Sorry BooFredlay, I havn't made the first thing we must do each time we post something: searching for similar purpose. Everything is already in your Animusic - Pipe Dream. ... Happy we share the same taste for that sort of work. ++simonlebon Ps: perhaps you will like this (havn't search yet on the forum) Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen awesome human beatbox "Lasse Gjertsen" Giovanni Sollima - Sogno ad Occhi Aperti (Daydream) PART 1 (absolutly nothing to do with SketchUp)

Well, I also have Camtasia 3 (downloaded/installed when there was a frrebie period some time around december) and YES, it is superior to the others I have. And yes, it can create very small files with seemingly lossless compression. I like it.

Hi Simon, have been working on Sketchup for a couple of years on my own but skills are definitely lacking! Love your Gothic panel skp drawing but do you have any tutorial as to how the flower was created; which plugins etc? Your geometry is a piece of art and much admired!! SDHatter

Dear Joe and Bob, I've just tried the two. I'm not sure with Joe Solution because inference is missing to adjust the second arrow on the first one. Do i've missed a step, there is always some space between. Bob solution works fine. ('paste in place')"Got the good tip!"--- even if it needs a little practice. (I should never have found this Tip by myself. No mention of it in UserGuide!!) [image: arrows1.jpg] [image: arrows2.jpg] Great Thx to both of you. ;-)slb

hi simon, i like your effect in version 2b.

Dear Remus,Pilou,Gaieus and Jean, I'm afraid i haven't found into your replies exactly what i'm searching for. What i need sometimes would be drawing an arc from point A to B and tape the length around the arc in the VCB (in place of the rope), leaving SU decide corresponding radius. // I Know A and B so i know length rope (rope) I know length around the arc (arc it's the value i want. I don't know angle (A), neither Radius (R) // (mathematic is a strange land to me) If i want an arc=t , i have to found R and A with rope value. R= arc/A and R= rope/2sin(A/2) => arc/rope= A /2sin(A/2) >> for me it's the end of the travel // others relations: A = 2 x arcsin(rope/2R) and ???§§§!!!=**@@ [image: arcsin.jpg] Sorry for so trouble

Good tuts guys. The tip about grouping after the intersect is very useful for the more complicated shapes. Thanks

Some very great news about lighting adjustments in SU: @unknownuser said: Re: Lighting Plugin for Sketchup (page 9) by AdamB on Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:19 pm I've put the LightUp Demo for PC and Macintosh on the website.http://www.light-up.co.uk With great trepidation, I invite you all to give it a whirl. Please read the GettingStarted.pdf Now where the hell is that corkscrew! Adam Thx so much Adam :-)slb

Dear TaffGoch, Please to meet you. So kind to you for thinking about this topic and bring back from your surf this woodmaker volute. Appreciate a lot. Well, in another way, i cannot go back right now: i must do the job. This everythingcurved Stair is in my head. I just need further little time to work on tuts i found here and there on SFC before begin. slb

Dear Elisei, Cheerful comment. I want remember again the great part you had taken in this study: [ @ely862me said: sds is good but u need to know how to use it (clickable quote) ](http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f) As I was not completely satisfied with the result: Top faces not really smooth: [image: th_MoltLet_b.jpg] I have tried back to subdivide (manually) the top face of the "subsurf proxy": something which we had discussed.. This time, the result is OK to me [image: thMoltLet_c.jpg] [image: thMoltLet_d.jpg] My conclusion: If the S&S operation is not completely satisfying, don't try to repair the resultant "subsurf" (as I had done), but come back on the "subsurf proxy" to discover what is wrong. Because in my case, all the little odd results of the subsurfs where coming from little wrong drawings of the proxies. simon

Dear Gaieus and Tig, This pack is beginning to make a good toolkit. It seems that Weld.rb by Rick Wilson is responsible for a large number of developments: Chamfer_Along_Path.rb , PipeAlongPath.rb , ExtrudeAlongPath.rb , TubeAlongPath.rb etc,,, where it appears that mister Tig is not for nothing... simonlebon

Simon, Fait avec plaisir! Je regrette que mon français n’est pas comme il faut. J’ai oublié presque tout se que j’ai étudié pendant 7 années á l’école, beaucoup des mots, grammaire etc. Chaque fois quand ici quelqu’un écrit an français j’essaye de lire tout. Il me faut, pars que près que chaque année je passe mon vacance en France. Et chaque année (avant de..) je me promesse encore une fois d’ étudier français. Mais malheureusement je manque le temps. About P/P, I did not even include ‘wild’ plane contours in the list. As I said before, sometimes it just is not worth it to know all these things for it is much easier to correct/reverse faces. As long as you remember the basic rules with P/P. I did something similar with textures and how they are applied to faces when deleting a mutual line from two adjacent coplanar faces with different textures. My list became so complex since not only the size but also the used shapes and many other things seemed to be involved here. Which face inherits what texture? I simply gave up. I learned a lot from doing that though. Now I know how to go about if something isn’t right. I followed the other thread about the spiraloid shaped stairs. There is another way (as always) to do this but it takes a lot of work. But first you need to figure out what slab shape you want. One thing you found out already. To create a nice curved shape for the stairs with ‘Follow Me’. I might participate in that thread if I find some time and when the results do not satisfy you. Don’t forget to use the P/P here to repeat pulling out the separate face-segments from a single curved surface (in ‘show Hidden Geometry’ mode). This could in one way help you to get the basic structure. cheers, Wo3Dan