Round corner does not work on that model and frankly I can do without the hasstle of playing around with something like that. The resultant mesh is a disaster and even if I scale up x100 it makes the whole thing look like a five year olds attempts at building a space station. Probably more useful on larger objects or furniture where the mesh may work better.

Not meaning any insult here just my experience with THIS model.

Very nice, as they say, less is more.

Just a quick point I left out earlier, top end music playing devices are still available with gold plate valves. They are apparently able to provide a 'warmer' tone than pure digital apparratus.

http://www.highendaudio.co.uk/

Sorry Mike, not thinking.

"I'm guessing its called a "kick" bucket 'cause people push it around with their feet".

Yes, afraid so. The surgical team can move these bowls without desterilising their hands. Very foot friendly. We used to have races sitting in them during slow periods and long corridors can see quite high speeds but they are not too good in the corners.......

Mike, the buckets are used for soiled sponges and swabs, you need to keep them together for the numerous counts that go on during a surgery, they have radio opaque stripes so you can x-ray a patient if you lose any. It does happen sometimes.

Cheers guys, Oli, I forgot about round corner completely. Some days I wonder, mind you with so many plugins to chose from how does one keep up?

I am more used to the term 'running bowls' to describe a small bowl for discarding waste from the steril surgical tool area. People surgery though so it might be different with vets everywhere. Just for interest, not correcting anyone.

A valved docking station for the i-pod classic.

Definitely worth a chuck or three. Very chucleicious in fact.

Sonder, no layers other than base so no layers to assign anything to.

The latest model was an i-pod docking station, a simple thing with little in the way of complexity.

Thanks for the reply, I do tend to enlarge anything before I make or adjust fiddly aspects of a model to save time really, a little bit of affirmative action does help, thing is it happens at times 100 of model size and nothing in a model that large is going to be small exactly. I think I am just getting a bit jaded with the whole sketchup falling over thing, OK the first hundred times but after that a bit more than should be the case.

I have been told that the biggest issue with sketchup is not the program itself but the interaction with rubies/plugins. If this is the case, the time for all plugins etc to be made in house is here. Either that or bring in a method of stress testing EVERY plugin for suitability BEFORE it is released.

For some time now I have had weird results from saving files, really not something I can put my finger on but something that is a pain. Along the lines of intersecting geometry and finding that sketchup has added a step by smoothing (NOT) the geometry and forcing an undo, if I spot it.

A new item has cropped up where I save the file and geometry is deleted. Not something that can be undone either.

Do we just carry on in the face of random behaviour or go elsewhere? I know, nothing is perfect and he or she who dares blaspheme at the high alter of sketchup should be stoned or flamed, yes that is how such protests are greeted so why should this be any different? I am definitely NOT of the opinion that all problems can be layed at the door of the sketchup team but this is not changing quickly enough imo.

Redo from start MIGHT make things better for a while but will not be a permanant fix so does anyone have a suggestion, apart from blender or 3ds max?

Thanks for the replies guys, Chris, thanks and much appreciated.

I basically scaled the elements by half of the arc and then quartered it. Essentially I squared it off, well almost-ish, a bit..........

I thought the measurements were a bit off, more than a bit to be honest. Best I came up with was this segment.

Arc Roof Segment 2.skp

My issue is, when I have the latest version of sketchup, why does the crash report suggest the problem has been fixed, go get the latest version, this cannot be down to the render program.

Render program is renditioner V3

No consistency in model size, it can happen if I render a single lamp/light (simple).

Happens frequently when rendering.

Quite frequently when skethcup falls over, I get the report that the problem has been fixed in the latest version etc, when I have the latest version...

So impressed with this one.