Yeh, Its so much better now, much faster!

thanks i shall test the new version!

Thanks for the reply barry, I appreciate the help, it really does help speed up layout now i dont have to write stuff in notepad++ and copy over hehe

Will

Hi,
thanks for the reply, i was just curious thanks for shedding light on the memory issue! any ideas about cpu? that's something i defiantly think Google need to improve on, but apart from that i think it truely is a great piece of software!

does anyone else find that layout is incredibly CPU hungry and Memory Hungry? i find that it eats up to 90 - 100% of my cpu sometimes and regulary is about 200-300 mb in taskamanger, im not so bothered about ram as i have 1.25gb of it. im just extremly curious why it is this intensive? i also find that it is very slow sometimes

hang on a sec, i just checked it again and it was a 5mb picture hehe
and again thank you all

well the texture for the base was a picture, was about 2mb (high quality scans of wood) but the shade is only a little picture (just created a 40x40 pixel drawing in gimp and coloured it in half blue and yellow) and fiddled about with the settings to make it look good, hope this helps hehe

thanks i appreciate the support i will have a look at podium now

Thanks Hazza, Remus and paris you have all been exceptionally helpful
here is my finished result (http://www.filefactory.com/file/5d8fbe/n/Final_Design_skp).
Please comment on it to what you think. Keep in mind I'm only 14 and that
was the first thing i have ever done in SU! I hope i can become involved
in this forum

Hosted on 3D warehouse (if you prefer it to file factory)
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=89fe9b63f07cde0fdd381eae8554f9d4&prevstart=0

Thanks, ive got the offest sorted now just mounting the Shade how do i do that?

thanks that is really helpful , i was just wondering how do i go about setting an offset? hehe

Will

Edit: this is how far I've got so far, ive done the offset and cylinders, its just placing the top on now!:
Base.skp

heres what i want to do:
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/7926/base123yh7.jpg

Hi everyone,
As you may guess i fairly new to sketchup (you can probably tell from my drawing) i am having trouble drawing a lamp (for a school project) i need ideas on how to mount the shade in sketchup, i want to use dowels so that means drawing cylinders, which i can do!

here is a screenshot:

(or http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/7580/basefw5.jpg) if it doesnt display properly
how can i place the cylinders and then place the lamp shade ontop of them, i want to leave a small gap in between the lampshade and base.

Thanks,
Will Price