines. I know, there are people here who will swear they have no issue with this and good luck to them. I just wish they would not try to stick their experiences down my throat as they are not relevent. Different methodology is the probable culprit and this is because there are so many different methods of getting to the same so called result. I do not take personally, nor do intend any personal insult just please respect the experience of others may not reflect yours. Have a good week.

Sorry mate, the mig 31 was NOT fictional. The mig 31 was a development of the mig 25 with a more powerful radar capable of seeing low flying targets and not quite as fast as the 25. The aircraft was in service for quite a while.

No worries dude, looks like the presentation will go well with work like yours. Good luck with it.

Not meant to be flippant or bovine but you will earn a lot of brownie points for reffering to the subjects in this as the less able rather than handicapped or disabled. Something that is appreciated by those with mobility or other difficulties.

Renditioner.

Thanks Daniel, I think the background is curtessy of the twilight forum but I cannot be certain, I shall leave it here in case anyone wants it.

Seriously cool render but then yours always are.

Hi Dave, I made the mirror copy by copy and paste in place then flip along axes. Nothing wildly technical about it. I have noticed a problem in the placement of markers and drawing lines or moving lines to an angle. Sometimes the line or angle looks right but problems are emphasised when mirroed objects are placed in the group or component. The number of times I have found this is beyond my count. Essentially put, when you put the double doors into the frame the discrepency is writ large and while it may be my little bit of autism, I cannot abide a model I spent hours on at times being out of true.

Deleted, not a good day. I will start again monday after a day to reflect on what I am using this tool for.

I would like to be able to input a length and angle for a line and have THAT as the result rather than a loose aproximation. Is it too much to ask for? Is it too much that making a group or component should be a result of intersecting lines and arcs or are we stuck with a system that would have been innacurate when making cart wheels with an adze and by eye measurement?

Thanks Daniel, I reckon the boundry between the 2d background and the 3d snowy midground could do with a tweak but not bad for a 2d background.

A superb example of the render artist many of us strive to be, I hope to see a great deal more from yourself and David H for inspiration and motivation.

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Simple word to sum these up....class
John

Agreed, a class act needs no introduction or explanation, it simply is.

Another in the line of D'oh moments, I am trying to increase the accuracy that sketchup uses to place a point. I have scaled a group by x10 to see what I want to do but even now I find that trying to place a new line results in the start point NOT going where I want it to, rather the point goes only aproximately the same country as the location I want to start from. The start point WILL be another end point OR an intersection. Lovely this memory trick, learn something, leave it unused, forget it.........

I select ALL of the attached geometry with no dependencies or attachments, sometimes the thing will be replaced and sometimes not. The problem is the variation in behaviour so I would like to be able to do as has been suggested is the norm, rather than have to go bakcwards and forwards with multiple goes at doing ONE thing, create a component.