Andy, that would be me and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Cotty's got you set up with the link to the Wudworx tools. Good luck. BTW, check out the latest post on the Design. Click. Build. blog. I showed using the Wudworx Dovetail tool for cutting some dovetails.

@zain01 said: I have a problem with section cut faces assigned to layers and set in scenes. I create a section cut, create a section cut face for it and assign it a layer corresponding to that scene. I do this multiple times and then when i orbit, the section cut faces are still visible. I select one and it says its on layer 0 even though i just assigned it a layer. Doesn't happen to any other type of group/component. Im on a mac Thanks in advance for any advise. It also happens with me but not for all SectioCutFaces. I simply change it to the right layer and the problem is fixed until I redo the SectionCutFace.

Ah ha. I never would of thought of checking the geo-location. Another one for the Doh book. Thanks Box.

Thank You very much. Your replies are much appreciated. I am familiarizing myself with tools mentioned above. Thank you

One last image as I continue to tweak the details a little. Think this is all for this piece of equipment though. [image: 1JDR_TopBrushEnscape_2017-03-21-12-26-57.png] @DaveR - when I finalize this piece of equipment I promise I will go back and convert most of the groups to components. Some of the groups may stay as groups inside the appropriate component. I have one more MAJOR task before I go start updating my equipment/component library though. I want to set up a library of standard colors/materials/textures that I apply to all of the equipment so that the frame, brushes, and other common elements are the same in each component. So, I need recommendations in how to clean up the mess I probably have in my library. In particular for layouts/models where I have multiple pieces of equipment I want to eliminate duplicates color/material/texture instances (hope that makes sense). I think I have seen a thread once before but was not able to find it that gave some steps & tips on how to accomplish this. Hope someone can point me in a direction.

What I do is that I use Tig´s Section Cut Face on my model then export 2 scenes from Layout: 1 - Sectioned model view; 2 - Section cut face scene with same camera as 1 but model is hidden. In layout I overlapp the two scenes where 2 is on top of 1. Then I can have lineweights for 1, different than 2 and still update the 2D drawing on the fly as I work on the model. I also add details to the section cut face, for construction detailing. When finished, if needed, I export to dwg from Layout.

SketchUp 8 has not been supported for more than 5 years. There is no legitimate source for SU8 Pro anymore. It's time to move on to the current version. As long as you are using it for personal, hobby use, you can use SU2017 Make which is available at no charge.

Why not make the solid groups and use Outer Shell? Otherwise just use Intersect faces.

Without seeing the model or the components, here's an idea... As these materials should now be in the built-in Materials Browser you could try changing the color of at least one of those listed named materials and see if it makes any difference.

There isn't a single "default" material library. You can delete the native material libraries from Programm Data but I expect SketchUp might throw errors on startup. When I start SketchUp, it goes to the last library I had open. If it's one of my custom libraries, it goes to that one.

@unknownuser said: It really is a shame about the rocks - as I'm planning to use this in lines I was hoping to be able to export them so a texture won't work - but I do see your point so I'll [l]eave these out. You could leave them out until the last moment before exporting the lines. And there's no point in using colors or textures in your model. Your rocks could be 2D, too. Just a sort of pattern of lines drawn on a face. @unknownuser said: Although even after deleting them my mode is still really slow ? There's still all those other things like the anchor bolts adding detail that has to get examined by the graphics card even though they don't show. If you have to have them, you might use simple proxies to stand in for them while modeling and swap them before the export. If you are going to show the whole model even on an A1 sheet, I doubt you'll be able to see the threads on those anchor bolts. You might try a simple test. In a new SKP file draw a rectangle the size of your city and add one of those anchor bolts. Make the export and print it on a sheet of A1 paper. Check out how much detail can be seen. Then revise the bolt to only have that much detail. By the way, do you know you could use LayOut and save the DWG export step? It can be set up to create A1 sheets. Export to PDF and print as needed.

Not all extensions show in the Plugins menu, or Extension menu as it is called in later versions. Watch the video here: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24390 Notice it shows up in the Context menu when you right click on a selection of components. You don't want to have components open for editing. You need it to work on the components not their contents.

Hi Dave! Fitst of apology for the late reply, I managed to get it working by myself eventually. For some reason it started working after a few reboots. Which is strange, because why so sudden? The Main Sketch-Up help page opens in Google Chrome when I press F1. I also want to say that, when I had the problem there wasn't any case of the cursor not being in the active Sketch-Up window. I was'active in the Sketch-Up apllication, yet hitting shortcuts didnt work. Luckily it works fine now. This thread can be closed if you ask me Best regards, Sjotcher (P.S. I completed my profile as well)

Hey Guys, Thanks for the info, I think I may have goofed and mistaken a simple override as an error. I've now learned that if something is already a group and you try to Cmd+G it the default is Make Component... So it looks like I reset my hotkeys for no reason facepalm After a few minutes things were back to normal - I had ended up creating duplicate shortcuts for things. Next time I won't be in such a rush. Anyways, Thanks again, T.

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Yes you have a little problem ! For any reasons your edges are segmented! And your 2 faces are not plane! [image: v7Lh_problem.jpg]

pilou Rich O'Brien : Thanks guys for the advice. That DOES clarify it. garystan

Use the Move tool to move just what needs to be changed.

lines you've shown are not coplanar.It is badly drawn. These are the few things you need to check before you import: Lines are coplanar (flat). If they are not, try to fix with flatten command (express tools)in CAD but may result in exploded blocks. you may want to redraw things if this don't work. the drawings should not be far from origin. keep it near to 0,0,0.

ok thank you all, at the end I've downloaded the Scatter plugin, I think it's the one more suitable for the thing i want to make. let's see if i'm able, thank you!