I hope you can get it sorted out.

Years ago there was such a tool by TBD [AddTime?] which seems to be no longer available. I have a modified version of it that I use personally. But because of possible copyright issues it's not publicly available...

MRA, how was that created? What plugin made it?

Curviloft does not work immediately. I've tried it extensively. Only when I split faces in 3 sections could I be able to create the right meshes. The problem is curves are bottlenecking and need to follow not one but two unparallel rails. What I got with this is that the rails now have a fixed thickness, wich should be good for construction purposes. That's a tough one and made me wish for that bridge tool you got on Maya. See attached file. Best regards, JQL carparkramp.skp

Geodesic-based lamp spheres have, seemingly, been popular, over the past few years. Here's a sampling for your SketchUp modeling exercises: [image: VgMc_Geodesiclampshade.jpg] [image: us4w_tumblr_m9r5np3AnF1qavpd4.jpg] [image: fepm_KentBlazek-NexusKitset-2.jpg]

@unknownuser said: it'll never be able to make it a solid object with Sketchup's native tools.. That's not really true, any shape can be made solid using nothing more than the line drawing tool. The trick is to think of the surface divided up into triangles (or quadrilaterals where you can make four coplanar edges)... [image: dfUS_ManualTriangulate.jpg] ...you can see here how I am adding a surface to the top of the uneven curve by simply drawing in triangles one at a time. Once they are all drawn in, you can use the eraser tool (with Ctrl held down) tool to smooth those lines into a continuous surface. The many skinning and lofting plugins available do make this a lot quicker and simpler, but doing it by hand can sometimes give more control over the triangulation so that the "undulations" of the resulting surface are as you would like - and doing a few manual ones will also give you a feel for how the "skinning" plugins works for a better understanding of the variables in their setup dialogues.

It's probably a "crap job" DWG file causing the problem. There's a reason that the edge you point out looks thick. Most likely it's two lines very close together. It carries around the arc at the end, too. If that shape was drawn correctly with only one edge along there, the line would display with the same thickness all the way around. Could you post the SKP file showing the problem?

Hey! There you go Did not notice that plugin cause you have it on your blogg, Sdmitch. Sorry Indeed seams to be able to meet the requirements in this request.

Thanks Dave. For anyone else who might come across this thread in a future search: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=30107

@gaieus said: Try Preferences > Workspace > reset workspace. It will reset all your SU dialogs but you may be lucky to get the shadows back this way, too. Thank you for that. My Entity Info window would not open completely, and I was unable to read the definition line. After being baffled for 2 days, I took your advice, reset the Workspace, and all was good again. Thank you for your 2011 answer as we approach 2013...