After looking more closely at your skp file, I found that the problem is actually that the facets of the curved end are narrow compared to the depth of the follow-me profile. This creates a complicated intersection where the flat and curved sides meet. Evidently SketchUp can't figure it out even after I reoriented the profile perpendicular to the flat edge and scaled the component up by 1000 to allow for what TIG mentioned. The attached picture shows what I got. I displayed hidden geometry and selected a couple of Faces to emphasize the fact that SketchUp did not complete the intersection of the two surfaces at the corner.

It is not terribly hard to clean this up by selecting the defective faces, doing an intersect operation, and then cleaning up the spurious parts. However, it seems to me that this fixup should not be necessary. I think this could be considered a bug in follow me.

Steve

On my MBP retina I have on occasion noticed SketchUp tool cursors acting a bit flakey. The most common situation is that I activate a tool and the cursor fails to change until the next time I click on something (or sometimes when I next move the mouse). I think there is something fundamental involved, as I also saw this on previous versions of SketchUp. No proof, just a hunch, but I wonder if it is somehow related to SketchUp's use of OpenGL on high-dpi displays on the Mac.

Draw your edge profile away from the corner, partway down one of the edges. SketchUp does not always understand what you wanted when you start from a corner - it thinks it should stop as soon as any point of the follow-me profile meets the starting profile.

Would it be possible for you to post your model? Especially given the 3D nature of SketchUp, it can sometimes be very hard to tell exactly what is going on based on a 2D picture. For example, though the curvy part looks like it is aligned along the red axis with the other part, it could actually be down and behind. There is no way to tell from the 2D picture; you need to rotate the view in SketchUp to be certain what is really there.

The piece of the puzzle that you may still be missing is that Faces in SketchUp also have an associated normal Vector3d that defines "front" or "outside". On the entity info window, the material painted on the "front" shows in the left panel, and the material painted on the "back" shows on the right panel. From your SketchUp picture it is evident that what one would logically call the "inside" of the window is actually the "outside" in terms of SketchUp Faces. That is, the brown-red color shows where the inner surface is visible and the transparent color where it is not. Your Face normals are pointed inward. You need to reverse all of the Faces of your window by means of the right-click context menu in SketchUp.

@soldatino said:

I am unable to figure out how SU decides the transparency of a face.
It seems that "if" there is transparency in the back face SU chooses to use it.
It 's true?
This is a model in which the transparency is declared only on the back of the glass, but it is applied to the right view.
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=607f2b88312dd468bb5c0bf5eec83fc
thanks in advance!

I believe that SketchUp handles transparency independently on the "front" and "back" surfaces of a Face. For example, you can paint the inside of the walls of a room with an opaque material and the outside with a transparent or translucent material and then "look through" the walls from the outside but see them on the inside.

Your picture suggests that you have nested groups. Have you enabled receive shadows on all the levels of nesting? A nested object will not receive shadows if its containing group does not.

@driven said:

and what about going the other direction...

i.e good to bad, oops mac to windows...

I'll leave that exercise to one of the fallen...

@driven said:

!steve
you could add the

.gsub(/[Pp]lugins/, "Extensions") if v15

in there as well...

just a thought
john

Good point. I hadn't run this on 2015 as yet...

A couple of years ago I wrote the attached Ruby to import shortcuts to Mac from Windows. Read the comments at the top of the file for instructions on how to run it and how to recover if it borks. As the comments state, this is experimental code. It worked for me, but I can not guarantee that it will not cause any issues in your specific case.

Steve

importprefs.rb

I'll join the pile. Please be more specific about what you mean by "a true Mac version". I'm a Mac user, and I don't think SketchUp feels or behaves like a Windows port rather than like other Mac apps. OK, maybe the UI wasn't designed by Jony Ivy, but in my mind that might make it less trendy but no less a Mac app...

@schaferron1 said:

components to a grid does work, but this really isn't exactly what I need. thanks though!

Maybe a list version would work. Any suggestions for something that will list all components and give amounts of each component in model?

Thanks,

R

It has a different goal, but maybe the CutList plugin would serve your needs?

@db11 said:

For sure it's of little use for board layout, but sheet goods layout doesn't have the same range of issues... so there is value in providing at least a starting point for material optimization.

I don't know how good/sophisticated the layout algorythms are in CutList: I could never get the function to work in CutLister, but I will at least give it a try with CutList.

I mean this as discussion, not argument :

Even for sheet goods, the layout facilities in CutList don't take orientation of the figure into account. It is fine if you are working with, say, MDF. It's also ok for hidden surfaces such as cabinet sides, bottoms, and backs. But orientation matters a lot for fancy-veneered plywood or photo-laminate. For these, I always end up needing to rotate so many pieces from CutList's orientation that the initial layout is nearly worthless.

To your second point, I have never been impressed with the layout algorithms in CutList. I've seen them propose a layout that called for a second sheet when those pieces could be fit into the first sheet by a bit of rearrangement and reorientation.

Steve

@db11 said:

I think you're referencing Joe Zeh's CutList Bridge plugin for CutList Plus, which seems a comprehensive —though somewhat complex— software combo for production cabinet shops, but likely overkill for most individual woodworkers. And CutList Plus is reasonably costly ($249 for the non-brain-dead version and $495 for the unlimited version), so maybe not an interesting option for non-professionals or one-man shops!

To clarify: Joe Zeh's CutList Bridge is a plugin for SketchUp, not for CutList Plus. It generates CSV output that is set up for use by CutList Plus (hence "Bridge"), but can be read and used by any spreadsheet. The CSV is similar to what you get from the Cutlist plugin. You don't need CutList Plus to use Cutlist Bridge.

That said, I agree with the comments that CutList Bridge is complex and requires additional work in SketchUp to use. Individual tastes and needs will determine whether it is right for each person. Since I'm the one who brought it up, I should confess: most of the time I just use Cutlist because it does as much as I need.

Steve

@calypsoart said:

@slbaumgartner said:

Out of curiosity, what version of Mac OS does she have? If it is Yosemite (10.10), your info is actually backward: SU 2014 has issues with fonts under Yosemite, but these were corrected in the SU 2015 release.

I'm not sure. But isn't Yosemite the latest version? If so, that is her problem, she does not want to update her current OS to Yosemite.

You don't have to upgrade to Yosemite to run SU 2015. I am running it fine under Mavericks. Again, the problems are with all versions or SU prior to 2015 under Yosemite, but not with 2015 under older releases of OS X.

I agree Dave, I have never been much impressed with the layout facility. I mainly make furniture, and the layout of parts into a board provides no help when you have boards of random width and length, want to select for figure, or need to work around flaws - which for me is every time. However, the generation of a cutlist is invaluable.

You are welcome!

Steve

For layers, "not visible" = "hidden", "visible" = "unhidden". The usual way to hide and unhide them is on the layers window.

You might also want to take a look at Joe Zeh's Cutlist Bridge plugin

CutList Bridge

(www.srww.com)

It adds features to export to cutlist plus fx as well as spreadsheets and to handle ideas such as subassemblies and orientation of a board's grain with respect to its length and width.

@aceoftrades said:

I am looking for a way to have Sketchup calculate the linear footage of crown molding, toe kick, etc in kitchen models I make and include in Generate Report. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Generate Report just prints out the attributes you have attached to Components in your model, it does not do math. To report calculated values such as summed lengths of Components that are labelled a particular way, you will need to create a custom Ruby script. There is info about how to do so using attributes here:

http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/tutorial_attrreporting

Alternatively, you could generate a report in spreadsheet form and do your own calculations there. You could also get a spreadsheet from the CutList plugin.

Or, as Kris points out, there are several kitchen design extensions/plugins that might do the work for you. There are two aspects that might be downsides depending on your desires: many of them are not free, and you usually have to do the entire project within their system.