Thanks Tig, it was as you say, selected. I usually work to 1/4" for architectural but 1/64" when the model is a plane or car. I still find at times that the line would be somewhat different from my input length so it is still not right by any means but I understand nothing is perfect under any sun.

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. [image: gFeV_snowtrees_seamless_800NPR.png]

Thanks very much.

@krisidious said: @hellnbak said: Could somebody please explain what this is about? Yeah, I are pretty SU dumb He was part of the Trimble team and he was a big supporter of the SketchUp Acquisition and perhaps a facilitator of it... He passed away last year I believe. This is their Trimble Tribute. Ah. Thanks for explaining that. I did find this thread that talks about Derrick http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=52492&p=475932&hilit=derrick#p475932 So now I know. Sad that he's passed away.

Just had a complete evaporation from using the explode command so I think there is more than meets the eye going on here. I will try the test you described on sunday when I am no longer tearing my hair out. Pain in the proverbial. V8 is the vanilla of choice now and this is going poof too so the model itself may have some gremlins in the drivers seat I suppose. Sod.

This link works fine for me.

I see what you mean, you'd have to group off each part then run the plugin, it's just because of the returns and grooves.

I've had a few models that this happens on regularly. One was made by another guy and I inherited it. That model would regularly have issues that ended up in deleted geometry. A few others I made myself from CAD imports. Its not too common, but also not completely uncommon. And maybe certain modeling habits lead to more problematic models. So its not really probable, but it is a theory of what could be happening Chris

Hehe, I just got one myself. Maybe I've gotten them before and never noticed since it pops up in the web browser. I think I've just closed the window, assuming it was telling me my bug was successfully reported. [image: c6k5_fixed.jpg]

Yes I noticed the light burning out, I am playing with different background and artificial lighting settings. This is better. [image: x7RF_7.jpg]

Hi jpalm32, hi folks. @jpalm32 said: @jean lemire said: Hi folks. If you right click on the name of a group or component in the Outliner windowto get a contextual menu and then choose Zoom extentsin this menu, the view zooms on this particular group or particular instance of this component. Just ideas. Wow! Didn't know that . I posted that to show that there are a lot of usefull functions that are often overlooked since many new (and not so new) users forget to check if a context menu is available for objects or items or dialog or tools, or whatever. The first thing that I teach new users for any software is: 1 - Open each and every menu and sub menus and sus-sub menus to read what lays there. Judging by the questions aked here and also in the Google hel groups dedicated to SketchUp (SU), many have never done that. Having done that, they would have found the Help Menu that gives access to the Help Center. 2 - Place the cursor on each tool icon to read its name which, usually, is a good clue to its use. 3 - Right click on all objects, icons, menus, buttons, items that are shown to see if any context menu lies somewhere. 4 - Print the Quick Reference Card. 5 - Read the help, especially about the user interface. For SU, you soon discover the extreme importance, especially for beginners, of the status bar that sits at the bottom of the Model Window where SU is constantly giving clues as what to do after the selection of a tool, for example, and also about the Measurement tool bar that sits also at the bottom but the right of the Model Window. 6 - Take a few hours to view all the video tutorials that can also be accessed from the Help Center. 7 - Search the Youtube channel dedicated to SketchUp Just ideas.

Thanks for the replies folks, I have been pondering this, perhaps it could be an option in some future version of sketchup. I very much appreciate the time taken to reply and there is a fair bit to think about that will make things easier. On it.

@dave r said: DOD3R, I'm curious about something related to your post. Tutorial videos take time and, as you say, time is money. Would you be willing to pay for those tutorial videos? I am very well aware that tutorials = time = money. I am sorry a did'nt write it well previously, but I wanted to say that who would benefit most from these tutorials is trimble and they should produce and may be pay for them. Why I should not pay for them. I think there is a really little audience for these videos and even less would pay for them it would be really bad bussines. Why sould trimble pay for them or at least give bigg support for it? Because there are lot of tutorials how to make circle and puspull it. or lot tutorials for chair or whatever. And that is why lot of people thinks sketch up is NOT real deal. And opposite is true Trimble wants to sketchuppers to make houses to build and want them to by build by trimble products. Another way Trimble can look at it is. This is the cutting edge of sketch up usage for architecture. I think really small precentage of sketch up users can really even understand Nicks tutorials. Trimble as a devoloper of a program needs some people to use it on its limits so the can find them and push them little further. And even another way to look at it is that I belive we can help each other improve our workflows and I hope that even Nick learn something from us by sharing his workflow. Fun fact. I did'nt learn much new things ( maybe 2)from Nick tutorials I was aware of every feature he uses, but I never put it together this way. We need more tutorials witch explains how to use sketch up, but instead we have a lot of tutorials about how sketch up works. @unknownuser said: I've actually been giving a lot of thought to this lately. One major aspect of SU & LO that is so remarkable, is how it is so easy to customize a work flow. I've developed one that works really well for me, but certainly may not for others. In what I've discovered, there are certainly some practices that are more efficient than others, yet I will fall back to a process that is more familiar to my given process. I would love to document this in the Rey near future down to the detail that DOD3R mentions. I'm getting pretty swamped with work in the new year, and want to schedule some serious time on opening up LO further. All I hear in the back of my head, is Paul Lee, yelling CAD MUST DIE! This will be a big year for SU & LO in my opinion. I'll try my best to help. Yes! great. PS: Sorry for my english is bad obviously, but I hope it make sense. I would like to qoute: “Write drunk; edit sober.” ― Ernest Hemingway I will work on part to nex time

@mike amos said: Trying to rotate a simple cube along a path, any ideas? I have searched the forums and found reference to a plug-in which is apparently no longer available. Ta. As an animation? What kind of path? Straight? Curved? Single segment? Multi-segment? Component Stringer requires you to pre-select the path and component before executing the plugin. It places a copy of the component at the beginning of each segment.

Just wanted to say. I use Octaine with TIG's exporter. Works fine! Got an gtx 580 as graphiccard. Strength - You see quite rapidly where you're going in the render. I often use an ambient occlusion "sneeky render" that's very fast and gives good enough results, at least for me. There are different rendermethods to choose between. And an online database of materials where you can drag and drop from the menu. So easy setup if you're not a perfectionist. Also node-based interface, but one doesent have to bother about that if one doesent want to.. Another thing, if you are a paying costumer you will get full access to the whole site with bigger forum where you can get beta and test versions. There's quite some activity going on there. Can't tell how mature the software is yet, compared to for ex Thea. Octaine requires a good graphiccard.

I am rendering with renditioner. The cg textures site is just pictures which are not suitable for mapping to a 3d object as far as I can see. I was hoping to map the texture to the model. Even apples and oranges are something of a challenge as the majority of so called textures on the web are just images. I wish folk would not describe their images as textures, it just muddues the water for search engines. Thanks for the replies anyway folks.

I made this little component a while back. Just import into your model and scale as needed. Use it for any images you want to face the camera. It's sized for people PNGs, but you can use it for whatever. FaceMeBlank.skp

Next stage. [image: fOt8_5.jpg]