It's a pretty clever program, Sally. Dimensioning has been enhanced somewhat as well as precise move options which allow you to format elements on your page exactly how you want... see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCve65JJhI oh, and exporting to DWG!!!!

@dave r said: you can import them into SketchUp and then add them to a LayOut document which you then save as a Scrapbook. [Bang. Bang. Bang] That's my head banging on my desk. And of course you can do hybrid components; import stuff drawn in SU, explode them and then edit the resulting LO lines before saving as a scrapbook.

It won't automatically make dashed lines. You have to set them to be dashed. You didn't ask but if the section view is coming from SketchUp, explode it and then change the desired edges to dashed lines.

Read the help files.

@richard said: Tomot Mate I don't think you have got your answer yet mate! Richard WOW!....... thanks Richard!

Throw up a request in http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=15911 or

Use the one-shot sample tool to set the style. While in the dimension tool, find a dimension that is set correctly, and type "s". The cursor changes to an eye dropper. Click on the dimension that is set correctly, and now your dimensions have their style set correctly. b

I have found. just pop the angular dimensions in Layout to make them visible to DXF

YT=YouTube?

Thanks guys, got it now.

sorry everyone: today my PDF file is not open ! what about i don't know,next time show !

He he!! Thats the price to pay! Interesting you should mention. I was doing a test. Thats quite a few hatches.... [image: UPBg_Quantity.jpg]

Insert the first model where you want it on the page. Then put something like a + (2 lines crossing each other and grouped (doesn't matter what you draw)) on a shared layer so that you can see the + on every page. Move the + using precise move to some point on your model. Then add a new page and insert your next model. Using precise move, move the model to line up with the +.

It could be a couple of things. First, if you saved your file but didn't update your scene, then came back later and did, things would jump. Second, a change we added in 3.0 M1 (release 3.0.4810 / 4811) is that when you edit a model in LayOut, the scene gets marked modified AND turns OFF "Preserve Scale". If we didn't do this, you'd edit your model, get it set up, exit, then the model would jump (because of the scale). Lastly, there are some instances where http://sketchup.google.com/3dwh/buildingmaker.html buildings would make a scene jump, and it has to do with reconciling 2D and 3D cameras. But that doesn't sound like your case. Do either of the first two choices fit? b

Any luck with this?

Thank you very much Jorge!!

Also note that vector rendering will not render your image textures but colours instead. If you want sharp, vector based edges but with textures, use hybrid rendering. That's also the slowest I think however.

I see. I thought you'd be using LO dimensions and leader text. I've not seen SU text disappear before so I hope someone else who has comes along. I almost never use those tools anymore in SU.

Look at the orientation of the faces that make up the "cylinders" relative the camera. When I've seen this sort of thing before, the orientation of those edges is such that they aren't on the profile or the geometry. The edges are being hidden due to the edge on view of the neighboring face. You might increase the width or Profile Edges to 2 or 3 and see if that helps. I've always ended up fixing the model though.

…and just to include us Maconauts, the Character Viewer and Keyboard Viewer apps can be added to the menubar from the SystemPreferences|Keyboard pane - tick the 'Show Keyboard & Character viewer in menubar' checkbox. You can get all sorts of interesting characters. Ever head of the 'Z notation schema composition' symbol? - ⨟ - Nor me. Asterism - ⁂ Degree - ° Plusminus - ± Diameter - ⌀ Blank symbol - ␢ (but it's not blank!)