Sketchup Make 2015 x64 Win

I created a big cube and 3D text and placed it on the cube along red axis.

Then I tried to move the text along green axis. Not possible. I could lock inference to red axis by pressing right arrow, to blue by pressing up arrow (and the text moved accordingly) but nothing special happened when I tried to lock inference to green by pressing left arrow - the text was in free move mode and somehow it didn't want to move in green direction.

As for other things (e.g. the big cube), it was no problem moving it along green axis and locking inference for it. I restarted Sketchup, created new project and it's the same.

Is it a bug? I can't find any information about this problem.

Is there any plugin that would help to quickly make corners of 2D polygons rounded?
To achieve this, I draw an arc on top of two edges and make it "tangent", then delete two small lines that remain from the corner edges. And the edges are now connected in rounded way. It seems simple for a plugin, just specify the radius and click on two adjacent edges.

I have 3D rounded corners plugin but it doesn't work on edges alone.

I can't figure out how to achieve a more realistic shadow with Photo Match. The problem is that the shadow on background image is fully opaque and looks weird.

For example, a shadow cast from a default 2D person on a 3D box is semi-transparent and looks like it is in "Multiply" blend mode with the box - so it's ok. But the shadow cast on the background image is not transparent - as in the image below.

Is there a way to make the shadow cast on background image semi-transparent, or at least export just the shadow? (to add it later in image editor in Multiply mode)?

Thanks! Rescaling helped. I didn't realize that working in small scale could be a problem - this solves also another problem I had (couldn't draw an arc because the scale, as in real life, was too small).

I am trying to make a follow me path, which doesn't work. Here is the screenshot before and after:

The follow me result is not continuous. Is there something wrong with the path, or is it impossible, or maybe a trick would help?

Model attached.

followme.skp

This plugin solved my issue. Thanks!

Hello, thanks, but doing this way will not rotate the matched photo itself. I can first rotate the models and then start matching the same photo again and try to fit it to the existing models. That's something I wanted to avoid. I'd like to rotate everything, together with the photo.

I need the photo rotated because the whole scene is not finished yet and I'll be adding some details later, i still need a scene with matched photo to know where to add components.

I have modeled a scene with Photo Match - it means, matched a photo and then added some components to the scene and everything fits together. Afterwards I realized that the shadows on the photo do not match any possible shadow settings in SU. In other words, the photo was matched to the wrong axis, in wrong direction. I am using SU8 Free so North is fixed to green axis.

Is there a method to rotate everything (all models together with the matched photo) around z-axis, not touching the scale and perspective, just rotate?

Is there a method to delete all "In Model" materials at once, without clicking on every material? My model is empty anyway.

This is because I want to create several new material colletions. The way I know how to do it (import textures into SU and explode and "Save collection as...") requires cleaning "In Model" every time - otherwise each collection will contain materials from earlier collections. So before starting clicking hundreds of times to delete one by one, I want to make sure there is no other way.

I have a box flying in 3D space in custom orientation, which has a color texture. I'd like to make a sticker for it, so I created a rectangle, applied an image texture to it and now the question: how to project or align the rectangle (move and rotate) so that it's orientation is exactly the same as the orientation of one of the box faces?

By the way, is it the right way to apply a sticker to an object? I wanted to just apply an image texture to the whole box without creating a separate rectangle object, but I found out that Sketchup always tiles image textures, so the whole box would be covered while the sticker must be very small and only on one side of the box.