Thank you

@susteve said: Thank you for the replies. I am in an environment where it is not possible to use extensions so all of the solutions have to be vanilla. Tell Sonder to loosen up a little... Just kidding, he's a real stand-up guy.

thank you

thank you

@susteve said: thank you - yes it is yellow. I wondered if it was anything special about the model but it isn't thanks again The 'Selected' color can be changed as mentioned above and will also be saved per scene, much like different 'Section Cuts' colors.

Actually I don't usually turn transparency on at all. Either I want the background if there is one or it doesn't come into play at all because the background is white. When combining images using Multiply, the white background acts as transparent anyway.

thank you for the help

Thanks!

thank you I will give it a go

thank you for that. I did not know it was possible

Thanks Box, that is exactly right. It depends on which way you draw the line.

sorry I did not have a workaround. See earlier in the thread as Rich kindly posted the .3ds file which worked perfectly.

Thank you. I was creating a group before using intersect (which I am not doing now) and each object was a solid (by chance). thanks

@jean lemire said: Hi Peter, hi folks. See this page in SketchUp help: http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94897 Just ideas. Doh! Thanks Jean. I am sure I've done that before but left the method unused for too long. Peter

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

Hi folks. On my Macs, I position the Large Tool Set on the left with all other tool palettes that I can get from the View Menu. For other tools or palettes, like the Layers's one, I right click on the tool area on top to access the whole tool collection and the I customise it by dragging what is needed there. Of course, space being limited in this upper area, using floating tool palettes, that can be positionned around the modeling window is a viable solution. Notice that the Mac Large Tool Set is more complete than the PC Large Tool Set. On PC, I disable this and enable everything else except the Dimension Window (old VCB) that I leave attached to the right end of the Status Bar. Just ideas.

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 [image: wBtt_rubyConsole.png]

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

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