ANIMATION DOOR EXPERIMENT.skp (1.6 MB) In this animation I am attempting to take the viewer through a doorway and into a room where a picture is seen to swing on a wall; it doesn’t work. I recall having problems attempting this a few years ago, although I can no longer remember what I screwed up! …

the thumbnails of your scenes (mini-screen) have been created when you; Opened the door Swung the frametothe left Swung the frameback etc. Scenes do not remember were geometry is, or how it is painted, rotated or scaled. These actions alter the model, scenes just remember the camera position …

Thanks Mike Don’t think I will ever get into the mindset of the Sketchup software developers! To my mind, if it can show the thing properly on a small screen why the H*ll can’t it do it in the main animation! Layers I find even more weird and counter-intuitive. Think I’ll just leave the door sce…

have a look at the layers in attached model… ANIMATION DOOR EXPERIMENT_layered.skp (1.6 MB)

Thanks for doing that for me. Unfortunately, it is in a later version of Sketchup than the one I have, so I cannot open it. Yes, I suppose I could update but I have a valuable files that I have been working on for months that I am not prepared to risk if Sketchup throws one of its inexplicable wobb…

Open my.sketchup.com and drag the file in the model window Then, download via the file menu: [image] Download my model from sketchup free web SketchUp Free Download model from SketchUp Free (web) [do-01]

[image] spogadog: Unfortunately, it is in a later version of Sketchup than the one I have, so I cannot open it. If you would update your forum profile with the SketchUp version you use, members can backsave examples accordingly. Multiple SketchUp versions can safely coexist on the same mach…

I get where you’re coming from. For myself, the priority is just to get this thing finished. In the final analysis it’ll wind up in some screen recorded format or other, most of which feature editing tools that allow hapless bunglers (such as myself) to cut the video into shorter and more managea…

[image] spogadog: but I have neither the time, skills nor ‘digital empathy’ to keep banging away at something that, But now, your time is controlled by it… [image] spogadog: the ‘sketchup way’ Though the SketchUp way is always called ‘intuitive’, it is not for everyone the same. (Luck…

Totally not related to the OP, but thanks for putting this up Mike. Appreciate it. :+1:

You’ve read me like a book old chap. ‘Word-processed’ by hand, in large wax crayon, of course!

Why does Sketchup give contradictory on-screen feedback?

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MikeWayzovski September 8, 2019, 7:57pm 6

Open my.sketchup.com and drag the file in the model window
Then, download via the file menu:

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