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Probably a tag usage issue. Make sure you haven't assigned a tag to the edges and that tag isn't turned off. Make sure you are using tags correctly leaving all edges and faces untagged and only tagging objects (groups and components). Also make sure you are leaving Untagged as active. The pencil icon on the far right is always at Untagged.

To change the value in the dropdown

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Fredo6's - Fredo Scale plugin should do this using the Radial bending tool. You will find it in the Plugin Store along with plenty of guidance on using it. I would suggest making a copy of the roof element as a spare before starting. Good luck!

I'd like to see an example file that shows the problem you are having.

i frequently adjust the stretch geometry with the Move tool and infer to entities outside the current group or component with no problem.

Hi Tig

Found file but no author information. Googled it and found that it was Smustard 😳 now trying to reload it ❗

I tried to id the 2016 scripts via Sketchucation Extension Manager but it wouldn't recognise them. I remembered one may have been Smustard and other perhaps J. Dolabany so I downloaded each of those. I recall one suited me better than the other. Both are .rb files. I'm not clear about you last question.
Couldn't I clear out and start again with your guidance?:)

Dave this is a very well organized method to follow. I wish there was an easy way to print out a list of the plugin/ extensions I have installed so I could then just go through the list and check them off as I install them in the new version. This is also s good time to re- evaluate which ones I actually use and wether to install them in the new version of SU.

Would be neat if someone could come up with a "migration tool" that would take your steps into account and walk you through the process.

Once again, thanks for sharing you process. It is well thought out and logical. 👍 👍

Hi Guys out of the office yesterday, many thanks for all your comments and assistance, invaluable as ever.

@woodarc said:

All sorted now, Italic Tahoma is not available in Layout!!

More accurately, Tahoma doesn't have an italics version. There are only two versions of Tahoma, regular and bold. LayOut doesn't fake italics like some other applications do.

@woodarc said:

@utiler said:

I've had a GTX 670 [for a few years now] and I recall someone posting here to change 3D settings on your NVIDIA Control panel for SU & LO to this:

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I run 2 x ASUS VE278 27" monitors and my graphics are not that bad!!

Wow, what a difference that has made!! Thank you so much, if I'd known this from the beginning I probably wouldn't be on my third monitor by now! Please tell the world of SU modellers!

Many, many thanks ☀ 👍

No worries, mate. 👍

Please you solved it.

I have done exactly the same. I attach my bonnet tile file.
Bonnet hip tile

And how it looks in the file with tile materials applied.
Bonnet tile on roof

There's another approach. Here is a simple example. May be more difficult with a complex plan.

Using TIG's extrusion tools. Extrude edges by Vector to Object. Select all edgeds (faces selected OK) in the floor plan, extrude on blue vector, click highest point in the roof group or component. (Picture)

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Do you see the section cut in the thumbnail picture in the scene window?

My Computer Guru has installed several drives on my PC (it has been rebuilt and upgraded to run SU several times) and encourages me to have programmes separate from data. Programmes generally default to loading on a particular drive in my case the C drive unless told otherwise. I've ended up with SU6 on one drive and SU8 on another hence more than one plugin folder. I've also noticed another plugin folder sitting immediately above the programmes folder in which SU8 is situated. It could be that this has been inadvertently copied maybe. I understand I have a 'raid' system but have no idea how it works, I only have modest understanding of hardware and software. I hope this goes some-way to explaining why.

Further questions welcome.

Will answer my own question 😳 Uncheck 'stroke' in Shape style tray!

@dave r said:

Assuming you've applied the material image to the face and not to a component or group, you can adjust the position of the material as well as its orientation. Right click on the face and choose Texture>Position. You'll get some push pins that can be adjusted or you can click on the material and drag the image around to determine where the edges fall.

You might have a look at this for some ideas.

In the case of your texture image, the lighting isn't even so you'll still have the fade from light to dark repeating up the wall.

Excellent, thanks for that. You guys never disappoint

'You never stop learning' 😄

Excellent thanks for that. Couldn't believe it, it was already bookmarked in my browser 😳

I can picture one of these collapsing
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imagine what that would do to your ar........ar doesn't matter 👊

Your a superstar! Thanks TIG

"Roof with raking verge[s]"
If you add a short length of eaves [fascia] at the bottom of the slope - as you most certainly will to make it buildable - then it still applies...
Or "Roof with raking eaves" [or "fascia"]
If it's tiled/slated then you'll have a pain cutting the angled edges.
Also if you consider it a 'sloping eaves' then remember that the finish needs to dress/overhang a gutter to catch water run-off and that gutter in turn needs to discharge into something to take it into a downpipe - so the two raking verges shouldn't meet at a point because their gutters need to arrive at say a hopper-head into a downpipe to make a properly drained and practical roofing solution. A modest width 'internal' gutter [like a half-valley] will allow the fascia to end at a point but the disposal of the water still needs considering...