Oh good, I'll go give Patrick a big hug for you in the morning. Chris

FYI PMs will remain in your Outbox until the recipient reads them, then they go into the Sent folder. That way you know when it's not been read yet... remember other members have to sleep, eat and shop etc, and can be in significantly different time-zones from you, so you cannot always expect an instant response... Back to the issue... In Context-menu > Properties > Security... for the selected 'Components' folder [and for the Plugins, Materials and Styles folders next...] Edit & Apply Set Read/Write permissions to FULL for everyone that you can. Then use... Advanced>Owner Set the owner of the folder to be 'admin', also ensure the changes filter down to change all contents to match [there is a check-box]. Do not have it set for the folder you are changing to take its permissions from its containing folder [SketchUp~] as this will confuse things... Also set 'SketchUp.exe' to 'always run as administrator' in Properties > Compatibility...

If you have "flat" surfaces See Dynamic components for that!

Okay I gave the suggestion from Dave a try. You have to use the menu if you do this, and dig the commands out by drilling down. So the procedure would be something like "Tools" and then "Paint Bucket". That may seem a bit silly; or it might be a case of how sick and tired you have become of selecting commands! The cursor then follows the selection being called out which is not ideal. What you can do with VR and Sketch Up is this. Call out the shortcut for the new tool and it will exchange at the current cursor position which is nice. That lends some practicality to using the VR software. VR does a pretty good job at calling up commands compared to dictation with Word. With Windows the process is "Press 'L'", which gives the pencil. You want to orbit, so call out "Press 'O'". What I like now is undo, redo, and escape are just called out by name. Say "undo" and it will undo. Or "escape" to drop a tool. Cheers Nick