@majid Hope everything is good, and stays that way, with you and your family.

Kind of says it all!

OK, I just tried both of the items I mentioned before and they both seem to be working again.

@majid

Wish I had the talent to do things like this.

Some more learning

Here is my latest render. Some progress I think but one thing I am still struggling a little with is setting the scene in SketchUp so that it will produce the view I want in the render.

@majid said in Merry Christmas:

Merry Christmas, mates, let's pray for a more peaceful world!![m c.jpg]

Nice images and yes, Merry Christmas and hopefully, a more peaceful world.

Making some progress.

Wow, what a great start!

Just curious, what tools/plugins (if any) did you use to draw this?

I was thinking about trying this myself. I was thinking about putting the image as a background and then drawing on top of it.

@TIG said in Silly/Dumb Question about Guidelines:

You can't do that in one step.

I tried to find where I had read that but could not find it again

Do this.
Use the Tape-measure tool to make the first at 1/2" as before click to confirm, Select the guide line, and chose the Move tool, press Ctrl to invoke Copying, make the copy off 1/2" and immediately type 9x press Enter to confirm.
Now you have 10 guides at 1/2" spacing.

As several of you have mentioned, using the Move tool is the correct way to achieve what I was trying to do.

I want all of you who responded to know I really appreciate your feedback. I now have things working and hope to post something in the next couple of days using this process.

I have not been doing much with SketchUp lately (not wanting to go into a bunch details (health related) but things are getting back and participating again.

Again, thanks to all of the feedback.

@rown2000
Since Twilight Render is going away it would also be neat if you could add Rayscaper to the list.

I thought/think Animator is still available, and yes you can use it to follow a path.

That is an embarrassing DUH on my part. I don't know what the heck I was thinking. It is there clear as day.

I am embarrassed beyond belief

@Rich-O-Brien said in Copy Materials:

Where are you seeing the magnifying glass (search) icon? I am not seeing it on either my laptop or iPad.

@Rich-O-Brien said in Copy Materials:

@ntxdave said in Copy Materials:

Is there a way to search the forum?

Yes, there is a search icon next to the bell.

Neither of the icons next to the bell on my devices provide a "search" capability. The one to the left of the bell says "Mark Unread" and the one to the right of the bell says "Sort By". Thus, I wanted to find the old thread where we discussed the older version of the "named colors" (which actually shows the colors in a solid color and shows the name of the color).

I will look at copying the named colors folder from my older version of SketchUp to the 2026 version though and set something up so I can also use it in future versions though. Thanks for that thought.

Is there a way to copy the “named materials” from an older version of SketchUp to SketchUp 2026?

I think we have had this discussion before but I could not find it.

Is there a way to search the forum? I do not see search option anywhere and think there should be a search option.

@tig Thank a lot sat.

@TIG said in Why Transparency:

If you have accidentally pressed K then back-edges might be 'on'.
Try pressing K again to toggle them 'off' ...

Thanks @tig that solved my problem. What is the K key used for?

I am developing a model and it appears that some surfaces are transparent when I really do not want them to be. I need to understand what I am doing wrong.

As you look at the image, notice that the text at the bottom of the heart as actually on the back side (this is a 3D model) so I should not be able to see that text when viewing from the top. If I look from the other side (bottom) you can see the text that is on the top face.

I have also been having s little bit of a problem placing text on the top and bottom surfaces.

OK, I thought all of my Fredo6 licenses were perpetual but maybe not. I do not think I have used this one so I might just uninstall it.

BTW: When I look at the licenses, I see that they have an old email address that is no longer valid. How do I update the email address associated with my license?

@Dave-R I thought so and have had it installed for a while. If you look at this screen shot you will see that I had it placed on my toolbar.

Also, If you look at the image from the SketchUp Extension Manager, you will see that I had a license.