Thanks bocomofo,

That's what I needed. I didn't do it like this before, then it was in the measurement toolbar, but maybe that was in the 7.0 version.
Still a small little thing, I have to thick it every time after i have drawn something.
But well, I'll get over it.

In the plugins list I found this plugin, but this is not exactly what I meant. It says something about a 'built in skup tool'. I think it is this tool I'm looking for, how can I activate this?

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by TIG on Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:38 pm

This Tool is a reworking of the height.rb tool (c) Robin Hill - #heighttool_datum.rb - it adds two items to the Plugins Menu '>>Add Height above Datum' and '>>Set Datum'.
The Datum is Z=0.0 by default. You can set it to any value you like and it's remembered across sessions with the Model - once it's set you do not need to change it or re-enter it again, ever for that Model. Any 'Heights' you add using the tool are adjusted by that Datum value [let's say Datum=100.0'] so something placed at ModelZ=0.0 is given Height:100.0' and something placed at ModelZ=20.5' is given Height:120.5'. Now there's no need to move the Model off Z=0 to return true Heights above a Datum...
The height-text always shows the correct height of the arrowhead - manually editing the text will not work as it will revert - if you want a 'fake' height-text use apiece of ordinary text !

TIP 1: If you want to Move a piece of height-text it is not anchored to its picked point/object like the built-in SUp tool [since this can't be done readily through Ruby]... therefore DON'T use SUp Move to do this relocation [the text will update to suit the new arrowhead Z-position but it won't be pointing at the original picked point any more], instead you should pick the SUp Text Tool and then pick on the height-text, and now you can relocate the height-text as needed, leaving the leader's arrowhead where it is. Using the Text Tool you can also pick on the height-text's arrowhead and relocate that too, then you can set the text position as needed - however, make sure that the arrowhead snaps to something at the same height as the original point, otherwise you'll get the new height of the arrowhead updated in the text to suit. Note that moving the height-text's arrowhead this way does then anchor the leader arrowhead to the newly snapped point/object, so any subsequent 'move' of the height-text leaves the arrowhead anchored in place BUT beware that any 'move' of the now linked geometry [say a face that is lowered] will move the arrowhead down and it will update the text showing the new Z-level...

I didn't think it was op plugin, I can remember that I was so glad it was standart in Pro.
But maybe I'm wrong.

Sorry, It' s bit difficult for me to explain.

I'm drawing a model with heigth refering to groundlevel (z-value). I used to be able to see this value, but now I cant

I already tried extensions, and this wasn't the problem.

Can u follow me?

When I installed skup 7pro I was very delighted to see that it showed the value of the z-axis. Now I've reinstalled all my software and can find it nowhere.

I used to have (I thougth in the measurement toolbar) a heigth value of the z-axis when I move over or select a face.
Now I can find nowhere the option to see what the value of my z-axis is.
Can somebody tell me where I can?

I hope you understand what I mean cause all my searches in google didn't give any result.

I always use a very simple skethcup tree. Found it in a model a few years ago.
It keeps your model small. I've tried it with complex trees but my computer crashes all the time.
Rendering in kerkythea with clip mapping of bitmap with leaves gives good results for me.
But i'm still searching for improvements. It still is not very realistic. Haven't tried to replace my tree with the tree of this topic yet.