Suggestions; Didier Bur's truly excellent points cloud plugin (Cloud v8.0bxx) is excellent and well supported - get it from the plug-in store. Fredo's Toposhaper will generate surfaces from that data. If you need to do more work on it, import and preprocess in a GIS like QGIS and then export as a shapefile and import that into SU using the Spirix shapefile importer (https://sites.google.com/site/spirixcode/code/spirix_shapefile_importer.rb?attredirects=0&d=1). Ive been using QGIS to match up LIDAR generated 2m contours with imagery and align to the same CRS. Importing using the shapefile importer has required some simple scaling but gives good results.

This market share might be data that is of interest to a number of Sketchup users/ developers. Can I suggest setting up a simple survey (one question, tick the boxes)? The Sketchucation admins may be prepared to co-operate, or you could set up one on something like Google Forms (I'm not a fan of Survey Monkey, but its a possibility. You would need to promote i on the other sketchup sites/ forums, for completeness. My only request is ... if you do this - make really simple; as above.

I haven't had to sign in for years. It could be your antivirus, cookie settings, permissions, security settings...

Just realised that the insertion point (Component axis) of the pump should have been set at the mid point between the two valves. Revised SKP attached. Component orientation revised.skp

Fast Feedback has to do with the way your graphics card is utilized. Turning it off can help improve performance when the GPU doesn't fully support OpenGL.

I am not able to duplicate the problems with the baseplate visibility in section or the missing face in the foundation. The foundation shows all 101 entities in Layer0. Changing the roof framing layer visibility does not affect it for me. If we are seeing that no other users are experiencing the same problems with your models as you do, you might try Unchecking "Use fast feedback" under "SketchUp / Preferences / OpenGl" tab. (i.e. that would indicate a graphics card problem). Check if the graphics card driver is up to date. Clearly you don't want faces and edges to be on other layers besides Layer0. Only assign other layers to groups and components. If you are following this, at it seems you are trying, then the only thing I might suggest is to try the "Default layer geometry" plugin to periodically check that all your edges and faces are in Layer0. In regard to the section / baseplate question, view the model without the section cut selected, but active. Also uncheck (off) "View / Section Planes". Why don't you set up some scenes using sections that you want, and see how the scenes turn out?

@Philw, as Dave R mentions, you need to update to the latest version of SketchUcationTools: Download the SketchUcationTools RBZ from: https://sketchucation.com/resources/plugin-store-download Open SketchUp 2019 Select (Menu) Window -> Extension Manager Click Install Extension button Select the downloaded RBZ file Restart SketchUp

Yes. Yes I am.

@mike211248 said: Hi Tig When I model in SketchUp 2017 as it is installed on the computer at the moment, the following happens: When I apply a texture to the drawing, all that appears is the colour of the texture. Two common reasons for this one. First, you have Face Style set to Shaded, not Shaded with Textures. [image: 9xzY_Screenshot-6_18_20197_21_21AM.png] The other one is your model is created at a much larger scale than appropriate for the texture. If you zoom in close, can you see the texture?

Ok, I must be missing something. I will watch a tutorial.

I am finding SU slow to load as well, too many plugins, I suspect. I am in the habit of always having SU open, even if just a blank file.

There's no setting to prevent textures outside of the context of the component from fading when editing it. What behavior are you wanting that you don't get with an imported image? They can be moved and rotated around the model space, you can infer to their face. The only thing you can't do is extrude it to make a 3D shape.

I have made a script that rotates groups and components to point toward an attractor. https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=LookAt

As TIG says, welding edges will result in a curve but even welding a succession of straight lines into a longer 'straight' line will still have Entity Info report said line as a 'curve'. It seems that SU will report any welded lines as curves no matter that each original segment was in the same plane/angle/alignment.

I would suggest you rename your post "Plugin request, woodworking".

Thanks I didn't see it saved as rtf. That makes sense.

I'm afraid TT's 'Groups to Components' plugin wont work for this application due to transformations made to the groups - windows rotated to each side of the house. You may have better luck with S4u's s4u_toComponents http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=484308#p484308 It is $20, but worth it if you're doing professional work...(if your working with archicad then you're doing professional work). I even use it in place of SU's native create component command...it's much faster, if you don't need the dialog...which you only generally need if you're making a cutting or follow me component. (I work with Archicad exports...so I feel your pain...)

I figured it out I hope! when I put the little hooked pointer right on the endpoint I get the 'Enter Text', but when I move the little pointer to the right of the endpoit just a bit it works as it should you can't see the little pointer in this s shot but it's just to the right. [image: NMkB_1Untitled.png]

Thanks very much for those, much appreciated.

Of course SketchUp doesn't come with any fonts. It uses the fonts included on the system. If you still have the installer file you could try installing SketchUp again but I wouldn't hold my breath. Keep in mind that SketchUp 2015 doesn't support High Sierra. It was released almost three years after SU2015.