Masta Squidge (name?), if you haven't already solved this problem, I would think that the problem might be in K, not in SU. I have limited experience in K, but try the smoothing setting for the material you apply to the donut.

The folks at the K forum are great about helping too, and could probably identify the issue quickly.

I have found Aidan Chopra's video tutorials very helpful. Check out the roofing ones: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aidan+chopra+roof+sketchup

Great, thanks all.

Well, it just as simple as that.

Not sure what I was doing before, but my confusion may have been on account of trying to maneuver the moving section plane among an existing set of scenes. I just wiped my existing scenes and started over. Works as expected.

Thanks again.

I found an answer to question 2:

You can edit various line type colors in the Styles menu:
Styles/Edit/Modeling/Section Cuts

This seems to be a basic technique that is well-known around here, but I've been unsuccessful in my attempts to get a handle on how section plane animation works.

An example of what I'm trying to achieve can be found in the first linked video in this thread by Paul Russam (the nursing home site one). About 2.5 minutes into the video, he starts using an animated section plane. I've also seen it in multiple other animations posted here, this is just the most recent one, so I remember where it is...

I have achieved motion of my section plane in animation, but there are two parts which I am missing:

1. First and foremost, I can only get the section plane to fly away like a bird into the sky. This in contrast to the slow smooth motion as in Paul's video. I have slowed down the scene transition time, but it still flies away up into the sky - definitely not smooth. Also the transition from one section plane position to another (1st floor, 2nd floor, etc) - as I mentioned, I've only gotten it to fly away, not to move from one position to another.

2. The red cut lines are cool. How are they displayed?

Any suggestions to point me in the right direction would be much appreciated.

Peace,
Nick

Thanks, I just tried that out and I can get it to cut a hole in one surface, but not two.

Anybody have suggestions on the best way to go about duplicating holes in an object? Here's what I'm running into. The pic shows my original hole. If I select all of the lines involved in the square hole and copy them down the line, the squares show up, but the holes are still covered. I know that I could intersect and delete the insides to make holes, but if I'm duplicating this hole often or a large number of times is there a better way?

I've also tried making it into a group or component before copying but to no avail.

thanks in advance

Right on. I don't understand it, but that's ok. I'm off and running. Thanks for the tip.

I've run into this a few times and don't understand how it works.

I think that SU does not allow you to rotate/reposition textures on curved surfaces or hidden line surfaces, but I would have expected to be able to change the position on this flat surface (see attached).

Does anyone know what determines the ability to edit a texture?

Note in attached picture "right-click", "texture", "position" function is not available.

Thanks, that offers the simple solution to my question.

What I was referring to specifically was the "view/component edit/hide rest of model" command, and I see that I can assign a key to toggle this feature as well.

Thanks again.

Is there a faster way to access the "hide/unhide rest of model" while editing component function than to go through the menu?

I switch back and forth often and it would be nice to have a toolbar button or keystroke command to toggle this option.

I got carried away with this while playing around with office arrangements. I hope it's useful to someone.

Ypnos,

For what it's worth, that is fascinating... and awesome!

I look forward to experimenting with this.

This clock was just hanging right there on my wall and I took advantage of some rare leisure time to play with it.

Download Clock.skp

[light bulb over head] After thinking through what I wrote in the last post, I realized that since the setting is attached to the view I could simply regenerate the ISO view by resetting the camera position from a scene with the North line disabled.

I'll change the setting when I get to work on Monday.

I noticed that the north line only shows up in the ISO view tab, not in the elevation or plan views. I'm guessing it's because Kris had set the views up with that feature enabled or disabled and SU still recognizes the setting, but doesn't give me the interface to change it.

Thanks again for this template, Kris!

Here is the help text regarding setting location. This seems to confirm the lack of "Location" settings in the non-Pro version:

@unknownuser said:

Specifying a Model's Location in the World
You can set the location of your model in all versions of SketchUp. However, the mechanism for setting location is different between SketchUp Pro and Google SketchUp (free).

Setting Location in SketchUp Pro
Use the Location panel in the Model Info dialog box (Window > Model Info > Location) to set the location for your model.

Caution - Do not use the Location panel in the Model Info dialog box to change the location of a model after importing the current view from Google Earth (using the Google Plugin). Using the Location panel to position models in Google Earth will likely result in an incorrectly located model.

Setting Location in Google SketchUp (free)
Load Google Earth and navigate to the location where you model will exist (the town is sufficient). Use SketchUp's Get Current View button to import the current view, as well as the location, from Google Earth. You can hide or delete the Google Earth snapshots if you want to work without them (such as when doing a shadow study).

It's not there as far as I can see... (see attached)

maybe it's an issue with an older version? Version 6.0.515 is what I have installed here.

however, I know that I've seen the "location" options before. I'm assuming it was while working on my work computer, which led me to the conclusion that it's a Pro vs not-Pro difference.

Thanks guys!

I just realized that the non-pro version probably doesn't have that feature, as I can't find it right now. Though I've seen it before, which confused me on several occasions (I have Pro at work, but not at home).

Peace!
nick

If that is the case, do you know how to hide it?

The orange line doesn't change when I change the position of the sun...

I imagine it's something very simple... thanks in advance for your instructive help