Standard SU8 set plus some window glass, these and more worked in SU7

The paint bucket icon, that makes the material editor open, this morning su actually went non responsive, didn't crash completely but came close.

I downloaded SU8 last week today I used it some the sandbox works better than in SU7, at least on my machine, a good thing.
But the materials browser hangs up to a minute before it loads after clicking the icon, anyone else have this issue?
I am using vista home premium, on a fairly fast dual core machine.

Chuck, nicely done, on the instant roof RB, I downloaded it and installed it in SU7, drew a quick model, then rendered it KT, and the roof doesn't leak (light that is). That is one problem I have had in the past, I usually can get it fixed but it cuts into my "play time".
Thanks again for a great plug!

I did a quick search and didn't find what I wanted. I did my first sandbox tools experiment. and for the most part it workmen albeit very slowly. Here is my question I did a berm or small hill at the front of the "property" but I would prefer smooth curves not 10 foot flat surfaces at angles. Any suggestions?

What I ended up doing was adding a new face to a group, by retracing the lines of the group. I ended up pulling the new face out a tiny bit to keep the new layer from "flaring" or reacting with the original face, when orbiting/moving it works for now.

Is it possible to apply a material to a face on its own layer?
I have a situation where some of the materials I use, cause a slow down of my computer, when orbiting. Sometimes I decide to add or change an entity after I add materials to the model.

This may be normal behavior, I don't know. When I walk through a building the speed is OK, but when I walk through a town, I am working on the speed and sensitivity, is almost unmanageable, any way to slow things down?
I tried the flythrough plugin but it didn't work at all, no speed dialog showed,

This is probably a real stupid question but...
I downloaded and installed SketchyPhysics. I opened a new drawing in SU and applied a hinge to a door. I get a message that I need to install Sketchy Physics3rc1
so I did that both the windows installer and the zip file
I get a message that says Sketchy Physics3rc1 required again.
Now What? I am running Vista 64 if that matters

A simple section slice would be fine, you don't need any detail just simple 2D outlines. One might be able to activate a plan view that sits in a corner or it could be in a separate window. Or make where and how the map shows up user selectable. The data is already there in the drawing, but how to tap it?

Yepper If the technology worked back in the super Nintendo days, I don 't see why it couldn't work here with the technology we have these days.
Of course I am not a programmer, and don't even know where to start, not a clue.
With all the brains here on this forum I am sure somebody will accept the challenge.

I was just doing a walk through of one of one of my models, once in a while I run into walls, simply because I did not know how close I was. Is there a plugin to trick to provide an overview map that sits as a inset window somewhere?
Something that would indicate XY position as well as first floor, second floor, or basement would work great!

There is a duh moment for me, I hide and show stuff all the time when I am working on a model, never thought about hiding the model so I could see the center. At any rate I did one video show and it worked out OK. I wish I could find the best possible, set up for you tube. The link I posted for this thread was upload #3.
I will practice and get better. Thanks for your help so far.

Well after some playin' around here is my first version.
Her are the problems I had, it is difficult to move the camera position tool, from a vertex to the center of the hexagon if you can't see the center.
The avi I created looked good, when I converted it to an flv for uploading the quality suffered. I think with some (a lot) of practice and patience I may get it right.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbJABSJ_AVM&feature=player_embedded

mitcorb I have a fair amount of experience, up until my old computer died I was running Intellicad, then less than a year (like 6 months) ago I discovered SketchUp, it was love at first "sight". It did everything I wanted, and I am sure there are still things I have not tried. Here is a link to my 3D warehouse page http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?viewer=14171324581335292174&scoring=m
have a look around.

Or I can just smooth the whole thing, then paint it, for my purposes that will work, but I know it will bug me.I have been in contact withe he software vendor about this situation, however, no replies so far.

Here is a sample

Well I think is is because of the center on origin plugin, When Chris says center on origin he means it. It would be an easy matter to move it up a few feet;)It also appears to spin in a downward if I do not center it on the origin, however I moved it up 2 feet and in one rev it still looks good and "flat" I will post that video after work to night.

Here is what I wanted to accomplish I started by using Chris Fullmer's center on origin plug, then I used a camera spin plug I found, Animation 2 I believe. I started the spin plugin, then started recording with Cam Studio. Since Cam Studio dialogs show up at the beginning and end of recording, I edited those out with a free video editor (at least free for now)called VideoPad from NCH .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFWivXCVmSQ
Enjoy~!

I don't have Autocad, I don't have access to the Autocad file. These files are generated by the design program I have. I have a selection of parts that I put together to make the design for the consoles. The program saves those in a native format to that program. I can however export dxf/dwg in to SU from the original file. Whats interesting is I have an Autocad viewer and when I open the exported dwg/dxf file, it works, and the files appear to be fine and the faces look good. I have not however looked at them closely.

That might work Dave I made a few trial runs, and in a few cases I didn't move the camera position tool on the face of the hex, and things went weird, I will get it eventually. Thanks for the tip! Ryan