Selecting by fence draws a rubber-banding box for me on a similar set up in v2015. Solid lines left-right, dotted right-left, with different outcomes of partially included geometry etc as in earlier versions... Try alternative Preferences > OpenGL settings ? Are you Graphics Card drivers up to date ?

This is a basic operation. Switch the Face Style to Hidden Line. Don't use shadows. You can do that in the Styles Edit tab or under View>Face Styles. Depending upon the current style, you might need to edit the background color to white. You could also pick a new style from the default styles that uses the white background and Hidden Line face style.

Two options exist. Make the column a solid or use Intersect Faces and manually delete the part you don't want.

SU v2015 is working great on Yosemite, I only needed a couple of Plugin updates [that where available]. I know I'm letting people know on every thread that mentions Yosemite, but it is worth upgrading SU if you are running Yosemite... You can keep v8/v13/v14 as well but they'll still have to wait for any 'Text' or 'Atos' patches... john

In SU searches can be slow. but they do work

When you add a new layer, it becomes visible in all existing scenes. To delete a layer entirely: go to the layers window and press the minus sign button at the top. you will have to decide what to do with contents. To change all the scenes to not show that layer: Choose the scene, make the layer not visible by unchecking the box in the layer window, then update the scene. A hassle if you have numerous scenes. If you want to avoid this problem in a future situation (once you already have many scenes): Before you "Add Location", create the Google Earth layers (exact layer names) using the plugin "add_hidden_layer.rb". Then when you import location data it will go to the hidden layers. You can then choose what scenes in which you want the GE layers visible. Welcome to Sketchucation Forums, Jamie!

Thanks for the help everyone, I'll give it a try. Much appreciated.

You can use Version 8 for commercial too, if I'm not mistaken.

@quantj said: Do you use Podium (for sketchup rendering) by any chance, I use to have a problem with the old version (SU that if I left Podium Manager open, it would cancel any auto-save or save but I wouldn't know, so I'd save like usual but next time I opened it, it was the old model prior to me opening Podium Manager. No, I do not use podium. This is probably one of those things that "computers" just do.

@box said: Clipping doesn't occur during scaling, it's one of those things that jump out at you when you least expect it and it can be quite difficult to find the reason. Have a look at this model and see what happens when you try to orbit around it. This is because this simple cube is 11km from the origin. Thanks for the demo, Box. I'll definitely keep that in mind in the future. I don't believe that was the cause or behaviour of the previous issue but, now that I've used the tape measure and this is no longer an issue, I'm not keen on replicating the bug - I'm having enough trouble trying to replicate successful practices!

@Pilou, how exactly could you pull with protude?

Glad that worked for you, Joe.

@kdarvell said: The list of folders automatically presented consists of the first level of the structure on my drive and three "recently used" folders, these 3 never change. not exactly what you're looking for but in response to that ^ part.. it sounds like you want more options in the save as dialog.. click the button: [image: r7Yx_ScreenShot2014-10-28at12.37.37AM.png] .... you'll get an expanded version with better access to all the drives/folders: [image: rhDR_ScreenShot2014-10-28at12.43.24AM.png] further, you might want to consider using the tags feature of osx.. create a sketchup tag (or whatever) and just apply that when saving a file.. it doesn't really matter where it goes because you can just click on the sketchup tag in finder and see all of them (or move all of them etc..)

@box said: If you open an empty SU file and insert Roof, you will have a component called Roof with a sub-component called Tile inside it. It's actually simpler than I have written it. Yes, that worked! I'm not sure I understand how but I can work on it. It'll come to me eventually. Thanks!

it's by far the most fantastic thing ever... if it just had the usability of Lumion it would be well worth the money. You can build your own vegetation groups that age and size themselves naturally. Painting a forest is really kool. The sky and terrain tools are the best I've ever seen, simple and advanced at the same time and powerful. Not to mention infinite terrain. [image: WeWg_Kinan5.jpg]

Thanks Guys think I got it.... [image: bcMH_ScreenShot2014-10-23at22.27.46.png]

There is no built-in SketchUp way. But can I suggest the Component Definition that is made by the Import process is given the original file location in its Description, immediately after it is added. This is a management matter, but at least you then have the path in SUp. Alternatively on the CAD side, before importing you could add the file's path as a piece of Mtext in Model-Space [perhaps on a Layer named MY_PATH ?] and then Explode it, then it is imported as edges into SUp...

You can set this in the entity info window: [image: GRZL_shadow.jpg]

You could mark corners of the object on site before making a photo, just for help...In the case when there is no orthogonal lines, I would use that photo as watermark image in SU (under style). You can adjust your view of the model to match the watermark background, which stays fixed while rotating the view. Later on, you can use it in render application as background.

Also, there are some users who are completely lost as to scale and 3D computer space.