Using large coordinates is a nightmare in most of the 3d programs and SketchUp is no exception. Clipping issues, z-fighting issues guaranteed. The only solution (that I know of) is to use a fixed translation (just write it down somewhere) for your project. Maybe your GIS app can do it for you already when exporting? Otherwise you have to do it in SketchUp yourself. Most of the time I just load the new parts in a separate SketchUp file, do the translation and then copy past it into the main file. edit: typo

Hello I found the raison on the SU PODIUM website ( rendering plugin ) " This is s known (annoying) bug. Don't worry nothing's lost, you just need to rename the skb to skp. It happens when you save when the oopr is opened. Sketchup will only save backup file. To save correctly, close the oopr before saving. " It's working for me now. I hope to help you.

It's a resort in Rhode Island called Ocean House http://www.oceanhouseri.com I saw it some where on the internet and had one of those " I can model that" moments years ago. I only recently took it up again. I have a long ways to go and lots of detail to refine but this a rendering I recently did with Twilight . [image: dHz7_OceanHousecopy3_Alllayerson.jpg]

http://sketchucation.com/resources/tutorials/intermediate/1764-arch-texturing-in-sketchup-with-thrupaint

Maybe the free Fotosketcher can help ? [image: Pen-Ink-sketch-1.jpeg]

Yep, we've all been there and it is painful. Usually this happens with imports from AutoCAD. I usually run ThomThom's Flatten script in his Architect Tools set, just to make sure everything is on Z=0. Then I use S4U's Make Face script. Most of the time this works, but you might need to find little unconnected gaps, in this case, try ThomThom's Edge Tools.

thanks for the replies, I dug a little deeper and found out about the time thing and this link http://www.mediafire.com/file/brjzmnqzbcv38fp/RichSectionv0.5.8FULLByDimitri.zip: where a modified plugin can be found. Works in SU16 and seems pretty good although you can only have one material for the section cut. Trimble/Sketchup so needs to address this issue with sections in my view.

After erasing the weird 'rod' geometry... I guess the left-over piece of text includes an empty string or perhaps just a space ? Use the Outliner to open that Group in edit-mode. Edit > Select All. Entity Info now shows one piece of text. Press <delete>. That text is now gone. The now empty Group is also gone... Resolved.

Thanks Rich I found it

case closed thanks guys i realized i was not reloading the component into the scene so the attributes were not assigned

Try cCleaner... https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download [image: ClQ6_screen-grab_009.jpg]

This is only true if you pick a corner of the bounding box. It defaults to uniform. Picking any other handle scales against its opposite point, unless you hold shift.

I understand... thanks, TIG Bob

Oh course thanks

Cplassais has made a very cool plug for align objects! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZp4yuImVhQ

If I use "use high accuracy HLR", dimensions show, but now texture don't...

@dave r said: Have you tried contacting Indigo as it says to do in the message? We might be able to give you a useful answer if we could see the SKP file. https://ufile.io/a7edc

It's clear from the various posts that you have many options when adding a roof over these walls. The last poster's suggestion is to ignore the masonry walls and make an orthogonal roof over them with parallel eaves and ridges, but with varying soffit dimensions. If this is acceptable to you then you might have as a simple roof structure and finish as you could. Otherwise if you must have parallel eaves and ridges you must either accept a roof surface that is not in one simple plane, with twisted facets are needed to achieve the form, or a piece of 'flat' roof at the ridge to fill in the inevitable gap between the two single-plane roofs that meet there. In these cases you need to consider the complexity of making the non-conventional roof structure and its finishes. If parallel eaves and ridges are not a must, but single plane roof for each section are still preferable, then you need to decide it you are to slope the various ridges or the various eaves. The former is probably the more conventional structurally - it's effectively a very shallow hip construction with the normally horizontal ridge-board becoming in effect a sloping hip-tree - the roofing material is easily trimmed and covered by the ridge capping: otherwise sloping the eaves means non-conventional sloping wall-plates, odd-walling etc, and probably ugly weirdness at the lower edges of the roof, where material at the eaves would need cutting and finishing oddly - somewhat like a shallow valley gutter...

You can add a table in LayOut.

To bad for me. I know I don't use sketchup in a totally "normal" way.. I's very important for my project to go from a very large country view to very detail view... I wonder if there is another 3D soft as easy as Skecthup able to do that kind of things and better in animations... At least with your answer I can stop dreaming and crying and jump to the two files solution I was pushing away... Thank you (so) very much. ++