thank you d12dozr. Your skp works fine (of course) so now I can see where I am going wrong.

[Alan your signature reminds me that I proposed to my wife at Formby point many years ago.]

Still unsure what the two lines do when you draw them after clicking a start point with the mirror tool selected. I have played around with it for ages but can't seem to work out the rules of it.

thanks again (much appreciated)

thanks for the help. I do this and end up with the attached.

Select arrow > select mirror and click on point 1 > drop down to base of arrow and click > move up 45 deg and click again

Could you please explain what is happening with the two lines I draw after clicking the object (the one that goes straight down and then the one at 45 degs)

thank you

Hi,

I am using TIGs excellent (thank you) mirror.rb but I am unsure on how it works. I have an object (arrow) and I want to mirror it so the new object is at right-angles to the point of the arrow (see image). Is this possible with mirror ?

thank you

thank you cotty. weld works really well and I need to read up more on coplanar (and everything else).

thanks again

Hi,

If I create a circle in Ai and export as dwg and then import into SU it has 33 edges. Can I import it as (or easily make it into) a single edge ?

also what are coplanar faces ?

thank you

thank you for the reply. I will just stick to my floating windows.

Is it possible to make the toolbar bigger on the Mac ?

When I add more icons I get a double arrow by the side to click but I would prefer a deeper toolbar so the icons can be below and on view.

thank you

Thank you TIG,

It must have got corrupted somehow. I did not edit it at all (would not know how). But a new download has fixed it.

When I looked on the menu bar I could not see Plugins so I turned on ruby script examples in preferences and Plugins appeared (the menu option). Now I have a plugin installed then I have turned off the ruby script examples in prefs and I have my single Plugin from ThomThom.

The Plugins folder was not in place after the SU install so I just added it and it seems to work.

thank you again

Thanks again Gaieus,

when I try to install the plugin from ThomThom I get the following error:

this is the first plugin I have used (took me a while to figure out I had to create my own plugin folder on the mac (thought it would be generated on SU instal)) and then enable the Ruby Script Examples checkbox in preferences). Thought it might be easier than that.

thanks (I realise its not your plugin but I just want to know if it looks correct - then I can ask Thom Thom)

Actually that is an issue I have.

If I have a box and texure the top (and position the texture manually) and then grab the bucket tool and press cmd (Mac) for the eyedropper and grab the texuture and then use the bucket tool to put the texture onto the bottom of the box the coords are not the same as the top. I would have expected them to be the same?

thank you

Thank you Gaieus. Where possible I will now texture after modelling. I guess that at times when I 'lost' some textures it was because I was pushing which meant the back flipped to the front and the texture (which was on the back) was not visible as I was now seeing the front.

Thanks again Massimo

yes that was the answer - thank you.

If I draw a plane (top view) then I always have the back face on top. When I pull the face I will still have the back face on top. If I reverse the face (so now I have the front face on top) that means when I pull the bottom of the rectangle will have a back face.

Is it possible to manage this so that all faces are front faces ?

thank you

Hi,

I import a texture and place it onto a face and position the texture manually. I then pull (extrude) the face and the texture moves but the face size remains the same so why is it moving?

thank you

thanks, I looked at 3dpaintbrush. Does anyone have any recommendations for this?

thanks

Thank you (I did not consider avi ---> swf only straight to swf).

thanks again

Are there any reliable plugins available to export to swf ?

thank you

Not upgrading is a wise choice.

there is a list of known issues but I have submitted a couple that are not on that list (crashes when exporting to fbx for example).

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=09d5a01c3e4845cf&hl=en

Thanks Dave (seems pretty obvious to move a white square)

thank you and thanks for the link (much appreciated)

So many questions about the materials window because it seems a bit quirky especially under Lion.

thank you