Thank you for the answer''jonous''. The problem to me occurs when there are two groups touching each other as then comes to interruptions in exported .dwg file.

Thx guys I'll try it out.

Yes, a simple solution. I don't need to create a new texture, just subdivide the surfaces I want to cover, apply the texture to each section and flip the texture on each section as needed. Should have thought of that. Thank you Dave and Pbacot. I've been working with Sketchup for several years for hobby woodworking and it's nice to know I can get help like this.

try this, from the EW: Dynamic Component from two Objects

Thanks again for the Ideas. Turned out to be the graphic cards driver. It was up to date, but the current driver somehow created a problem with su2017. The previous driver also had the same problem, so we had to roll the driver back two releases. Probably not coincidentally, two drivers ago was when I installed "the gforce experience" application that is designed to prompt you when new drivers are available so you can stay current with the actual manufactures latest and greatest. I actually thought it would be better to let the manufacture prompt me rather than let windows update handle when and what gets updated. I have had two instances with this gtx1080 gpu in the recent past where windows has changed the driver for me and it has caused problems so I was trying to be smart by going to the gforce experience. I guess i will just let windows do its thing and put the fires out after. p

Charmian, I will ask the obvious. Is the Transparent Background checked in the png options? [image: SP3C_Transparent.PNG]

Yep, that is the one Pilou...

Hide the box temporarily. Right click on the origin and choose Reset. Then unhide the cube and move it so it's corner is at the origin where you want it. Then use File>Save as template. Make a new template and discard the old one.

my.sketchup.com runs in the browser... you need a trimble account, and pretty sure you can send someone a link. i don't think you can protect the files though (yet) - so someone could save your work locally - maybe not an issue for you.

@charms2601 said: I've just purchased some .skm texture files and can find nothing on how to import them into my texture library on a mac.....I know I'm probably just a newbie who's overlooking the obvious, but any help would be so appreciated.... You need to add them as a collection then save the collection so SketchUp can load them each time it starts. There's a button in the Materials Browser that allows you to Add or Open as collection.

You misuse the term 'active' - only one section-plane can be 'active' in any given context. Having the nested section-plane allows you to cut what's inside its context [when it is active]. Another section-plane outside of that group's context will cut everything in its own context, including the group which has the nested section-plane. You need to have both section-planes active to hide the loose geometry that is not inside of the group. Here's some screenshot showing it - in the original there two active section cuts and the bigger cut is looking towards the loose geometry, so it is visible - because it's outside of the group it's bound to be seen. The second shot shows the section cut in the opposite direction this time the loose stuff is not seen. Trying to do this with section-cuts alone is going to be very convoluted... If you want to hide that loose stuff I suggest you use the section-cuts as you have made them, but put that loose stuff on its own layer - which you then switch off in that scene - see the third screen-shot... [image: jjfP_Capture1.PNG] [image: 3u1q_Capture2.PNG] [image: qQcQ_Capture3.PNG]

Did you install fresh copies of the various plugins and extensions or did you copy them from a previous install? If you did the latter, you shouldn't have. Install fresh copies. Maintenance releases don't overwrite things like toolbar locations so don't worry about installing the new release of 2017. Just do it. Major version releases install as a separate program so you have to set up toolbars and such almost as if you never installed SketchUp before.

The shadows are missing because the foreground aerial image is in the way. Note the settings in the two screen shots. I turned off the foreground image in the second one and the shadows show just fine. By the way, it has nothing to do with the background image. I just made the background image lighter in the first to make it easier to see where shadows are being cast. [image: IT41_Screenshot-11_30_20164_45_24PM.png] [image: sECr_Screenshot-11_30_20164_46_01PM.png] Here's an image export from the file with the foreground image turned off. I also turned off shadows on ground. [image: xNJl_TechHelpFile.png]

It has already been reported... Unfortunately 'they' changed the way that Extensions are 'switchable' in the newest versions of SketchUp - we have yet to get a reasonable workaround... At the moment the best we can suggest is that you set up a collection of Extensions that you might have normally loading - set all of those 'active'. Then note their 'loader' RB files - from their description available in the SCF Extensions Manager - then if you use the SCF Plugins Manager - you can enable/disable/load-per-session those loader RB files [aka Plugins] - using 'Sets' as desired... When you restart SketchUp any disabled Plugin will NOT load its Extension - but any enabled Plugin should activate its Extension - IF that Extension is preset to auto-activate on start up... Depending on how the Extension and its related Toolbar code is configured, then you might need to either reactivate the Extension or relaunch the Toolbar [often both might auto-activate] when SketchUp restarts...

More than likely, you are not running SketchUp 2017 as an administrator. In order to make a directory anywhere under the Program Files folder, you must have admin rights in Windows. In general, storing user documents of any type under Program Files is discouraged by Microsoft. We finally corrected where SketchUp reads and writes content files (like materials) in SketchUp 2017. If you are going use a custom Materials folder other than the SketchUp 2017 default, I would suggest placing it under your Documents folder where you have read and write rights, even if not running as an administrator. Hope that helps, Tyler

Thanks for the heads up on that Tyler.

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Ladies and gentlemen - no idea?

Thanks Juju I will have a close look at those. I have used Pro for a couple of years at work. I have Make at home though. Cheers

Hello there Toon Material might be helpful if you want a clay render with wireframe However,in 3.4 beta you can have another option called edge texture might also be helpful Regards