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Download offset.rb from Smustart.com and install it. Then all of the error messages should go ! http://www.smustard.com/thanks/Offset

Just as I posted this, I solved the problem made an an outline of the shape, duplicated, placed them slightly offset to create the skewed effect and used Curviloft to join them..Where there's a will.. t. @petropix said: [attachment=1:2fi3n3nh]<!-- ia1 -->compounds 2.jpg<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:2fi3n3nh]Okay..hate to be a nag, especially on Sugar Bowl day..Scaling it up 100 x definitely helped. However, I'm still stuck on the 'angled step' detail. Please see pic. Need angle A at B. When I do a boolean subtract, the curved facets/faces/surfaces/geometry disappears. Damn tricky! t. [image: ZXJl_compoundcurvi.jpg]

Special thanks to Dave Richards for going beyond the call of duty to explode my rigidly grouped SU Mind. As Donald Rumsfeld famously said, one can arrive at a perfectly logical conclusion from a wrong assumption. For me that assumption was to group, group, group (avoids the nastiness of merged geometry). While that served my purposes allowing me to accomplish certain things, in the end it was my downfall. Making components of everything is a superior way of grouping and a much more efficient way of working in SU. That, and avoiding the pitfalls of laziness by under-estimating the power and range of SU's native tools. Thanks, Dave! folding dolly.avi

@brookefox said: I failed to mention the wireframe, edges only selection as I thought it was clear. Seems it was not, but as you say 'line to tube' doesn't require that. Here's one with the non-radially faced sphere (dome), in which the faces are more approximately equal on the surface. If it is desired that the grid be regular before draping then take the faces only and drape the even grid from '(sandbox) from scratch' or other and drape as Pilou showed. Once draped of course the grid is distorted (except in ortho plan view). can you please explain how you made those constructions beam ? step by step ...

@unknownuser said: Try this http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=23616 and for making a curve with equal segments use this http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=13563 (polyline divider for Animation - and set max and min length of segments at same value) Many thanks! I'm in awe..

Kudos to Jeff! This will work on Mac skp 8! I was trying in v.7. No need for complicated alpha exports, not to mention my elaborate and, in retrospect, quaint workaround.. heh, heh.

Many thanks! Wished I'd joined this forum sooner..