That works nice.....I don't know that I need it for....but its cool....lol.....on that same menu...If you click on "by axis" it turns all vertical lines blue....all horizontals green or red depending on the orientation....that would be helpful doing something like valley rafter intersections.....sometimes there are lines everywhere and its hard to even remember where up is...

Theres another class for Montibello Daiku...

There's probably enough to talk about to fill a one-week course! We're going to focus on Joinery Design with Sketchup in the 90 min presentation during the conference. In the full-day preconference workshop, we'll have more time to actually learn sketchup before progressing to the joinery. Registration is open now! CB.

Ok....these guys are DEFINETELY cheating.....

These are both created with ....SU and podium ...podium is a lighting program that works with SU.

http://www.suplugins.com/images/contest/1stplace-podium-contest2-sm.jpg
check out the shine on the wood grain.

http://www.suplugins.com/images/contest/2ndplace-podium-contest2-sm.jpg
this really shows well how the lighting sources work with Podium

http://www.suplugins.com/images/contest/honorablemention1-sm.jpg
good job on the textures....they are all over