Many thanks ! I found out what I needed to know.

Hello all,
How do you set things so that objects stop when they collide ?
For example, I move a cube towards a cylinder and I wish it to stop when it touches the cylinder, rather than merge with it.
Thanks

It works a treat ! Thanks again for the advice.

In Illustrator, after adding plenty more nodes (Object menu) one goes back th the same menu for "Simplify" then choose "straight lines" (in fact I use a French set up, I assume those are the English terms used in the menus).
Once in Sketchup, the Makefaces plug-in is essential to enable push-pull extrusion.
All this enables one to convert vectorized texte or logos into 3D forms. Cool.

Thanks for the advice Alan, I'll give it a try.

Hello everyone,
this is my first topic. I have two basic questions :

• I have dowloaded and installed the plugins bezier.rb, bezierspline.rb, etc., but that doesn't give me a regular vector bezier drawing tool (like in Adobe Illustrator for example). Does such a drawing tool exist for Sketchup ?

• I can import simple vector formes created in Illustrator as DXF or DWG files. However, once in Sketchup, it is not possible to extrude the formes with the "push pull" tool. One has to re-draw over the top in freehand, which is very difficult (as I said earlier, the bezier plug-ins are difficult to use also and don't behave like regular bezier tools).

Hope you can help.

(I am on a Mac).