Jason,

That looks good. Thank you. Realizing that the "pro" way to approach this is hard (or tedious) work plus plugins. But not so time consuming once you learn the techniques.

Peter

@escapeartist said:

Doesn't count unless they have laser beams on their heads.

frickinLasers.jpg

@tig said:

redstrickcad ?

YEP, RedstickCAD! Thanks TIG! Where would I be without your brain?

Peter

Autodesk Sketchbook Pro is purely for 2D sketching and painting.

Autodesk Sketchbook Designer is the more complex application where you can make massive edits to everything.

Autodesk Alias combines 2D drawing and 3D modeling.

Sorry, I coulda googled that. Very interesting. I went to Pinang near there but didn't make it to Sumatra. (One of my favorite coffees though!). Don't travel so much lately myself. Have to stay put and try to make a living.

Peter

Because of the issue I added an extra step near the end of my ImageTrimmer tool.
The PNG Image initially needs transparency to work out what;s to be cut off the shape.
But then you have a component face with a material using the PNG as a texture that won't receive shadows 😒
SO you are then asked if you want to 'flatten' to texture image so it works [like a JPG], rather than the transparent PNG ! Answering 'yes' fixes it [it's automatically made anyway and is discarded if you decide not to use it!]
😮

Don't know what you're saying,Richard,but I'll see if I can do that too.

We have project affiliation with all of the above, and some financial support from various agencies, and all sorts of support and endorsement, but no direct organizational affiliation.

With EEbyRails swapping over the selected profiles and rails will often given the desired result... 😉

Yep! The original Walking With Dinosaurs was done in Softimage and this looks to be the same...with Zbrush for detailing.

@srx said:

And there is also Bevel Maker https://youtu.be/ye4mcp0TPy8

Do you have any idea where to find this plugin!?

Yes: Update. I repaired permissions, but I find the behavior is intermittent. Does not always happen. It goes away for good periods. Could it be plugins?

Well no. Is that like Fortran?

Kidding aside, we will talk. It seems this ideas could use some help from Ruby.

Peter

Awesome emptiness....but nobody's ever done it better than Carl Sagan.

[flash=640,390:1posltof]http://www.youtube.com/v/2pfwY2TNehw?version=3"[/flash:1posltof]

Looks very promising. Watched it on my laptop and was getting an odd flickering, probably a less then compliant graphic card.

Thank you Dave,

I've sent you the file.

In the end it could be a corruption, possibly of both styles I wanted to save. Interested in what you think. I have found that I CAN save styles that came with SU into a new collection by the methods described,just not my created styles. Catch up with you soon.

Peter

[Update: Dave saved the Styles into files for me. In the process I figured out that SU8 was accessing the SU6 Styles folder. I threw out the SU6 support folders and things started acting normally. Thanks Dave!]

TIG,

As I haven't made the foray into ruby and coding myself. I will try to absorb what you have explained about entities. And if it is not possible at the moment, perhaps I'll eventually make something of it. I think you addressed the question about the primary constraints. It appears so much is possible.

I have also been thinking about the value of the request / question , because in my particular methodology I have been finding OK techniques with the native way SU is intended to work.

Thanks very much for the reply, Peter

I took a class in FORTRAN once. Does that count?

I have a lot of ⌥ shortcuts installed within either SU or system preferences.

edit to show in action per later responses 😉

0ption.mov

@tintin99 said:

Did you find the solution ?

Yes that was the solution. And I am very grateful for the help, however embarrassed. The gluing function made it impossible to put the objects side by side. They were put in the model on a face. I don't know if one moved once the face's layer was off. But that is the problem, without that layer on they cannot be put in the side by side position.

Thanks to all,
Peter

Thank you Howard,

I've downloaded your door component and have been considering it for an approach to my doors.

Peter