Yeah, but the original image is in grayscale and does not http://i50.tinypic.com/347k6r7.png extra quality http://i46.tinypic.com/zyf29c.png Its very blurred and low detail. This is photo from GE, and much more better quality: [image: rswu9u.png] (Measuring of shadow's length)

Yes, that is that what I tried few times. I succeed to create one guide line, but only one, not much success. I must train.

thanks to all scale large , really works also, i will try pipe by path. thank you ,everyone!

@dale said: .... I think it's those Elvis sideburns Gotcha !.......

OK, all right. So it works then... (And I also keep forgetting which Mac key corresponds to the PC keys). Anyway, the info about positioning / projecting materials onto groups/components above may still (hopefully) be useful next time (or for others).

Thanks for all the replies. I guess I was wrong. I just thought I saw somewhere where you could toggle through the different planes/axis by repeatedly hitting a certain key. Thanks for all the help, yeto

That click-n-drag thing works perfect! Thanks!

Thanks. That did it.

http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/01/installing-plugins-for-google-sketchup/

Dale, thank you for the complete reply. It is very helpful and works. Gary

ProDrawer: I am only a little bit smarter than a brick I am glad if I was able to help. There is a wealth of how to information available for becoming fluent in Sketchup. First stop? Click the Help button at the top of your Sketchup Window. YouTube, for instance is chock full of tutorials. Aidan Chopra has a website for teaching. I could go on. Best of luck to you.

When either of the faces is painted with the default material, it is "special" as you cannot edit that material. (At least I hope I understand what you mean).

A footpath is 1:20.001 [or flatter] in the UK ! Otherwise it's a ramp !

Apparently they can be changed once you change the Color by the axis . They change once with the lines . As far as I know ! Perhaps there are some plugin but I don't know one yet ! Take care !

OK, while waiting on the moderators to post my last findings I looked around the net a bit and ended back at sketucation. One thing I did not do when I tried the other printer was to go into the print settings and select it as the printer to use. I did that and am quite a bit closer now. I need to do some fine measuring to see where I am at with the print at this point. Before I was off a noticeable amount and as I am using this as a template to drill holes in acrylic and the holes have to be ligned up and they are only about 2.5 mm wide, it was not going to work for me and other projects in the future would worry me as well. I think I am set now. If not I will let you all know. By the way, can anyone tell me when I will not have to wait on the moderators to post my messages? I thought I read that only the post will have to go through them and this is my 3rd and waiting on my second to go live. Thanks, John

I love dumb questions... they're easier to answer.

Hi mikemwa, hi folks. Have you clicked in sequence on all the scene tabs that are on the top of the model window ? Just ideas.

Preaching to the converted I fell out with Autodicks arrogance a long time ago. To be fair SU/Layout need to put some time in on the 2D side of things, but I think that's down to layout still being on a learning curve. Keeping my fingers crossed for good things in LO4.

Mitcorb is right, I have to delete the triangles and create some inner edges. [image: 1582ion.png]