@gaieus said: Yes, it works (downloada on my office comp). A bit like the Twighlight Zone however i like to listen to futurepop/darkelectro music so off course its a very dark looking theme as is the music i listen to but i also listen to jazz, country, rap, rock, etc etc any kind of music as long as its good. but futurepop/darkelectro is my favorite thus designing my theme around it

thanx guys i understand

Ah, great to hear!

@alan fraser said: You can triple click the dome to highlight all the surfaces and the lines then r-click and choose Soften/Smooth Edges from the context menu. Adjust the slider till they all disappear. If you want to smooth only a few specific edges, use the Eraser with Ctrl held down. thanx guys. alan, that worked great

If you have lots of faces to reverse try the free ReverseFaces.rb plugin from Smustard. (http://www.smustard.com)

thanx solo

Oh, sorry, I wanted to link to Fredo's and didn't even check the link just copied it. The one I linked to creates surfaces (or grids) based on bezier curves. Great script, too!

for scripts that you bought from Smustard you could download their "MySmustard" plugin which will check the installed (paid/bought) plugins against your account. It's the easy way of always being up to date.

so its a go

What went free with v6 are basically sandbox print to scale (and other print) options - in v5 it was limited to "fit to page" 2d graphic export optiions - in v5 it was limited to screen resolution animation export (afaik) the ability to use rbs plugins What is still "missing": Export models in 3DS, DWG, DXF, OBJ, XSI, VRML, and FBX file formats LayOut (and lately StyleBuilder) Location tab in the Model info (Win only - funnily the Mac version has it - but Jim wrote a plugin for that already) The little [image: welcome-Plus.jpg] image however appears all over in the SU Guide according to v5. Google forgot to update this part of the guide (and a whole lot of things are also missing there - just think about intersect with selected or intersect with context which came with SU6).

just learned something. if you clcik the picture box, after it gets all distorted, it will reset itself well the out of shape problem is solved.

Yes, Joy (catamointain) and others like Taff for instance have really worked hard to put all those excellent links together

i think i i get it it now. i dont want to just make layers/groups/components just for the sake of making layers and groups/components i want to make them for a needed use, like for example, making a component to create multiple edited copies, or a group to er group. i think that was a my problem, i was trying to make all these complicated layers with groups and components and it was making editing very difficult because each group/component was connected to a different layer. and when i wanted to edit one layer on one component, i had to edit any layer that was connected when i selected 'edit component' till i realized that i don't need need to do that because as you said groups/components have nothing to do with layers

figured it out

There are some pretty styles here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewforum.php?f=40

@unknownuser said: there is a sort of beauty in keeping the poly count as low as you can Of course : small is beautiful

thanx components are cool

well, maya has quite a good documentation too. and you can literally do anything with it. but the lord of the rings seems a a short magazine compared to this huge manual I love the ammount of control maya gives you though. seperate control over faces, edges, whole curves, or vertexes, together with loads of different snap modes. that is really some nice programm. but by the time you are able to create simple objects, you will design complicated shapes with SketchUp...