I see it now.

Seems Dave has made a perfect cool DVD about wood Working! Not sure that is also an EBook (?) About Design itself Dave will give you better advice than me! [image: sketchup-basics-.jpg]

Seems Box has beautifuly shown that i said previously! @unknownuser said: This is easily made by rotate a circle by an extremity to the midle of a segment!

@dave r said: Clearly something is wrong since we're getting different behavior. Maybe someone from the SU team will be along and see this thread. If you were using the pro version you could get direct customer support from them. Re installed SU 2017. All is well. Drafter

Some of what you describe sounds to me like there may be subtle defects in the model itself. Vanishing is often an indicator that there are remote entities that affect zoom-extents operations. They might also affect printing, I suppose.

@jim said: Scale the objects to some arbitrary size, and then enter the exact lengths after. You can now enter " marks without the Scale Tool switching modes. Are you saying the Mac Scale Tool changes modes after completing the operation? You are right. I hadn't tried that. It is inconsistent with most other tools because they don't use shift as a mode change. For example, when using the rectangle, line, move, etc. you can just do the first click, start the operation, and then type a value. You don't have to complete the mouse operation using a second click before you can press shift!

@jim said: @dave r said: Meep Made me choke on my coffee. You started it... I didn't notice that. I suppose I'd better change it though. Who's going to search for Trim and Meep?

It is possible that some plugins use pro features when available or if not available then either skips the feature or tries to obtain the objective by manually coding. The later method may or may not be completely successful. So from the users point of view the plugin potentially could work better with Pro. However this would be the exception rather than the rule.

Yes ,my resolution was set at 3840 x 2160. But after your response I changed it to 1920 x 1080 and everything is looking normal now. It was also affecting my Default Trays. Thanks for your help.

@rich o brien said: .... but it does explain the SU at times does weird things when you do weird things. SketchUp likes weirdos. So, I am in the right place.

Thank you Dave Solid Inspector works great: [image: 55gmtw.png] Topic SOLVED

@pbacot said: I'd have to see the model, but did you try applying the default color to the component--to the shell, the unopened component itself? Because if yoo painted the shell magenta, you can paint the faces when editing with any color but you cannot make them the default color. So see if the shell is default or not. Your image says entity info is telling you that the "face" is default, but it isn't showing default. What does entity information telling you about the component itself (not the faces inside). hi.. thank you for your advice. I followed your instruction and i got back my default colour to all components. as I did with pasting colour to the component without going in the edit component, i shouldve done the same to get the default colour.. thank you so much. save my half day of changing all the colours! thanks to all sirs above too!

Thank you! It was driving me nuts. I've played with Sketchup a bit but never downloaded any plug ins. Now maybe I can figure out how to use it.

Please explain the 3rd item in this (attached pic) dialog box. When I export images and go thru the process of making a video, the end result is a movie with a duration of about 100 time longer than I expected. In other words, the clip should be about 12 seconds, not 10 hours long. I used both Movie Maker and MakeAvi with the same results. The you tube tutorials I can find, only casually mention the process. [image: ptkM_Dialog-MSP.jpg]

@stshuting said: Hello pbacot! Oh ok! Thanks for the details procedures! I shall try them! And I didn't know that smoothing object makes it easier to edit!! Wow that's good to know! Many thanks again. And wishing you a very happy new year and all the best for 2017! Best regards, Shu Ting Makes it easier to surfaces at time, I guess I mean.

Sorry it took me a few days to get back. Round corners seems to be working, but I have to do a lot of redrawing.

Yes, load comp, (re)name it, save as. If the filename is there already, then replace. Just did 85 of the important ones. Ideally, there should be a choice to either - rename the comp same as filename or rename filename same as comp name. But this works well if renaming just a few. Thanks again.

I'm not sure a plugin could do this but you certainly don't need one to do that. You can edit the other materials and make them darker. Here's a quick example. [image: K8Db_Untitled2.png]

Thanks again. Drafter

Hi - Everything above SU2013 will still get supported