Nice demo, Box!

@unknownuser said: .hmmm, I didn't know Sketchup would directly export as .dwg/.dxf extensions. Well dust my britches.. I do now!! I had failed to follow my Dad's main axiom whey you have a problem like this(or most other stuff too). He always said.."You have to LOOK..LOOK ..oh..did I mention...LOOK?" Well that's exactly what I did...BINGO! DUH!! When I selected "EXPORT/3D...the file type was default(skp. I think). All of a sudden...it dawned on me... .dwg...DUMB!! There it was. OMG. Ok guys, problem solved. Sorry if you had to read all this crap. Well, at least I found it..and that's what matters. And man am I a happy camper now. cheers fitz

OMG...Living proof there's more than one way to skin an ellipse. Thanks a million. That's great. fitZ

@3ddetailer said: Maybe I'm missing something, but I never get any "notification" emails that tell me someone has replied to my thread. Hm. That's weird. Are they not trashed by your email system? Make sure to add @sketchucation.com to your trusted domains or whatever they are called (I promise we won't spam you more than once a month with those CatchUp Newsletters). Just FYI: you can usually expect an answer here in minutes but in a couple of hours, almost certainly.

@massimo said: In the link I posted there is also a Mac version of the shortcut. ha.. i didn't make it that far in the thread before replying

Have you tried updating your graphic card driver?

@unknownuser said: Do you mean something like this? ....OMG! OMG, that nails it!! @unknownuser said: Find ImageAnimator... HOLY MOLY!! Tig.. are you trying to give me a heart attack? OMG. What can I say. This is the most incredible plugin I've ever seen. Just downloaded it. ...now I've got no excuse to NOT work on that "project" I mentioned. This is unbelievable. My wife is gonna hate you. All I can say is ...you are a genius!! @unknownuser said: LightUp allows you to use animated textures Cool. I tried to use Lightup a while back. Another learning curve. But I'll try anything that will help with this project. Btw, I downloaded the free Maxwell Sketchup "renderer" too. Another learning curve...heck..I got so many "learning curves" on the list now...not to mention the Plugins..I spend half my day, half hour per learning curve..and I'm still so far behind the learning eightball ..egads..I think I'll never get a complete handle on ANY of them.(sighs) But as far as this Imageanimator thing is concerned..I'm excited. That's all I can say...other than THANK YOU GUYS!! Sketchucation to the rescue again!! Well...time to go to work. fitZ

Hi folks. After seeing the kind of model that you make, no wonder that SU is brought to a crawl. I would suggest that you model all those cables and knobs using as few segments as possible for the circles and arcs. Refrain from using the default values of 24 segments for circles and 12 segments for arcs. Combining these with the Follow me tool will create a lot of facets in very little time. Click in succession on the scenes tabs of the attached SU file for ideas. File size dependent on segmentation.skp

OMG! Very cool indeed!! Geeeez, what would I do without you guys. Thanks a mill.

OMG! I posted those on the WRONG thread...er...I think. God...getting old sucks. Oh well...I haven't got a clue now. Ok, well MERRY CHRISTMAS