@d12dozr said: Nicely done, Anita! Did you use the automatic Image trace function, or just trace by hand? Thanks Marcus. Can't really take the credit though, it was your expert advice that was the starting point! I traced it very quickly by hand Anita

You can also just change one dimension in scaling. If you have a 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 3' box, you can pull to scale in the 3' direction and write 8', for example, leaving the other dimensions where they were.

See this topic for some discussion of what can go wrong at the opposite extreme of values larger than SketchUp was designed to handle: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=79%26amp;t=60229

In addition to what @pbacot suggests, this is an operation where you may run into SketchUp's well-known issue with very small Faces. You may have to scale your objects up, do the operation, and then scale them back down to avoid creating holes or gaps.

Thank you, Dave! I completely forgot about Styles window.

I've not seen that. Could you post a SKP file that exhibits the behavior? Maybe it has to do with the file?

You can see the way I handle drawing smaller pieces with Follow Me here.

XREF plugin/tool does this well

Fredo posted this today... http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=60179

Thanks Rich for the search feature, the Ruby's script : " Group to XY plane " work perfectly. I'm on SU 8 ( not SU 6 than i thinking before, oups ).

It seems something is broken in the forum infrastructure. http://forums.sketchup.com/t/login-issues-if-you-log-out/4491 Anssi

It might be worth noting that you say you have SU2014 Pro in your post but Make in your profile, I'm guessing you have Make and are currently in the trial period of Pro. If that is the case, the Solid tools won't work for you once the trial period is over.

what about if it's a dynamic component and the material is selected for the component via the component options box? for example different options could be... oak, maple ash, beech etc.... I've found that if you go into the component and start messing with the textures on the faces (so i can get the grain lined up for it to look right) then when you want to change the material via the component options dialog it no longer works as the material is over ridden by the material applied to the faces... but the only way to change the texture mapping on the faces is to actually apply the material on the faces rather than the component! This seems completely daft and makes dynamic components very limited in terms of texture mapping... is there a way around this??? Thanks Matt

It's very possible that the thumbs down on Dave's post is from my fat thumb, it happens to correspond with with were I scroll when reading on my phone. As I'm unable to give it a thumbs up it would seem to be my fault. So having come clean about that I just like to add.... It can be helpful with some models to create separate files for individual parts and combine them in one grand plan model. So you create the different rooms of your apartment as components, using the copy/paste in place method described by Dave. This lets you work on them in detail without the rest of the model getting in the way and you can reload them into the complete model when needed. Handy when you think of it as the full model being a city and the components each house. Combining that with layers and section planes and anything is possible.

@dave r said: As long as you don't mind the missing edges on rounded objects... As for saving the style in the Default styles folder, you'll have to use Windows Explorer and navigate to the Styles folder in the Program Files/SketchUp 2015 folder and change the permissions to allow you to write to the folder. It's the same issue we used to have with Plugins. By the way, maybe you could update your profile to indicate SU2015. Updated my profile (left it a Beginner though ). I also updated the permissions for the styles folder and that worked fine...... So far I have not noticed any problem with rounded edges. If I do, I will go change it. [image: drWp_Capture-UncheckedProfile.PNG] I really appreciate the feedback........

@unknownuser said: solid tools => Subtract. Didn't know it wasn't supposed to be there. Solid tools are only for the Pro version!

@slbaumgartner said: Out of curiosity, did you try showing hidden geometry to see whether that face was split by a non-visible line already? Yeah, that's how I verified the direction I should use when drawing the line. As I said before, this wasn't an issue using the FollowMe tool, it was the Upright Extruder. The product of both functions look identical in the middle of the extrusion; FollowMe along an Arc screws up at both ends, the Upright Extruder gets the start correct by has the same flaw at the end. You would not know the faces in the middle were actually quite different in the results of each function until you started texturing.

Thanks, I'll give that a try PS Works perfectly.

It's great that most folks understand how to deal with this issue but IMO the failure to handle an arc on its own is still a bug that the SU team should fix.

Lines and Edges are synonymous in drawing 2d... The current Style determines how edges are displayed [see Styles > Model-Styles > Edit]. From your point of view there are two that need to be set/ticked. Edges and Profiles. The Edges setting is the number of pixels that the general edges show in, i.e. an edge having 2 faces. The Profile setting is the number of pixels an edge shows in - if its an edge with no faces at all or an edge with one face [i.e. on a perimeter of a face], it also ensures that any curved surfaces in 3d still display something even if the surface arcs away from the camera. Coplanar edges which form a continuous loop will automatically get a face. Additional edges can split a face into smaller facets if possible. The inner edges that have 2 faces will show in the Edge Style, the outermost ones or unfaced edges will be shown as Profiles... Sometimes edges do not split a face as expected. If you select the geometry [faces/edges] in question and right-click > context-menu > Intersect... they will usually split as much as they can. Obviously an edge that has a lone-vertex cannot split anything and will show as a 'Profile'...