Hey Woller, Chris is right! Very bad tactics - for several reasons! There is a fine server upload system here for files, look at this topic here: http://www.sketchucation.com/scf/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=964 There you can upload your model (or actually you can use the warehouse, too) or you can attatch it here if it's not too big (we encourage everybody though to use Kelly's server for this way we can keep running this forum better).

@unknownuser said: ...since it hasn't been deleted or locked yet, here's the model in-game for anyone who was curious as to how it would look... We don't lock or delete topics just because a problem is solved! They stay here so that other people can learn from them and this way keep the place useful. Anyway, it looks pretty cool in that game! What is it exactly?

Probably your textures are too big, try uploading the file without textures. Yes I see now, your plan and front and side textures are still in the model, get rid of those and you will be able to upload.

I worked on this for almost an hour until I found this little tip. I'm so grateful I went through the whole registration process just to say thanks. With all the great content I'm seeing I am glad I did. Thanks again, Onyx @chris fullmer said: Its also possible the object is glued to a certain plane. you can right-click on it and select "unglue" and then it will be free to move about on all axes. Chris

kerkythea. P: CHUKIE

Is this script easy to write? Can someone write one for this scene jumping in the animation? Thanks again. [honsuales]

ahhhhh fantastic, so glad you're up and running... now let's see some of what you're working on.

BINGO! That did it, thank you so much:) I will go chase down a driver...thanks a lot:) P: Hanna

Sorry I meant to say SU pro. But your answer makes everything make sense, thanks for clarifying this. I do have pro, but used to have google SU 5 and remembered not finding anything. @gaieus said: You are saying you have Google pro (what "google" anyway?). and then asking if you need pro for your purposes. If you mean SU Pro (v.6) - then you don't need the pro versiopn for this. In SU 5 the sandbox tools were confined to the pro version but they are available in the free version since v.6 was released. P: jectionpro

Kuesel, It can also be so big because there are no components used for repeating geometry. If you can change some such geometry into components (and use those as multiple instances) it can considerable decrease your file size. Unfortunately this is again a long and manual process. However 17 mb sounds pretty big. The limit in the 3D Warehouse (if you want to export it to GE via that) is 10 mb. Sure you can export the "pure" kmz file, too but consider the render time in GE, too. This would be an extremely slow model.

Group your walls then go into edit of that group. Create one rafter and make it a group. While still in edit of the wall component intersect with the rafter. If you notice at the birdsmouth you can delete the section of the BM setting on the top plate.

Thanx a lot now it works!!! P: idro

Dear All, Thank you so much for your support i will for sure follow your advice. I found out that it is a very nice program to learn and the interactive drawings are just superb. Thanks a lot John. P: camel10

ever heard of one touch render?? with SU2KT3.0 that pretty much is true with Kerkythea! u could also join the forum at http://www.kerkythea.net and download the tutorials and stuff!

My apologies for the confusion. I was referring to export from SketchUp. For import into SketchUp, there's nothing you can do to create smoother curves on import. If the curves are recognized by SketchUp as arcs or circles, you can edit the number of sides in Entity Info. Otherwise you would need to redraw the curves with more segments. If the curve is non-circular I would probably use Catmull Splines from Fredo6's Bezier Spline extension to redraw them. Since .dwg files import as components, I would draw the curve outside the component using the original as a guide and then replace the original with the new one.

Thanks Todd/Gaieus, Some good info in there. The Chris Fulmer tutorials are very well explained. I'll have to look into that section more. Cheers, Alan. P: ACZero

Now, that's cool, Varty! I'm glad that you succeeded. As you can see, there are always some tricks when you get stumped at some (seemingly impossible) point. When you already have some experience, patience and imagination, you can always overcome these problems.

@gaieus said: To your material problem I'd suggest not to eyedropper/copy the material of a section plane (I dodn't see the reason...) This mostly happens in the aforementioned scenario when I'm trying to pick the texture of a floor surface (not the section plane) while the camera is hovering above the section plane (which in turn is horizontally between the floor and the camera). It seems it all boils down to me having to stop being so awfully lazy and managing to make the few extra clicks to adjust the planes when needed, thanks for helping P: Tapsa_Kn

Also a "newbie", and a somewhat lazy software developer. I have an extension monitor connected to my laptop. My Sketchup project is displayed on the laptop screen, and all my component folders are displayed on the extension monitor (Windows Explorer). To add a component to the project, I just drag it from the extension monitor to the laptop screen. Major advantages of doing it like this are the (much) bigger thumbnails, and I can display more of them in the bigger window. Another component tip: When creating many similar components, like windows, doors, kitchen cabinets etc, make only one of each main type. Test it to be sure that it "glues" and "cuts" exactly as you require. When completely satisfied with your "basic" component design, you can then create many more similar components from this basic one. Open the basic component, save it as a new file, and then do whatever editing and modifications are required for the new component. The BIG advantage in doing this is that every copy of the basic component will automatically "inherit" the same "gluing plane" and "cutting surface" as the original basic component. Maybe we should have a special forum thread for "component tips and tricks"?

Hi folks. Te resize components like doors and windows, for example, you may need to use the Move Tool to avoid changing the frame size while changing the door or window size. Just ideas.