As far as I can see, you are just using push pull tool to make your shape. You really need to do some shaping. Here is one idea:

Make a circle with given number of side. Here, I cut the circle in to quads to form half a section of boat sides. Make number of copies, connect it to form boat side. And I simply scaled different section. All that’s left to do now is to make components and reflect it from centerline.

When I try to up load my SU model I get a warning and upload stops:
“Internet Explorere cannot open the Internet site [file://C](file://C):\Documents andSettings\Laniers\Local\Settings\Temp\skp2.tmp.”
Any idea what is going on?

I suspected SU can’t tell where to put the texture. So I went as far as moving the grope in to different layer and made it not visible. This didn’t help. SU is still “seeing” invisible grope there. When I dragged surface to be textured away from the grope the texture did sick.

Nice work, Watkins.

Parametric modellers are really designed for the people who have experience in detail design. It is dimension driven. In your mind, one needs to have object to be made and how you are going to dimension it before you start to model it out. And yes, “all” the dimensions! It is nice to see the drawings made from 3D model at a touch of a button as Parametric modellers do. But you spend lot more time in building the 3D model. In essence you are drafting as you create 3D model. And that part is not a fast process.

don't let the texture touch the edge at all.

The method works ok; an acceptable workaround.

Photo match is fun for quick mass-up

I agree, but like this building I am working on, 80% of building is obscured by trees! So I tried to use tiling repeating elements. Problem with this method is that using multiple photo is not accurate. When I combined different tiling elements from different photos the size of those elements were all over the place. I tried to massage tiling scale to match different tiles, but SU texture scaling method is too coarse. Fine work is almost impossible.

I created Group, than created surface on it. So the surface itself is separate entity from Group but it is located on one of the Group surface plane. When I try to stick imported texture to this new surface, the importing texture process don’t work. The Paint Bucket icon you get when one try to attach a texture on to a point or surface turns to circle with slash in it. And it will not stick. What’s going on here?

I use File > Import and “Used as Texture” checked. When apply to divided coplanar surface, the texture sticks in all kinds of wired ways; totally uncontrolled. In my case the window image wiped out the door image. This is before getting to pick “projection” step.

But it is true, once you have the texture listed in material, Paint Bucket will fill the area one specify. The texture needs to be positioned after fill.

You really do need railing. Why don’t you make glass panel railing if you don’t want to obscure the view? Today’s glass paneling can be very strong.

Nice render ramus. Too boost the mood, add some chains on the wall with skeletons hanging from it? Chain and Skeletons will not be easy to make with SU thought.

Sorry it is hard to explain what is happening. Here is the image that shows what is going on:

Here I am trying to attach a texture next to door texture. By doing so the first floor window will tile all along the base of the building as seen on the photo image I posted before. As soon as I click it, the image flips and jumps right on top of my door texture!

This happens with imported texture. If you try to “fill” an area with paint bucket, the texture stay within bounded area.

I was trying to attach clips of images on single face. The image elements are all broken and repeated in different ways. No single shot is possible. The building sides are covered with trees!

Man, I was deleting the surface to get the materials off! Thanks, both method works fine.

How do you remove texture from surface?

Is there a way to apply texture on to a one of coplanar surface? Here I attached door image and window image on to part of the wall that is recessed. I faked the door part by creating a separate surface on outer wall. When I try to apply door image to the surface where door goes, door image get pasted on to adjacent wall. It jus jumps on to other surface. How can I constrain paint to go onto specific surface? I ended up deleting adjacent surfaces than applying the texture to the center surface.

Here is the model I built. I needed to move the roof peaks from flat roof plan so I couldn’t cross connect points with lines to move it. The points were already connected with ridgelines, which needed to slope. I ended up moving each peak points using inferences.

With move tool, I can pick a point to move but how do you move number of points together?

Thanks, I mix up Preferences and Model info time to time. They both change units but in a different context.

I am making building for Google Earth. When I stated the whole process I forgot that the Drawing Template was set to 3D mm. I want it in 3D feet. But when I go back to change the units, the model unit will not change. I am changing the unit in Window / Preferences. Is this the right place to change the unit?

I test built Japanese roof using Gaieus method; built with components, groups, and section to simulate roof ridge geometry. It was relatively quick build. The outline of the whole thing was little messy. My sys tem started to lag some.

I decided to add family crest on the first row of end tile. That turned out to be a little complex process; pasting texture on to tilted circular face. Texture did not fit the size of the circle as well! What is the standard method of pasting rectangular image on to circular face?

When you use Tape Measure Tool to resize it appears the whole selected object resizes from origin. This means one needs to create temporary origin before resizing right?